lukeb
Name: Luke Batt
Bio: Manager in Whakatane, New Zealand, with aspirations of becoming a Comic Book Writer/ Penciler/ Colourer.... inbetween I Hitchhiking the lovely roads of NZ.
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I really like how this story is starting and where it’s going, the combination of inviting art and a reasonably…
Read full review and commentsFirst off, I love the Ultimate Spider-man universe that Bendis has created, this version of Peter Parker was awesome and…
Read full review and commentsWhen the hell is this book supposed to be set?! Sure it’s 8 months after the incident…. but we have…
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iFanboy’s 2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Must Have Graphic Novels and Collected Editions
December 6, 2011 1:26 pm Never heard of 'One Soul' but it sounds AMAZING, I really want that.... I wonder if it's on any digital services :/ Nope doesn't look like it.... dang.
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UNCHARTED #1 (OF 6)
December 1, 2011 3:07 am I really wanted to pick this up, but couldn't find a place to buy it digitally :/
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Josh Flanagan’s ‘Astro Van’ Available on Kindle & Nook
November 21, 2011 7:19 pm After reading this article I found out I CAN get a Kindle app for my Samsung Galaxy Tablet, so I've gone ahead and 'picked up a copy'
I usually 'read' books these days as Audio Books, but I'll give this one a proper go :)
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RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #2
October 19, 2011 5:52 am Can't wait to read it tomorrow morning :D I think this is the one that I was most looking forward to this week :)
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ADVANCE REVIEW: John Carter: A Princess of Mars #1
September 15, 2011 7:57 am I had a lot more fun with this book than I was expecting. I know nothing about the characters of John Carter or Dejia, even with having had a print of them both by Ty Romsa up on my wall for the last 5 years. I can't wait for the next issue :)
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ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #1
September 15, 2011 1:44 am Totally, maybe he will teach Miles how to think in Captions :P
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My Digital Comics Dilemma
September 13, 2011 3:13 pm Hopefully there are people around the world right now realizing and doing the exact same thing, gotta love digital :D
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My Digital Comics Dilemma
September 13, 2011 1:14 pm @Conor: Fair enough, I guess I'm really wondering how long it will be before we get a bit more for our digital buck, especially with guys like 4 star studios doing those awesome $1 on the iOS (wish they had the same feature on the Android, but win some lose some) or the Deluxe versions, in fact I kinda wish all their issues had deluxe versions; Personally I love the price of comics for the most part as buying them on graphic.ly or comixology is still 1/2 the price or less than what I pay in a brick and mortar store, but it can still put a drain on the wallet, I would buy all my comics at a dollar more ($3-5) if they had the scripts/ behind the scenes and pencils in a deluxe version... wish I knew how much more work those types of issues take to put together.
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My Digital Comics Dilemma
September 13, 2011 12:51 pm Right there with you man, I live in NZ and even though most of our comic stores get comics on the same day as the US, we have so few stores (and none closer than 100km, and they don't carry everything, need to go 190km for that), literally waking up at 6am on Thursday (or was it Friday?) to download the comics as they were released was AWESOME!
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My Digital Comics Dilemma
September 13, 2011 12:43 pm On the price point, it kinda of makes me wonder if they are holding the price point at the same as the printed versions precisely because they don't want to piss the retailers off too much. I mean the word I've heard is that digital comics only really sell as well as a high quality store, but it'll be interesting to sell numbers of the digital sales.
In the gaming world, the retail games that have gone digital stay at the physical copy price because of deal done with the mega chains, and if a lower price is offered online then they have to match that deal for those chains (all hearsay, but I believe it). I doubt the companies have done a deal like that with individual stores, but with Diamond I wouldn't be surprised.
Retailers are just going to have to come up with good ways to keep their customers; be friendly, offer discussions, bring in guests, play a good role at local conventions, sponsor local artists/writers, something that draws people in, run contests, who knows, something... I do miss the discounts for being a regular thou.
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