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Uncanny Avengers... I think not.

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DrWatson

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I had been giving serious thought to collecting Uncanny Avengers from Marvel's new NOW line that begins this month. However, once I found out that issue #1 consisted of EIGHTEEN different covers, I decided to give it a pass.

 

Bite me Marvel. I hope the variant cover craze crashes, burns, and dies the fiery death it so richly deserves.

 

I blame all of this on Walking Dead #100.

 

:P

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I don't fully understand the angst on this subject. If you like chasing variants, go nuts. If you don't, just buy the cover that most appeals to you and leave it at that.

 

Surely you all have enough free will where you are not likely to feel coerced into buying covers you don't want?

 

Also, it's promotional tools like this which allow retailers to carry and support low print run books which on their own wouldn't sell enough to be worthwhile stocking. It's a little like an actor doing a blockbuster movie to subsidize an art house film. 2c

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What would have been cool is if they had a variant cover for each country or local pick-up point where their comics are distributed. This way, they could still have their 5 or 10 or 18 different covers, but only one for US, one for Canada, etc. And leave the hunting and scavenging to the variant hounds to figure out how to assemble them from different locations. 2c

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What would have been cool is if they had a variant cover for each country or local pick-up point where their comics are distributed. This way, they could still have their 5 or 10 or 18 different covers, but only one for US, one for Canada, etc. And leave the hunting and scavenging to the variant hounds to figure out how to assemble them from different countries. 2c

 

That's a cool idea. I'd want the one from Latveria.

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the variant covers dont bother me either.

And to blame it on WD #100 is REALLY reaching.....if you want to blame it on anything try blaming it on Spider-Man #1 (1990)

I actually think that the 18th cover is my favorite and that will be the one i will be picking up.

That is known as voting with your dollars.....i wont be buying the other 17 covers, but will be picking up the one that appeals to me the most.

 

Also, one thing that people don't think of is this.....with 18 different covers, that means that in all likelihood there will be 18 different artists, and i am ALL for giving good artists more work as it keeps everything from looking the same.

 

 

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I don't fully understand the angst on this subject. If you like chasing variants, go nuts. If you don't, just buy the cover that most appeals to you and leave it at that.

 

Surely you all have enough free will where you are not likely to feel coerced into buying covers you don't want?

 

Also, it's promotional tools like this which allow retailers to carry and support low print run books which on their own wouldn't sell enough to be worthwhile stocking. It's a little like an actor doing a blockbuster movie to subsidize an art house film. 2c

A lot of it has to do with the fact that many collectors, such as myself, are completists. Factor that in with a limited collecting budget, a desire to have the books graded by a third party grading service, and the fact that it's nothing other than an obscene money grab and it makes it hard to stomach.

 

I am no stranger to variant covers. I have 91 Astonishing X-Men books. The series is only on issue 54. It would be nice to branch out and collect a few of the new titles. However, given a situation where there are eighteen variants of number alone, it makes it impractical. I would also be fearful of the number of variants other issues might have in the future.

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songsaboutclouds

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I had been giving serious thought to collecting Uncanny Avengers from Marvel's new NOW line that begins this month. However, once I found out that issue #1 consisted of EIGHTEEN different covers, I decided to give it a pass.

 

Bite me Marvel. I hope the variant cover craze crashes, burns, and dies the fiery death it so richly deserves.

 

I blame all of this on Walking Dead #100.

 

:P

 

Amazing Spiderman #700 - 1 in 700 variant!

I kid you not

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I don't fully understand the angst on this subject. If you like chasing variants, go nuts. If you don't, just buy the cover that most appeals to you and leave it at that.

 

Surely you all have enough free will where you are not likely to feel coerced into buying covers you don't want?

 

Also, it's promotional tools like this which allow retailers to carry and support low print run books which on their own wouldn't sell enough to be worthwhile stocking. It's a little like an actor doing a blockbuster movie to subsidize an art house film. 2c

A lot of it has to do with the fact that many collectors, such as myself, are completists. Factor that in with a limited collecting budget, a desire to have the books graded by a third party grading service, and the fact that it's nothing other than an obscene money grab and it makes it hard to stomach.

 

I am no stranger to variant covers. I have 91 Astonishing X-Men books. The series is only on issue 54. It would be nice to branch out and collect a few of the new titles. However, given a situation where there are eighteen variants of number alone, it makes it impractical. I would also be fearful of the number of variants other issues might have in the future.

 

like when they go back to original Uncanny numbering and have 60 variants for issue #600 :ohnoez:

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I don't fully understand the angst on this subject. If you like chasing variants, go nuts. If you don't, just buy the cover that most appeals to you and leave it at that.

 

Surely you all have enough free will where you are not likely to feel coerced into buying covers you don't want?

 

Also, it's promotional tools like this which allow retailers to carry and support low print run books which on their own wouldn't sell enough to be worthwhile stocking. It's a little like an actor doing a blockbuster movie to subsidize an art house film. 2c

 

It's also the entire reason why the industry crashed in the early 90s.

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