Comic Picks By The Glick

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, I talk about everyone’s favorite X-Men character this week.

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I’ve noticed for a while now that Marvel has been steadily raising the prices on their trade paperbacks.  Where a collection of a 5-issues used to run you around $13-14, it’ll now run you anywhere from $15-20 these days, depending on how well the series sold in single issue form.  While I’d say that the best way to get them to lower their prices would be to stop buying these trades, that’s just not an option.  Instead, I just look for better deals.  So instead of shopping at my local comic shop, more and more of my business these days has been going to Amazon.com.  And for those titles that are too expensive even with Amazon’s generous discount?  There’s my “List of books to find for 50% off at Comic-Con this year.”  Shop smarter, not harder fellow readers.

That being said, I only paid full price for one of the following books.  See if you can guess which one it was:

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And we’re back!  This week I’m talking about X-Men and the build-up and follow-through of “Messiah Complex.”

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Due to unavoidable family problems, no podcast for this week.  While I’ve been able to get around to John’s on a pretty regular basis to record these, this weekend threw us a curveball.  That said, I’m betting that John wishes things didn’t turn out like this more than I did.  So instead of a podcast I’m giving you lots of text this week.  Text about zombies! (more…)

Today was one of the rare Wednesdays where NOTHING I wanted was scheduled to ship, and the comic shop didn’t get in anything I asked them to order for me…  Of course, that really won’t make a difference here since I generally don’t comment on the comics I’ve just bought for this column.  I have to read them first to do that.  Anyway, here are some noteworthy titles that came out in the last few weeks: (more…)