What comic books (non-DC / non-Marvel) from American publishers have you been buying?

I was thinking about also ruling out comics from Image, but since they don't have a separate section here, I decided against it.

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Anyway, these days I've got the following on my pull-list:
(1.) from Dark Horse,

(Sir Edward Grey,) Witchfinder: Gates of Heaven (five issue series)

(2.) from Dynamite,

Green Hornet (Vol. 2), but I may drop that soon

and I will be getting/trying

Project Superpowers (starts in July 2018)

There are other titles I also get, but they don't always get published on a regular basis (and I don't think any new volumes have been solicited recently).

If we're only talking American publishers, currently Red Sonja, Barbarella and Dejah Thoris, but there have been a number of other titles recently concluded (like Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter) and Titan's Doctor Who line are currently on hiatus until the new TV series starts.

tony ingram wrote:If we're only talking American publishers, currently Red Sonja, Barbarella and Dejah Thoris, but there have been a number of other titles recently concluded (like Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter) and Titan's Doctor Who line are currently on hiatus until the new TV series starts.

Well, since this is the "American Comics" section, . . .
And aside from Titan, I'm not sure how many other publishers have a decent general presence here in the states. The Titan material I've seen appears to be specifically printed for here in the states since the covers typically have U.S. pricing ($'s) printed on them (but not any British / European prices).



I'm sure there are comic books from other British publishers available at some stores here in the U.S., but I don't know how wide-spread the distribution may be (unless some readers special orders them in advance).

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:If we're only talking American publishers, currently Red Sonja, Barbarella and Dejah Thoris, but there have been a number of other titles recently concluded (like Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter) and Titan's Doctor Who line are currently on hiatus until the new TV series starts.

Well, since this is the "American Comics" section, . . .
And aside from Titan, I'm not sure how many other publishers have a decent general presence here in the states. The Titan material I've seen appears to be specifically printed for here in the states since the covers typically have U.S. pricing ($'s) printed on them (but not any British / European prices).



I'm sure there are comic books from other British publishers available at some stores here in the U.S., but I don't know how wide-spread the distribution may be (unless some readers special orders them in advance).

No British publisher that sells to the US market, as far as I know, has bothered with dual pricing since the demise of distribution of imports to the high street newsagents. I can see that it would be fairly pointless, given that their stuff is racked in the comic shops alongside the US imports anyway. Titan do produce a Doctor Who title for the British high street market, Tales from the TARDIS, but it simply reprints three issues of the direct market editions in each issue. Obviously, 2000 AD and other titles which are still distributed to high street stores over here carry only British cover prices.

By the way, I just ordered a copy of

Hellboy Vol. 8: Darkness Calls from Barnes & Noble.
The tpb collection was first published back in 2008,
and it collects a six-issue series from 2007.

Needed to get more sunflower seed for the birds & other critters, so I also stopped at the comic book shop. Not counting the two DC comics I picked up, I bought:
Dynamite:

Green Hornet Vol. 2 #4

and the rest were from Dark Horse:


B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know #6 & #7
(decided to jump in and give this a try)


(Sir Edward Grey,) Witchfinder: Gates of Heaven #2 (of 5)

an older tpb collection:

B.P.R.D. King of Fear (B.P.R.D. Vol. 14 / © 2010)

and some back issues from the $1.00 bin:



* B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth #108, #110-111 (from 2013)

The Green Hornet...looks...no, there's something off about him but I can't quite put my finger on it...

tony ingram wrote:The Green Hornet...looks...no, there's something off about him but I can't quite put my finger on it...

I think it may be the writing . . . I've been tempted to drop this title. The idea of former-Kato Mulan taking over as Green Hornet while Britt was missing had potential, but hasn't really been handled right from my viewpoint.

You feed the birds? Do you have a garden?

Lucy McGough wrote:You feed the birds? Do you have a garden?

Not really a "garden", but we do have lawn and other stuff growing in the yard around the house. (My Mom did the gardening, but she's not really up to that any longer.)
So we have a pole with a couple of bird feeders off of it out front, plus I put seed on the ground beneath the feeders (squirrels, chipmunks, and some of the birds eat on the ground, plus the occasional turkey wanders by). And the fox sometimes stops by in hopes of catching a squirrel. There's also the deer that sometimes pass through.

In the backyard, I put seed on/under a large bush and the birds and other critters like that, plus we have the hummingbird feeder in the backyard.

I miss having a garden.

tony ingram wrote:I miss having a garden.

