what’s the advantage of CBZ over PDF?
absolutely no idea
For shame! I’m heading out on my dinner break to look for a big frame in which I can display all of my signed WicDiv stuff. Through my relentless stalking of Keiron and Jamie I’ve build up a few signed printed and issues that just sit in a drawer, might as well get them on the wall. My dilemma is whether to skin the covers off the issues so they can sit in the same frame as the prints.
I really like the comic and always find it weird that they’re mates with loads of former DiSers. Totally reawakened my love for ancient mythology.
There were a bunch of old Delphi forums on which a core of people used to post, around 1997-2005 ish, mainly revolving around video games, music and comics, and which seemed to happen just at the right time for people to know and work with each other.
The Internet is amazing for finding out about mutual friends and stuff.
Bought the first volume of their Young Avengers series yesterday, came with a cool signed postcard thing (1/200 as well!)
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Sweet!
I loved their Young Avengers run 
Here’s some new vocabulary for you, this little postcard is called a “bookplate”. I found this out when the first hardcover of WicDiv went on sale and I pre-ordered it from Forbidden Planet “with signed bookplate” and I wondered what such an exotic sounding object was, and it showed up with one of these little things.
Young Avengers is excellent though, that’s when I became a really massive fan of their work together. Coming off the back of Phonogram 2 and Keiron’s assorted Thor-related work (btw if you haven’t read his Journey Into Mystery I’d recommend doing that before Young Avengers, there’s some big heavy catharsis to be had if you’ve followed Loki’s arc all the way up to it) I was really excited to see what they’d do. Then I was in rapture with every single issue when it was coming out. Jamie in particular really hit his stride in Young Avengers, and has continued on being one of the best in the business all through Phonogram 3 and now WicDiv.
Ah, thanks - had always seen that bandied around but wasn’t sure what it meant.
Working my way through The Fix at the moment, absolutely excellent all round. Enjoyed Chew as well; definitely got a thing for cop comics I think.
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Would recommend this in that case
Very dark and funny. Sadly he never finished the series but each issue is pretty standalone (and maybe one day he will)
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Cheers! I’ll take a look! Artwork looks quite severe/bleak.
Loving that Humble Bundle deal from a few weeks back, finding some right gems in it!
The Fix!
Bwahahahahaha! 
excellent stuff. Donovan’s introduction was so, so…odd. See also: Josh. WTF.
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Can we talk comics at the next Fenino as well please
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Went to see my mum today - surprisingly Bedford has a pretty good comic shop that has a decent pre-owned section. It’s mostly older Marvel stuff, but last time I was there I got the Phonogram Singles Collection (£8, as new), and today I got Jonathan Hickman’s Pax Romana (good quality, £5).
Read a bit of the latter on the train home and it is something else. The Vatican discovers time travel and decides to go back in time to alter history. But it’s like all the Hickmanesque elements I love turned up to max - super dense text, minimalist and really stylistic artwork, intricate plotting. Can’t wait to get more stuck into it.
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I’m hearing Marvel stuff is going crazy cheap on comixology at the minute. This is as much as I know, all of my comics are made of paper, but go ye forth and gain bargains.
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This is true, I’ve just bought 25 graphic novels (inc. chunky epic collections) for £17!
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What did you get?
I’m intrigued, 69p is crazy crazy cheap, but there’s so much and I dunno where to start and a lot of them are random volumes from longer series…
I got:
X-Men: Epic Collection Mutant Genesis
New Mutants Epic Collection: Curse Of The Valkyries
Excalibur Epic Collection: The Cross-Time Caper
Thor Epic Collection: The Wrath Of Odin
Iron Man Epic Collection: Doom
Daredevil Epic Collection: Mike Murdock Must Die!
Daredevil Epic Collection: Heart of Darkness
Incredible Hulk Epic Collection: The Hulk Must Die
Incredible Hulk Epic Collection: Fall of the Pantheon
Doctor Strange Epic Collection: Afterlife
Punisher Epic Collection: Capital Punishment
X-Men Hidden Years Vol 1
X-Men Hidden Years Vol 2
New Mutants: Back To School - The Complete Collection
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse - Termination
Jubilee by Robert Kirkman
Avengers: West Coast Avengers - Sins of the Past
Avengers: Avengers West Coast - Zodiac Attack
Avengers West Coast: Along Came a Spider-Woman
Avengers: Hawkeye - Earth’s Mightiest Marksman
Mystery Men: The Golden Age
Ka-Zar Masterworks Vol. 1
Ka-Zar by Mark Waid and Andy Kubert Vol. 1
Ka-Zar by Mark Waid and Andy Kubert Vol. 2
Inhumans: Beware The Inhumans
Basically all the epic collections in the sale and a bunch of random stuff that took my fancy, tbh some of it I wouldn’t have got when more expensive but that’s the fun of these kind of sales.
Was tempted by some of the golden age stuff but it’s really only a novelty. Don’t know when I’ll get round to reading most of it as got vast amounts of other stuff to go anyway but it’s nice to have!