3rd time in the past few months a book I pre-ordered pre FOC didn’t make my pull list…and found it on the shelf.
I’m trying to give them business, but I’m finding I can’t depend on them for single issues.
This week I picked up ASM 22 cover A.
Wanted Joe Fixit 3 EM Gist cover, but shops didn’t order it and I missed it pre-FOC. So I’ll have to find it online. NM copies Sold out at Midtown and MCS.
I did order the DCeased Purple Rain homage online.
I am a bit underwhelmed with Devil’s Cut. A couple stories were mildly interesting. Most weren’t. To be fair, it’s hard to sell a story when they have like 6 pages max to do it.
What gets me is that there are two SDCC 2023 con exclusive versions that were sold in July. This one just came out; it’s not the first print or first to be sold. I know other companies have sold con exclusives before the planned release of a book, but I’m not a fan of it.
I’m 100% ok with DSTLRY. Hell, any new publisher that can push Marvel to step up their weak game is a good thing. I like that DSTLRY plans to try new things, but they don’t feel so gimmicky like the Bad Idea nonsense.
Devil’s Cut is a nice product. It’s a bigger book in page count and size. High quality paper. And, it’s nearly all story. $10 seems more reasonable here. Marvel is now charging $10 for their double issues, which still has the same low grade paper and 35% ads.
I picked up a Devil’s Cut issue at my comic shop to check the stories out and the larger magazine-style size does grab one’s attention. I plan to give it a read.
I have more books on order, but this is what I grabbed off the shelf today. Disappointed they put an advertisement across the top of spider-boy #1…wtf?
Is Dr Doom riding an armored T-Rex shooting a laser Out of its mouth?! I like the throwback silver surfer cover as well. Reminds me of my younger days.
with laser beams on their foreheads.