Some Wildstorm titles on sale this week at mycomicshop.com

grifter78 · Post by **grifter78** » Wed May 20, 2009 1:39 pm

I know some of you have been waiting out Wildstorm's new World's End storyline. Well, the trades are due out in July and August, but the back issues are still pretty cheap, especially with the extra discount mycomicshop.com is offering.

This week, all DC Titles (including Wildstorm) beginning with letters A-L on sale:

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Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Thu May 21, 2009 7:53 am

When Dan DiBio leaves DC Comics I'll be more than happy to start buying DC, Vertigo, and Wildstorm Comics again, until then I'm not buying any new DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm comic, TPB, or HC that has been published. Unless it was a story or series that was orginally published before he came to DC and that the sale of my puchance does NOT go to DC but to the store or person selling the book.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Thu May 21, 2009 8:07 am

Cyberstrike wrote:When Dan DiBio leaves DC Comics I'll be more than happy to start buying DC, Vertigo, and Wildstorm Comics again, until then I'm not buying any new DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm comic, TPB, or HC that has been published. Unless it was a story or series that was orginally published before he came to DC and that the sale of my puchance does NOT go to DC but to the store or person selling the book.

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Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Thu May 21, 2009 9:50 am

Cyberstrike wrote:When Dan DiBio leaves DC Comics I'll be more than happy to start buying DC, Vertigo, and Wildstorm Comics again, until then I'm not buying any new DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm comic, TPB, or HC that has been published. Unless it was a story or series that was orginally published before he came to DC and that the sale of my puchance does NOT go to DC but to the store or person selling the book.

Why the hostility towards ol' Dan Didio? He's had the courage to copy Joey Q and shake up the DC continuity.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Thu May 21, 2009 11:04 am

Chiclo wrote:
Cyberstrike wrote:When Dan DiBio leaves DC Comics I'll be more than happy to start buying DC, Vertigo, and Wildstorm Comics again, until then I'm not buying any new DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm comic, TPB, or HC that has been published. Unless it was a story or series that was orginally published before he came to DC and that the sale of my puchance does NOT go to DC but to the store or person selling the book.
Why the hostility towards ol' Dan Didio? He's had the courage to copy Joey Q and shake up the DC continuity.

Joey Q's management of Marvel is *SQUEE*. How is it a good thing that DiDio has copied him?

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Thu May 21, 2009 11:55 am

Drift wrote:
Chiclo wrote:
Cyberstrike wrote:When Dan DiBio leaves DC Comics I'll be more than happy to start buying DC, Vertigo, and Wildstorm Comics again, until then I'm not buying any new DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm comic, TPB, or HC that has been published. Unless it was a story or series that was orginally published before he came to DC and that the sale of my puchance does NOT go to DC but to the store or person selling the book.
Why the hostility towards ol' Dan Didio? He's had the courage to copy Joey Q and shake up the DC continuity.
Joey Q's management of Marvel is *SQUEE*. How is it a good thing that DiDio has copied him?

I find myself defending Joe Q fairly often. He's a gambling man and gambled by shaking up Marvel's status quo. In doing so, he brought Marvel out of the stagnation as far as character development and evolution that began in the early 90s and Marvel has seen their marketshare and sales rise alongside these changes. That's what Joe Q's job is - to sell Marvel comics. And he's doing it.

I am not as familiar with Dan Didio, but I have seen Cyberstrike rail against him before and I am just curious why. Is he the DC version of all these Marvel fanboys angry with changes in the status quo? Or is it something else?

nutflush76 · Post by **nutflush76** » Thu May 21, 2009 5:27 pm

I am also one who doesn't underdstand the anger directed towards either of these guys. Before these guys comics were crap. Sales were way down all across the board and some people were even saying that comics had met their end.

These guys returned comics to their roots with well told stories and they took the emphasis off of all art no stories and gimmick covers to sell books.

Look at now compared to when these guys took over. We have had some of the best stories ever, Comic book movies are king at the movie theater, and it's no longer socially unacceptable to be a comic book fan.

Some of the anger I think that is directed towards these guys is the fact that they keep tying every story into these big "events" where you need to buy 20 books a month to get the whole story. I understand that some of the anger is because of changes these guys have made but I think fans who get upset at change don't understand the medium that they follow. If it weren't for change in comics then we would all still be reading books with these guys fighting Aliens with giant ray guns and reading panels like this:

Oh and Didio didn't copy Quesada on shaking up the status quo in comics. Identity Crisis came out two years before Civil War did.

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Thu May 21, 2009 6:30 pm

Chiclo wrote:
Drift wrote:
Chiclo wrote:
Cyberstrike wrote:When Dan DiBio leaves DC Comics I'll be more than happy to start buying DC, Vertigo, and Wildstorm Comics again, until then I'm not buying any new DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm comic, TPB, or HC that has been published. Unless it was a story or series that was orginally published before he came to DC and that the sale of my puchance does NOT go to DC but to the store or person selling the book.
Why the hostility towards ol' Dan Didio? He's had the courage to copy Joey Q and shake up the DC continuity.
Joey Q's management of Marvel is *SQUEE*. How is it a good thing that DiDio has copied him?
I find myself defending Joe Q fairly often. He's a gambling man and gambled by shaking up Marvel's status quo. In doing so, he brought Marvel out of the stagnation as far as character development and evolution that began in the early 90s and Marvel has seen their marketshare and sales rise alongside these changes. That's what Joe Q's job is - to sell Marvel comics. And he's doing it.

