The Bus

Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites which is the best book I have read since Saga



[x] Written by Evan Dorkin
[x] Features dogs and cats as protagonists
[x] Features Tarantino-level violence
[x] Protagonists are fighting witches/demons/the supernatural
[x] Incredible art
[x] HC is

davidh777

Got a gift card for my LCBS so picked up Saga 2 and Walking Dead 20. And Invincible 19 should be arriving soon.

fujishig

Isn't Uncanny X-Force the second series with those characters? Might be worth checking out the regular X-force title Remender worked on.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around Seven Soldiers of Victory, especially with the tie ins to stuff like Final Crisis. The whole Dark Side Club thing with Mr. Miracle still goes completely over my head, but it is much easier to read collected.

PhantomStranger

Is Seven Soldiers of Victory worth a blind buy? It seems like classic Morrison, though some of the characters interest me more than others.

Mike86

Batman: The TV Stories (issues that inspired episodes of the Adam West/Burt Ward series)

Trevor

I took a chance and blind bought it. Still need to read it, thanks for the reminder.
Interesting.

Last few I've bought have been digital Thor and Captain America collections.

fujishig

Sorry, missed this before.

I think it's definitely worth buying if you like Morrison's DC superhero stuff (and not everyone does). It is classic Morrison, most of the time the technobabble is so dense that it's hard to understand, but if you can roll with his normal stuff then this is more of the same. It does kinda directly tie into Final Crisis, though you don't need to read that.

About the characters: they're basically all wildly removed from their previous incarnations with the exception of Zatanna and maybe Klarion. It also has very little to do with the original Seven Soldiers of Victory. But still, IMHO, worth a read.

terrycloth

picked up some new books today

Shazam (n52)
Flashpoint
Final Crisis
JL Throne of Atlantis
Age of Ultron

Jory

Since I recently bought this...



...and since I'd never read any of the original comics, I figured it was high time to buy this:

slop101

Volume 2 of Uncanny Omnibus finally came out, so I bought the shit out of it!

terrycloth

i recently cut back on my pull list and today was suppose to be the first day of cutting back and i walked into my lcbs selling all trades half off. as i grabbed a couple he told me he would do em 5$ a pop for trades and 10 for HC

bought
Marvel
House of M Avengers
Xmen Messiah Complex
Xmen vs. Apocalypse 1 The Twelve
Xmen vs Apocalypse 2 the ages of apocalypse
The New Avengers Breakout
Secret Invasion
Captain America Winter soldiers vol 1 and 2

Batman Year One
AllStar Superman
Batman and Son
GL Rebirth
GL Wanted Hal Jordan

i also have him holding like 7 HC mostly GL but forgot my CC today so have to go back

Strapped4Cash

^ You have my congratulations, and my jealousy.

I just picked up yesterday:
All-Star Western IV: Gold Standard TPB
Conan and the People of the Black Circle HC

Mike86

Picked up the following all for half off during Free Comic Book Day.

Batman: Birth of the Demon
Batman: No Man's Land Volume 1
Batman: No Man's Land Volume 2
Batman: Through the Looking Glass
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
Wolverine: Origins Volume 4 Our War

Trevor

On FCBD I picked up Demon Knights vol 3 to complete that run. Still need to start reading any of it, but as a Demon completist I needed it.

Picked up the digital sale of Batman and Son the other day; curious to read my first Morrison bats.

terrycloth

Im doing the same Morrison's Animal Man has prob become one of my top runs and read some of his xmen stuff so I picked up this book to read and watch the new animated movie

Mike86

Just my opinion but Morrison's big arc, RIP is mostly pretty overrated and kind of a mess. I liked aspects of it but I don't think it's the best story ever or anything and felt like a lot of times he was just over-complicating things for the sake of doing so. To me the best part of that overall arc was the run he did on Batman & Robin.

madcougar

My LCBS is having one of their big semi annual sales tomorrow. Gonna hit that shit HARD! They have HC and TPB at 40% off.

slop101

I can appreciate supporting local independent comic shops, but if you're after bargains, places like In Stock Trades, and Cheap Graphic Novels have way more HCs and TPBs than any physical comic store and they regularly discount 40% to 50% their books all the time.

madcougar

Oh I know. But like you said, it's supporting the local store. As a general rule, I ONLY buy these when they're on sale.

terrycloth

went back to my lcbs to pick up the rest of my books for 40$ I got hardcovers of

GL: Rage of the red laterns
GL: Revenge of the Green Laters
GL: Sinestro Corps War Vol 1 and 2
Blackest Night

ytrez

I highly recommend this for anyone with an interest in history and Japanese culture.

Trevor

Bought a bunch of Bendis stuff: Fortune and Glory, Torso, Jinx, Takio, and Goldfish.

macnorton

Pretty Deadly Volume 1...read the first issue and haven't had a chance to read anymore. Grabbed the trade since my singles are in storage at the moment. Looking forward to reading it Friday

slop101

I just bought "Colossal Conan", and it is a fucking beast!



Seriously, this thing makes big Omnibus collections look like floppies. It is massive - just look!




At 13"x9", it's more than just over-sized, and collecting 51 issues on 1,300 pages of thick paper-stock, it's 4" thick.


Oh, and the content is fantastic, from the stories, the writing, the characters and the amazing art. I really can't recommend this enough. Though it's not very practical for toilet reading...

Jory