I bought the four issues of Comicology,
that came out through TwoMorrows,
way back in 2000 and 2001.
Volume 2 Number 1 Flip Book Cover A (2000)
Volume 2 Number 1 Flip Book Cover B (2000)
Volume 2 Number 2 Flip Book Cover A (2000)
(At least, to me, because I love Paul Grist's work.)
Volume 2 Number 2 Flip Book Cover B (2000)
Volume 2 Number 3 Flip Book Cover A (2001)
Volume 2 Number 3 Flip Book Cover B (2001)
Volume 2 Number 4 Cover (2001)
I loved them and I was sorry when they simply stopped appearing but things like that happen all the time in the weird world of comic book collecting and life moved on.
Until recently, I had never noticed that they were all
numbered as being Volume 2!
I know, SLOW or what?
Once I had realized that there must be a Volume 1,
I looked for it on-line. Imagine my surprise, when I found out that, Comicology, Volume 1, Number 1 was a single issue!
Volume 1 Number 1 (1998)
A huge, sprawling look into the world of
Kingdom Come
published by DC Comics, in a four issue
Mini Series, in 1996.
I know, had I simply read the editorial in Volume 2,
Number 1, I would have learned the whole story a
whole lot sooner, but as I said earlier,
no one has ever accused me of being very bright.
Moving ahead with the story.
I found a copy listed for sale on the Stuart Ng
website and while it was tempting,
the issues of dealing with a currency exchange and then
having my own government charge me a tax
on the item, when it arrives, gave me pause!
So I looked around and on Amazon.ca,
I found a used copy that would come from a
Canadian source. Bingo!
The item would cost me $68 Cdn, including shipping.
Not exactly cheap but then, I don't recall ever having seen
a copy and I felt like indulging myself.
The seller,
"Sellavie",
shipped it to me from Abbotsford in BC,
way out on our west coast and a lovely place... or at least it was,
the last time I was there in 1990 and it arrived yesterday.
Amazingly, they simply slipped the item into an appropriately sized, white plastic envelope and sent it that way.
Nothing to protect the book, not even a thin sheet of bubble-wrap!
To my great relief and delight,
with the exception of a half inch hole,
where the bottom of the spine of the book was located,
it arrived safe and sound.
Unfortunately, the front cover has a deep crease in it,
as though the last two inches of the cover had been scrunched
over at some point, perhaps recently, from the way it looks.
Otherwise, it is a lovely item, with clean, unripped or blemished pages and I am very happy to have it.
It will take me some time to wade through it.
I am not the biggest fan of Alex Ross
and his meticulously painted comics, not that I
don't admire his skill and talent but I
prefer a little more cartoon and less photorealism
in my comic books.
I and this is probably going to shock some of you,
didn't buy Kingdom Come as it came out.
In fact, I still don't own the story, not even in
Graphic Novel format.
That is probably something that I should remedy, at least so that I can have a clearer understanding of all of the minute details
highlighted by the publisher/writer
Brian Saner Lamken
and his team of researchers.
When the book came out, in 1998, everyone loved it...
except DC Comics!
For more information about that issue,
please follow this link:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=7017
That's all for now but at least I am slipping this post in, under the wire, just before this month ends.
As a note to myself, Try and Post More Often!
Volume 2 Number 1 Flip Book Cover A (2000)
Volume 2 Number 1 Flip Book Cover B (2000)
Volume 2 Number 2 Flip Book Cover A (2000)
(At least, to me, because I love Paul Grist's work.)
Volume 2 Number 2 Flip Book Cover B (2000)
Volume 2 Number 3 Flip Book Cover A (2001)
Volume 2 Number 3 Flip Book Cover B (2001)
Volume 2 Number 4 Cover (2001)
I loved them and I was sorry when they simply stopped appearing but things like that happen all the time in the weird world of comic book collecting and life moved on.
Until recently, I had never noticed that they were all
numbered as being Volume 2!
I know, SLOW or what?
Once I had realized that there must be a Volume 1,
I looked for it on-line. Imagine my surprise, when I found out that, Comicology, Volume 1, Number 1 was a single issue!
Volume 1 Number 1 (1998)
A huge, sprawling look into the world of
Kingdom Come
published by DC Comics, in a four issue
Mini Series, in 1996.
I know, had I simply read the editorial in Volume 2,
Number 1, I would have learned the whole story a
whole lot sooner, but as I said earlier,
no one has ever accused me of being very bright.
Moving ahead with the story.
I found a copy listed for sale on the Stuart Ng
website and while it was tempting,
the issues of dealing with a currency exchange and then
having my own government charge me a tax
on the item, when it arrives, gave me pause!
So I looked around and on Amazon.ca,
I found a used copy that would come from a
Canadian source. Bingo!
The item would cost me $68 Cdn, including shipping.
Not exactly cheap but then, I don't recall ever having seen
a copy and I felt like indulging myself.
The seller,
"Sellavie",
shipped it to me from Abbotsford in BC,
way out on our west coast and a lovely place... or at least it was,
the last time I was there in 1990 and it arrived yesterday.
Amazingly, they simply slipped the item into an appropriately sized, white plastic envelope and sent it that way.
Nothing to protect the book, not even a thin sheet of bubble-wrap!
To my great relief and delight,
with the exception of a half inch hole,
where the bottom of the spine of the book was located,
it arrived safe and sound.
Unfortunately, the front cover has a deep crease in it,
as though the last two inches of the cover had been scrunched
over at some point, perhaps recently, from the way it looks.
Otherwise, it is a lovely item, with clean, unripped or blemished pages and I am very happy to have it.
It will take me some time to wade through it.
I am not the biggest fan of Alex Ross
and his meticulously painted comics, not that I
don't admire his skill and talent but I
prefer a little more cartoon and less photorealism
in my comic books.
I and this is probably going to shock some of you,
didn't buy Kingdom Come as it came out.
In fact, I still don't own the story, not even in
Graphic Novel format.
That is probably something that I should remedy, at least so that I can have a clearer understanding of all of the minute details
highlighted by the publisher/writer
Brian Saner Lamken
and his team of researchers.
When the book came out, in 1998, everyone loved it...
except DC Comics!
For more information about that issue,
please follow this link:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=7017
That's all for now but at least I am slipping this post in, under the wire, just before this month ends.
As a note to myself, Try and Post More Often!
