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Is Transmetropolitan going permanently out of print?

Full details here. My advice? Wait a short while for the new editions, rather than paying over-the-odds for the newly-discontinued older versions. If you can find the older editions reduced, though, the content is exactly the same for all but the first two and final volumes.

I already have some of the older trades, which is why I'd like to get the rest of the series in its older version, too - also, the older trades take considerably less space on the shelf as they're printed on thinner paper; this is an important factor as my comics shelf and my entire bookshelf are seriously 'overcrowded'... I'll have to keep an eye out for the older editions, I guess.

Anyway, glad to hear that Transmetropolitan is going to stay available. I was mildly shocked when I read that it was about to go out of print.

Sorry, don't have the time to read the entire thread, but I have an urgent question: Is Transmetropolitan going permanently out of print? I noticed that in some recent ebay auctions this claim was made, and a week later some of the used books on amazon, notably volume 2 which is currently (or permanently?) out of print went up in price tremendously - from around 6 euros to between 36 and 46 euros in just a few days.

Of course, this *had* to happen before I managed to buy one of the cheap ones... *annoyed*

... in Ursula Vernon's incredibly awesome webcomic 'Digger' - currently available for free up to page 285 or so, but I'm not sure how long that's going to last, as it's usually a subscription-only comic. Do take this rare chance to read it if you have an evening or two to spare; this is not just one of the best webcomics, but one of the best *comics* I've ever read, period. Wonderful art, characters, worldbuilding - and it's recently been nominated for an Eisner award!

Here's the Hellblazer moment:

http://www.graphicsmash.com/series.php?vie...592&name=digger - lower left panel. Reminded me of John Constantine's first conversation with Cole. *g*

Can I keep two if it's one story that just happens to come in two volumes? If so, I'd keep Finder: Sin-Eater, vols. 1 & 2. It's really one story, published for convenience's sake in two parts.

My vote would be for Arzach. (Does the English version also include that amazing, totally insane little black and white travel story at the beginning? That's the best bit of the book...)

oh gosh look at those wrinkles.

Well... Bermejo always was Master of the Wrinkles... which is one of the reasons I want him on the title. 'Cause age suits John well. (At least to a degree. ;-))

I don't know, though. The movies are nearly all shit, true enough, but I thought at least some of the seasons of the TV show were really very very good.

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Hence the 'most' in my original post. Yeah, there's some good stuff there. Enough to fuel a lot of great fanfic, anyway. ;-)

Heh. Since there are people here who seem to care (honestly, I'm surprised about that!), here's a link for everything we know about the Movie of Infinite Badness so far:

http://community.livejournal.com/hl_flash/20026.html

A fairly detailed plot synopsis was leaked last week, and has since been mocked with great vigour in the fandom. Here's a fun 'remix' of the synopsis:

http://lastrega.livejournal.com/271483.html

I sort of agree with Mark - most of what's come out of the HL franchise has been varying degrees of bad... I still like the general idea, though, and - hey, why not admit it - I have a longtime crush on Methos. *g* Luckily it's a great fandom, even if the source product isn't so great. The fans are very intelligent and fun people, for the most part. And they write some of the best fic I've read in *any* fandom, and in great quantities. Easily better than 99.9% of the 'canon' material.

(Sorry... this is not really comics-related...)

cant he be say 50 for ever - when he hits 50 that is.

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He hit fifty a couple of years ago, GenGris. He's officially an old geezer now. ;-)

I assumed the man in his arms was a random Joe, and this was John's exagerrated reconnection to the general populace- Thats the symbol/Metaphor/correlation I meant sorry.

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Actually, the 'man' in John's arms is the dead woman from the beginning of the issue. Look again closely.

Nobody's mentioned Lee Bermejo yet? Okay, then I'll be the one to mention him.

Though my absolute favourite would be Sean Phillips.

Also among my favourites, in no particular order: Manco, Bradstreet, Jock, McKean, Lloyd.

I'm sure I've forgotten a couple.

Hope you get better, Hmpf.

 

And Spanish texts, too at this time.

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Thanks. And, yeah, today I even had a Catalan text. (Small regional language spoken in northern Spain - similar to Spanish, but just different enough to be difficult for someone whose Spanish isn't too well developed in the first place. Arrgh.) Better and better...

Hmpf -

What does RL stand for?

Real Life?

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Yup. Which at the moment consists of reading Spanish archaeology texts (despite knowing very little Spanish), and being ill.

Okay... who's temporally dislocated here? Me, or you guys? Last time I checked it's not the last week of the month yet... or is it?

:)

I waited long for this :)

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Sorry... RL's keeping me busy.

There's been a lot (a LOT...just search for "Constanteen", and start from the very beginning) of discussion about That Awful Film around here - you should get a pretty clear idea of what most of us think/thought of it by searching around, particularly in the "Comics In Other Media" subforum), but as you can doubtless tell, it's mostly variations on a theme of "piece of shit".

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Hmpf...

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Yes?

Mine's arrived. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Pretty! And signed by Tim Bradstreet *and* Mike Carey!

Damn... where am I going to put it? Come to think of it, where am I going to put that Anke Eissmann print I bought three years ago? Arrgh... I need a bigger room. Or fewer shelves on my walls... *g*

Don't know if they do this kind of thing, but could it be a cover for the trade paperback?

We've known it was 13 issues for a while now.

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Ah, okay. I've been out of the loop a while.

Well, glad to hear this, I think.

Agnostic here.

Ah yes, like the cynical, misanthropic Communist.

Or, like Jonathan Swift.

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More like Philip Marlowe, really. ;-)

Today a guy named Philip Harlow got a book from the library where I work. I was somewhat amused; would have been more amused if it had been a detective novel, though. (He got business textbooks instead. Yuck.)

And: Denise Mina will be doing 13 issues? Wow - wasn't it 6, the last time we heard any concrete numbers?

Mr. Shirley, if you read this thread:

Any plans to release this book (or the earlier movie adaptation) in german-speaking countries, maybe in german (though English would be also okay?)

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Uhm.... you can usually buy English books in German-speaking countries. If you know the title and author you can have any bookshop order them for you, even if you don't happen to live in a city big enough to have an actual English bookshop. Amazon.de also has English books - pretty much anything that's available in America or the UK, as far as I know. That's where I get most of my English reading matter, though before the days of the internet I used to go the old-fashioned way of having my local bookshop order it for me.

As for a German-language release, I think you would have to address that question to Schreiber & Leser, Hellblazer's German publisher.

I agree.

 

And where have you been, Hmpf?

Here and there... there, mostly. ;-) I take my fandoms in waves - got too many things I'm interested in to keep up to date on all of them all the time. So, I get Hellblazer obsession month, followed by Doctor Who obsession month, followed by Farscape obsession month, followed by manga obsession month, leading up to Hellblazer obsession month again. Rinse and repeat.

I do lurk here, though.

Damn. This makes me wish I had bought more than one. *g*

Annoying as a few sentences in a few of those reviews are, it's nice to see HB getting so much attention, for once. :-)

I'm curious to see if that will have any kind of influence on the number of issues sold...