A thread for things you want but will probably never buy but o my god i WANNIT

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Nemo-Slumberland-Splendid-Sundays/dp/0976888505/ref=sr_1_1/104-7500360-6065543?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191862861&sr=1-1

http://www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=2439 --occasionally there are photocopies available at cons, but it's NOT THE SAME

Douglas, I have CBRs of those if you want.

Those may not be the same either, I know.

am still lusting after that oversize Popeye thing but second change of address in one year (with eyes on another down the line) has me reconsidering acquiring more heavy crap to carry up stairs.

Those big-ass Kirby/Lee Fantastic Four reprints

Phil Foglio's Stanley And His Monster - Absolute Edition

Those big-ass Kirby/Lee Fantastic Four reprints

Why would you neglect purchase?

Presuming you're referring to "essential" and not full color.

No, I mean the $$$ full colour ones. I get too annoyed/sad reading in black-and-white books -- it's like the comics version of pan-and-scan.

am still lusting after that oversize Popeye thing but second change of address in one year (with eyes on another down the line) has me reconsidering acquiring more heavy crap to carry up stairs.

so worth it

and you can sled down the stairs on the cover

Yeah, the Popeye is absolutely awesome.

I am getting sucked into IDW's Dick Tracy reprints, much against my best intentions. I am also trying very hard not to start Pogo or Terry and the Pirates or Walt & Skeezix for similar reasons.

I have managed to kick Peanuts - maybe it's an American thing, but while I enjoyed the bleakness/existentialism/nihilism of the first three years or so I found the first 60s box far too twee, knowing and playing on its own jokes. I also think I have successfully managed to kick Krazy Kat at the end of the b&w era.

Also, I bought Madman Gargantua.

In the 5 hours since, I have failed. Ordered a pile of stuff to take advantage of exchange rates including Dick Tracy Vol 3, Popeye Vol 2 and Vols 1 of Pogo, T&tP and W&S.

I'd really like those full colour hardcover Trigan Empire reprints - all that wonderful Don Lawrence artwork - but at £45 a pop they're ludicrously overpriced

Yes, they're the one thing that no matter how much I'd love to have them I absolutely have to draw the line at. Stupidly expensive and the Storm ones weren't any cheaper.

I actually did buy THE FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS thingy (volume 1) the other day, due to a recent unexpected influx of cash - otherwise, it'd be my prime candidate for this thread.

Lukewarmer response than I expected, but that's due primarily to THE FOREVER PEOPLE - otherwise Jack's JIMMY OLSEN is zonked-out superdope, MISTER MIRACLE is everything you could hope it to be ("The Paranoid Pill" kinda rips the reader to shreds), and NEW GODS began iffy but quickly ascends in quality (The Black Racer ish being fairly extraordinary).

Others to be picked up in paperback, though.

Yay! Walt & Skeezix and Terry & The Pirates turned up this morning.

I am quite enjoying Terry & The Pirates, but probably not enough to buy any more volumes. The art is lovely, but the plot isn't as engaging as I thought it would be. Also, the comedy racism wears even more thin than when Eisner did it.

I'd really like those full colour hardcover Trigan Empire reprints - all that wonderful Don Lawrence artwork - but at £45 a pop they're ludicrously overpriced

-- Ward Fowler, Thursday, 11 October 2007 11:59 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

Yes, they're the one thing that no matter how much I'd love to have them I absolutely have to draw the line at. Stupidly expensive and the Storm ones weren't any cheaper.

-- aldo, Thursday, 11 October 2007 12:19 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

I have never been so glad to correct myself in my life. My WONDERFUL g/f has let slip she has got me these for Christmas.

Wow... your g/f RoXoR. I would really like those Trigan Empire things as well.

She viewed it as plannable spend, because they come one a month. Plus I have spent STUPID money on her 40th birthday next month so she felt guilty. (also, you have met her unless I am mistaken)

Was she at ATP that time? Then maybe I have.

I cannot believe I am talking about the Trigan Empire without using the phrase "By all the stars!". By all the stars!

Yes, she was.

Downside: I have started looking at other Don Lawrence collections and working out whether I can afford them. There's a Karl The Viking 4 book set that looks lovely. Oh dear.

Doesn't he have some smut collections too?

OH YES. But I have only vaguely looked at them. Honest.

i just want the 4 hardcover collection of all the EC horror stuff. does any of it exist in a cheaper, TPB form?

I think it did a couple of years ago, so maybe.

I've been lusting over the issues of Alan Moore's Miracleman for a long time now. I think I want them more because they're so hard to find, and less because they'll actually be great.

They're hard to find? I should sell mine!

They will be great, esophogus. Just so you know.

Oh, trust me, I know.

Yeah Rocky, they're pretty hard to come by.

Just so you know.

Be aware that the reduction/printing/SO SHIT colourisation in the first few makes them close to unreadable too, though.