Can you at least do some little window-box gardens?

Not really, but we do have two hanging gardens.

We have two hanging baskets with geraniums in. My mum gave them to us. And when we move back to Shotley Gate we won't need a garden because we'll be living in the country.

I've recently received and/or ordered a few more Hellboy-related tpb collections:

B.P.R.D.: 1948 (2013)


B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know, Volume 1: Messiah (2018)

and waiting to receive

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Volume 12 : Metamorphosis (2015)

Non-DC comics I bought this past weekend:
Dynamite:

Green Hornet Vol. 2 #5 (looks like it was the last issue?)

Dark Horse:

B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know #8


(Sir Edward Grey,) Witchfinder: Gates of Heaven #3 (of 5)

NOTE: I was suppose to also get Project Superpower #0 (Dynamite), but I was told the system had a different code for the cheaper #0 issue than there is for the regular issues (#1 is due out next week I believe), so they've ordered a copy of issue #0 for me and it should be there in a couple of weeks?

I picked up issue #0 because it was free. I assumed they all were.

tony ingram wrote:I picked up issue #0 because it was free. I assumed they all were.

I believe issue #0 was suppose to have a (U.S.) cover price of 10¢. Whether stores were charging for it may have been optional.
I had requested the series for my pull list, but as I was told, there was a different code in the system for issue #0, so they didn't have one for me when I finally made it to the store. (Don't even know if/how many copies of it the store may have bothered to order in the first place.)

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:I picked up issue #0 because it was free. I assumed they all were.

I believe issue #0 was suppose to have a (U.S.) cover price of 10¢. Whether stores were charging for it may have been optional.
I had requested the series for my pull list, but as I was told, there was a different code in the system for issue #0, so they didn't have one for me when I finally made it to the store. (Don't even know if/how many copies of it the store may have bothered to order in the first place.)

Over here, that would be about 0.06 so I guess it wasn't worth charging for.

I have bought it from my usual supplier of all things Uk and paid it £ 0.20 , as it was from that month Previews Uk price list, if I remember well.

Barry_Allen wrote:I have bought it from my usual supplier of all things Uk and paid it £ 0.20 , as it was from that month Previews Uk price list, if I remember well.

They actually charged you 0.20? What utter cheapskates!

Just received delivery tonight of another Hellboy tpb collection:

Hellboy Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others (2010)

I've been trying to pick up the "Berger Books" line. I want to read them, but I really haven't been keeping up. Anyone check any of them out? Dark Horse, I think.

Mbast1 wrote:I've been trying to pick up the "Berger Books" line. I want to read them, but I really haven't been keeping up. Anyone check any of them out? Dark Horse, I think.

Keep meaning to, but...

tony ingram wrote:

Barry_Allen wrote:I have bought it from my usual supplier of all things Uk and paid it £ 0.20 , as it was from that month Previews Uk price list, if I remember well.

They actually charged you 0.20? What utter cheapskates!

Yes Tony, it seems that when inferior to $ 1.00 the lesser US comics price is, the higher the difference seems to be with Uk prices, when ordering it in advance from Previews catalog  . For esample, this month all Marvel True Believers What If themed one-shot reprints which have cover prices of $ 1.00 have a Diamond Uk list price of £ 0.80. I perfectly understand that these and cheapers ones are promotional items that the comic book shop can choose to give away to local faithful nerdsss too

Barry_Allen wrote:

tony ingram wrote:

Barry_Allen wrote:I have bought it from my usual supplier of all things Uk and paid it £ 0.20 , as it was from that month Previews Uk price list, if I remember well.

They actually charged you 0.20? What utter cheapskates!

Yes Tony, it seems that when inferior to $ 1.00 the lesser US comics price is, the higher the difference seems to be with Uk prices, when ordering it in advance from Previews catalog  . For esample, this month all Marvel True Believers What If themed one-shot reprints which have cover prices of $ 1.00 have a Diamond Uk list price of £ 0.80. I perfectly understand that these and cheapers ones are promotional items that the comic book shop can choose to give away to local faithful nerdsss too

Our local place charges 0.75 for the True Believers books.

