Not too long ago I was sitting at the kitchen table doing I don’t remember what and my 11 year old son, Jonathan, says to his 13 year old sister, “Danielle, Do you remember the good old days when summer vacation seemed like it lasted forever?” I distinctly remember thinking “What the..?” and all kinds of inappropriate answers popped into my head but before I could spit any of them out, Danielle, and I remind you she’s 13, said “Just wait until your older. They go real fast.” Nap time for everyone! Get the hell out of my kitchen and go leave me alone.
Unfortunately it’s true. Both the postponed and rescheduled dates of the Boston Comic Con are behind me now, as is the first Bing Con. I’m nearly halfway through an epic vacation that I spent months looking forward to. The passage of time is very apparent with the use of Diamond Comics Previews catalog. There comes a little bit of noise about something coming down the road, it finally shows up as a solicitation in Previews, a wait of at least two months for items to start shipping, finally the arrival date comes, and when I finally get to it, maybe six months has passed. Sometimes it’s worth the wait and sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s a much longer wait as something I thought I wanted suddenly gets put on the backburner, even after arriving in my grubby little hands. Sometimes the anticipation is worth more than the item itself.
Sweet anticipation makes the time fly by and there’s always something I’m waiting on with bated breath. Right now that would be the Age of Ultron hardcover from Marvel Comics, the new Unity from Valiant Entertainment, and the Mary Jane statue from the J. Scott Campbell collection from Sideshow Collectibles (which happens to be the first of three), and before I know it they’ll all be the AvX hardcover, the Wolverine Adamantium Collection, and the Absolute Blackest Night. All three of which are here and on the shelf next to my “Near mint set of Captain America trading cards” (except for the blood, but that’s Coulson’s and it was printed on the cards as they’re a novelty piece from the Avengers movie), my hardcover collection of Preacher that I loved so much I had to upgrade my trades, and my John Romita Amazing Spider-man Artist’s Edition (of which I still can’t figure out where people get the variant editions from).
Either way, I’m sure you can see my point. Hell, next week the DC 3D Motion covers start shipping and for a little while we’ll get to witness that circus first hand. Those really are nice covers that need to be seen to be believed, but it still seems like just yesterday I was seeing the first one for the first time and they’ve since been solicited, ordered, allocated, and are now getting ready to ship. Life’s too short to keep prattling on so whatever you’re waiting for, I hope that when you look back on it, it’s all worth it in the end.
Some of what we can look back on next week will be the September Previews, check for price, in which we’ll get to see the solicitations for Valiant’s Unity and everything else that’s scheduled to start shipping in November…
DC Comics is shipping Fables deluxe edition hardcover volume seven, $29.99, in which Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and various others prepare Fabletown for war with the Adversary and Bigby confronts his father on the cubs’ birthday. Collecting Fables #52 – 59 and #64. This is another series that I’m very fond of and eagerly await the books that will catch me up between where we are now and the current monthlies…
Justice League #23, $3.99, by Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, and Joe Prado concludes the Trinity War and from here we begin Forever Evil…
In preparation of the new Sandman Overture by Neil Gaiman comes the Sandman omnibus volume one, $150.00, collecting Sandman #1 – 37 and the Sandman Special #1. This is the first half of Neil’s legendary run on this epic series…
Marvel Comics has stumped me with Amazing Spider-man #700 fifth printing, $7.99, by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos and that is absolutely un-freakin’-believable…
And there are plenty more that are not listed. For a more complete list, feel free to visit your local comic store or favorite site. If you’re interested in more of what I think, follow me on Twitter at Mycomicstore001 or like my Facebook page.
Michael R. Murray is a full time Letter Carrier for the United States Postal Service who is next looking forward to his Annual Comic Book Cook Out (which is being catered this year), when all of the local customers can get together at the same time to enjoy good food and great company and conversation. Who needs a convention?
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