Comic Book Talk

[Sun Wukong]

I've never played commander but I did keep some cards to maybe switch to that format.

My favorite format by far. I will draft another format on occasion but as far as building decks goes, it's just commander these days.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

My favorite format by far. I will draft another format on occasion but as far as building decks goes, it's just commander these days.

What colors you like? I'm partial to the Esper decks, white, black and blue.

 

[Sun Wukong]

What colors you like? I'm partial to the Esper decks, white, black and blue.

I've got three different Mardu decks at the moment. One is a vampire tribal that is kind of jack of all trades (life gain, tokens, graveyard stuff). Another is a demons, angels, and dragons deck that allows me to ignore mana curve for creatures due to Kaalia of the Vast as my commander. So it's all about big heavy hitting creatures fast and early. Get a bunch of beat sticks out there fast.

I'm currently working on a four color artifact deck and a Temur ETB trigger deck that focuses on dragons. That one is shaping up to be very fun.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Y'all thread-jacking the sheet out of this thread, which I guess proves a point...

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Y'all thread-jacking the sheet out of this thread, which I guess proves a point...

I don't want to thread jack further but I had one more comment I wanted to say. I've been playing Magic since around 95(not the whole time but I started then) so about a couple of years after it came out. Right now, I haven't played in a few years but recently I started watching some videos on youtube talking about various cards and such and I learned that I may know the basics on how to play but I really don't know sheet on how to really play the game. I just bought cards I liked and threw them together. If I played against real professionals I'd get destroyed easily. I guess that's it. Oh, fork them for Magic 30th! 1,000 bucks for proxies, you can kiss my arse.

 

[Tapxe]

FYI

The Neil Gaiman Dark Horse Collection

We’ve teamed up with Dark Horse for our newest bundle. Get Neil Gaiman comics and graphic novels like American Gods & Norse Mythology. Plus, pay what you want & support charity!

www.humblebundle.com

 

[GrandAdmiral]

FYI

The Neil Gaiman Dark Horse Collection

We’ve teamed up with Dark Horse for our newest bundle. Get Neil Gaiman comics and graphic novels like American Gods & Norse Mythology. Plus, pay what you want & support charity!

www.humblebundle.com

Humble Bundle has always been a good spot to get some good indie comics while supporting a good cause.

 

[bonnjer]

The kids and I made what is probably our last visit to And Books Too this afternoon. It was a gorgeous day - clear, blue skies and 75 degrees. There were a few people in the place, but there was still plenty of inventory. Being that it was Wednesday, they even had new comics on the shelf. Everything was 25% off, so I found a comic and my daughter found a graphic novel. My son didn't find anything that he wanted. We stayed for probably about 15 to 20 minutes just looking around. When I asked if they were ready to go and they said yes, I just kind of stood there for a few seconds and my daughter said, "You're sad, aren't you?" I definitely was and I could feel the tiniest bit of dust in my eye. This is a place that I've gone to for 30 years and have brought the kids to since they could walk. I will miss the place and the smell of it when first walking in. Before we left, we took a selfie in front of the huge Silver Surfer they have in the front door so that I could have that last memory.

 

[Sun Wukong]

The kids and I made what is probably our last visit to And Books Too this afternoon. It was a gorgeous day - clear, blue skies and 75 degrees. There were a few people in the place, but there was still plenty of inventory. Being that it was Wednesday, they even had new comics on the shelf. Everything was 25% off, so I found a comic and my daughter found a graphic novel. My son didn't find anything that he wanted. We stayed for probably about 15 to 20 minutes just looking around. When I asked if they were ready to go and they said yes, I just kind of stood there for a few seconds and my daughter said, "You're sad, aren't you?" I definitely was and I could feel the tiniest bit of dust in my eye. This is a place that I've gone to for 30 years and have brought the kids to since they could walk. I will miss the place and the smell of it when first walking in. Before we left, we took a selfie in front of the huge Silver Surfer they have in the front door so that I could have that last memory.

I hope the Silver Surfer finds a good home. I always thought that was the coolest thing right as you walk in.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

I hope the Silver Surfer finds a good home. I always thought that was the coolest thing right as you walk in.

If I had the space I would ask the asking price.

 

[Zztop]

took a few years, but amazon seems to have ruined it

Major Layoffs Reported At Amazon And ComiXology

ComiXology staffers are reporting widescale redundancies today across the digital comics publisher and distributor, as well as its parent company, Amazon.

bleedingcool.com

In 2014, Bleeding Cool ran the story that Amazon was buying digital comic distributor and publisher ComiXology three weeks before it was officially announced. At the time, this was painted as giving ComiXology a far greater reach, but over time that began to change. Eight years on, as part of continuing merging operations between ComiXology and Amazon, big changes kicked in, with reduced services and merging with Kindle with user-friendliness destroyed and complaints emanating from across the industry

 

[GrandAdmiral]

took a few years, but amazon seems to have ruined it

Major Layoffs Reported At Amazon And ComiXology

ComiXology staffers are reporting widescale redundancies today across the digital comics publisher and distributor, as well as its parent company, Amazon.

bleedingcool.com

In 2014, Bleeding Cool ran the story that Amazon was buying digital comic distributor and publisher ComiXology three weeks before it was officially announced. At the time, this was painted as giving ComiXology a far greater reach, but over time that began to change. Eight years on, as part of continuing merging operations between ComiXology and Amazon, big changes kicked in, with reduced services and merging with Kindle with user-friendliness destroyed and complaints emanating from across the industry

Richard Johnston is an butt crevasse. We don't need to know you broke a story three weeks before it happened. How about we remind you of all the times the stories you "broke" turned out to be wrong...

 

[Zztop]

Richard Johnston is an butt crevasse. We don't need to know you broke a story three weeks before it happened. How about we remind you of all the times the stories you "broke" turned out to be wrong...

cool, but that personal opinion has nothing to do with seemingly most of the staff being fired

 

[Sun Wukong]

I went from using Comixology pretty frequently to hardly ever due to Amazon's changes. Feel for everyone losing their job. Tech industry is a blood bath right now. Absolutely horrible.