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We missed this thread last month!

A mini resurgence (up 5) in the "Big 2" as I try out some extra Marvel books. And a big total bounce-back. I'm back to the same place I was at for August.

DC: 26 (same as last month)
Vertigo: 5 (same as last month)
Marvel: 13 (up 5 from last month)
==> "Big 2" - 44 comics (up 5 from last month)

Dark Horse: 5 (down 2 from last month)
IDW :7 (up 1 from last month)
Image: 25 (up 2 from last month)
Other Indies: 28 (up 3 from last month)
==> Indies - 65 (up 4 from last month)

TOTAL COMICS: 109 (up 9 from last month)

DC (28 comics)
BEFORE WATCHMEN MINUTEMEN #5 (OF 6) (MR)
BEFORE WATCHMEN COMEDIAN #5 (OF 6) (MR)
BEFORE WATCHMEN MOLOCH #1 (OF 2) (MR)
BEFORE WATCHMEN MOLOCH #2 (OF 2) (MR)
BEFORE WATCHMEN NITE OWL #4 (OF 4) (RES) (MR)
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Action Comics (via Tanga Subscription, $1 per issue)
Batman (via Tanga Subscription, $1 per issue)
Justice League (via Tanga Subscription, $1 per issue)
Wonder Woman (via Tanga Subscription, $1 per issue)
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AQUAMAN #15
FLASH #15
WORLDS FINEST #7
DETECTIVE COMICS #15
BATWOMAN #15
GREEN LANTERN #15
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #15
GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #15
RED LANTERNS #15
PHANTOM STRANGER #3
SWORD OF SORCERY #3
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #15
DEMON KNIGHTS #15
I VAMPIRE #15
ALL STAR WESTERN #15
BLUE BEETLE #15
JSA LIBERTY FILES THE WHISTLING SKULL #1 (OF 6)

Vertigo (5 comics)
LOT 13 #3 (OF 5) (MR)
AMERICAN VAMPIRE #34 (MR)
FABLES #124 (MR)
FAIREST #10 (MR)
SWEET TOOTH #40 (MR)


Marvel (13 comics + 1 HC)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #699
AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #15.1
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700
AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #15
AVENGERS #2 NOW
AVENGERS ARENA #1 NOW
FANTASTIC FOUR #1 NOW
FF #1 NOW
INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK #2 NOW
HAWKEYE #5
HAWKEYE #6
DAREDEVIL #21
FURY MAX #7 (MR)

MMW AMAZING SPIDER-MAN HC VOL 15 DM VAR ED 192


Dark Horse(5 comics + 1 HC)
GOON #45
COLDER #2 (OF 5) (MR)
GHOST #3
MASSIVE #7
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #11
MANARA LIBRARY HC VOL 04 (MR)


IDW (7 comics)
STAR TREK ONGOING #16
STAR TREK TNG DOCTOR WHO ASSIMILATION #8
GODZILLA HALF CENTURY WAR #4 (OF 5)
JUDGE DREDD #2
HOLLOWS #1 (OF 4)
LOVE AND CAPES WHAT TO EXPECT #5 (OF 6)
LOCKE & KEY OMEGA #2 (OF 7)

Image (25)
MARA #1 (OF 6) (MR)
HIP FLASK OURBOROUS (MR)
BLACKACRE #1 (MR)
I LOVE TROUBLE #1 (MR)
LEGEND OF LUTHER STRODE #1 (OF 6) (MR)
HAPPY #4 (OF 4) (MR)
MORNING GLORIES #25 (MR)
FATALE #11 (MR)
AGE OF BRONZE #32 (RES)
BEDLAM #3 (MR)
CLONE #2
CYBER FORCE #3 (Net)
EPIC KILL #7
GREAT PACIFIC #2 (MR)
HARVEST #5 (OF 5) (MR)
INVINCIBLE #99
MIND THE GAP #7 CVR A ESQUEJO
MULTIPLE WARHEADS ALPHABET TO INFINITY #3 (OF 4)
NON HUMANS #3 (OF 4)
POINT OF IMPACT #3 (OF 4) (MR)
SAGA #8 (MR)
THIEF OF THIEVES #11 (MR)
WALKING DEAD #105 (MR)
WHERE IS JAKE ELLIS #2 (OF 5)
WITCH DOCTOR MALPRACTICE #2 (OF 6)


