The Walking Dead (and other zombie discussion)
#227
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For me it was. If your library has both, why not go there and try both. Find a chair and try reading a compendium and a hardcover. I find the hardcovers much easier to read without a table (due to the hardcover) and much more manageable (due to the decreased weight).
#228
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So my boss told me that he read the volumes first and then the compendiums and that he noticed things missing and double-checked his issues/books and that the compendium skips pages. And I did find them unwieldy. So volumes are definitely the way to go.
Comixology Unlimited has some and my local library has some, both e-issues, but I found it hard to read and cumbersome to zoom in and out on a pc. Then today I got an email about some new stuff added to Hoopla digital (offered through the library) and checked it out again and it's grown extensively. 13 movies I want to watch, books I want to read, 1-9 seasons of Dark Shadows, etc. But also volumes 1-26 of TWD. AND it zooms in to a specific panel and right arrow/left mouse button on right part of the page gets you to the next panel and so on. Great way to read it. All for free of course.
Comixology Unlimited has some and my local library has some, both e-issues, but I found it hard to read and cumbersome to zoom in and out on a pc. Then today I got an email about some new stuff added to Hoopla digital (offered through the library) and checked it out again and it's grown extensively. 13 movies I want to watch, books I want to read, 1-9 seasons of Dark Shadows, etc. But also volumes 1-26 of TWD. AND it zooms in to a specific panel and right arrow/left mouse button on right part of the page gets you to the next panel and so on. Great way to read it. All for free of course.
#229
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I hadn't heard of things missing between the individual volumes and issues versus the compendium. That's interesting if true.
#230
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Ditto on not hearing about stuff missing from some of the collected books. I wonder what was missing? Do the compendiums have the extra stuff that the hardcovers have? What I beleive is cover art, as well as some extra type stuff.
The one thing that I sort of wish they had included in the hardcovers was the cover art in the correct spot in the book. Just as a signpost to know where in the run you are as you read through. The hardcovers do include pages every so often that have something of a title, which I assume corresponds to the trade paperbacks.
The one thing that I sort of wish they had included in the hardcovers was the cover art in the correct spot in the book. Just as a signpost to know where in the run you are as you read through. The hardcovers do include pages every so often that have something of a title, which I assume corresponds to the trade paperbacks.
#231
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Just saw the spoiler for issue #192 coming out this week and is HUGE. Don't read if you don't want to get truly spoiled.
Spoiler:
#232
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...and an even bigger spoiler for #193, the issue coming out this week:
Spoiler:
#233
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That really sucks for comic book shops.
#234
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Yes it does. Very selfish of Robert Kirkman to do it like this. Many stores aren’t ordering as many WD books as they used to due to decrease in popularity of the book. I didn’t mind what happened in issue 191 and 192. That’s part of storytelling, but issue 193 should have announced in advance to prepare comic book stores and for them to increase orders in time. Kirkman just did a big fuck you to all of them
#236
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Spoiler:
Not quite sure how I feel about it.
The ending was of the regular storyine in #192 was really abrupt, and it feels like he probably could have gotten another 50 or so issues out of it.
#193 was sort of bittersweet. It's both hopeful and cynical. They're trying to make a better world, but there's still corruption and people are starting to forget how bad things got. Sort of a same as it ever was... same as it ever was... same as it ever was... kind of thing, I suppose.
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#237
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Yes it does. Very selfish of Robert Kirkman to do it like this. Many stores aren’t ordering as many WD books as they used to due to decrease in popularity of the book. I didn’t mind what happened in issue 191 and 192. That’s part of storytelling, but issue 193 should have announced in advance to prepare comic book stores and for them to increase orders in time. Kirkman just did a big fuck you to all of them
#238
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My LCS had 2 on the shelf. They said TWD used to be a huge seller for them, but has died off this year, so they cut way back on orders. They said tons of people have called about the issue tho.
#239
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When they make comics returnable, it means that LCS can return them after 2-3 months for a credit in their account. Still, most LCSs have to pay for them upon receipt, and since no one knew about this being the final issue, most stores continued buying TWD as they usually did, with a little bump on orders because of what happened on issue 191 and 192. The LCS in my town sold out before the store opened. They had ordered 35. Being a former store owner, I would have been extremely pissed about this. TWD finale is an event book, something that people will flock to LCS to buy. What Kirkman did, in the slow months of summer for many stores, is completely selfish.
#240
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I went to one shop first and they were charging $10 an issue, which is such bullshit.
I went to another local shop I frequent and was able to get a copy for the $3.99 price tag.
I went to another local shop I frequent and was able to get a copy for the $3.99 price tag.
#241
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When they make comics returnable, it means that LCS can return them after 2-3 months for a credit in their account. Still, most LCSs have to pay for them upon receipt, and since no one knew about this being the final issue, most stores continued buying TWD as they usually did, with a little bump on orders because of what happened on issue 191 and 192. The LCS in my town sold out before the store opened. They had ordered 35. Being a former store owner, I would have been extremely pissed about this. TWD finale is an event book, something that people will flock to LCS to buy. What Kirkman did, in the slow months of summer for many stores, is completely selfish.
#242
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And yes, is his book but the industry made him a multi-millionaire. He's been long enough to understand the importance in sales of his book. He may not care because what difference several thousands of dollars makes for him, but for the LCS industry, which is 99% mom and pop shops, this finale could mean keeping the doors open for one more year, month, week, etc. And I don't agree with everything in the current Diamond only-LCS model, but is the only one that keeps a line of people with jobs, from store clerks, to editors, to writers to artists to storytellers. People have been saying forever that the LCS model is dying. Well, it's had its ups and downs, but it still alive 45 years later.
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Earlier this year I finally got caught up through TPB 30, so I just bought 31 plus all the remaining singles, most of which were in comixology’s Skybound sale. I didn’t want to wait and possibly get spoiled just to save a few bucks.
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This is the downside of the solicitation model. Anything that might be a surprise is ruined just because you know there is going to be a surprise.
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#245
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Thanks for taking the time to write all that. I'm not that deep into the comics (I read a couple of the compendiums, but gave up after that), but that conclusion sounds pretty lame/unfulfilling to me. Some of it sounds downright silly.
#246
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Comes off like something out of left field. I really don't know why Kirkman couldn't pad the book for seven more issues.
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He mentions that in the essay at the back. The biggest seller for TWD was the 48-issue compendiums. He wanted the book to be available in four of those. If he extended it to reach 200 it would have essentially meant four compendiums and a TPB.
I'm not sure why it couldn't have been a 54 issue compendium. Probably something to do with print signatures.
I'm not sure why it couldn't have been a 54 issue compendium. Probably something to do with print signatures.
#250
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I was wondering that too. Sex Criminals is also on hiatus as well as Southern Bastards. Thief of Thieves, which had a great start to its run, also had it's last issue 2 weeks ago and it was mostly disappointing. Image is going to debut a new book by Charles Soule and Scott Snyder at SDCC, but no one knows if that is going to fill the void.