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Last big haul for a good while from my LCS. Now I gotta be responsible and save money.
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Last big haul for a good while from my LCS. Now I gotta be responsible and save money.

Probably won’t get anything for a good while until I find job. Been unemployed for 2 months with paid leave but now I’m nearing the end of that grace period and I still haven’t even gotten an interview let alone a job offer. I knew it was bad out there… but man is it way harder to get a job than I thought. I might have to bite the bullet get a crappy temp job through a temp agency to get some kind of income.

u/thatguy01220 — 1 day ago
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New epic collection

What is this new Epic Collection with those beautiful covers? Is there any information about what it's actually going to be?

u/Potential-Grass-247 — 1 day ago
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Some more pickups!

Some really awesome pickups/preorders came in 🔥🔥 still trying to find a reasonably priced ASM Vol 2 though!

u/LOTRFreak38 — 1 day ago
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Epic Release Question

I just placed a n order for the Spider-Girl Epic that was released this week and I have a question about Epic Collections in general.

Is there a method to Marvel's releasing order? Why did they release this version of Spider-Girl (from the Amazing Spider-Girl 2006) when there are still plenty of volumes needed from the earlier volume.

Also, did anyone hear if they plan on releasing Exiles?

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u/BJ0711 — 24 hours ago
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What information will I be missing if I read my epic collections straight through?

I have X-men epic collections 1-5, 7, 9-14, and 19-23. What information will I be missing from the gaps? Should I just wait for prints/reprints to have an unbroken run?

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u/MenuPossible — 1 day ago
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New pickup!

Got my hands on volume 2! Collection is looking cleaner and cleaner by the day.
Ordered volume 4, and volume 3 is in my pull-box at my LCS.
Super glad i was able to get this for an affordable price!

u/CheeseBlockStudios1 — 2 days ago
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Read epic collection ASM: Venom after Birth of venom?

I’ve read Birth of Venom and while i know the epic collection has issues i haven’t read, i was wondering if it was worth it? I’ve heard that birth of venom pretty much has the peak of bulk of what to know.

u/chrispena99 — 2 days ago
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The Boyhood dream has come true

This past weekend, I bit the bullet and bought the last four volumes of Claremont’s X-Men that I was missing. Ever since I read Giant sized X-Men #1 on a DVD rom I dreamed of reading X-Men from Giant Sized to 200, and after almost twenty years of reading comics, and 9 years of the Epic line. The boyhood dream has come true.

u/TraditionMany3678 — 3 days ago
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Spider-Man reading/collection help

Hola,

Read Spider-man a lot randomly during early 90s and looking to finally read some stories in order from 80s and 90s. I got the Roger Stern Omnibus and really liked it but stopped to collect some more books before really going forward.

I feel I got the most interesting epics to me ,but wouldn’t mind cosmic powers and life theft perhaps but the prices are really out there. Did I make a mistake going the epic route mostly or should have just stuck with getting more creator Omni’s? Epic prices and reprints just seem really sporadic but maybe they really are the more popular way to read Spider-Man since it seems easier to skip less interesting arcs? Round robin kind of comes to mind for me as a skippable for example but if I’m wrong i would love to hear another opinion

Bonus points if anyone can answer if web of life, web of death is a decent ending spot for clone? I remember being so overwhelmed as a kid and I always hear the quality dips.

Thanks for reading and your time.

u/randomnombre64 — 3 days ago
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Secret Wars II Omnibus Pricing

A local store had an omnibus for Secret Wars II for $400. I felt it was overpriced. But the store owner is a well known seller on the east coast. So of course, I doubted myself. Please tell me my thoughts were valid.

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u/TheJourneyfeel — 3 days ago
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Spider-Girl Epics

First post here as I am an omnibus gal (be gentle) but one of my absolute favourites isn’t in that format yet so I’ve been supporting the Modern Era Spider-Girl line in the hopes of showing Marvel there are fans of Mayday out here.

Today Spider-Girl : Comes The Carnage (Vol. 7) got delivered and I’m so pleased to add it to my shelf.
Hoping they go back and fill in volume 2, 3 & 4 soonish (well soon is a relative term to epic collections 😂).

Are any of you collecting the MC2 universe / Spider-Girl epics? And are you enjoying them?

