Comments on: Tell Me What To Read: Wednesday Comics edition

By: blankwave

blankwave — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:37:20 +0000

In addition to Unwritten and Wednesday Comics, I’m picking up:
BPRD 1947 #1 (Never go wrong with dips in the Hellboy pool.)
Batman #688 (With today’s news I might be dropping this for 6 months.)
Green Lantern #43 (Can you say Event done right!)
REBELS #6 (Vril Dox, Starro. This story is building. A comfort read for me.)
Red Robin #2 (I might drop this one soon.)
Superman World Of New Krypton #5 (Still going strong.)
House Of Mystery #15 (This might be Vertigo’s “weakest” comic; a complement as it seems to me we are in what I’m calling the “Vertigo Renaissance.”)
North 40 #1 (The previews looked interesting)
Strange Adventures Of HP Lovecraft #3 (Great art and the best HP related comic I’ve seen in sometime. I do not like the pricetag however.)

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:38:06 +0000

as terrible as it sounds, there is nothing for me this week. If my wallet were to expand, I could expand my interests, but as it stands now, well… maybe next week?

Cheers,

By: Michael C Lorah

Michael C Lorah — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:35:50 +0000

Just FYI, David Mazzucchelli’s new book, ASTERIOS POLYP, is out this week, and it’s likely to be tops of my Best of ’09 list at this point. By a long ways.:)

I’m also very jazzed about the Hal Foster PRINCE VALIANT reprint from Fantagraphics.

By: Lemurion

Lemurion — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:21:22 +0000

I’m going with Wednesday comics first – definitely Batman and thinking about Red Robin. Not 100% sure about anything else yet this week.

By: KS

KS — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:07:25 +0000

My comic budget is ever tightening as well. I know this is slightly off-topic but I think I’m finally at a place where I’m ready to start phasing out 80% of the comics that I’ve been reading since I’m 9 (so roughly 16 years). I hate to say it but mainstream industry (specifically Marvel) has managed to finally literally turn-me-off from their comics. I look at my weekly comic lists and realize that I’m forking over on average $5 more per week. And this $5 is not because I’ve found great new books that I’ve love reading, but because 80% of the books that I pick up have gone up in price by $1, with absolutely nothing substantive to show for it (no extra pages, back-ups, nothing). I finally got really pissed and decided that I’m not going to be a test-subject while companies (again, especially Marvel) figure out how far they they keep pushing prices before I budge. I’m budging now!! So July is when I’ve committed to wrapping up a bunch of books that I’m no longer going to buy. It’s a shame too, because this means I’m going to stop buying a bunch of books that I really enjoy story-wise, but lately I just couldn’t get past feeling cheated out of my money to fully enjoy them. In the long run, I just can no longer justify throwing away money with price-gouged comics…it would be stupid and irresponsible of me.

That being said…back on topic, this week is small for me anyway. Green Lantern, Wednesday Comics, and The Unwritten. (Not-surprisingly, all books that are either standard $3, or I feel are worth the $4 price.)