WTF?!? FF #600 ---> $7.99???????!!!!!!!!!

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:09 pm

Weren't the 100 page issues that they did for Thor and Cap or whoever like $4.99 or $5.99? Has there ever been a more expensive single issue? WTF?

kevinbastos · Post by **kevinbastos** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:15 pm

Silver embossed super-awesome card-stock pages boarded with an ultra-exclusive random card. Comes with 1-5 variant, 1-10 variant, 1-100 variant, and one out of every 100 variants comes signed. Only one thousand of those comes with a personalized letter from the creators. But EVERY copy includes Stan Lee shaking his head in shame and disgust.

All issues come polybagged. Standard. For protection, of course.

kevinbastos · Post by **kevinbastos** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:37 pm

I still have respect for Stan. Sold out as he did - at least he started the ball rolling with stories.

caxiotis · Post by **caxiotis** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:05 am

400yrs wrote:

Weren't the 100 page issues that they did for Thor and Cap or whoever like $4.99 or $5.99? Has there ever been a more expensive single issue? WTF?

I was at my LCS today and thought about picking this up until I saw $7.99.

I refuse to spend more than $5 for a current comic.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:43 am

I thought Marvel Point One was expensive at 5.99.

Hotwire · Post by **Hotwire** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 6:32 pm

So what? It's the same cost as a ham sandwich. And you fellows look like you know all about ham sandwiches.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:17 pm

ha!

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:27 pm

400yrs wrote:

Weren't the 100 page issues that they did for Thor and Cap or whoever like $4.99 or $5.99? Has there ever been a more expensive single issue? WTF?

I think Fables # 100 was 9.95, but that was hardstock and had pullouts and games and backup stories and was actually part of a series that has a writer that isn't a hack.

OmenSpirits.com · Post by **OmenSpirits.com** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:21 pm

kevinbastos wrote:I still have respect for Stan. Sold out as he did - at least he started the ball rolling with stories.

In comparison to his contemporaries as writers, he was a *SQUEE* hack!

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 4:44 pm

OmenSpirits.com wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:I still have respect for Stan. Sold out as he did - at least he started the ball rolling with stories.
In comparison to his contemporaries as writers, he was a *SQUEE* hack!

Anyone who combines all the best elements of a contemporary form of media could be classified in this way... and then you'd be discounting more than half of all the major artists, directors, writers, musicians etc. in any form of media.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:56 pm

Hickman ... a hack?

Hmm... I've been enjoying his stuff...

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:55 pm

Doorman wrote:Hickman ... a hack?

Hmm... I've been enjoying his stuff...

It's Hickman now? Ok, half a hack.

IMJ · Post by **IMJ** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:10 pm

Anyone remember the days when a "prestige format book" was about this price. Cardstock covers and square bindings - usually some kind of one shot or something? Anniversary issues were a buck fifty. The good old days.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:03 am

IMJ wrote:Anyone remember the days when a "prestige format book" was about this price. Cardstock covers and square bindings - usually some kind of one shot or something? Anniversary issues were a buck fifty. The good old days.

Yep. The 90's. Most of the DC Elseworld books were like that.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:30 am

xodacia81 wrote:
Doorman wrote:Hickman ... a hack?

Hmm... I've been enjoying his stuff...
It's Hickman now? Ok, half a hack.

he's been writing it since 2009. Who'd you think it was?

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:24 am

Doorman wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:
Doorman wrote:Hickman ... a hack?

Hmm... I've been enjoying his stuff...
It's Hickman now? Ok, half a hack.
he's been writing it since 2009. Who'd you think it was?

I pay Marvel very little attention. Outside of the movies based on Marvel characters, I don't much care for the Cult of Uncle Stan.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:43 pm

I've really been enjoying his run on Fantastic Four.

Much better than the previous "hot" writer: Mark Millar.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 3:45 pm

Doorman wrote:I've really been enjoying his run on Fantastic Four.

Much better than the previous "hot" writer: Mark Millar.

The only thing I can remember "sort of" enjoying from Millar was/is Kick-*SQUEE*.

IMJ · Post by **IMJ** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:00 pm

xodacia81 wrote:
Doorman wrote:I've really been enjoying his run on Fantastic Four.

Much better than the previous "hot" writer: Mark Millar.
The only thing I can remember "sort of" enjoying from Millar was/is Kick-*SQUEE*.

Wanted was a decent read. His early Ultimate X-Men stuff was entertaining too, but Millar grows thin on me really quickly.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:05 pm

IMJ wrote: but Millar grows thin on me really quickly.

I feel the same. It's like his stuff starts awesome but by the second issue or so, it's just average and you lose interest.

I think it's because he is good at developing movie pitches, but isn't so great at writing a whole tale.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:36 am

How many pages is a standard comic? between 20 and 25, something like that? At $2.99 or 3.99 four issues (ie. the equivalent page count) you are looking at $10-14.

100 pages of original material by solid creative teams for 8 bucks doesn't really seem so bad. If that were bound better, you would be finding that on Graphic novel shelves for $15-18 as marvel are beasts when it comes to TPB prices.

OmenSpirits.com · Post by **OmenSpirits.com** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:05 pm

ian_house wrote:
OmenSpirits.com wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:I still have respect for Stan. Sold out as he did - at least he started the ball rolling with stories.
In comparison to his contemporaries as writers, he was a *SQUEE* hack!
Anyone who combines all the best elements of a contemporary form of media could be classified in this way... and then you'd be discounting more than half of all the major artists, directors, writers, musicians etc. in any form of media.

His contemporaries of the era he was writing ing. Not following you here.

Dr. Solar · Post by **Dr. Solar** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:15 pm

Well, in sorta related news, I read the first several issues of Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four, and rather liked it. I think I got the first five or six issues.

Does it stay good up to issue 600?

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:11 pm

Dr. Solar wrote:Well, in sorta related news, I read the first several issues of Jonathan Hickman's run on Fantastic Four, and rather liked it. I think I got the first five or six issues.

Does it stay good up to issue 600?

FF is the best book Marvel is putting out right now. The Fantastic Four was replaced by the Future Foundation. And then they put together the best superhero team EVER.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:15 pm

Drift wrote:How many pages is a standard comic? between 20 and 25, something like that? At $2.99 or 3.99 four issues (ie. the equivalent page count) you are looking at $10-14.

100 pages of original material by solid creative teams for 8 bucks doesn't really seem so bad. If that were bound better, you would be finding that on Graphic novel shelves for $15-18 as marvel are beasts when it comes to TPB prices.

A standard $2.99 comic is 20 story pages, down from 22 pages just a year ago.

How many actual story pages was that issue?

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