Todays New Trades 24/09/13

Long time no trades, my apologies to the masses who click on every Wednesday, desperate for the latest papery knowledge. Some cool stuff available this week,

The Walking Dead 100 project:

"Robert Kirkman and Skybound team up with the Hero Initiative to present 100 all-new covers envisioning the horrors of the bestselling The Walking Dead. This art book features brand-new pieces by The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard, Paolo Rivera, Ryan Ottley, Rafael Albuquerque, and more! This book will never be reprinted and all proceeds go to the Hero Initiative and comic book creators in need!"

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Over at DC follow SHAZAM'S new 52 reintroduction with the SHAZAM! HC collecting: JUSTICE LEAGUE #7-11, 0, 14-16 and 18-21. Who doesn't love shouting SHAZAM! There is also the second volume of Vertigo's Preacher TPB reprintings, collecting: PREACHER #13-26, it's a really affordable way to read a book you should have already read, I recommend volume 1 first though.

You can collect the whole Ultimate Marvel "Divided We Stand" event with the new TPB by the same name. Why would you not want a book written by Bendis, Hickman and Humphries? Collecting: ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #13-18, ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES #13-18 and ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN (2011) #13-18. There's also some Spider-Man 2099 action, building on the recent buzz. The X-Babies vs Avengers Babies is a good place to collect all the Skottie Young baby variants.


BOOM! STUDIOS

Adventure Time Volume 2 HC (Mathematical Edition

DARK HORSE COMICS


Art Of Akaneiro HC
Criminal Macabre Final Night The 30 Days Of Night Crossover TP
Eerie Archives Volume 14 HC
Sin Titulo HC

DC COMICS


Ame-Comi Girls Volume 1
Justice League Volume 2 The Villain's Journey TP
Justice League Volume 3 Throne Of Atlantis HC
Legends Of The Dark Knight Jim Aparo Volume 2 HC
Preacher Volume 2 TP
Shazam Volume 1 HC


IDW PUBLISHING

Doctor Who Prisoners Of Time Volume 2

IMAGE COMICS

Cyber Force Rebirth Volume 1 TP
Hip Flask Unnatural Selection HC (10th Anniversary Elephantmen Edition
Soho Dives Soho Divas Limited Edition HC
Soho Dives Soho Divas TP
Spawn Origins Volume 19 TP
Walking Dead 100 Project TP


MARVEL COMICS

Dark Tower The Gunslinger Last Shots TP
Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Tales To Astonish Volume 1 TP
Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man Digest Volume 4 TP
S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury Vs S.H.I.E.L.D. TP
Spider-Man 2099 Volume 2 TP
Ultimate Comics Divided We Fall United We Stand TP
Young Marvel Little X-Men Little Avengers Big Trouble TP

Panini EU Marvel Reprints

Variations on Panini's spine design.

Here in Europe, Italian based publisher Panini has the rights to reprint material from Marvel and publish trade paperbacks. They also release collectors editions, 3 single issues from a particular IP, collected together in a cardboard bound floppy for around £3. Released monthly around 8 months after the issues original US shipping, these CE's are great for catching up on previous arcs. The Avengers one for example would contain.    

Avengers #1
New Avengers #1
Secret Avengers #1    

And so on every month, sometimes there might even be a free poster. My favourite of them all was probably Wolverine & Deadpool. Titan UK release similar formats for Batman and Star Wars comics.

Some of Panini's Collected Editions.

Obviously I'm here to talk about the trades. My first ever TPB was Panini's Planet Hulk reprint. £10 for X pages of smashing goodness. Back then however Panini's paperbacks felt like they were made out of slate and had these horrible grey spines. I very quickly graduated on to picking up Marvel's own trades.

Nowadays however, it might surprise you to learn that not only have Panini dramatically improved the design of their trades, they are also cheaper, often collect more and released before the actual Marvel edition.

Here's an example:

Wolverine and the X-Men vol.1 TPB.

Panini, £12.99 issues 1-7 11/07/12    
Marvel, £10.99 issues 1-4 07/11/12


So that's nearly £1 cheaper an issue and released nearly half a year before Marvel. Not bad at all. This isn't a one off either. Every title I tried is similarly priced/released.

Now, if like me it's the difference in spines that puts you off. (I have over 300 Marvel TPBs with Marvel logo on top) you could do what I have done and collect one or two runs in Panini that wont need Marvel books to complete. I have been collecting Ultimate Comics, starting from Hickman's run this way. Always remember to check the publisher when buying trades online.

Ultimate trades

I love the design on thuse Ultimate Marvel books launched post Ultimatum. Only slightly let down by the seemingly random use of red Marvel logos on certain titles. This was a line wide re branding that messed up a lot of my spines on ongoing runs. *shakes fist*