Non-DC comics I bought yesterday:
Dark Horse:

B.P.R.D. The Devil You Know #9


(Sir Edward Grey,) Witchfinder: Gates of Heaven #4 (of 5)

Dynamite:


Project Superpower #0 and #1

The last non Marvel or DC book I bought was The Vigilant one shot from Rebellion, but I can't work out how to post an image of the cover right now. It's the first of what will hopefully be a new line of books from the 2000 AD publisher featuring the heroes of the classic British comics originay published from the sixties to the nineties by IPC. and I loved it, though I think Lucy found it impenetrable.

tony ingram wrote:The last non Marvel or DC book I bought was The Vigilant one shot from Rebellion, but I can't work out how to post an image of the cover right now.

Is this it?



* http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2018/04/are-you-ready-for-vigilant.html
* http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/the-vigilant/
* https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN181951

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:The last non Marvel or DC book I bought was The Vigilant one shot from Rebellion, but I can't work out how to post an image of the cover right now.

Is this it?



* http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2018/04/are-you-ready-for-vigilant.html
* http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/the-vigilant/
* https://previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN181951

It is indeed! It features updated versions of several classic characters from my youth, including the Steel Commando (a robot soldier who obeyed only a lazy private named Ernie Baines), Thunderbolt the Avenger (a police officer who was secretly a super powered crimebuster), Blake Edmonds (a former racing driver who became a troubleshooter with a death wish after his face was horrifically burned) and the Leopard from Lime Street (a schoolboy who became a somewhat feral crimefighter after being scratched by a radioactive leopard).

tony ingram wrote:
Our local place charges 0.75 for the True Believers books.

How much does your local place charge for popular US prices, like, for example, $ 3.99 - 7.99 - 9.99 (Two morrows magazines) - 12.95 - 14.95 (tpb)?

Barry_Allen wrote:

tony ingram wrote:
Our local place charges 0.75 for the True Believers books.

How much does your local place charge for popular US prices, like, for example, $ 3.99 - 7.99 - 9.99 (Two morrows magazines) - 12.95 - 14.95 (tpb)?

I don't tend to buy the more expensive stuff, but a $3.99 comic is around £3.25, a $2.99 one around £2.45, minus a 10% discount for having a regular order.

Have you ordered/taken in your local comic shop some of the Halloween Comic Fest promotional comics that come out every year in time for Halloween, like they do for Free Comic Book Day in May?

Barry_Allen wrote:Have you ordered/taken in your local comic shop some of the Halloween Comic Fest promotional comics that come out every year in time for Halloween, like they do for Free Comic Book Day in May?

We got DC's Ghosts anthology, which turned out to be pretty good, I thought.

tony ingram wrote:

Barry_Allen wrote:Have you ordered/taken in your local comic shop some of the Halloween Comic Fest promotional comics that come out every year in time for Halloween, like they do for Free Comic Book Day in May?

We got DC's Ghosts anthology, which turned out to be pretty good, I thought.

But was that a freebie or a regular Halloween special you had to pay for?

https://www.halloweencomicfest.com/catalog



Me, I don't know if my comic book shop did anything for Halloween Fest this year.
(I'm pretty sure they didn't last year.)
It's another of those things where the comic book shop has to pay for the comic books (they don't get them for free), so I think not all stores that do Free Comic Book Day in May will also do Halloween Fest in October.

MajorHoy wrote:

tony ingram wrote:

Barry_Allen wrote:Have you ordered/taken in your local comic shop some of the Halloween Comic Fest promotional comics that come out every year in time for Halloween, like they do for Free Comic Book Day in May?

We got DC's Ghosts anthology, which turned out to be pretty good, I thought.

But was that a freebie or a regular Halloween special you had to pay for?

https://www.halloweencomicfest.com/catalog



Me, I don't know if my comic book shop did anything for Halloween Fest this year.
(I'm pretty sure they didn't last year.)
It's another of those things where the comic book shop has to pay for the comic books (they don't get them for free), so I think not all stores that do Free Comic Book Day in May will also do Halloween Fest in October.

It dcefinitely wasn't free! I doubt our local comic shop could afford to buy in "free" comics for Halloween, after shelling out for FCBD.

In fact I had to order them in July @my pusher of all things Uk using, as always, the Previews catalog, to be able to get the ones I wanted and that should be traveling towards my house right now and for prices that range from £ 0.29 to 0.33 each and they're:
- Aftershock Comics' Dark Red # 1;
- Aspen Comics Mascots Portal of Doom;
- Battlecats Hcf Special;
- DCeased # 1
- Ghost Rider King of Hell (again?) # 1
- Iron Man: Road to Iron Man 2020  # 1
- Lady Mechanica La Dama de la Muerte
- Miles Morales Spider-Man # 0
- Star Wars Boba Fett # 1
- Sonic the Hedgedog # 1
and Viz Comics' the Drifting Classroom Umezz Smashed Ito which costs £ 0.38

Btw in the same parcel there should be the Dc Giant Ghosts which Tony bought and whose cover is pictured above...

