self Shot Shelf Porn

I've been holding of putting up my own SP until I got all my trades back. Still waiting on Walking Dead and Chew but you have all been kind enough to show me yours so I guess fair is fair.....

Obviously I'm a bit of a Marvel fanboy! You can look back through the blog for loads of articles on collecting Marvel. My favourite collections from then include Amazing Spider-Man, Hulk, Immortal Iron Fist, New Avengers and Astonishing X-Men (well the first 6 volumes, the rest is awful.)

Outwith Marvel my favourite books would have to be Scalped and Locke & Key. Collections I wish to add include.

Transmetropolitan,
Fables,
DMZ,
Y the last man

Shelf Porn: Discworld Styleeeeeee

This isn't your usual shelf porn. This is your 30 years in the making, most shop lifted author in the UK, one of the longest running book series in the world kind of shelf porn. Yes, this is Discworld shelf porn.

Shelf Porn

Because there's only so many comic shelfs in the world we are going to be splitting up our shelf porn segment with submissions of other great collections. Obviously still bssed firmly in geekdom.

So now I present you with Jamie Wilson's, (@Fun_Sized27) incredible Final Fantasy figure collection. Jamie says her favourite item is her Gabranth staue, mainly due to his badassery. My pick of the pic had to be the Transformers lamp!

If you have a collection you would like to submit, be it comics, books, figures, games etc then comment below or tweet me @sciencepie.

Todays New Trades 24/04/13

BLACK LIBRARY 

  Warhammer 40K Blood Of Asaheim HC

BOOM! STUDIOS

Deathmatch Volume 1 TP

DARK HORSE COMICS

Bride Of The Water God Volume 13 TP

Creep HC   

Gantz Volume 27 TP  

Ningen's Nightmares TP (resolicited)

DC COMICS   

Batman Illustrated By Neal Adams Volume 2 TP

Blue Beetle Volume 2 Blue Diamond TP (resolicited)

Superman Beyond Man Of Tomorrow TP

IDW PUBLISHING

G.I. JOE Transformers Volume 3 TP

Joe Hill's Terrifyingly Tragic Treasury Edition TP

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Invincible The Ultimate Collection Volume 8 HC

Morning Glories Volume 4 Truants TP

MARVEL COMICS

Castle Richard Castle's Deadly Storm TP

Dark Tower The Gunslinger The Battle Of Tull TP (resolicited)

Marvel Masterworks The Incredible Hulk Volume 7 HC

Marvel Masterworks The Mighty Thor Volume 4 TP

Squadron Supreme TP (New Printing)

Twelve HC

Uncanny Avengers Volume 1 The Red Shadow HC (Premiere Edition)

X-Men Fall Of The Mutants Volume 2 TP

X-Men Longshot TP (New Printing)

ONI PRESS

Double Fine Action Comics Volume 1 TP

Double Fine Action Comics Volume 2 TP      

 VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT

Shadowman Volume 1 Birth Rites TP

Saturday night shelf porn because I don't have a life Saved a great one though. @Jon_Digital's collection is fantastic. Loads of lovely big hardcover collections, a SP first for Bendis' Powers. Some very expensive looking, sleeved League of Extraordinary Gentlemen breezeblocks and hidden in amongst the towering HC's are some absolute TPB gems. Freak angels, Fell, Scalped, Chew! I could sit at this shelf reading for days.

When I asked for a favourite Jon says "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibuses are pretty special as they're so rare to come by."          

Shelf Porn

Today shelf porn comes via Craig Marklow. @Marklow_man on Twitter. He stresses that it is not an up to date photo, however it's a collection to be proud of in my opinion. It is probably the most balanced between publishers submission we have had yet on SP. Great to see someone else who has as much love for Vertigo as me. If you're new to collecting TPB's and want to make sure you start your collection well, basically pick any volume 1 from the following.        

Transmetropolitan

Fables

Scalped

Sandman

DMZ

Y the last man

Preacher

My picks from the shelf would be Y, Wolverine: Weapon X, Watchmen and the Ultimate Spider-Man HC's.

Shelf Porn: Digest Special.

Two submissions that came through were cool pictures of digest collections so that's enough for me justify re branding todays SP and charging twice as much for you all to point and stare at the "little comics."

The top picture was submitted @loafandjug and is primarily Dark Horse Star Wars books. Always nice when care and attention is put into things like spine symmetry by the publisher.

The picture underneath is from @HulkYoda, as if Runaways could get any cuter! Look at them, look at the ickle Runaways. Alongside it is Marvel's Oz. Yet another title I've always meant to pick up.    

Shelf Porn!

 Todays SP was submitted by @CeejSays (check out ceejsays.com)

The first pattern I've noticed doing this is that everyone has some Walking Dead in their collections. These big HC's look great displayed and usually contain double the issues of a standard trade, suiting the un-putdownable nature of the series.

The Marvel Masterworks HC's are reprintings of classic arcs, released in the UK and are going to look incredible when completed.

Asked what his favourite item on shelf was Ceej said It was between his copy of Hush and Infinity Gauntlet book signed by Jim Starlin.

Shelf Porn!

Within minutes of going live we have received our very first submission from Robert Nowlan ‏@Refgemlin on twitter and I am very impressed! Dan Slott's She-Hulk, Jon Hickman's amazing run on Secret Warriors, some great big Cosmic HC's and those Venom Spines are the kind of thing this blog is all about. Magnificent! Thanks for popping our shelf porn cherry Robert!