Nonplayer #1 by Image

[chainnball]

I'm surprised no one is discussing this. It has been sold out at Diamond since the final order date. They even did a 50% overprint for re orders and that has been sold out for weeks. Copies are selling for $15-22 bucks on ebay. beautiful art, cool story. Anyone get any?

[Lebowski]

Lone Star still has copies for cover price. Midtown has copies still for LESS than cover. Anyone paying a premium at the moment is rather foolish.

[bane]

Nope, that was another one I gave a pass on.

[Comic_Diva]

My local comic shop sold out this morning, granted they only ordered six.

[medusanyc]

i picked up one and liked the art alot. will see where the story goes.

[yellow954]

I picked it up, not my normal type of book but I enjoyed it and will continue to for now

[OldGuy]

There were about 15 on the shelf at my LCS. There were also about 15 words in the entire book by my estimation. I like pictures as much as the next nerd, but there has to be some words as well. I passed.

[paperheart]

There were about 15 on the shelf at my LCS. There were also about 15 words in the entire book by my estimation. I like pictures as much as the next nerd, but there has to be some words as well. I passed.

 

+1- my LCS had about 10, probably their entire order.

[John R]

I picked up a copy today, but haven't read it yet. My LCS had about 10 copies.

[dupont2005]

Never heard of it but I just looked it up. The art does look great. If it's light on dialogue I won't bother though. That's why I quit reading Mouseguard

[medusanyc]

the dialog picks up later in the issue but the early pages were light on dialog

 

[AnthaiHERO]

I picked up a copy at wondercon and had a chance to get it signed. Kind of wish I subbed it to cgc .

[Jonesin4Comics]

Dang it! I didn't even see them there

[Annihilus]

I really didn't go into this book expecting much, but actually thought it was pretty good. For some reason the art/world reminds me a bit of something Moebius might do. Think I might add it to my pull list.

[Jonesin4Comics]

I think Moebius actually commented on this, but I could be mistaken. I'll look for the article....

[SpaFon]

Nate Simpson wrote something on his blog about somebody handing Moebius an early copy of it and he liked it and wanted to keep it.

 

Found it:

 

http://www.nonplayercomic.com/2011/01/moebius-approved.html

[cshepard81]

Nate Simpson wrote something on his blog about somebody handing Moebius an early copy of it and he liked it and wanted to keep it.

 

I pre-ordered my copy based on this endorsement.

[Bill Robinson]

It was good. One of the guys at my LCS demanded that I buy it. I also made another friend buy it. $15 is crazy. Image had a big day yesterday.

[Stormsurge]

I picked it up and enjoyed the art and the story. Here's hoping he comes out with the next issue soon.

[Comic_Diva]

Because my LCS sold out, I went to a comic shop that is not local to me looking for Nonplayer. I had visiting this story before and knew it to be cool enough though it's one of those places where you have to turn sideways to maneuver the piles. My partner was with me and we both spent hours looking at the shelves and floor. There was so many books and variants of books, you literally had to move piles to find things. I was happy to pick out books that would be long gone at a high traffic location. I snagged two copies of Nonplayer and two copies of Green Wake. I handed the shop owner the books for purchase and he went through the time consuming task of writing down each title, issue number, date and cover price. I didn't mind too much, he had the books I was looking for. Here's something interesting though, as he got to Nonplayer and Green Wake, he hesitates..."Is this a copy for each of you?" I said, "Yes," while giving him a puzzled look. He explained that he didn't like speculators and he couldn't re-order either title because they were sold out so since I was purchasing duplicate copies he wanted to be sure I wanted them for my collection and not to resale somewhere else. I just smiled and paid the man. As we walked out of the shop, I said, "You know that's . I'm not a speculator but I heard really good things about both titles. Nowhere in his cluttered shop is there a sign that says '1 per customer.' What's his deal?" My partner turned to me and said, "You've seen his shop, the guy is a hoarder and he's trying to control what happens to the books even after they are sold."

 

I just finished reading Nonplayer. WOW! The art is fantastic and I like the -script.