Other Indies (29 comics + 1 HC)
RACHEL RISING #13
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IRIS VOL 3 #1 CVR B MHAN
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT ASSASSINS #6 CVR A RANDOLPH
IDOLIZED #4 CVR A NOME
FASHION BEAST #4 WRAP CVR (MR)
HERO WORSHIP #6 (OF 6)
CRITTER (ONGOING) #7
SLIPSTREAM SPECIAL (ONE SHOT)
URSA MINOR #4 (MR)
DEATHMATCH #1
SUPURBIA ONGOING #2 MAIN CVRS
HYPERNATURALS #6 MAIN CVRS
RED TEN #1 (OF 10) (MR)
LOOKOUTS RIDDLE VOL 01 #4
WARLORD OF MARS DEJAH THORIS #22 (MR)
PLUME #1 (OF 5)
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #194
SIXTH GUN #27
STUMPTOWN V2 #4
COURTNEY CRUMRIN ONGOING #8
FAUST LOVE OF DAMNED ACT 15 (A)
WESTWARD #3
ARCHER & ARMSTRONG (NEW) #5 REG ZIRCHER CVR
SHADOWMAN (NEW) #2 REG ZIRCHER CVR
HARBINGER (ONGOING) #7 SUAYAN CVR
BLOODSHOT (ONGOING) #6 REG LOZZI CVR
X-O MANOWAR (ONGOING) #8 BRAITHWAITE CVR
NAOKI URASAWA 21ST CENTURY BOYS GN VOL 02

FLAMING CARROT COMICS COLL LTD S/N HC VOL 02

I ordered these re-solicited titles before so am not counting them again:
EXTINCTION SEED #4 (OF 6) (RES)
GORE #7 (OF 12) (RES) (MR)
MEDITERRANEA #8 (OF 14) (RES)

Bob, I decided to add Plume #1 based on your recommendation from the Previews Spotlight. I checked out the art online and I liked it. I missed it the back of Previews catalog. I didn't realize Devil's Due is back to publishing. I hope this go around is better than the last time they were in with Diamond.

DC: N/C - None of the new titles have interested me (10 subscriptions, 2 DCBS, 1 Vertigo )
Image: 17 (+4 and a TPB)
Dark Horse: 5 (+1)
IDW: 1 (+1)
'Other': 13 (who knows, +2 new titles and 1 tpb, I can't keep track of what was cancelled, didn't solicit, or is bimonthly except I remember War Goddess would normally be in there)

DC:
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #15
DEMON KNIGHTS #15
FABLES #124

Subscriptions:
Batman
Batman & Robin
Justice League
Superman
Detective Comics
Aquaman
Action Comics
Wonder Woman
Batman the Dark Knight
Green Lantern

Image
MARA #1 (OF 6)
BLACKACRE #1
I LOVE TROUBLE #1
LEGEND OF LUTHER STRODE #1 (OF 6)
HAPPY #4 (OF 4)
REVIVAL TP VOL 01 YOU'RE AMONG FRIENDS
CLONE #2
CYBER FORCE #3 (Didn't these start out soliciting that the first five or six issues would be free? $0.31 is no big deal and I still ordered two but I'm wondering.)
EPIC KILL #7
GUARDING THE GLOBE #4
INVINCIBLE #99
MACGYVER FUGITIVE GAUNTLET #3 (OF 5)
NON HUMANS #3 (OF 4)
NOWHERE MEN #2
SAGA #8
WALKING DEAD #105
WITCH DOCTOR MALPRACTICE #2 (OF 6)

Dark Horse
BTVS SEASON 9 FREEFALL #16 NOTO CVR
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WILLOW WONDERLAND #2 (OF 5) MACK CV
COLDER #2 (OF 5)
NUMBER 13 #1
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #11

IDW
HOLLOWS #1 (OF 4)

Other
FERALS TP VOL 01
FASHION BEAST #4
CROSSED BADLANDS #19 TORTURE CVR
CROSSED BADLANDS #20 TORTURE CVR
DEATHMATCH #1
SUPURBIA ONGOING #2 MAIN CVRS
FREELANCERS #3 MAIN CVRS
HYPERNATURALS #6 MAIN CVRS
RED TEN #1 (OF 10)
SCAM #3 (OF 5)
GARTH ENNIS JENNIFER BLOOD #22
JENNIFER BLOOD FIRST BLOOD #4
FLY VOL II #3 (OF 5) B CVR ERIC J

boshuda wrote:CYBER FORCE #3 (Didn't these start out soliciting that the first five or six issues would be free? $0.31 is no big deal and I still ordered two but I'm wondering.)

I noticed that too when I first entered my order with DCBS. But I just checked my account online and it's now at $0.00. I think the 31 cents is what it costs DCBS and they're expected to eat the cost much like a brick and mortar shop would do. The idea is the shop can try to get the 50 copy Silvestri or 100 copy Sejic variant cover to sell and make their money back that way. I myself don't buy many variants. I think I've bought two in the past 4 years.

boshuda wrote: CYBER FORCE #3 (Didn't these start out soliciting that the first five or six issues would be free? $0.31 is no big deal and I still ordered two but I'm wondering.)

There is FREE and there is "free".

Comic shops typically pay for any "free" comic, at least some nominal price like a quarter, and they're expected to chalk it up as a promotional cost, or as is pointed out above, order a pile & get/sell the variants to make back the cost.

