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From Image's solicits for stuff shipping in November:

THE WALKING DEAD, BOOK 3 HC
304 PAGES
BW
in stores NOVEMBER 7
$29.99

--add $20 to my September DCBS order...

I'm just waiting for the next giant omnibus edition with the second 24 issues. That way I can look like Moses carrying the tablets. Only with zombies.

Lookit Scooter in robes, parting the Dead Sea...

DCBS is making me wait for the first two HC collections, darn it! I was hoping they'd ship them before they started shipping the rest of my July order; I figured they'd have them in stock as IST implies. But I guess they keep the two businesses seperate, ergo the different accounts for ordering from each site.

I thought they were going to be fixing that soon. Could have sworn I got a note or saw a notice on DCBS that soon you'd be able to place IST orders through DCBS with the IST discount shipping.

Not sure how they're gonna do it, but if you click on the Trade Paperbacks link on the DCBS frontpage, it gives you this message--

"Trade Paperbacks
Up-to-date Trade Paperback listings will be available soon at Discount Comic Book Service.

As always, Trade Paperbacks are available at www.InStockTrades.com. All trades are on sale now at savings of up to 35% off with free shipping on orders over $50.00!"

With all this talk of trades and omnibuses (omnibusii?), I just felt it necessary to point out a new issue came out today.

Yikes! I guess I'll have to plough through Volume 2 pretty soon then! I've read everything up to maybe issue 40 or so, but I do like rereading those hardcovers when they come out. Not sure why it's taken me this long to get thru #2?

DOUBLE darn it! the Vol.2 HC's confirmed for my end-of-month stuff shipping tomorrow... but no first hardcover yet! :frustrated:

I'll just have to set it aside until the first one arrives...

You'll just have to fight temptation.

Where are the Legion DVD's? They came out today but don't show in next week's shipment. At least not mine.

That's right! I was so caught up in the TWD HC's I forgot the first LSH DVD is due out tomorrow.

I thought about rereading the trade you sent me of the first six issues, then reading 13-24 in the second hardcover, but I don't want to spoil anything...

No, you definitely don't want to skip those six issues.

The ONE thing TWD really needs, for me anyway, is a ROLL CALL type page.

The lack of colors makes it harder for me to identify anyone (other than Rick and Lori).

Starting the series in the mid-30s and then starting the trades after probably threw me off some too.

There actually was Lash. The one I know of, off hand, was from issue #18. Here are the pages printed so peruse them at your own risk if you haven't read anything prior to #18 as there is some SPOILER info.

AWESOME!!!! This will help tremedously! Scott saves the day again!

Oooops. I'm not that far along yet... SPOILERS.

Aargh... the shrink-wrap on my TWD vol.2 HC is ripped... it's tempting me, I tell ya. TEMPTING ME!!!

The first HC had best be in my mid-month shipment, that's all I'm saying... :frustrated:

Hey, in all my activity of the last couple of months I never got the chance to come in here and give my verdict on 'The Walking Dead' trade that Scott sent me. Time to rectify that...

Loved it! I've since gone and bought and read and really enjoyed all the subsequent trades too. (I think the latest being 'This Sorrowful Life' right? Great title by the way!)

It's a very well written book IMO. I find it a very challenging read too though, with nearly every one of the characters alternating between being liked and hated by me. But I think I appreciate it all the more for that.

It's much more 'realistic' in that sense that even the most noble of the characters can be capable of great acts of cruelty or horror, and vice versa. I'm thinking primarily of Rick and Tyreese here, our two ostensible 'heroes' who have both committed unspeakable crimes that have really shaken my support of them, but Kirkman is not afraid of painting nearly every one of the other main characters in a darkly negative light too. So while on the one hand, I find myself disliking most of the characters to a point that I wouldn't mind seeing them die, I also find this same dark light drawing me closer to them in order to see if they rise up out of it's blackness or sink further into it as the situations around them change. I think that's good characterisation.

And I think that Kirkman is aware of this dichotomy too. As most explicity evidenced in the fight that Tyrese and Rick have in the prison and the speech Rick gives to all the survivors after recovering from the injuries he sustained in that fight (the great "We are the Walking Dead" speech.)

One thing I was slightly disappointed in after starting the second trade though was that the wonderful artwork of Tony Moore would no longer be gracing the pages. He was AMAZING on that first trade. I loved how he gave each zombie it's own character and identity - rather than the featureless monster than Adlard renders them as later on. I still really miss his art but I have gotten used to Adlard and do think he is doing a capable job.

Something else else else I was disappointed to see missing from the trades was that roll call page Scott posted just above, though I had been warned it wasn't included, so thanks to Scott for posting it here. I'd be supremely disappointed if that short Christmas story about Morgan and Duane doesn't get reprinted in them though. Does anyone know if that will be the case?

It'd be nice to get some more discussion about the contents of the stories here at Legion World, though I guess that might be difficult since we're all at different stages in our reading.

Anyway, count me in as a new member of the Walking Dead Army and thanks again to Scott for the recruitment.

Sorry about that Bri. Guess I should have hidden them under the spoiler tag instead. I did change the thumb tag so they aren't legible unless clicked on.

Nah, don't worry about it... I was just busting ya.

I'm glad you enjoyed it Dan! Yeah, the change in artists from Moore to Adlard took some getting used to but I think Adlard is doing a great job now. Artwork is always a big hook for me on any book but it was Kirkman's writing that got me through the change. This world he has created is just so well thought out I'd probably put up with just about any artist as long as Kirkman kept writing.

I'm not sure if the Christmas story was reprinted in trade #6, which should be the one you mentioned, This Sorrowful Life. I think that's where it should have fallen. If it wasn't included and if everyone would like to see it I can post the story here. I did once before but pulled it because it was published in the floppies.

I'm behind on my trades of the series and just ordered the first three hardcovers. Finally gave in since I can't read my giant omnibus now that it's been Kirkman-ized. The thing sells for over $300 without his sig and sketch that I got on FCBD. I could probably pay the mortgage for a month if I sold it.

And now another call for the Army. I have three copies of the first trade left. Any takers? Or do any of the Army know someone that might like it? Let me know.

And while I'm thinking about it. I've thought about starting another wiki, this one for TWD. I'm not sure if there is enough history yet to build one though. Just thought it would be a great place to track the characters and plot lines.

Maybe have a section on Zombies in general in the comics medium?

(And I take it you've ordered ZOMBIE- SIMON GARTH from Marvel MAX? 50% off, special... )

That would be a good idea. And a whole section for the ZMU since it is a Kirkman creation.

As for Simon Garth, I thought about it. But my total was over $200. With the Legion trade, Super Sons trade, the non-50% Titans Showcase #2 (that sucked), Buffy Omnibus #3, the three TWD hardbacks, two copies of the Dark Tower hardback (one for a Christmas present for one of Caroline's cousins) and five Classic Marvel mags (including the $21.75 Galactus), I had to stop. Hopefully it'll be collected.

I was just updating my electronic copies of the series and realized that something else that hasn't been reprinted anywhere else except the omnibus is the proposal that Kirkman did in 2002. It is five illustrated (by Moore) story pages and the written proposal to Image. The pages take place prior to issue #1 and are kind of like having the story almost set in the same universe as Romero's dead movies. In fact, Kirkman said he was going to name the series Night of the Living Dead since the name is in the public domain. Some interesting reading.

Anyone interested in seeing those pages?

Sounds neat! And as I'm never going to own the omnibus, I'd love the chance to see it.