I'm glad to see the Monsterbus vol.2 rise to the top of IST chart.
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I've updated my table showing how the decades are represented in Epic Collections thus far. Star Wars Epics have been omitted from my analysis. This represents everything solicited through April 2018 and does not include proto-Epics such as The Captain or the mid-80s Bill Mantlo Hulk trio.
Some of the volumes bridge decade boundaries and require a bit of a judgment call. In these instances I generally favored placing them into the decade represented by the bulk of the material in the volume, not necessarily the earliest material in the book.
hey guys, is Loki Journey into Mystery Omnibus self-sufficient? i've never read any Thor/Loki stuff. is there something i need to know before reading this book?
For me, knowing who there character was before there transformation made the stories all the more better.
Both young Loki and Superior Spider-Man (Doc Ock) were over the top fun to read because of both good story telling
and the knowledge of who was lurking behind the current.
Well, you don't have to know a lot, but FS is right - it's good to know about Fear Itself, since there's major arcs that deal with Young Loki's role in it and after. I think if you find a synopsis of that story line somewhere you should be good to go. Other than that, the events behind Siege and what happened to adult Loki and why there's a young Loki are talked about quit a bit, so that part you'll pick up on early on. Of course, I say this from someone who read all the previous stuff, so most of it made sense to me.
I've noticed IST has become dreadful with damaged books. I don't buy many things anymore anyway, but I make sure when I do I avoid IST now.
Prices are good but most of their stuff is damaged. That's why they have so many titles they sell as "damaged stock."
I've ordered many Image trades from them since they're only about $5, and the covers are always torn. It's not worth the hassle to return something for $5, but if it's an omnibus I can see the problem more so.
Without knowing for certain why the books were damaged I don't think it fair to attribute the damage to IST. Torn covers? I find it hard to believe IST packed and shipped something that had a torn cover that wouldn't already be listed as damaged.
If you've ever bought 1 big OS book from them you are aware of the bomb proof nature of which IST packs books.
The two books I've gotten from them that had damage were clearly a manufacturing issue and not a shipping one. Their customer service was second to none, way better than CheapGraphicNovels.
The consensus around here is they are the best. A few delays on shipping out books after sales or what have you but I find your account to be very unique.
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Is there a link to a pic for the cover of the upcoming Avengers Omnibus vol 3? I've tried googling it but no luck.
Both of my imperfect books were Marvel. I always take mine out of the cellophane and examine them.
Marvel needs a better form of quality control at those overseas print shops, if they have any QC at all.
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