I decided to order the following new books:

Change #1
Mara #1
Legend of Luther Strode #1
Black Beetle Night Shift #0

I also didn't pre-order Judge Dredd #2 from IDW. I am going to wait until I read the 1st issue to decide if I will pick up the series. I was put off by the fact that IDW already announced a spin-off series.

BobBretall wrote:We missed this thread last month!


BEFORE WATCHMEN MOLOCH #1 (OF 2) (MR)
BEFORE WATCHMEN MOLOCH #2 (OF 2) (MR)

I don't see Moloch #1 in the DCBS spreadsheet. It's listed on the site as JUL128188 - but I don't see it in the July spreadsheet (or August or Sept either). KLnow what's up with that? I went ahead and added an entry to the spreadsheet using the JUL128188 number and the same price as #2. Will that work?

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ctowner1 wrote: I don't see Moloch #1 in the DCBS spreadsheet. It's listed on the site as JUL128188 - but I don't see it in the July spreadsheet (or August or Sept either). KLnow what's up with that? I went ahead and added an entry to the spreadsheet using the JUL128188 number and the same price as #2. Will that work?

We talked about it on the Previews podcast, it's available on the DCBS web-site, but it was not in Previews & thus not in the spreadsheet that is generated from the Previews catalog.

You cannot just add stuff to the spreadsheet, I suspect that will cause an error on upload.

Upload the normal spreadsheet, open the order for edit, and go add the item from the web-site.

Or upload the spreadsheet & just send them an e-mail asking them to add the book for you.

BobBretall wrote:

ctowner1 wrote: I don't see Moloch #1 in the DCBS spreadsheet. It's listed on the site as JUL128188 - but I don't see it in the July spreadsheet (or August or Sept either). KLnow what's up with that? I went ahead and added an entry to the spreadsheet using the JUL128188 number and the same price as #2. Will that work?

We talked about it on the Previews podcast, it's available on the DCBS web-site, but it was not in Previews & thus not in the spreadsheet that is generated from the Previews catalog.

You cannot just add stuff to the spreadsheet, I suspect that will cause an error on upload.

Upload the normal spreadsheet, open the order for edit, and go add the item from the web-site.

Or upload the spreadsheet & just send them an e-mail asking them to add the book for you.

I've added stuff to the spreadsheet from prior months lots of times w/no error. I did it this time, and it seems to have worked. It appears on my unshipped items list.

Although based on your suggestion, I did go in, open up my order, and was going to add it from the site and drop the one I created. But when I went to do so, it was already listed as being there. So I did nothing.

So was this just not solicited in july? or what?

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ctowner1 wrote: So was this just not solicited in july? or what?

Correct. Added to schedule to fill hole made by Joe Kubert's death.

BobBretall wrote:

ctowner1 wrote: So was this just not solicited in july? or what?

Correct. Added to schedule to fill hole made by Joe Kubert's death.

Cool..thanks!

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Dropped Masks #2 from Dynamite.....I did last month's Previews call from my car driving up to APE & the Indie section blazed by while I was checking into the hotel. I didn't realize Dynamite had pulled a bait-and-switch on the artist for the series after the 1st issue by Alex Ross on interiors.

After much back-and-forth, here's what I ended up with:

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG (NEW) #5 REG ZIRCHER CVR
AVENGERS ARENA #1 NOW
BLACKACRE #1 (MR)
CHANGE #1 (OF 4) (MR)
CYBER FORCE #3 (Net)
DAMES IN THE ATOMIC AGE GN VOL 01
DEATHMATCH #1
FABLES TP VOL 18 CUBS IN TOYLAND (MR)
FERALS TP VOL 01 (MR)
GLORY #31
GODZILLA HALF CENTURY WAR #4 (OF 5)
HOUSE OF FUN ONE SHOT
I LOVE TROUBLE #1 (MR)
LAST CALL GN VOL 02
MARA #1 (OF 6) (MR)
MULTIPLE WARHEADS ALPHABET TO INFINITY #3 (OF 4)
SLIPSTREAM SPECIAL (ONE SHOT)
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ONGOING #17
THINK TANK TP
TMNT SECRET FOOT CLAN #1 (OF 4)
VALEN OUTCAST TP VOL 02
WESTWARD #3
X-O MANOWAR (ONGOING) TP VOL 01 BY THE SWORD

The "take a chance" title for me is DAMES IN THE ATOMIC AGE which I'm getting because I liked the preview: http://damesintheatomicage.com/?page_id=36

dbm wrote: The "take a chance" title for me is DAMES IN THE ATOMIC AGE which I'm getting because I liked the preview: http://damesintheatomicage.com/?page_id=36

I picked this up from one of the contributors, Tony Fleecs, back at WonderCon & liked it quite a bit.