Any Canadians in here? Just curious as to where to buy stuff from because its not viable to buy books on American sites with the exchange rate the way it is and the shipping charges being so high and in some cases import charges. Is there any places online that makes it more viable as a Canadian to purchase from?
ummm...Amazon? I'm Canadian and afaict it's pretty much either Amazon or Chapters for online. Sadly, even their pricing has gone up recently reflective of the weak CDN $...but free shipping is nice and unlike some I've never had any big issues with Amazon shipping.
I don't know of any where we Canadians can order from that's really any better than the big 2 I mentioned...
The preorder discounts are like 11%, but if you wait, within a week of their release date, prices drop dramatically. Eg: I picked up Crisis on Infinit Earths and Dark Knight Saga deluxes. They started out at 11% off, then dropped within a week of release and I picked them up for 37% off each. I believe that's their current discount price. It's cheeky, but most of their books are going through that pricing so I would just check back in a week instead of preordering.
Got The Golden Compass vol. 2 (in Dutch) today. Such an awesome book, loved the first volume! And some weeks ago I also got Aama 4 (in English), which is the final volume in the series.
still jealous of those Blake and Mortimer hc-s. I want these in hardcover and in a bigger format! Have to learn another language damn!
Same with Spirou. Never read it but I know I should but it's also published in english by Cinebook in oversized tpb-s and that's the only option.
On the strip front: started reading Flash Gordon-The tyrant of Mongo and it's good but Dale is driving me crazy with her "I'm just a frail women oh Flash I'm nothing without you" thing. Hope that will stop soon.
What HCs? The German B&M books are softcover albums, like the English language ones (and just 2 or 3mm taller). I don't even think they're HC in French. Perhaps you think the one above is a hardcover book because of its thickness, but that is just due to it collecting all three parts of the "Secret of the Swordfish" - which again is an excellent thriller. So no need to not spend your hard earned money on another set of books
That franquin book has my curiosity peaked. The distinctive Belgian art style is something I just love. Unfortunately I am not multilingual, if I were I would have some Johan and pewit collections for sure. What genre are those characters is it comedy or adventure or something else?
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It's actually both: adventure and comedy (and very anarchic comedy as well, which I love). Cinebook has begun to publish Spirou & Fantasio in English, though artwise the best Franquin books have yet to be published by them.
Together with Herge and Uderzo, Franquin was one of the greatest Franco-Belgian artists before Moebius/Giraud and the other Metal Hurlant artists came along. Just do a quick google image search on him and you see why. I'm impatiently waiting for his complete Gaston collection which should arrive here next week.
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