RCheli

When the Guardians of the Galaxy movie bombs (and I suspect it's going to be a huge dud), what are those IH #271 and associated GoG comics going to do?

What? You don't remember that 2-issue series where they teamed up? http://www.comics.org/issue/273728/

I agree. However, I believe that there are significantly more people that are going to start buying Bone or Turtles or many, many other titles more than Harbinger. To me, the people who like Valiant books REALLY LIKE VALIANT. There are very few on-the-fencers. Those people are going to buy pretty much everything. So that's good, I suppose, for back issues. However, I just don't know if there are many more of them being made.

What about people collecting the new Valiant??? And you could say the same about many comics. What about stuff like "Bone"??? Very limited scope, as it's just one (or two?) self-contained series. But it still gets money and accolades. Just depends on rarity, quality, etc. Same with the Turtles. They died off, now they're back. Even if they weren't, you'd still get collectors. You can't compare Harbinger to the Turtles or even Bone. The Turtles have been in movies, cartoons, comics, toys, pretty much nonstop for nearly 30 years. The are constantly creating new fans, young fans. Bone, while not as popular as the Turtles, has been reprinted countless times by a very large non-comic publisher -- Scholastic. There are a ridiculous number of copies of those in print, numbers that dwarf Harbinger's numbers. Also, the first printing of Bone #1 was much, much smaller than Harbinger, and is legitimately much harder to find. Harbinger was a short-lived series that at one time was incredibly popular. The first issue may be a top-20 modern book now, but I don't think it's going to last. The most recent sales through Diamond were under 10,000 copies, the 199th most ordered book that month.

Call me stupid, but what is VH1 and VE1? I think Harbinger will always be a key book, but I don't think it will have much legs. Once the people who collected Valiants in the early 90s are no longer collecting comics, I don't see there being much of a replacement consumer.

I love the current run. I liked (not loved) Brubaker's take on the character. And Diggle's was awful. My biggest problem with Bendis -- and this is not specific to Daredevil -- is that his characters just don't act how you would expect. This is not saying I like predictability or anything like that. It's more of, I would read his stories, and put the comic down and say to myself, "Nobody acts like that. Nobody thinks like that. You can have one irrational person, but not the whole damn cast." I remember the ending of Born Again. Frank Miller had Matt and Karen Page walking arm in arm down a Hell's Kitchen street. They were both flawed, and they both just went through hell, they had promise, a future. That panel alone could have been the jump-start for about 20 years worth of great stories. Instead, we got 20+ years of blech.

I was so excited about the third Gene Colan run (in the 360s), but by then, he was a shadow of his former self, and the comics were a huge letdown. In fact, pretty much from 301 to the end, it was a disappointment. And then Bendis, whose stuff I do not like in the least, and Kevin Smith, and I just realized that I didn't like comics featuring my favorite character for about 15 years.

I've heard that ozone generators work pretty well.

This may have already been discussed, but there are so many pages and the search function here isn't great. What is the appeal of having signatures of TWD actors on the comic books? They seem to be plentiful, but the actors have nothing to do with the comic, the comic is much different than the show, the characters are different, etc... I mean, I don't see a lot of Burt Ward signatures on Robin comics. (Or maybe I'm not looking.) Or am I just being a grump?

NOV130150 EARTH 2 #19 $2.99 NOV130587 BLACK WIDOW #1 ANMN $3.99 NOV130649 DAREDEVIL DARK NIGHTS #8 $2.99 A really small week for me.

Ditto.

Wow. I go and make myself a sandwich and come back to this. i'll PM you right away.

Spawn #100 Greg Capullo Variant VF/NM $22

Spawn #50 VF $3

Spawn #231 "Spider-Man #1 Homage" Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #230 "Batman #423 Homage" Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #229 "Incredible Hulk Annual #1 Homage" Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #228 "Action Comics #1 Homage" Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #227 "Amazing Spider-Man #300 Homage" Cover -- NM $4

Spawn #225 "Incredible Hulk #340 Homage" Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #225 "Watchmen #1 Homage" Cover -- VF $4

Spawn #224 "Dark Knight Returns #2 Homage" Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #223 "Walking Dead #1 Homage" Cover -- NM $5

Spawn #222 "Amazing Spider-Man #316 Homage" Cover -- NM $4 (The cover is slightly mis-cut)

Spawn #221 McFarlane "Amazing Fantasy #15 Homage" Cover -- NM $12