Comics

Have you read A.D. After Death from Scott Snyder?
It's marvelous.
@beseku

I'm massively tempted with the 35th Anniversary hardcover collection of Akira.

Colleague of mine is lusting after it too :)

Pulled the trigger, £107 on Amazon.
Cheapest I've seen the normal versions for is about £18 each, which is basically the same price, but not in a jazzy box, hard cover or with the bonus material.

Glad I did, showing as OOS now, but not had a dispatch notice yet.
Was hoping for tomorrow delivery as the wife is WFH.
Don't think the box will fit in my Seagull bag.

I've just found four issues of the Seth McFarlane "Spawn" series - 54/55/56/57, they're in bags, mint condition - anyone want them before they go in the recycling?

Latest volume of Grandville on the way, signed by the legendary Bryan Talbot.

Doomsday Clock.

Yay or nay?

I want to believe.

^ I'm tempted but I'm put off as I bought in to the 'Before Watchmen' hype and bought all of them as they were released and with the exception of a very select few, they were mostly crap.

Absolutely not.

I'm sure my LCS will have squirreled it away for me, I'll give the first couple of issues a go.

Currently I am enjoying my lovely hard cover 35th anniversary Akira series.

Had a quick look at it, great art, but honestly...not sure if adds anything.

I'm working my way through a nice hardback ed of the watchman. Cheers for all the suggestions I'll make my way through the list!

Reading 100 bullets atm (vertigo, 2000s) and holy cow, it's fantastic.

The art is great, it's simplified but clearly done by somebody that knows how to draw humans instead of "I'm too lazy to study" (one of my artist gripes, cos I'm old and grumpy) and the characterization work is really good too.

Crime fiction is nothing new, but like jokes "it's how you tell them" and it's really well done.

Rick Remender imho is great too, his "strange girl" story cycle is fab too.

X-Men: Grand Design by Ed Piskor (Wizzywig, Hip Hop Family Tree) is absolutely incredible. It'll be out in trade in April if you can't get hold of the first two issues ($6 a throw).

subsequent to a nostalgia jag and some particularly dull few weeks of work, i've been wading (well, listening on yutub) through the eternal champion books and they're fucking great. they're the invisible thread that exists between the verbose bollocks of LoTR and the Dynasty in platemail of GoT.

gonna pull the trigger on this (and the others in the series). MM is on record as saying it's better than the OG text, so there's that.

"Dancers at the end of time" is really good too!

BTW the "internet library" has scans of older Elric comics if you are interested in reading those.

What’s the best way to get rid of old back issues. I’ve got shitloads mostly marvel x-men and other superhero stuff starting from the mid 80s
Need to make space as have a baby on the way. Was thinking of grouping story arcs together and bundling that way. All have been kept bagged. Not looking for top dollar (I probably didn’t collect the issues/characters that were super popular) but would like to earn some cash for them.
Ideally I’d like to cut the collection down from the thousands to the hundreds..
Anywhere I can find out prices for what I’ve got, and where would the best place be to sell them? eBay? Or somewhere more comic specific?
Thanks

I'm reading Giant Days by John Allison. On sale 50% off here: https://www.comixology.co.uk/Giant-Days/comics-series/37051

I just finished reading The Humans (Image Comics)

Kind of like Sons of Anarchy crossed with Planet of the Apes - much sex and violence.

Gonna be relieving myself of a huge load of comics, manga, and stuff. Gotta get the boxes out and sift through.

First if anyone is interested, I have three diorama figures to get gone:
Tomb Raider (absailing with the Yeti) - loose, but complete
Venom (2002, standing over...someone) - loose but complete
Alien (chestburster/alien queen) - boxed but opened

The first two are worth about a tenner each and the third a little more I think. Any takers? If you cover postage I'll let the first two go for a donation to the forum. The third I need to double check.

Giant Days is so good!

Reading The Crow by James O'Barr again.
Forgot how dark and bleak it is.
He was working some demons when he wrote it and you see them on every page.

It's really good though I think, it's genuinely dark not this "gritty reboot" shit.

Sandman is back
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/02/neil-gaiman-sandman-universe-comics-simon-spurrier-nalo-hopkinson-dan-watters-kat-howard