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Really? The ones at my store are, like, TWENTY.
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I guess it's at the CBS guy's discretion?!?!  Actually my CBS guy once explained to me that the variants usually cost them (the retailers) something extra beyond what they pay for the norms, but he didn't specify.
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Originally posted by Chief Taylor: I guess it's at the CBS guy's discretion?!?!
Pretty much. I usually don't bother with variants, but I got the Superboy/Krypto one for LSH #2. Six bucks at my store. I definitely want the variant for DCU:Legacies #5 and hope I can get it for about the same.
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in my CBS days, they were same price, but a % of the store order (1 variant for every 5, 10, 20 etc); some stores marked up variants while others offered subscribers first choice. it may be different now.
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I got the Superboy/Krypto one for 5 bucks. I hope they have the Mon El one for the same.
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Originally posted by Dev Em:
I got the Superboy/Krypto one for 5 bucks. I hope they have the Mon El one for the same. I forgot about that one. How, I don't know, because it's gorgeous and I always liked the original issue. I should try to snag that too. Thanks for the reminder!
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I got:
Batman #702
Legion Of Super Heroes #4
Madame Xanadu #26
Superman/Batman #75
Superman Secret Origin #6 (of 6)
Plus Billy Batson for the kids.
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Superman/Batman 75
LSH 4
American Vampire 4 and 5
JL:Generation Lost 7 and 8
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Long live the Legion!
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Adventure 517
*I liked that Rokk very clearly was affected by waking up and not knowing what happened. It makes him look like a classier guy than I was fearing, from the discussion.
Legion of Super-Heroes 4
*I just read it, and I don't even remember the villains name. That's how forgettable he is.
I like Kirt's indecision. If he changed his song and dance too soon, it would seem kinda unearned. If he remained totally nutbar, it would be stale. Paul's walking a nice line, here.
Projectra needs short white hair and a rounder face. This woman could be anyone. She could be Kara Zor-El. She's not Jeckie.
OTOH, I love that she's got some sort of extra-sensory powers still. Her last few appearances have been heavy on her using her illusion powers and I was wondering if Meltzer or Johns even knew that she now had various super-senses. Whether they forgot or just never got around to showing her use them, Levitz does not let me down.
The interactions between Shady and Kirt are not displeasing me thus far. I hope the speculation (fairly common over at the DC message boards) that she's just gonna sleep with him to mess with his head are not true, and what we've seen this issue suggests that she's genuinely intrigued, and genuinely wary and wants to 'keep her enemy closer,' so to speak, not planning some sort of angry hate-sex betrayal thing.
X-Factor 208
*PAD feels like he's coasting on the 'controversy' (which, frankly, is pretty un-controversial in the 21st century) and that the story suffers for it.
Avengers Academy 3
*Remember Teen Titans 1, with action *and* teen drama? We're on issue 3, and still, drama, no action. Training sequences, IMO, are no substitute for the real deal.
I'm pretty sure that these four are the only titles I'm collecting at the moment, and Avengers Academy and X-Factor are vexing me with their dicking around aimlessly. (Agents of Atlas, if it was doing anything worth reading, would be five.)
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space mutineer & purveyor of quality sammitches
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Legion #4
Stuff Of Legend #2 (I don't know if #1 is still available anywhere. I'll have to track it down later, if finances permit.) I'm very intrigued with it, and I may write a mini-review later if I can pull my thoughts together.
Hey, Kids! My "Cranky and Kitschy" collage art is now viewable on DeviantArt! Drop by and tell me that I sent you. *updated often!*
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Batman #702
Legion Of Super Heroes #4
Madame Xanadu #26
Superman Secret Origin #6
Detective Comics #868
Justice League Of America #48
Time Masters Vanishing Point #2
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I was surprised by the use of the Bronze Age Starfire in Time Masters.
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I was too, and pleasantly so.
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Superman: Last Family of Krypton #2
I... Zombie #5
Freedom Fighters #1
New Mutants Forever #2
Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom #4
Spitfire Oneshot
Our Army at War Oneshot
GFT: Inferno #3
And I bought House of M hardcover for one dollar from the library a few minutes ago.
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Secret Six #25
New Mutants Forever #2
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Weird War Tales #1
American Vampire #6
Welcome to Tranquility: One Foot In The Grave #3
Grimm Fairy Tales #50
Avengers: The Children's Crusade #1
Doom Patrol #14
Batman and Robin #14
(I didn't pick up X-Men #3 or Greek Street in order to save money)
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Bold Flavors
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Anyone who picks up the first issues of Wolverine, X-23 and Uncanny X-Force, please review and post your thoughts! All three have good writers (Jason Aaron, Marjorie Lui and Rick Remender) and have piqued my curiosity, yet all three are also three X-concepts I'm most likely *not* to buy. A good or bad review could help my decision.
Arachne, I thought of you on X-23 because I know you like Lui's work and are more in tune with what's good in the X-world.
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I just bought these today. They're old, well, except one.
Amazing Fantasy #5
Marville #1
Marvel Icons: Chamber #1
Warrior Nun Aerala #1
The Mighty Crusaders #1
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Missed last week...so:
American Vampire 6
Adventure Comics 518
Darkwing Duck 3
Green Lantern 57
Booster Gold 36
JL: Generation Lost 9
and finally got
Superman/Batman 74
Active LMB character is still Beast Boy.
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Two weeks worth of stuff:
Adventure Comics #518
Astro City: Silver Agent #2
Baltimore: The Plague Ships #2
Batman #703
Batman and Robin #14
Brightest Day #9
B.R.P.D: Hell on Earth #2
Doc Savage #6
Doom Patrol #14
Green Lantern #57
Incorruptible #9
Irredeemable #17
JSA All-Stars #10
R.E.B.E.L.S #20
Secret Six #25
Weird-War Tales #1
This weeks freebies were a bunch of tattered, non-sellable comics which are still quite readable: DC 80-pg Giant #170 (Worlds' Finest) & 190 (Our Army At War), Blackhawk #228, and Capt. Storm #6
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Our Fighting Forces #1
New Mutants #17
Joe the Barbarian #7
Birds of Prey #5
Avengers: The Children's Crusade #2
Zatanna #5
DV8 #6 (decided to give it a try)
Tiny Titans #32
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Playing catchup...
Legacies #3, 4 and 5
Chew #13
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I got the latest X-Factor and Avengers: Children's Crusade 2 today, but, like a ninny, I forgot to pick up Adventure 518.
Grr. Gotta go back for that one...
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All that discussion about The Losers in the Legacies thread inspired me to buy their one-shot that came out this week.
I was avoiding those War Specials because of their exorbitant price but I thought the timing of this one was so serendipitous I had to grab it.
Did anyone else pick it up? I'll do a review for it in the random review thread once I've read it.
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