Bargains. Bargains. Bargains. (Comics Edition)

Ta, thought so. Any inventory / filler would have a tell-tale co-editor credit, then.

not really been keeping up with this since they broke comixology, but there's a huge sale on DC at amazon at the moment

and google play books generally echoes amazon sales and, lo, the thing that caught my eye (2021 swamp thing) was indeed cheap there too. not as cheap (about 20% more than the £1.99). turns out they are adobe-protected pdfs and the usual methods will also remove the drm from those.

(although if amz thinks i'm going to look through 1200+ books on a single infinite scrolling page, loading 16 at a time, they can jog on)

Google Play sometimes makes comics not downloadable, can only read from the cloud, but doesn't let you know beforehand that this is what they're doing with certain books. Very fucking irritating.

useful to know, thanks. i did screencap and then stitch together an entire issue of something (loeg?) when amz did the same but it's a pain with long books

i notice they have the two books that make up the whole of the tefe-led series (vol 3?) which I've never read so i might buy some more.

oh, 'about book' does list exportability towards the bottom, and for those two it is 'not available'

Ah, never spotted that

it does raise the question of what you're meant to do with unexportable books. is it only app / web viewer? is the app a replacement for comixology or does it struggle with, say, double page spreads (the ST i bought has a bunch)

audiobooks, bubble zoom, google assistant, google drive... i need none of these things

Tempted by swamp thing but whenever I try to read Volume 1 I get stuck on the verbose captions. It’s worse than Claremont! Is there a better story I can skip forward to? I know the basic character setup.

the classic alan moore run is volume 2 issue 21*-64. there are collections that cover this. but he does kinda emulate the verbosity, at least at first.

(* technically he starts at issue 20, but it's really just wrapping up the existing storyline ad typically)

the short len wein series from 2016 also a highpoint. he's the original writer, the one you didn't like, but the kelley jones pencils are great.

so
Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One - Book Six collects moore's run and the first 5 are in the sale. (this does actually include #20)

and
Swamp Thing (2016) (subtitled "The Dead Don't Sleep") currently £3.60

Alan Moore ST is wordy but good wordy. I like the Len stuff but it does blabber a lot. For a while he makes a point of writing “A MONSTROUS MAN OF MUCK!” in every issue.

another comixology DC sale (halloween this time), another swamp thing volume purchased.

hard keeping these straight, not least because all the collected editions are volume n, when the various different reboots are all themselves mostly volume n ('72- was vol 1, '82-'96 is vol 2, 2000-1 is vol 3...). today's purchases were 28-40 of volume 5, 2011 onwards, but volumes 6 and 7 of that run. and £4 for the two.