So, the Canadian prices rose last week, and I feel like it's only a matter of time before the American prices rise too, which of course would raise the Canadian prices again. Really have to be careful what I'm buying now especially the books going for 3.99.
Here's what I picked up:
GI Joe #0 - picked it up because it was a dollar, likely won't pick up anymore. IDW - the publisher - only sells $3.99 books.
Fear Agent #24 - I read this book by the arc now, seems to take forever to come out.
Daredevil #112
Captain America #43
Amazing Spider-man #574 - still liking the whole reboot even if I completely disagree with the way they got there.
X-Factor #36 - Cannot stand the current artist, can't wait until he's replaced.
New Avengers #46 - On probation.
Ultimate Spider-Man #127 - so far behind on this book, but I've bought it since the beginning, probably will buy it till it gets cancelled - if ever.
Secret Invasion #7 - almost over, thankfully. Then we get to see how the Marvel universe changes until the next Crossover.
Superman: New Krypton Special - Really looking forward to this, strange because it's a DC book
Angel After the Fall #13 - hope this is over soon, my wallet could use a break.
Zombie Tales #6
Criminal #6
Tom.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Pull List for Oct 15 * Marvel Price Policy
Relatively small week for me -which is good.
Amazing Spider-Man #573 - Finally be able to finish reading New Ways to Die. Also grabbed the Stephen Colbert Variant edition, because it's cool.
Charlatan Ball #4 - Not a bad little book. I have the Hardcover edition of Joe Casey's other book Godland, still haven't read it yet.
Astonishing X-Men #27 - Wasn't too impressed with the first issues of Ellis' run, he usually always brings something different.
Captain Britain & MI 13 #6 - decent title, not sure if I'll stay with it.
Guardians of the Galaxy #6
Mighty Avengers #19 - Book is cancelled for me - still on the hook for one more issue, probably won't even read this one at all.
Ultimate Origins #5 - the mini is done and I can stop caring about the Ultimate Universe. Won't bother with Ultimatum.
Ghostbusters: The Other Side #1 - So glad the ghostbusters are back in comic books - a video game coming soon too!
It was going to be a normal day at the Comic Shop until, the guy working behind the counter told me that Marvel has raised their prices on all of their books. The Canadian price of course. This highly pissed me off. I am primarily a Marvel reader. A solid 90% of my stack is Marvel. My problem is not the fact that Marvel increased their prices - that is going to happen, comics used to cost .10 cents remember. The problem I had was how quickly Marvel changed the Canadian prices. When the Canadian dollar was at par or above the American dollar Marvel dragged their heels on changing the price, making equal or closer to equal the American cover price. But when the Canadian dollar drops like it has in the last couple of weeks, Marvel jumps all over it and raises the prices .50 cents a book across the board in a heartbeat. WTF!
This means nothing to Marvel, because honestly how many people does this effect? In the hundreds on some books...maybe a thousand on the top selling books? I'm dropping a few more Marvel books because of this. Nothing drastic, I can't ever see myself giving them up completely, but this factor in to my pull list. I think Captain Britain will be gone, maybe X-Factor as well, maybe a couple more if I can. But it will definetely stop me from buying any mini-series from Marvel, the prices were already jacked up on those.
In the last couple of weeks, I had added a few DC titles, with Marvel upping their Canadian price DC will have to follow suit within the next couple of weeks I imagine.
Stupid bastard jerks Marvel!
Tom.
Amazing Spider-Man #573 - Finally be able to finish reading New Ways to Die. Also grabbed the Stephen Colbert Variant edition, because it's cool.
Charlatan Ball #4 - Not a bad little book. I have the Hardcover edition of Joe Casey's other book Godland, still haven't read it yet.
Astonishing X-Men #27 - Wasn't too impressed with the first issues of Ellis' run, he usually always brings something different.
Captain Britain & MI 13 #6 - decent title, not sure if I'll stay with it.
Guardians of the Galaxy #6
Mighty Avengers #19 - Book is cancelled for me - still on the hook for one more issue, probably won't even read this one at all.
Ultimate Origins #5 - the mini is done and I can stop caring about the Ultimate Universe. Won't bother with Ultimatum.
Ghostbusters: The Other Side #1 - So glad the ghostbusters are back in comic books - a video game coming soon too!
