This was a pretty good week’s haul…fairly straight-forward, a couple special orders and a book from last week, and some surprise quarter-bin finds!
The usual Superman issue for the week in Action Comics. The appropriately-shiny cover for Dark Days: The Casting. A #0 issue for Mage: The Hero Denied (which has me really interested in acquiring the earlier Mage stuff!) Special-ordered Calexit #1 cuz hey…I’ve got my views. Beginning to (against initial plans and judgment) accept The Sovereigns…might be the third iteration in about as many years from Dynamite of the Gold Key characters…but at least they haven’t screwed me on the "complete story-run" if I just buy one of each issue (yet)! (Unlike Valiant).
And the second-to-last issue of Letter 44…which means I’m one issue shy of having a complete run of something like this…and at 35 issues…I think that’s some kinda record for me!
I’m giving these Atari comics from Dynamite a shot…a bit for the nostalgia, a bit for the weirdness, a bit cuz hey…at least they’re new to me and not pulling the crap that Marvel does!
…and yet, I’m still getting the $1 True Believers issues. I like most of these reprints, even if some of the $1 reprints are of 25-cent books. Or of stuff I previously wouldn’t touch, period (Brand New Day).
Then there’s the weekly Comic Shop News, which I don’t usually showcase in these posts, but why not? It’s part of the weekly haul! Special-ordered Riverdale Comics Digest, which I believe reprints four or five of the #2 issues of "New Archie". I saw in the indicia that this is published four times/year…so quarterly. I really hope this lasts quite awhile…cuz I’m very willing to pay $6 for 4-5 issues’ content (and only one freaking cover!!!) rather than $3.99 per issue with umpteen ridiculously-plentiful variants!
And though I have yet to acquire any of the starter-packs…another Star Wars Destiny booster pack, because hey…I can justify one pack at a time here and there, while I’m not gonna load up on a bunch of them all at once! And once I do get starter packs, I’ve got a few extra dice and cards to customize the game.
And finally…found on top of the quarter-bins (and asked someone who was already going through the bins if he’d pulled them–he said no, they were not his), some more digests. I’m not terribly concerned about the condition at this point…just figuring as I come across these sorts (especially cheaply) I’ll grab ’em…maybe eventually I’ll make a concerted effort to hunt them all down. For now…I’ll just add to the collection!
And thus, another week of comics. A mix of publishers and genres…ongoing and one-shot and such; even a mix of formats.
Not a huge week, but not a tiny week; far less sticker shock than recently!
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Comic Reviews by Walt 
I’m going to have buy The Casting, aren’t I? Everyone is talking about it. I swore off all new comics forever, but DC’s events (not Marvels) always make me want to swing back in for a bit. Chris’s review of The Button affected me the same way.
Picked up Dark Days: The Casting myself… awesome shiny cover, and the story was goddamn Bat-tastic!
As of this typing, I haven’t read it yet, but looking forward to it. I was quite surprised at how much I liked the last one…and given its relative scope (not taking over tons of titles and adding mini-series and such) I’m actually thinking it’s another event I’ll be quite enthusiastic for.
Chris beat me to reviewing The Button, and did it much better than I would have… that’s one I fully intend to double or triple or whatever it is by then -dip on with the collected edition!
Marvel has so thoroughly squandered any “consumer capital” with me…while DC has earned back loads, including my willingness to fork over $4.99 for special issues and such, and not have any problem at all with a shiny cover gimmick, etc.