Neil Gaiman : Anansi Boys due September 20.
Jonathan Stroud: Ptolemy’s Gate (Book 3 of the Bartimaeus trilogy) due October 6.
Christopher Paolini: Eldest (Book 2 of the Inheritance Trilogy) already out, not too interested, but may buy.
I am waiting for the day this gets available at National Market.
Stuff bought off eBay and waiting to be shipped to India:
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Blade of the Immortal TPBs vol 1-13. - Alias 1-28
Garth Ennis’s Punisher v3 1-12, v4 1-37, v5 1-20, plus Punisher: Red X-Mas-
Warren Ellis lot # BAD WORLD issues 1 through 3, FROM THE DESK OF WARREN ELLIS Volumes One and two, GLOBAL FREQUENCY issues 1 through 10 (of 12), MEK issues 1 through 3 (of 3), MINISTRY OF SPACE issues 1 and 2, PLANETARY Preview, RED issues 1 through 3 (of 3), RELOAD issues 1 through 3 (of 3), SCARS Sampler, Issue 3B Wrap, and 4A, STRANGE KILLINGS issue one, 2, 3A, and 4A, STRANGER KISSES issue one, TOKYO STORM WARNING issues 1-2, TWO-STEP issue 1 -
Garth Ennis Bloody Mary 1-4 and Bloody Mary:Lady Liberty 1-4 -
Stray Bullets 2-25,Amy Race Car Color Special # 1-2, Murder Me Dead #1 -
79 Oni Press comics including - Clerks: The Comic Book
- Grrl Scouts by Jim Mahfood
- Hopeless Savages by Christine Norrie
- Ancient Joe by Scott Morse
- Magic Pickle by Scott Morse
- Oni Press Color Special
- One Plus One by Daniel Krall
- Scooter Girl by Chynna Clugston-Major
- Queen and Country by Greg Rucka
- Bonus crossovers and special issues by Oni artists like Chynna Clugston-Major
- Hitman (from Batman universe) 1-52
- Resurrection Man 9-10 featuring Hitman
- Hitman Annual No 1, Hitman #1,000,000
- The Demon 1-58 + 0 + 1992 annual
- Marvel MAX Fury (Nick Fury) 1-6
- Just A Pilgrim 2-3
- Daredevil Yellow: 1-2
- Marvel Knights Daredevil Ninja 1-3
- The Brotherhood 1
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Swamp Thing 45-172
arrived May 25, 2006
I’ll probably be the first person to die of debt brought about by high shipping charges. :-(
:-O !!!
I’ll probably be the first person to die of debt brought about by high shipping charges.
Sounds like it is more than a mere probability.
Sounds like you can do with a wife like Xanthippe :-P
Sounds like you can do with a wife like Xanthippe :-P
That would have given the world the answer to the question: “What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?” ;-)
You should consider moving to the U.S., really ;/
Naaaaaaah. There would be no fun left in collecting comics, then. :-D
The Eldest is as awesome and intriguing as Aragon. Would definitely recommend it.
As for Ptolemy’s Gate, we wait, precioussss we wait and we wait and we sing for Bartameius and Nathaniel…ha ha, we know their names :)
p.s. if you ever get Alias, please to be informing. I will go and rush national market as well. right now I have promised a friend I will try to get her buffy and angel and am trying really hard to procure them.
I found Eldest a bit boring. Hardly original. It almost seems as if someone fed a number of Fantasy novels to some AI program, asked it combine elements from these and come up with a new book. :(
Cheers,
Dhar
I agree
You hit it on the head. Aragon was LOTR + Shadowriders of Pern + Star Wars
Havent read that much SF for me to guess what books were used as sources for Eldest…but it didn’t have anything new.
Pity that the better SF and fantasy writers lose out to writers who are made by the marketing men.
Re: I agree
It was pure marketing (Oooh, a 15 year old kid has written a fantasy novel) that made me buy the books. After spending nearly 700 odd bucks on a hard cover (Eldest), and finding it to be just an amalgamation of other fantasy novels, I am certainly pissed.
I guess I will have to give Dragon Riders of Pern a look. Haven’t read that one.