I am not as familiar with Dan Didio, but I have seen Cyberstrike rail against him before and I am just curious why. Is he the DC version of all these Marvel fanboys angry with changes in the status quo? Or is it something else?

The only major complaint I have with Quesada is BND.
DiBio is at best an incomplete idiot and worst a total cluster**** on the scale of GW Bush. He fired or chased away top talent like Peter David, Chuck Dixon, Jim Shooter, and Greg Rucka from DC. Guys that can't write stories 1,000 times better than Morrison and Johns. His ideas are some of the worst like "killing" off Bruce Wayne for a PR stunt, bringing back the multiverse, bringing back Hal Jordan (this wouldn't be been so bad if Johns had written Jordan as an equals to Rayner but no Rayner gets reduced to a drooling fan boy), and Barry Allen (and by some accounts he's now acting like a major jerk). The whole screwed up Countdown to the 52 Final Infinite Identity Crisis Trinity storyline with a 1,001 crossovers. Basically he's letting guys like Johns and Morrison turn the DCU into an old man's club for the 35+ crowd. I'm glad 35-50 fans like because I don't see many 15-30 years reading many DC comics anymore.

By all accounts the DCU pretty much sucks monkey balls these days and led by this incompetent moron DC is posed to suck even more monkey balls. So that is why I'm boycotting all current DC comics and their assorted imprints until the heads of TW wake up fire this loser and get someone who actually has a knowledge of comics and of the DCU.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Thu May 21, 2009 7:55 pm

I'm down with Chiclo and Nutflush about Q. If he hadn't came to Marvel and shook things up back in 99 or whenever he did, comics might've gone down the crapper completely.

I don't like alot of what they are putting out, but some of it is great. IMO, the story and art quality is much better than it has been since the 80s.

On the other hand, I agree with Cyberstrike on DC. I don't hate Didio, but I definitely don't think he's the right guy.

Cyberstrike wrote:I'm glad 35-50 fans like because I don't see many 15-30 years reading many DC comics anymore.

Yep. DC proper's target audience these days definitely seems to be uber geeks aged 27-55. If you listen to any comic book podcasts, you will notice this really quickly (unless you are an uber geek DC lover).

Cyberstrike wrote:By all accounts the DCU pretty much sucks monkey balls these days

Yep. My account of the DC universe definitely involves the sucking of sweaty monkey balls.

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:13 am

That's the only way that I know how to get rid of DiBio is not to buy any DC Comics and their assorted imprints, and believe me I don't like doing it. If anyone can come up with an idea that doesn't involve stealing and guaratees that all the the money paid for DC titles does NOT go to DC Comics I'm all ears. I would love to able to finish All Star Batman & Robin (yes I'm apparently one few people on Earth that actually enjoyed reading it), and Y, The Last Man on Earth and start reading titles Fables and the various Wildstorm Universe titles.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:20 am

Cyberstrike wrote:That's the only way that I know how to get rid of DiBio is not to buy any DC Comics and their assorted imprints, and believe me I don't like doing it. If anyone can come up with an idea that doesn't involve stealing and guaratees that all the the money paid for DC titles does NOT go to DC Comics I'm all ears. I would love to able to finish All Star Batman & Robin (yes I'm apparently one few people on Earth that actually enjoyed reading it), and Y, The Last Man on Earth and start reading titles Fables and the various Wildstorm Universe titles.

Back issue market.

You will also find them cheaper than cover after a couple months of things coming out.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:43 am

400yrs wrote:
Cyberstrike wrote:I'm glad 35-50 fans like because I don't see many 15-30 years reading many DC comics anymore.
Yep. DC proper's target audience these days definitely seems to be uber geeks aged 27-55. If you listen to any comic book podcasts, you will notice this really quickly (unless you are an uber geek DC lover).

What are you saying about my wife?

georgewlea · Post by **georgewlea** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:34 pm

I agree DiDio sucks he is making the DCUniverse reflect his perfect universe I mean look at The Flash he brougt back Barry Allen he wanted it done in infinite crisis but then made the books reflect it the same with Green lantern I mean Jordan is back but why change Rayner i know many dont like him but thats no reason to alter him the same withe batman he has wrecked the universe

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Tue May 26, 2009 4:19 pm

The real reason I don't like DiBio he has zero respect for history and continuity.

Bringing back the Multiverse, OK I don't like it but did you have to do twice? Waid brought it back in The Kingdom so why go through all the hassle of doing it again. The same with Donna Troy's origin story.

Bringing in the Milestone Universe as a new part of the DCU. OK fine. Apparently make it where no one remembers the fact that members of both the DCU and the MSU already met.