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Flameingblack posted:I honestly keep giving my LCS chance after chance and they manage to spectacularly gently caress it up every time. I have a few options around here. On the other hand, I do not want physical books (the storage is insane if you read a lot, or it's wasting money to throw it away), the comic book shops tend to be dead empty (and have one of the counter guys following me around) or it's full of people (and most of the stores I know of are tiny). I've found one store I vaguely like that I'll occasionally browse for trades. But it's too out of the way to go weekly, and going on FCBD (which I'd imagine is a big day for them, peoplewise) just sounds horrifying. I buy a lot of comics every week. I get that retail stores want to keep in business and that a lot of people want them to, but this just feels too much like music companies trying to hold onto the physical at the expense of digital.
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EVGA Longoria posted:I buy a lot of comics every week. I get that retail stores want to keep in business and that a lot of people want them to, but this just feels too much like music companies trying to hold onto the physical at the expense of digital.
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May 7, 2014 16:36
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Flameingblack posted:I spend around $20 a week on comics, yeah. But all of that money goes to Comixology because of how piss-poor my LCS is. FCBD didn't help me change my mind one bit, but if I had a good comic book shop I'd be spending it all there. Comixology is knocking it out of the park with all their sales, some of them are just too good to pass. There are plenty of places that you can order the physical books from if you don't want to support your local store. DCBS is actually like 3 minutes away from where I live so even though you're ordering online you're still supporting someone's LCBS.
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May 7, 2014 16:39
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I don't really want more floppies cluttering things up, so I'm digital only for weekly stuff, but still buy physical collections of things I like enough to double dip on.
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May 7, 2014 16:43
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My shop is fine for the big Marvel and DC books, but good luck on anything indie or a lower volume seller. I have a pull list there and get 1-3 books a week, but they have an annoying habit of forgetting to put books in your box and running out of extra copies (at noon on Wednesday!). They're getting better and I don't pay full price for books on comiXology, so they're still my go to for big two books (well, Marvel books and Wonder Woman). With Image being awesome, I'm slowly switching to all digital with them. Still getting Saga and Prophet from the store, Manhattan Projects and East of West in trade, but all new series from them I buy digitally from Image's site.
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May 7, 2014 17:06
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Dark Horse's FCBD stuff is up now. https://digital.darkhorse.com/searc...paign%20Monitor
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I already knew about it, but man is Chew good. Thanks, Humble Bundle! How many volumes of that are around?
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May 8, 2014 01:51
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Still new to Marvel Unlimited, but what day does it get 'new' comics? Had it since Tuesday and it still just showing the same thing on the front page. As for Unlimited itself, I am loving it, but wished the older comics were a little more optimized since they have a lot of space around the pages and I have to zoom those out on the Nexus 7.
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May 8, 2014 15:28
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Rirse posted:Still new to Marvel Unlimited, but what day does it get 'new' comics? Had it since Tuesday and it still just showing the same thing on the front page. As for Unlimited itself, I am loving it, but wished the older comics were a little more optimized since they have a lot of space around the pages and I have to zoom those out on the Nexus 7. Monday morning is when the emails comes out, I think the "New" page starts populating late Sunday evening.
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Senor Candle posted:Dude the entire point of FCBD is to get people into stores. And the major point of Comixology was to throw a bone to those who don't live anywhere near a retailer, so....catch-22?
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May 8, 2014 20:37
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Goddammit. I liked what I saw of Comixology on my ipad. Put off signing up for a few weeks, then come back to a really awful lovely app instead? Why.
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May 9, 2014 04:43
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Scarlet Spider is on sale for .99. Go and buy it as it's an amazing series
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SynthOrange posted:Why. Amazon didn't want them to keep giving Apple a cut from in-app purchases. I dunno what the IOS app looks like now, but that's why it changed. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 06:29 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 06:26
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bobkatt013 posted:Scarlet Spider is on sale for .99. Go and buy it as it's an amazing series If I go into this knowing nothing about Spider-Man except what I know from the movies will I get it?
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SMP posted:If I go into this knowing nothing about Spider-Man except what I know from the movies will I get it? Kaine is a clone a Peter Parker. He used to be a badguy but no he is going to live his life not being a badguy or hero. Just read it, it's really good bobkatt013 fucked around with this message at 06:39 on May 9, 2014 |
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SynthOrange posted:Goddammit. I liked what I saw of Comixology on my ipad. Put off signing up for a few weeks, then come back to a really awful lovely app instead? Synth, you can still use the old app to read and browse on and download to, you just have to buy via the website now. VVV: No argument here. X13Fen fucked around with this message at 08:22 on May 9, 2014 |
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Its still ridiculous and backwards though.
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bobkatt013 posted:Scarlet Spider is on sale for .99. Go and buy it as it's an amazing series As someone who grew up in the eighties/nineties, I have this knee jerk reaction when I come across Venom/Carnage/Scarlet Spider stuff and tend to dismiss it. After reading Remender's first Venom trade, I've been beating myself for having these reactions and ignoring the $.99 sale a couple of months ago. Time to cope with my nineties PTSD.
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SMP posted:If I go into this knowing nothing about Spider-Man except what I know from the movies will I get it? bobkatt013 posted:Kaine is a clone a Peter Parker. He used to be a badguy but no he is going to live his life not being a badguy or hero. That and he can turn invisible, talk to spiders and stab people with a stinger thingy. (As someone who started reading cold they were the three things I didn't know he could do) But yeah it's great. edit: Has anyone read the Black Bat? Looks kinda goofy fun. algebra testes fucked around with this message at 13:23 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 13:14
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bobkatt013 posted:Scarlet Spider is on sale for .99. Go and buy it as it's an amazing series Aw, dammit. My pile of books to read is way too big, but I can't pass up getting the second half of the run.