Cheers,
Dhar
Re: I agree
Anne McCaffrey writes good stuff, in her Pern series, but the later books get very tedious. Dragonriders is the first one, IIRC, can’t go wrong with that.
Hmmmmm I am not sure about Eldest being so formulaic or patchy…maybe it is because of my fascination with fantasy but maybe there is something more to its collage like structure. I think there were many subtly built parodies and allusions built into the Eldest and I do enjoy the endearing tone the tale has built in it.
Let us hope Stroud will please you more.
cheers indeed.
Err, not that Alias, nope.
ah….*realisation dawns*
I am right now helping a friend collect a whole lot of popular tv series…alias is one we are searching for…apart from buffy and angel and what not…
on with the search.
Er, this particular Alias happens to be a comic book. More information here.
Yeah, I can hardly wait for Ptolemy’s Gate, too. :)
I never thought about it, but the shipping rates must be a killer for you. I can only imagine how much you had to pay for shipping when you bought those Preacher comics.
Yeah, Ebay is evil all right. All the great stuff being sold there seduces you and takes your credit card hostage. :D
As for the books you’ve bought, there’s some pretty good stuff there. I have read Stray Bullets in bits and pieces, but haven’t gotten a run like you just did. So congratulations on that! I do have the entire run of Murder Me Dead though. If my memory serves me correct, the series lasted nine issues. It’s a great series and I definitely recommend it if you don’t have the rest of the series(like you need more excused to spend money ;) ). Lapham writes some deliciously oddball characters.
Re: I agree
Actually, with Preacher, the shipping was very low. I bought them from a guy in Ireland, and it came to 12$ shipping only. Don’t ask me how, I got the package within 2 weeks. :)
I have gone to great lengths to stop myself from scouring eBay everyday. There was a point when I was seeing good deals and bidding like crazy. But yeah, my credit card gave way and I *had* to stop.
I have both Stray Bullets and Murder Me Dead on CD, and it was right after reading the first 5 issues of Stray Bullets that I bought the lot. Am too scared to read Murder Me Dead, for the reason that I *know* I will hit ebay again looking for the issues. (And they say that piracy is killing the industry, sigh)
That is some GOOD shit, my man! Well done!
Thanks! Your recommendations came in handy in selecting what stuff to buy early. My list is still huge, but it’s not as white-hot as before. :)
Fan fiction by someone whose parents’ were publishers.
Just finished Eldest, about five minutes ago (and then started wondering what could I should do next). Vaguely like a badly played out game.
Anansi Boys & Ptolemy’s Gate. Yes, they make me drool.
Re: Fan fiction by someone whose parents’ were publishers.
I had decided not to buy Eldest, but your words (and those of the people above) kinda clinched it. Thanks for saving me 550 rupees.
What you should do next: try and read some of Ennis’s Punisher. Cheers you up. Seriously.
Damn, that’s a fantastic haul. Somehow, I’m not feeling so guilty about spending plenty $ myself, now :)
Ah, and let me know if you want anything brought to Bangalore (if that’s where you’ll be), this December – I’ll be coming down then.
Hey, thanks for the offer! I’ll let you know, if I haven’t got all of it shipped back already. :)
why are you lj-cutting?
I do that with pointless lists. :)
This current haul must be bigger than my actual comic collection. I don’t know if you’re just that cool, or am I that pathetic?
How are the From the desk of WE books? I have no idea if I should order them.
“From the Desk of..” is not a comic, just a collection of miscellaneous writings. I haven’t read it, and bought it just because I was getting it for a pittance – along with a lot of other WE books. Not that I would mind reading Ellis anyday, heh.
Yeah, I know, they’re just articles with illustrations. But for a man who reads bad signal every day, can’t really complain. But never found out if it was the same as his colection of bad signal writings or something different entirely.
Clerks: The Comic
*giggles*
have you seen the Clerks animated series? One of the lowpoints in my life has been the inability to get them so far. They are available at Cinema Paradiso in Hyderabad, but then again, I am not in Hyd right now. :-(
I have, but I must admit I didn’t like it that much. Even the comic books [I use plural because there was a certain variant which mixed Dogma and Clerks] aren’t terrific. But so long as they remind you of the film, cool, right? :D
I love Smith’s work on Black Cat. Now that’s very good comic-book writing.