Picture 1: Spider-Girl Comes The Carnage Epic collection book on a shelf in front of several Spider-Man omnibus.
Picture 2: All currently released Spider-Girl Epics on a shelf showing spines with character portraits.

u/Danielle_Roe — 4 days ago
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Reading and collecting again after 5 years away!

Wanted to share as I'm loving comics again. I'm trying to have a full library of AF 15 - ASM 545!

About 5 years ago during university, I read ASM for the first time. Got to about #350 and then stopped (also read the JMS run - maybe my favourite writer). I had about 10 SM Omnibuses and sold them over the past few months as I didn't enjoy the bulkiness when reading them. Selling them is helping to fund the exchange to Masterworks and Epics, which I am loving and will combine to make the full run.

I'm especially gassed to have found Masterworks 9, 13, and 19 and then the Venom and Maximum Carnage Epics, as I've noticed those hard to come by over the past years! More or less, I've found everything in the photos over the past 6 months.

The missing Masterworks are pretty tricky to find and then still waiting on all of Roger Stern's run to be printed in Epics.

Absolutely loving reading through them again - I've just finished the Ditko run and the DeMatteis omnibus!

Also collected some awesome singles which I may post in another sub tomorrow.

u/spider2104 — 3 days ago
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Found this steal today!

I was at fan expo Chicago today and this vendor has a tonnn of out of print trades and epics. This was the only daredevil book he had and thankfully I just finished up a touch of typhoid! $35 bucks too! I don’t think he knew half of the books he had were triple the price on eBay😅

u/Itchy-Sympathy-3953 — 4 days ago
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I wish the Epic Collections were more expansive

I really like the Marvel Epic Collections. They seem like a natural evolution of the old black and white Essential trades and in general obvious idea that Marvel should have adopted decades ago.

I also love that, for Spider-Man, they have been the format that has at last given us a complete (and relatively affordable) collection of several runs, chief among these being David Michelinie whose body of work had only ever been collected in fragments, either arcs within trades, Venom/Carnage centric collections or a focus upon his artistic collaborators like McFarlane.

...However...

I am frustrated by the fact that to this date the ASM Epic collections have been this weird tug of war between ONLY being about ASM issues but then including non-ASM Spider-Man comics if you need them to understand the mainline ASM issues but then throwing in the odd one shot or graphic novel because they felt like it I guess.

I'm not asking for them to ditch the non-ASM material and at most only print like explanatory subplot pages (imagine trying to read Kraven's Last Hunt that way, yuck).

On the contrary, I think they should go all in. For characters like Venom, Carnage, and a few other Marvel characters who (unlike Spider-Man) didn't get off the ground with their own title very early in their existence, the Epic Collections go for a comprehesive approach. You get EVERY appearance of Venom in roughly publication order with subplot pages to bridge the gaps. It works great!

Why can't we just DO that for Peter Parker?

Seriously, for decades we have had the Marvel Chronology Project right there painstakingly telling us sometimes panel by panel whhen different stories happen in relation to one another for virtually every Marvel character. I'm not saying we should have a truly chronological trade collection where every single stiory along the lines of Untold Tales is slotted in where it is supposed to have happened.\*

But organise the stuff in broad publication order, slipping in the odd note or subplot page to account for Spidey appearing briefly in other titles or to make it clear these issues of Spectacular take place during the pages of this issue of ASM you just read so that both stories don't need to be stopped and started.

Marvel would get over all more trades to print and more importantly their mascot character would have as cohesive a reading order as possible.

This would be INFINITELY useful for newer fans who do not need to navigate the maze of what issue to start with, which specific comic book called ASM #1 should they read, what reading order online is the 'correct' one.

If Marvel did the heavy lifting of organising all this material themselves (which they already are doing to a large extent and are pretty good at, their Clone Saga Epic Books 15+ years ago were really well done) you'd have essentially streamlined Spider-Man's history into something not unlike how inthe 2000s new readers could simply pick up USM volume 1, then volume 2 and so on and follow the story no problem. No confusion of when to stop and start or anything like that.

Sure you'd have a HUGE number of volumes but we are going to wind up with that anyway, they're just going to be labelled ASM Epic Collection, ASM Modern Epic Collection, Spectacular Epic Collection and so forth. Not to mention, juggernauts of manga have huge volume sets but if someone bites the bulet they don't have trouble following one piece. start at volume 1 and go forwards.

\*You'd have like 1-2 trades JUST on the stuff that happened before ASM #1 if you did.

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u/xavierhollis — 4 days ago