Went to my comic book shop yesterday (hadn't been there in about two months) and picked up the last DC comic book I expect to buy in the foreseeable future:

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #50!

It came out towards the end of September, but it's the last issue in the series.  

I've tried looking at some of the Justice League issues that were bringing back the JSA into DC continuity again, but I wasn't too impressed and I really don't care about all the other parts of the story.

So at present, I'm just picking up various Hellboy-connected titles from Dark Horse (when they come out since they're usually mini-series or one-shots these days) and waiting to see if that Miss Fury mini-series will ever get released by Dynamite in 2020.

Last years I have bought some issues of Scooby-Doo Team-up during its run and the Team-ups were usually were fun to read

I think the only issue I ever bought was the Justice Society one.

tony ingram wrote:I think the only issue I ever bought was the Justice Society one.

That was a nice one Tony, for what I remember now.
Btw, among the coming (in the parcel) comics I should receive soon, there is also the first issue of Craig Thompson (Blankets, Habibi, Goodbye Chunky Rice, etc) new autobiographical (sort of) series Ginseng Roots, slightly delayed, as you can see from the cover date below....

Has anybody else been reading Vampirella/Red Sonja?

I originally had it in my pull list but had to postpone due to budget constraints, planning to recuperate it with the tpb, as with with the Dawn/Vampirella mini-series, which is all by Dawn creator Joseph Michael Linsner so it should be fine...

Barry_Allen wrote:I originally had it in my pull list but had to postpone due to budget constraints, planning to recuperate it with the tpb, as with with the Dawn/Vampirella mini-series, which is all by Dawn creator Joseph Michael Linsner so it should be fine...

Well, if nothing else it'll be nice to look at...

I've read that the paperback Dawn/Vampirella has been published from Dynamite, $ 19.99 for 128 pages, it seems a "IDW style" price (I mean high, compared to the number of pages)...

Barry_Allen wrote:I've read that the paperback Dawn/Vampirella has been published from Dynamite, $ 19.99 for 128 pages, it seems a "IDW style" price (I mean high, compared to the number of pages)...

Well, if the series was five issues at $3.99 per an issue, then the collected tpb is only about 4¢ more than buying the issues individually, and I would hope there is some extra content (any variant covers, etc.) included in the collected version.

And these days, it also depends on how many copies they're planning to print for the initial run?

Finally made it to the comic book store (was last there back in November) and picked up:






(Sir Edward Gray,) Witchfinder: The Reign of Darkness #1-#3 (of 5)
as well as

Hellboy Winter Special 2019 (which was published for January 2020 release)

Nice selection MajorHoy! I had bought the Hellboy Winter Special 2018 but sometimes I missed the one with the cover above this year, when ordering January 2020 released, too bad , now I have to pass it as a late order!

Got a copy of

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb #1 (of 2)
on Saturday.

Here's what I said a year ago:

MajorHoy wrote:Went to my comic book shop yesterday (hadn't been there in about two months) and picked up the last DC comic book I expect to buy in the foreseeable future:

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #50!

It came out towards the end of September, but it's the last issue in the series.  

I've tried looking at some of the Justice League issues that were bringing back the JSA into DC continuity again, but I wasn't too impressed and I really don't care about all the other parts of the story.

So at present, I'm just picking up various Hellboy-connected titles from Dark Horse (when they come out since they're usually mini-series or one-shots these days) and waiting to see if that Miss Fury mini-series will ever get released by Dynamite in 2020.

Since then, I have bought some DC books, but aside from the three-issue Batman: Three Jokers series, there wasn't anything I've started buying on a regular basis from DC.  My Marvel purchases have amounted to one issue of History of the Marvel Universe (the one that basically covered the 1930s-1950s stories) and a couple of $1.00 True Believers reprint issues.

I'm still buying the Hellboy-related comics, but even that output has been severely disrupted due to COVID-19 and Diamond's interruption in distribution a few months ago.  (And I still have no idea if/when Miss Fury: Joy Division may eventually make it to a comic book shop, nor how much it may eventually cost. I think I once saw that it was priced at $30.00 for a softcover version through the crowdfunding site Indiegogo?)

What are other people buying these days through the non-DC/non-Marvel American publishers (if anything)?