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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
I'm grabbing
In theory. I will be out of town, and maybe, just maybe can wait until next week.
But going comic shopping in Montreal would be so nostalgic ... oh, for the halcyon days where there would be a USian holiday, but we'd still get ours, because they were printed in Quebec.
We'd feel all special.
I'm definitely picking up BoP and Robin -- not sure about Gotham Knights.
(on edit: And the Outsiders! Sheesh)
What is this wait of which you speak?
I know not of this "wait".
BoP every other week is simply killing me.
I can't wait to read BoP!
My list is: Birds of Prey
Gotham Knights
Robin
The Outsiders
Justice Legue Elite
Wonder Woman
and maybe get sucked into something new.
And because I can never remember --- how do you make a list without double spacing?
and maybe get sucked into something new.
New Daredevil tomorrow! #61 should still be on the shelves, and it's a decent place to jump in.
And because I can never remember --- how do you make a list without double spacing?
The <BR> tag.
I've been looking at Daredevil actually.
Of course then I'll want the whole run and will be back to ebay trying to buy back issues.
Huh. All I'm getting tomorrow is Robin #128, and for only one title, I'm thinking of just getting it next week with my other titles.
Except I know people will be discussing it here, and it'll kill me to not discuss, so....I'm weak. I'll probably get it tomorrow.
As I'm sure CaBil can attest, there have been times when the comics distribution system got incredibly shaky and almost took down the entire industry.
The major crisis was the mid 90s when Marvel attempted to go direct by buying out one of the major regionals, cutting out the others.
The Distributor wars was an about 18 month period as distributors tried to sign exclusives to make sure they surivived. Diamond Comics managed to buy exclusives with DC and Image, and thus became the only reasonable counterweight to Marvel, destroying all of the regional and one other national distributor(Capital City?). This is also the time when there was a massive cutback of services, from when there almost a dozen regional DIamond warehouses with their own trucks that delivered to the comic book shop directly and allowed some handselling to retailers to promote specific books to a single national warehouse using UPS to deliver.
When the Marvel distributor collaspsed (Heroes World?) because of its inability to scale up to service the whole country, DIamond was the only distributor left and picked them up...
This distributor collaspse was a major contributing factor the mid-90s comic collapse...
Re-reading IC, I'm curious if they are going to address the issue of which villians DIDN'T get mind-wiped. Specifically, Ollie mentions that Dr. Light was worse than anything he'd seen at Arkham Asylum. That naturally leads to the question - why not mind-wipe the Joker? How many people would be alive or at least healthier (mentally or physically)? Was it because Bats would know something was up?
Also, a who's who in the DC-verse question vis-a-vis IC: Who's performing the autopsy? That's not Bruce, is it?
I know the answer to this!
It's Dr. Mid Nite. But I can't tell you anything about him.