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 Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:35 am Post subject: Strange Tales #1 |
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I read Marvel's (new) Strange Tales #1 today. I wasn't impressed.
I *truly love* the idea of Marvel taking books and letting artists do what they want. But 2 or 3 pages of each artist just isn't enough to *tell a story* in.
Ideas were tightly fitted and it just didn't work for me.
The Peter Bagge 4-pager was nice though. If you like his style, you'd love to see him doing Marvel characters.
I've signed up for at least #2 and #3 so I'll give it a fair shake.
I just didn't think it was all it was hyped to be.
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J & S Harrington
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I had no idea that Marvel was reviving Strange Tales. I'll have to check it out. I'm kind of a sucker for anthologies.
I'll keep my expectations realistic, though(It is Marvel after all...).
Besides Peter Bagge, who else is(or will be) making contributions to the title? Anybody interesting?
-J
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J & S Harrington
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Thanks for the link!
-J
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soldier1941
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 Gone are the days when you could go to the store and browse at a comic without having to buy it. I had to buy Strange Tales #1 before I could really delve into to it. What a waste of money! Just more wasted pages from the supposed "House of Ideas". I just wish they had a money back guarantee.
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J & S Harrington
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| Quote: | | Gone are the days when you could go to the store and browse at a comic without having to buy it. |
That's a peculiar phenomenon that I too have encountered. Most of the comicbook stores I've frequented are pretty laid back and let you look at whatever you want without bugging you, but I've had my share of bad(and in some cases bizarre) experiences.
Here are a few examples:
1: Some years ago, a new comic book store opened in a shopping center near the local mall. I was thrilled, because not only was it conveniently located, but it had a great selection of comics and back issues. I was there all the time. I bought almost all of my comics, back issues, even Pokemon stuff(my sister was into that at the time) there. When I went there I would look through the comics(browsing through some, reading others) starting at the A's and work my way down to the end. I was a regular there for a long time, the owners knew me and we were friendly.
One night I was at the store looking at an issue of Liberty Meadows(I hadn't seen the title before and was checking it out to see what it was about) only to have the store owner tell me I wasn't allowed to "read" comics in their store. I was amazed. I wasn't doing anything that I(and other patrons) hadn't been doing ever since the store had opened. Not only did the owners know me, but at the time I was carrying another comic under my arm that I was intending to buy, so they clearly knew that I was going to be giving them money that night. I didn't say anything to them, put the Liberty Meadows comic back, paid for the other comic and left. I never went back there again. A few months later they went out of business, so I guess I wasn't the only person they alienated.
2. I had a similar experience at another comic store(I had only gone there a couple of times) where the owner told me out of the blue that I wasn't allowed to browse the comics. He later put up signs in the store to that effect. I generally don't go there unless I'm looking for a specific issue that isn't in stock at the other stores.
3. Another store I used to frequent, had signs that read:"You are free to browse, but not to read". I had no idea what that meant. No one else seemed to either. As it happened, the owners spent most of their time playing Yugio or Magic:The Gathering and never payed any attention to their customers any way, so I pretty much read whatever I wanted.
4. Another store I used to visit had a "You bend it you buy it" policy, which was fair enough. It was owned by an older man who resembled Charles Shultz and let you browse the comics in peace. Unfortunately, when he wasn't there, the store was helmed by a man and woman(I think they were his daughter and his son in law) who seemed to operate off the theory that every one who entered the store was a potential thief of vandal and would watch you like a hawk wherever you went(I might have understood this if I was a kid, but at the time I was in my mid-20's and had driven myself there). Although they were never rude to me, the whole situation made me uncomfortable and I didn't go there very much. They also went out of business.
The bottom line is, this is a crazy way to do business. Could you imagine going into a Borders or Barnes & Noble and having a clerk tell you that you're not allowed to read or "browse" through the books and must buy them sight unseen and leave? They have seating areas in their stores just so you CAN sit and read their books. Even Amazon.com has a feature that allowes you to look inside a book and preview a few pages.