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PelvicNerve posted:After reading Remender's first Venom trade, I've been beating myself for having these reactions and ignoring the $.99 sale a couple of months ago. Time to cope with my nineties PTSD. This post made me curious so I read the first couple issues of Remender's Venom while drinking my coffee this morning and yeah, this is a keeper. For all my problems with Marvel Unlimited, it's times like this when the price feels worth it. I know this isn't the recommendation thread, but thanks all the same!
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May 9, 2014 14:48
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May 9, 2014 14:59
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My modest comic book collection contains every issue of Scarlet Spider. Except like, the last Venom / Minimum Carnage Omega issues because gently caress that poo poo
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Huh, Comixology just let me pay with my UK PayPal on the US store front. Maybe it got confused because I still had $0.02 credit. Y'all better be getting Scarlet Spider. Best Spider-Man in a while. I just ordered the trades of vols 3 and 4 unfortunately, and I won't be double dipping.
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Anyone have a coupon/discount code for Marvel Unlimited? Last time I upped it was 50 bucks now it's 70 
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LordPants posted:My modest comic book collection contains every issue of Scarlet Spider. Minimum Carnage Alpha and Omega are some of the few issues I paid full price for. (I had the Venom and Scarlet Spider issues and wanted the whole thing).
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Syrinxx posted:Anyone have a coupon/discount code for Marvel Unlimited? Last time I upped it was 50 bucks now it's 70 I guess you can try and see if the code still works, since the page is still up: http://marvel.com/SXSW14 and if not, Retailmenot is great for everything: http://www.retailmenot.com/s/marvel+unlimited COMEBACK3 20MARVEL
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If you use the code PATKER14, Marvel will give you "Special Edition Digital Exclusive Amazing Spider-Man #1, a $9.99 value" as a gift, so there's that...
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Flameingblack posted:Last SXSW there was a discount code to get it for $1 for a month, and it's legitimately the best dollar I spent, but the Android version of the app is still really shaky and I'm going to wait until that's fixed and more reliable before I pay full subscription price. How are they on old issues. I've always wanted to read the old key issues of Spider-Man for instance. The old green goblin books, death of gwen, amazing fantasy 15. I'm sure they are NOT good by today's standards, but there is still that something special to them. E: Also the SXSW14 code they provided has expired. pits. Drowning Rabbit fucked around with this message at 18:58 on May 9, 2014 |
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Uthor posted:If you use the code PATKER14, Marvel will give you "Special Edition Digital Exclusive Amazing Spider-Man #1, a $9.99 value" as a gift, so there's that... Where do you enter this at? Didn't work on the Marvel digital shop. Drowning Rabbit posted:How are they on old issues. I've always wanted to read the old key issues of Spider-Man for instance. The old green goblin books, death of gwen, amazing fantasy 15. For the most part the old issues still hold up, but suffer a little due to having a lot of white space that needs to be cropped by zooming in if your on a smaller screen like the Nexus 7.  This is a example what I mean from Infinite Gauntlet #1. Also minor question, but who is that round alien with the crowd in this first panel?
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Drowning Rabbit posted:How are they on old issues. I've always wanted to read the old key issues of Spider-Man for instance. The old green goblin books, death of gwen, amazing fantasy 15.
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Rirse posted:Where do you enter this at? Didn't work on the Marvel digital shop. Oops, sorry, I meant when you sign up for Marvel Unlimited. I don't know where you enter the code, I just paraphrased what I read in the email Marvel sent me. Edit: According to ComicBookDB, it's Judge Kray-Tor. Has some vaguely defined "graviton" powers. Uthor fucked around with this message at 19:24 on May 9, 2014 |
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Flameingblack posted:They've got an unimaginable amount of old comics, but they're about 6-8 months behind on current stuff. Seeing as how I don't keep up with many comics as is right now, that's probably the best deal for me. Knowing nothing about SXSW, is there anything coming up for it that we may get another deal for it?
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Rirse posted:This is a example what I mean from Infinite Gauntlet #1. Also minor question, but who is that round alien with the crowd in this first panel? That's Judge Kray-Tor. Early Adam Warlock stuff, basically everything before Infinity Gauntlet, is loving weird. Edit: Goddamn it.
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Drowning Rabbit posted:Seeing as how I don't keep up with many comics as is right now, that's probably the best deal for me. Knowing nothing about SXSW, is there anything coming up for it that we may get another deal for it?
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Drowning Rabbit posted:How are they on old issues. I've always wanted to read the old key issues of Spider-Man for instance. The old green goblin books, death of gwen, amazing fantasy 15. I'm pretty sure you can search the Marvel Unlimited website even as a non-subscriber. You can check and see whether the arcs you want to read are available or not, and even see the first few pages of each.
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Sarchasm posted:I'm pretty sure you can search the Marvel Unlimited website even as a non-subscriber. You can check and see whether the arcs you want to read are available or not, and even see the first few pages of each. http://marvel.com/comics/series Just go to the series you're looking for and click on the "Marvel Unlimited" box and it will show you if it's up or not. It's a lot quicker than looking things up in the app, a lot of the time. RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 19:44 on May 9, 2014 |
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I just wished Marvel Unlimited had the rest of the Taskmaster series. They just have the first two issues. 
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Bendis sale https://www.comixology.com/Brian-Michael-Bendis-Sale/page/1907 His Icon graphic novels incl. a bundle, Incredible, and Scarlet. Scarlet's good, right? LordPants posted:Bendis drew a comic book? I never knew that. Yeah. A bunch have before they end up churning out company books and stick to writing. Jonathan Hickman started out drawing his comics (The Nightly News, Pax Romana.) He has a Fantastic Four cover variant coming out and that's the first I've heard of him drawing since. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 11:04 on May 10, 2014 |
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