The thread where you ask ILC questions about what to purchase

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I picked up the first two pocket-sized Runaways at SDCC, but I couldn't find vol. 3 there. Then I hear about this tasty morsel. So, should I save the $8 that would've gone to vol. 3, sell my other two SIGNED copies, and impatiently await for the release of the HC?

Really, I'm just trying to turn my entire life over to ILC.

― Leeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Get the Spider-man/Human Torch digest instead.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Seconded.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Go grocery shopping instead.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Here I thought would be nerds who wouldn't dismiss me!

― Leeeeeee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Try the noixe board.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Haha. Personally I'd go for the hardcover, just because I enjoyed reading the full-size issues and the digests are so tiny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Hardcovers make good presents, and I could imagine making a case for an Absolute-style edition of something like Ditko or Eisner, but for a run-of-the-mill trade - which has the primary function of story rather than keepable object - I'd personally stick with the softcover format. (Although the size issue is another factor here.) But that's just my view. My favourite purchases right now are Essentials, with their tasty phone-book cheapness, so I'm right at the extreme end of the debate...

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

It may be a HC, but $26.95 is CHEAP for 18 issues!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Great fishhooks!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, that's not bad at all. Most HCs are way overpriced, or at least they seem so. Maybe the Essentials vs Archives ugliness has soured me overly on HCs.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Vote in the ILC poll instead!! It's just as fun as reading a comic* - and it's free!

*if that comic is "DC Special: The Return Of Donna Troy"

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

" Maybe the Essentials vs Archives ugliness has soured me overly on HCs."

I have a couple of the DC Archives and the colour reconstruction is terrible; I'd rather have them as B&W essentials in cheap paper.

― iodine (iodine), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I can't even imagine what Wally Wood Doom or Johnny Craig Iron Man must have looked like in colour. I can only assume the worst.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Whoa whoa whoa - when did Johnny Craig draw Iron Man??!?!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

In Essential Iron Man 2! He inked a whole bunch but Iron Man issues 2, 3 and 4 are all Craig.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Holy!!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

You tell me, I've had to put up with the likes of Jack Cole or Steve Ditko coloured by some cheap computer with an old, awful version of Corel Draw.

― iodine (iodine), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Back on topic, I could also use your help. I get some comicbooks for free, and my problem is I have no time to read them all. It's not likely that I could be missing a modern masterpiece or something like that, but I could use your help. This is the list of things I don't read:

The Witching (is that the right name? the one written by Jonathan Vankin)
Books of Magick
Angeltown
Outsiders
Aquaman
Teen Titans (this is probably fun)
Wonder Woman
Green Arrow
Justice League Elite
Hellblazer
Fallen Angel
Most of the "Focus" line

I know, most of them are boring stuff, but am I missing something by not reading any of these?

― iodine (iodine), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

HARD TIME, in the Focus line (though moving out when it restarts in the next few months) is pretty good, though took some time hitting its stride.

That Spider-Man/Human Torch series was a whole lot of fun, too.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

If that's the Rucka Wonder Woman, then that.

― Leeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Hard Time is quite good.

I read The Witching for a little while, since I've liked Vankin's conspiracy writings, but I got bored by it.

― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Hard Time is still going on?! I had no idea. I liked it, but lost track after about six issues.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

HARD TIME went to 12 issues then on hiatus. Not sure exactly when it's going to start up again, but I think sometime in the fall.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'll definitely 2nd the Wonder Woman recommendation. I didn't mind the first issue of Angeltown - nice art! - but I didn't get the rest of the series.

I've heard many good things about Fallen Angel from internet peeps, and Peter David's work of late has been pretty good (his House of M Hulk stuff & the Madrox mini-series in particular), so who knows? FYI: Fallen Angel is getting a 2nd chance w/ IDW; dunno when they start publishing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

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