As Sean once pointed out:"You can go into a GM dealership and they will let you test drive a $50,000 Corvette." But you can't browse a $3 comic book without buying it first.
-J
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| Truth be told, none of the art did it for me...and that's always the deciding factor for a comic with me... |
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soldier1941
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Here is my comic store experience:
I went to the same comic for over 20 years. I started going to it when I was 12 years old. When the owner had it behind his house in a portable building. I was driving myself ( I won't go into that story) as it was in a town over 20 miles away. Over the years he moved into 3 other locations and went though 2 other managers but I stayed a loyal customer. I even became such good friends with his last manager that I spent weekends at their house for parties, dinners, basketball games etc. I spent thousands of dollars over the years; but the most important thing was I thought they were my friends.
When I started to work more and art collecting become more important
than the actual comics I saw a complete change in their attitude. No more invites to play basketball, to come over and eat. My pull box suddenly was misplaced and comics that I had been getting for years had missed issues.Just because I canceled some titles I had lost interest in to save some money to buy art instead.
When I got married things really went bad they wouldn't even talk to me when I came in the store anymore. If I ran into them at Sam's or the Mall they wouldn't even say hi to me when I would go up to them and try to talk to them. They even took my discount away and I had to pay full price. One day I took my Diamond Preview Book made my last order turned it in and never went back.
Luckily Terry hooked me up with Jim Sears and I have been happy with his services ever since. It's amazing that I can get my books cheaper in the mail than I can get them from a store that's 20 miles away and with way friendlier service.
Cheers,
Jeff
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Luckily Terry hooked me up with Jim Sears and I have been happy with his services ever since. It's amazing that I can get my books cheaper in the mail than I can get them from a store that's 20 miles away and with way friendlier service.
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Wow! You're using Jim? I had forgotten I told you about him.
I'm still using him too and couldn't be happier.
For anyone else interested:
http://dragonberry.com/dream/
Or his new site is coming soon (next few months)
http://littlemonstercomics.com
(see if you can recognize who drew the monsters)
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| Quote: | Wow! You're using Jim? I had forgotten I told you about him.
I'm still using him too and couldn't be happier.
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Yes sir Jim has been a godsend. See that is another reason I owe Terry 
He keeps me in comics for less than anyone in Texas can.
So I can still buy original art too.
Cheers,
Jeff
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On the other side of the coin from what John and Jeff mentioned, I recall what was possibly the best comic book store I ever frequented....
It was quite large, about twice the size of most of the other comic shops I had been to, and in addition to the usual racks of new releases from the Big 3 (this was back when there was a Big 3) there were a bunch of long cafeteria-style tables end-to-end in rows all just covered with comics of all descriptions.
I mean ALL descriptions. Really rare stuff like M.D. Geist scattered in among some Will Eisner books next to a big stack of EVERY issue of Akira underneath some stuff I'd never seen before and never saw again. Shopping there was kind of a comic book treasure hunt.
It was staffed by a quiet, friendly guy who spent most of his time in front of the computer behind the counter and never had the slightest objection to anyone (including little kids) looking through the comics and reading anything they wanted.
Alas, the things that made it great no doubt contributed to it's eventual demise, but it was fun while it lastest.
Ah, heady days....
-S
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I finally got around to visiting my local comic book store a couple of weeks ago and took a look Strange Tales. To say I was disappointed with what I read would be an understatement.
I had assumed(naively, apparently) that it would be something along the lines of Batman:Black and White or that black and white Marvel anthology(I forget the name) that came out a little while later. In short, I was expecting a series of short stories showcasing art from the industry's superstars, not something that looks like Fantagraphics on a controlled substance.
I'm not sure who this book was intended for, but apparently it wasn't me.
-J
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I *thought* it was intended for me, that's why I pre-ordered it.
They get me with offering one or two artists I want to see along with 1/2 dozen I don't particularly care about seeing.
Oh well.
Another to go on Buy My Comics!
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