It was going to be a normal day at the Comic Shop until, the guy working behind the counter told me that Marvel has raised their prices on all of their books. The Canadian price of course. This highly pissed me off. I am primarily a Marvel reader. A solid 90% of my stack is Marvel. My problem is not the fact that Marvel increased their prices - that is going to happen, comics used to cost .10 cents remember. The problem I had was how quickly Marvel changed the Canadian prices. When the Canadian dollar was at par or above the American dollar Marvel dragged their heels on changing the price, making equal or closer to equal the American cover price. But when the Canadian dollar drops like it has in the last couple of weeks, Marvel jumps all over it and raises the prices .50 cents a book across the board in a heartbeat. WTF!
This means nothing to Marvel, because honestly how many people does this effect? In the hundreds on some books...maybe a thousand on the top selling books? I'm dropping a few more Marvel books because of this. Nothing drastic, I can't ever see myself giving them up completely, but this factor in to my pull list. I think Captain Britain will be gone, maybe X-Factor as well, maybe a couple more if I can. But it will definetely stop me from buying any mini-series from Marvel, the prices were already jacked up on those.
In the last couple of weeks, I had added a few DC titles, with Marvel upping their Canadian price DC will have to follow suit within the next couple of weeks I imagine.
Stupid bastard jerks Marvel!
Tom.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Pull List for Oct 8/08
Pretty big week for me, didn't go last week and picked up some stuff I normally wouldn't try.
Supergirl #34 - Just trying it out, supposed to tie into the rest of the Superman titles.
The Boys #23 - really should catch up on this one.
Action Comics #870 - This one was added to my pull list for the foreseeable future.
End League #5 - behind on this one too.
Green Lantern #35 - Just added to the pull list
Green Lantern Corps #29 - just added to the pull list.
Invincible Iron Man #6 - Fraction is making me care about an Iron Man book, long after the movie was released.
The Twelve #8 - Read the first 3 issues, then decided to wait until the whole series comes out to finish it.
Walking Dead #53
Deadpool #3 - so good to have this character in his own book again.
Marvel Zombies 3 #1 - Jerks at Marvel upped the cover price, now it's $3.99 per book, and I bought both covers!
Deadworld: Slaughterhouse #1 - Starting a new mini series before the previous mini is finished, smart?
No Hero #1 - Avatar raised the price on this one too! Another $3.99 book.
Crossed #1 - $3.99 yet again!
Dead of Night Devil Slayer #2
Wanted to buy the Zombie Variant for Amazing Spider-Girl this week. Bought all of them last year when Marvel released MZ 2. But last year the variants were all released 1:1. This year it seems like it's going to be released 1:10, which means they won't be going for cover price, which means I probably won't be grabbing them this year - at least not all of them. I was looking forward to adding them to my zombie collection. Stupid Marvel, isn't the prevalence of variants part of the reason the comic book industry crashed earlier in the century?
Amazing Spider-Man is shipping with 4 covers next week!
Tom.
Supergirl #34 - Just trying it out, supposed to tie into the rest of the Superman titles.
The Boys #23 - really should catch up on this one.
Action Comics #870 - This one was added to my pull list for the foreseeable future.
End League #5 - behind on this one too.
Green Lantern #35 - Just added to the pull list
Green Lantern Corps #29 - just added to the pull list.
Invincible Iron Man #6 - Fraction is making me care about an Iron Man book, long after the movie was released.
The Twelve #8 - Read the first 3 issues, then decided to wait until the whole series comes out to finish it.
Walking Dead #53
Deadpool #3 - so good to have this character in his own book again.
Marvel Zombies 3 #1 - Jerks at Marvel upped the cover price, now it's $3.99 per book, and I bought both covers!
Deadworld: Slaughterhouse #1 - Starting a new mini series before the previous mini is finished, smart?
No Hero #1 - Avatar raised the price on this one too! Another $3.99 book.
Crossed #1 - $3.99 yet again!
Dead of Night Devil Slayer #2
Wanted to buy the Zombie Variant for Amazing Spider-Girl this week. Bought all of them last year when Marvel released MZ 2. But last year the variants were all released 1:1. This year it seems like it's going to be released 1:10, which means they won't be going for cover price, which means I probably won't be grabbing them this year - at least not all of them. I was looking forward to adding them to my zombie collection. Stupid Marvel, isn't the prevalence of variants part of the reason the comic book industry crashed earlier in the century?
