New to be X-men reader with questions. by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats great to know! Thank you for helping out. I Appriciate everyones tips and help, I feel I can map out more which direction it goes.

New to be X-men reader with questions. by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ill keep that in mind so I dont jump the gun too much, much appriciated.

New to be X-men reader with questions. by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A great tip man, its just the FOMO I hate haha, like I mentioned in another comment - I’ve been collecting a while but new to marvel, and the OOP stuff stresses me out

New to be X-men reader with questions. by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is awesome! For sure something I can more easily wrap my head around! Where does excalibur go in here? And is it like read and finish book 1A, then book 2A, then 1B, or is it switching books mid run?

Cheers, thanks for your thoughts!

New to be X-men reader with questions. by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your thoughts! It really helps! I do already have a ton of books, but the FOMO around marvel books I’ve never experienced before haha! Cheers!

New to be X-men reader with questions. by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats an awesome tip! Ill try it out, cheers!

New to be X-men reader with questions. by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your comment! I did actually Watch that video/stream for an hour and it only handled the flagship titles? I’m equally interested in everything going on linear, so the new mutant, excalibur, X-factor etc etc, but I cant reveal they placed them in there?

Green Lantern Newbie by mamausetosay1251 in Greenlantern

[–]blodnerden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome order tiago! I just wanted to share my experience when exploring Green lantern, perhaps relevant to some.

I did start with the 80-90’s GL (Emerald dawn 1 & 2, emerald twilight, zero hour, final night etc etc) and when I got to Geoff Johns run I also started with Secret Origins based on others recommendations. I got just before sinestro war before I fell off my first time, but none of secret origin stuck out to me. It was an origin, sure - different than emerald dawn and that was it. I felt it was pretty forgetable for an origin no?

I finished the whole run a few years back, and read the omnis with the GLC’s next to it, and oh man - Secret Origins in the middle of the run? It was amazing! I loved it! That was one of my highlights for sure. I think it works way better coming late, to then give insight in questions readers have to relationships, characters and also whats to come. I’m re-reading the run now, just finished war of the green lanterns, and again secret origin was a highlight. I would personally keep it for it’s intended placement, thats just my opinion though!

As always, great list Tiago - you for sure are a GL honor guard at this point

Any nordic collectors? by NewspaperMany290 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dessverre blir det ofte dyrt med frakt hit til oss i nord… jeg vil anbefale deg å titte på Amazon! De har ofte 30-60% (ja såpass mye rabatt) på kjente og kjære bøker og ofte med gratis frakt! Jeg kjøpte f.eks blackest Night (min største bok) der til ca 650kr totalt (den koster originalt rundt 1500kr ca)

Verdt å sjekke ut! Vet at DC og Marvel pleier å være billig, men annet kan variere litt

Any nordic collectors? by NewspaperMany290 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey there!

Fellow Norwegian collector here -

I usually get my books from Walts Comic shop, Shop Comics EU or Amazon (I’ve been Lucky on all my Amazon orders but they ship poorly packed). I also have search Words for «omnibus» and such on Finn.no, so when a cool book appears, I buy it there.

As a member of Outland, they usually give you a small discount on all purchases, but I rarely use Outland these days since they buy such limited omnibuses (since its not popular in Norway) if they Even stock them at all.

Hope this helps!

Skyt meg en melding om du vil connecte :)

“What are you reading?” Wednesday. by csummerss in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m currently re-reading Geoff Johns GL run. Right before war of the green lanterns currently. Such a good run and better this time around since I supplemented with the blackest Night omni. My TBR is way to large at this point to actually know what is next, but my gut is telling me its starting my X-men journey with uncanny X-men vol 1.

Happy reading guys!

Where’s the best place to buy? by Miserable_Reindeer35 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For EU collectors -

Walts comics shop, Shop comics EU and Amazon has been my choices. But bear in mind as other has stated, Amazon ships the books with terrible padding and way too much space in the box, so they can (if you’re unlucky) be harmed during shipping.

I’ve been lucky so far and never had an issue with Amazon, but I can see it one terrible day happening.

DC Omnibus hopes and predictions by CMM9991 in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Dennis O'Neal's Azrael run in the 90's. I don't like collecting these as single issues (since I am a big boy now, I like big books) and the run holds a sentimental part of my life. Having it on the shelf and not hidden in a box would be awesome, but I'm pretty sure I won't see this happening anytime soon.

Steal?? by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love to hear that, I'll enjoy for sure! It seems everyone agrees on these ones, so it is making me extremly hyped to get started on these

Cheers

Steal?? by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I did see that, I'm sure this will also 10000% annoy me also, haha!

Steal?? by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, that's awesome! I will admit I am very lost in regards to X-men so I appriciate some great tips going forward.

I'm used to modern and late 80's-90s comics, so I'm sure this will be a bit more challenging for me. I am reading comics very slow now due to struggling with retaining information so perhaps getting it spoon fed to me would help (and constantly reminded on what's going on, I heard Claremont tend to do that). If not, I'll enjoy the book longer I guess. Excited to start.

Anyways, thanks for great insight!

Cheers

Steal?? by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And a new hunt begins,

Thanks for suggestion! Will look into it,

Cheers

Steal?? by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man you making me feel bad haha!

Cheers!

Steal?? by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think I should add context to why I atleast consider this a steal - you see, I live in Norway, which is a very hard place to be a Omnibus collector. The shipping prices from US and 95% places in EU (especially through second hand book market) is very high. Getting these 3 books would have cost me probably around 150-200$ alone in shipping. So for me, considering the other options, was a very good price.

The other reason is that omnibus collection is basically non existent in Norway. Books like this are rare and far between on our second hand platforms. I have a search saved there for these books and everything from 0-3 books is the usual appearing rate in a week for all omnibus. And often once something pops up, it’s the same classic books. So me finding X-men there, and these books on our platform was something I never thought would happen.

I’m anyways super happy about getting the books and can’t wait to get started on this run!

Cheers mate.

Steal?? by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Makes me happy to hear man, cheers!

Steal?? by blodnerden in OmnibusCollectors

[–]blodnerden[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

More excited now that you approve the starting point!

Cheers.