Marvel fanboy almost exclusively. Outside of a few key stories like The Killing Joke, DC doesn't intrique me. (Of course, movies and animation are a different category). I recently received Remender's Uncanny X-Force, Hickman's v1 Fantastic Four/FF, and Roger Stern's ASM, all in beautiful, hardcover, omnibus format.
Speaking of which, I love me some local businesses, but I can not justify paying MSRP at a comic book store or book store for trades and hard covers when they're much cheaper on Amazon. But lately, I've been using cheapgraphicnovels.com, which is an online venture of a hobby shop called Pulp Fiction out in California. Really good prices. Anyone who reads by trade/hardcover or wants to find some of the OOP stuff, check them out.
Mine is actually doc ock, he actually managed to take peter's chaotic life, and make it the best its ever been, not to mention that Superior spiderman is prolly the best spiderman run in the last ten years.
Spock was something that was handled great by every other writer but Slott's handling of that story was, at best, average with some bright spots, and at worst, flat out creepy and horrible. Those first two issues of SSM easily rank in my top 10 worst Spider-Man issues of all time.
But the problems with his Superior Spider-Man run aren't any different than his ASM work during Brand New Day and Big Time. He can not write a female to save his life outside of Aunt May (pretty much every woman among Peter's friends conforms to a very narrow stereotype, IE MJ is the jealous ex, Carlie is the Perfect One True Love, etc...). His Spider-Man dialogue was okay but his grasp on Peter is really bad. Peter has Parker Luck, for sure, but much of Slott's Peter seems to be self inflicted trouble rather than trouble that has inadvertently found Peter.
Not to mention that everyone, from long time supporting cast and family, to fellow Avengers, to his clone brother Kaine, had to be struck with a Dumb Magic Stick to be prevented from figuring out why Peter/Spiderman is suddenly a jerk.
But as I said, Hickman, Waid and many others wrote a compelling Spock character. Slott, however, pretty much wrote him as a power fantasy trip.
Speaking of Spider-man who do you think served as the best Spider-man Miles,Miguel , or Peter?
I'm a big fan of Miles but they can all be good. Except Miguel. Never was a fan of 2099. I understand the appeal, it just isn't for me.
Does anyone here take care of comic books? If so, how do you keep it all nice and preserved? My ASM GS Variant Covers finally came, and they're in what looks to be like Ziploc, and was shipped in a cardboard envelope. If I remove the envelope and just keep the comic inside the Ziploc, it would fit in a shoebox. Should I just keep it in the envelope?
Also, I didn't touch the comic, but just slightly took it out of the envelope to see if both were damaged. It seems both edges on the creases are damaged. It's most likely a damage done when they were packing it. Would that lower the value of the comic?
Every single comic you buy is automatically worth less the minute you buy it. That's true for 95% of comics published the past 10, 15, 20 years. The few exceptions are pretty rare and usually have a reason.
Ultimate Spider-Man #1 by Brian Michael Bendis, from 10+ years ago, is one of them. It was a comic everyone was expecting to fail from a writer who really didn't have a lot going for him at the time. Good looking copies of the original batch are still fetching $100+ on Ebay and similar sites.
An issue or its variant covers might be worth something unusully high anywhere between a few days or a few months if it receives mainstream media attention, such as the assassination of Captain America (CA 25, Brubaker) or that Spidey issue that featured Obama. But after that brief spot in the sun, the value plummets pretty hard.
But comic book nerds like us love buying stuff at cons, and usually a collection of a volume, or at least a continuous volume, can be haggled for a good chunk of change. IE The Peculiar Purple Monster #1-25 is worth more than The Peculiar Purple Monster issues #1-19, #21, 24-30.