Comics complete

[Water]

Finally got my last issue from the US today to complete my collection of physical issues. That was a fun year collecting those. Now to break them and give them a good read. Happy Christmas me 😋

 

 

[Marine X]

Nice, what did it set you back for the whole collection?

[Water]

Between ebay and mycomicshop (US based - link below)

 

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=city+of+heroes&pubid=&PubRng=

 

I don't expect it was more than £160 give or take a few quid. A lot of the cost was carriage.

 

Prices fluctuate.

 

Whatever it cost, I've been wanting them for years and last year I decided to make the effort. It has been very fun and most satisfying getting to this point.

 

[NNDeepdish]

Awesome! My collection is stored somewhere. I want to go dig them up and read them all again!

[Locsmith]

I have the complete set in my collection as well.  That was one of the coolest 'perks' to the original game subscription.  Getting the Blue King issues were my favorite.  The artist and writer used powers and costume parts right from the game!😀

[Abraxus]

I've got all of mine tucked away nice and safe.  It's been years since I read them, but I remember liking the story.

[Display Name]

There's more than just the game?!  Wow!

[Display Name]

How do the comics compare to the online story?  Do they match up?

 

I'm showing a promo comic by Dark Horse, Vol 1 (12 issues) by Blue King Studios and Vol 2 (20 issues) by Top Cow.

[Fista]

Comics? Pssh. Read the novels. Web of Arachnos and Freedom Phalanx.

[Mr. Vee]

The first series isn't bad as it's more in line with the gameplay. The Top Cow ones with the Phalanx aren't very good. I'd echo Fista that the two novels are much better for the lore characters.

[Display Name]

Wow!  The novel cover art is by George Perez!  And he doesn't really draw anymore!?

[Hyperstrike]

*COUGH*COUGH*COUGH*

[MetaVileTerror]

Veelectric Boogaloo beat me to it.  Yeah.  I was already pretty non-plussed about the Freedom Phalanx as characters just in the game; they were there as fixtures for /real/ characters as far as I was concerned.  The second run of the comics cemented my feelings on them as pretty heavily negative.  The books, as precursors to the lore were a much better place to explore those Phalanx characters.

On the other hand, I'm still bothered, to this day, that the title for the Vahzilok chapter included "Undead" . . . Cadavers ain't undead, gorddamnit!  They're just straight-up dead, with animatronic cybernetics!  *shakes a fist*

[Bill Z Bubba]

15 hours ago, Hyperstrike said:

*COUGH*COUGH*COUGH*

You're a good guy, HS. Don't let nobody tell you otherwise.

[Hyperstrike]

8 hours ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

You're a good guy, HS. Don't let nobody tell you otherwise.

Funny.  I'm partial to a certain Denis Leary anthem...

[Call Me Awesome]

Guess I should've hung onto mine, I had the series back when it came out.  Then I got more domestic aggro about all the boxes of comics in the basement so they all had to go... for way too little $

[VanCorp]

On 12/12/2019 at 9:20 AM, Fista said:

Comics? Pssh. Read the novels. Web of Arachnos and Freedom Phalanx.

I have all the comics (both Blue King and Top Cow) and both novels still tucked away from back in the day.

[Bill Z Bubba]

4 hours ago, Hyperstrike said:

Funny.  I'm partial to a certain Denis Leary anthem...

Ooooeeooeeoooooooo!

[Solarverse]

<----- Envious.

[Solarverse]

8 minutes ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

Ooooeeooeeoooooooo!

I'm an ___ ____!

[Hyperstrike]

3 hours ago, Call Me Awesome said:

Guess I should've hung onto mine, I had the series back when it came out.  Then I got more domestic aggro about all the boxes of comics in the basement so they all had to go... for way too little $

I wound up giving my comics collection away.in 2014.
I'd stopped collecting because I finally hit "Endless Crisis And Reboot" fatigue, and the new stuff just wasn't speaking to me anymore.

I needed to get rid of them.  Because, while I'd go through and reread a few every now and then, they were just taking up space.
And no comic shop was going to accept a collection the size of mine (even at 10 cents an issue, I had nearly 30 years worth of comics, collected nearly continuously (save the year I was overseas in 1992) across about several dozen titles, not including special and anniversary editions, we're talking a couple thousand bucks.)

[Hyperstrike]

1 hour ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

Ooooeeooeeoooooooo!

Master Shifu: Oh.  You've heard this song?
 

1 hour ago, Solarverse said:

I'm an ___ ____!

Master Shifu: Oh.  You too!

[Solarverse]

1 minute ago, Hyperstrike said:

Master Shifu: Oh.  You've heard this song?
 

Master Shifu: Oh.  You too!

We're showing our age, haha

[Techwright]

On 12/12/2019 at 12:58 AM, Display Name said:

How do the comics compare to the online story?  Do they match up?

 

I'm showing a promo comic by Dark Horse, Vol 1 (12 issues) by Blue King Studios and Vol 2 (20 issues) by Top Cow.

The earliest comics actually influenced certain parts of the game that were added later.  If you want to know the backstory to Ajax and War Witch, it's in there.  The Phalanx ones gave a bit more details to the characters, and certain additions to the game came on the heels of information in the comics.  It's been a decade since I read them, but if I remember right, the reason Posi doesn't currently wear a helmet constantly in game, but did previously, is addressed in the comics.  Certain relationships were fleshed out, too.  So yeah, they mostly match up, at least to the release of the game that was available at the time of the comic's issuing.

[Hyperstrike]

19 hours ago, Solarverse said:

We're showing our age, haha

At least you didn't use the term "Dating yourself."

That always has such...unfortunate connotations...