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The Weekly Haul – Week of January 28, 2015

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Walt

This was another appallingly huge week. THREE Valiants. TWO Ninja Turtles. The second-to-last Fire and Stone (Predator #4) of that mega-story.

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Along with these, the usual three DC Weeklies, as well as Turok and a "random" $1 issue.

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I also snagged a handful of 25-cent bin issues as well.

I’m really getting tired of the clustering…after months withOUT any TMNT Color Classics, we suddenly got two issues in as many weeks; and this is the second week of multiple TMNT comics. FIVE in two weeks…an I’ll hazard a guess that now there’ll be 2-3 weeks with NOTHING TMNT-related in single-issue format.

And of course…the Aric’s Butt issue of X-O Manowar that I’m actually surprisingly sour on…it was this or his knee and foot…where the cover wouldn’t be bad if it was a wraparound or gatefold…or the "interlocking" images were subsequent issues instead of VARIANTS of the SAME issue.

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The Weekly Haul – Week of November 5th, 2014

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Walt

Kicking off November with a decent haul this week!

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The latest Batman Essentials issue, this month chapter one of Year One. And of course, the three weeklies.

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Valiant and Gold Key books from…Valiant and Dynamite. Different flavors at this point, but same nostalgic motivation, even though Valiant already seems to have a better track record, and I’m embarrassingly far behind reading the Gold Key stuff. I’m still not sure whether or not to “trust” Dynamite to keep these titles around longer than a year or so…though they’ve been doing a pretty good job so far of keeping these timely!

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Along with the new stuff, I raided the quarter-bin for a mere 4 issues ($1)’s worth of stuff this week. I think the GI Joe issue brings me 1 issue closer to a complete Marvel run of the series. I’ve wanted to read the final chapter of the Spider-Man Clone Saga for far too many years to pass it up for a mere 25-cents. And I snagged the Prophet/Cable issue to go with my Cable collection.

I passed on a near-complete run of Supreme vol. 2…not wanting to hassle with “having to” track down isolated issues…plus already being quite “over budget” for the week not having expected the Gold Key issues.

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Batman Eternal…Together Finally

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Walt

While out with a friend for Free Comic Day 2014, I decided to pick up the first four issues of Batman Eternal provided the store actually had all 4. Just one month’s worth of a weekly book, and Batman at that, just for something to read.

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I’ve wound up keeping up with it, quite preferring it to some Zero Year thing and despite the shifting creative team, very much liking the frequency of the book–a new issue every week.

Well, at this point–26 issues in and the 27th out tomorrow–the book is just past its halfway point (I think I read that it’s a 48-issue thing, but even a full year–52 issues–26 is the half). And I think I’m on board for the long hault…not much point to just give up on it now, and I’m liking characters it’s involving and introduced.

And now for the first time in several months I finally gathered all the issues together and intend to keep the series together moving forward.

With the various one-shots last month, I also decided to catch up on Futures End–should finish catching up tomorrow–and I’m even entertaining the notion of checking out the Earth 2 weekly coming up soon. So long as they stay on the new issue racks, I might even pick off the rest of the Futures End Month one-shots just to have the complete epic when all’s said and done.

Time will certainly tell…

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