Kevin.J Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 one of my customers used to work on the Manhattan Project......he's 93 and fits right in to the comic. Wow, that is actually really cool. he's pretty cool, mind is razor sharp. MP is brilliant to me. EoW will have broader appeal IMHO due to MP being a more cerebral book (too early to judge or label EoW, but didn't get the same brainy feeling off issue #1). As with any book, a long of factors are at play. We'll see what happens... Couldnt say this better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsJustRyan Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Thanks Kevin... + Hickman stole the Triforce © from Zelda © and has unlimited power. (If you don't get why this is a reference, Ganon is coming for you). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.J Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Zelda the best game ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsJustRyan Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Zelda the best game ever Totally worth the derail... LoZ: Ocarina of Time changed my life. Still probably the best game I have ever played. Granted, Twilight Princess had better graphics, but OoT did it first with regards to 3D Zelda worlds. I need to replay this (have the master disk on Wii). I may just do that soon. Rerail: When I saw the triangle symbol on EoW, the first thing I thought was Triforce. If I could ask Hickman one question a out EoW, it would be about this symbol and its origin. Okay, someone tweet him (TBP ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.J Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Ocarina of Time I played it to death, for some reason I just couldnt get into Majora's Mask and Zelda OOT once you have completed it, you can never go back, left wanting man Lots of games with better graphics, story, effects, etc but this was the first to blow my mind. Greatest game ever (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsJustRyan Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Nostalgia: Bringing Boardies Together Daily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awakeintheashes Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Ocarina of Time I played it to death, for some reason I just couldnt get into Majora's Mask and Zelda OOT once you have completed it, you can never go back, left wanting man Lots of games with better graphics, story, effects, etc but this was the first to blow my mind. Greatest game ever (thumbs u +1 dedicated a whole winter to this game and then spent the whole spring trying to find the tri-force which did not exist. I had Far's "Tin Cans with Strings to You" playing in the background. Now whenever I hear a track from that album, I am taken back to that special place. Re-rail: "...Too bad. Natural Selection would have loved you." still my favorite line from issue #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@Captain_Sawyer Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Ocarina of Time I played it to death, for some reason I just couldnt get into Majora's Mask and Zelda OOT once you have completed it, you can never go back, left wanting man Lots of games with better graphics, story, effects, etc but this was the first to blow my mind. Greatest game ever (thumbs u +1 dedicated a whole winter to this game and then spent the whole spring trying to find the tri-force which did not exist. I had Far's "Tin Cans with Strings to You" playing in the background. Now whenever I hear a track from that album, I am taken back to that special place. Re-rail: "...Too bad. Natural Selection would have loved you." still my favorite line from issue #1. Majora's Mask is one of my favs!!! That and OOT made my gaming life complete! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synch Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 triforce was actually brought up at my lcs a few times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slym2none Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Thanks Kevin... + Hickman stole the Triforce © from Zelda © and has unlimited power. (If you don't get why this is a reference, Ganon is coming for you). Who is coming for me? -slym Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsJustRyan Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Thanks Kevin... + Hickman stole the Triforce © from Zelda © and has unlimited power. (If you don't get why this is a reference, Ganon is coming for you). Who is coming for me? -slym Ganon from Zelda and you're on the list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mg1902 Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Just got 10 copies of #1 in the mail from TFAW. All nice, clean copies. Now to hope my FPs turn up in the same condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 one of my customers used to work on the Manhattan Project......he's 93 and fits right in to the comic. Wow, that is actually really cool. he's pretty cool, mind is razor sharp. MP is brilliant to me. EoW will have broader appeal IMHO due to MP being a more cerebral book (too early to judge or label EoW, but didn't get the same brainy feeling off issue #1). As with any book, a lot of factors are at play. We'll see what happens... I can understand why MP might be perceived as being too brainy because of the nominal subject matter, but the book doesn't read like that at all. It's got action and comedy all tied together with a killer premise. There isn't anything particularly "cerebral" about it...it's just good fun. Easily my favorite modern. Glad others I've talked to about it have dug the read as well ( :hi:NIck!). EoW is still too early to call for me, but I've got faith in Hickman and I did like the first issue a lot. Like SCOUT, only with bigger ideas. I'm in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutflush76 Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 I went to my LCS and tried to get a copy the day that the book released and my guy claimed to have only received one out of an order of 5. He doesn't really sell back issues so I doubt he is holding back. That Saturday I went around the Inland Empire area to about 5 different shops. Only 1 shop had one copy of EoW. Usually, I can find a store that has about 20 copies of a hot book still sitting on the shelf when I make a trip like that. So I would think that there aren't that many sitting on shelves. I think this book will slowly climb. It's going to probably start to gain good momentum around the end of the first arc. That is when most of these "hot" books seem to take off. Once a story is complete and they realize that there are issues at the beginning that they missed. As for Saga type-numbers, I don't know if it's going to get that crazy. Hickman isn't as well known as Vaughn, but he does have a high-profile gig writing Avengers, but how much that translates into sales for his other books, I don't know. As for the long term sustainability of the prices on any of these books: Who knows? Sure TWD is 12 years old now, but that book is an outlier. Also, comic sales were up 22% in the month of March. That's a lot of new readers who probably didn't get on the EoW train who may be looking for a #1 in a few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayakkid Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Have no idea if the unofficial Diamond numbers were reported yet in this thread for East of West #1. Comichron just reported: 35 East of West 1* $3.50 Image 49,518 Its the 35th most ordered book. 49,518 is the printing The "*" I THINKKKK denotes there is a second printing(??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronc Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 (edited) Numbers are out. East of West: 49,518 For comparison Walking Dead 108: 67,423 Saga 11: 50,023 The next image title after East of West is actually Fatale 13 with 17,662 copies sold Edited April 9, 2013 by aaronc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsJustRyan Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Interesting. I wonder if this is a shift in print runs going forward for #1 Image's. "Difficult, Difficult" - Filmore Press Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBT Posted April 9, 2013 Author Share Posted April 9, 2013 it's right between superman 17 and 18, which seems to be falling about a point a month. Superman 16 was 50,500ish, so i would guess it lands around high 40s, something like a 48. Probably in the 47-53 range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.J Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Went to Forbidden Planet this morning to get a EoW FP variant and was told that all the shops have had their remaining stocks recalled to head office Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBT Posted April 9, 2013 Author Share Posted April 9, 2013 (edited) You forgot sex also is higher, but here's all of them in ascending order Blackacre 4 4250 Savage Dragon 185 4460 Darkness 111 4870 Artifacts 26 5100 Dia De Los Muertos 2 5120 Comeback 5 5250 Son of Merlin 2 5360 Witch Doctor Malpractice 5 5480 Savage Skullkickers 1 6010 Five Weapons 2 6200 Great Pacific 5 6710 Planetoid 5 6840 Todd The Ugliest Kid On Earth 3 7140 Hack Slash 25 7160 Witchblade 164 7670 Clone 5 8080 Mind The Gap 8 8250 Morning Glories 25 8300 Legend of Luther Strode 4 9400 Mara 3 10570 Snapshot 2 10740 Peter Panzerfaust 10 10990 Chew 32 12670 Five Ghosts Haunting of Fabian Gray 1 13160 Nowhere Men 4 13370 Bedlam 5 13700 Lost Vegas 1 15270 Invincible 101 15540 Spawn 229 16360 Manhattan Projects 10 17030 Revival 8 17080 Fatale 13 17660 Sex 1 23630 East of West 1 49520 Saga 11 50020 Walking Dead 108 67420 Edited April 9, 2013 by CBT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