Amazing Spider-Man is shipping with 4 covers next week!
Tom.
Monday, October 6, 2008
PVR & Pull List
Wow, I suck at keeping this thing updated. Initially it was supposed to be something everyday, then it turned into twice an week and now it's whenever the hell I feel like it.
PVR's...
Are the greatest invention of all time. Top five at the very least.
I record everything that I watch now, just so that I can fast forward through the commercials. Way better to be able to get through an hour long program in 40 minutes rather than wasting the hour to watch it live. I can watch the shows on my time - typically a day or so after they initially air. I know that the networks hate it, I can fast forward through their prescious TV ads, but it's been a life saver, especially on days where the TV lineup is packed with stuff that I want to watch. Mondays and Thursdays are the worst. Without the PVR I would have to drop a few shows. Could always download them I suppose, but no.
The only problem is that I think I've been losing my attention span. Normally the only things I don't record to watch at a later date are award shows and sports events. Watching the Emmy's a couple of weeks ago, I was reaching for the fast forward button at practically every commercial break and sometimes just to get past the lame attempts at comedy from the hosts and the drawn out acceptance speeches.
It's affecting my watching of sports as well. The NHL season started up on the weekend and I couldn't sit through 5 minutes of the game - it could be because it was Pittsburgh and Ottawa playing over in Sweden but hockey is my favourite sport, if I can't sit through a game of that I'm screwed.
Pull List for 2 weeks ago, didn't go to the store this week only 2 books on my list. So for 2 weeks ago this is what I picked up.
1985 #5 - pretty decent, story I guess.
Angel Revelations #5 - ending the miniseries that has been...ok.
Fantastic Four #560 - don't love it, but don't hate it either. Sticking around until the end of the Millar/Hitch run.
Nova#17 - still surprised that I like this book.
New Avengers #45 - may be the only Avengers book I'll be getting in a few months as I have cancelled both Mighty and Initiative.
Deadpool #2 - #3 is due out next week, that's 3 issues in 2 months, not that I'm complaining but the scheduling seems weird.
Captain America#42 - I think Brubaker has surpassed Bendis as my favourite comic writer.
Avengers: Initiative #17 - done with it - didn't even read this issue, started out great but felt like it really fell off in quality maybe ten issues ago.
That's it.
Tom.
PVR's...
Are the greatest invention of all time. Top five at the very least.
I record everything that I watch now, just so that I can fast forward through the commercials. Way better to be able to get through an hour long program in 40 minutes rather than wasting the hour to watch it live. I can watch the shows on my time - typically a day or so after they initially air. I know that the networks hate it, I can fast forward through their prescious TV ads, but it's been a life saver, especially on days where the TV lineup is packed with stuff that I want to watch. Mondays and Thursdays are the worst. Without the PVR I would have to drop a few shows. Could always download them I suppose, but no.
The only problem is that I think I've been losing my attention span. Normally the only things I don't record to watch at a later date are award shows and sports events. Watching the Emmy's a couple of weeks ago, I was reaching for the fast forward button at practically every commercial break and sometimes just to get past the lame attempts at comedy from the hosts and the drawn out acceptance speeches.
It's affecting my watching of sports as well. The NHL season started up on the weekend and I couldn't sit through 5 minutes of the game - it could be because it was Pittsburgh and Ottawa playing over in Sweden but hockey is my favourite sport, if I can't sit through a game of that I'm screwed.
Pull List for 2 weeks ago, didn't go to the store this week only 2 books on my list. So for 2 weeks ago this is what I picked up.
1985 #5 - pretty decent, story I guess.
Angel Revelations #5 - ending the miniseries that has been...ok.
Fantastic Four #560 - don't love it, but don't hate it either. Sticking around until the end of the Millar/Hitch run.
Nova#17 - still surprised that I like this book.
New Avengers #45 - may be the only Avengers book I'll be getting in a few months as I have cancelled both Mighty and Initiative.
Deadpool #2 - #3 is due out next week, that's 3 issues in 2 months, not that I'm complaining but the scheduling seems weird.
Captain America#42 - I think Brubaker has surpassed Bendis as my favourite comic writer.
Avengers: Initiative #17 - done with it - didn't even read this issue, started out great but felt like it really fell off in quality maybe ten issues ago.
That's it.
Tom.
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