Metalzoic comment from Pat in new ABC Warriors book

[ThryllSeekyr]

That was the one I chose.

GreyPilgrim was the seller.

It could be anything up till sixty dollars.

Seeing as UPS are charging me, fifty six dollars for the 'Tunnels & Trolls Rule Book'.

[The Monarch]

I operated on my own Brian!

[House of Usher]

a fascinating rant about the different tastes of 'mainstream readers' and 'fandom'

Most of the people that I've met who really, really like Slaine have been people who don't know about or give a shit about comics. That must be Pat Mills's mainstream audience.

As in:

Them: "So, what sort of thing do you read? what are you into?"

Me: "Well, because I'm always so busy with work and that, I don't get a lot of time to read. But I do read a lot of comics."

Them: "Oh right. I've never much been into comics. But I do really like Slaine."

[House of Usher]

The fantasy version of this conversations ends one of two ways:

Either:

Me: looks around the room for someone more interesting to talk to and walks away

Or:

Me: "Fuck off!"

[ThryllSeekyr]

The Cosh asks....

'Was this US or Oz dollars?'

That would be American dollars Cosh. The conversion is merely less than a dollar more.

[Byron Virgo]

"I wonder if he meant exactly what I think he meant (i.e. DC owns it and will never release it again), because if so it's a massive shame."

Unfortunately it is - the deal that Mills and O'Neil signed with DC was better than the ones offered by the likes of 2000AD in the UK at the time, but looking at it today it's fairly punative. Basically, DC hold the reprint rights - you'll notice that when Metalzoic appeared in 2000AD, there was a little '© DC Comics' included somewhere on the page (if memory serves) - and aren't going to reprint it themselves because they didn't make any money from it the first time around (it came out about the same time all the Watchmen fuss kicked off). Of course, DC did agree to allow others to reprint it once before, so they might agree to it again, but it depends on how much it'd cost and whether it'd be financially worthwhile to do so.

Metalzoic was always more of a European type of affair than anything really suited for the US, though O'Neil did say he prefered the 2000AD reprint because it was in b&w (he wasn't happy with the colouring), and we had all those lovely new covers as well.

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/covers/2000ad/hires/485.jpg" target="_blank">"I Operated On My Own BRIAN!"

[ThryllSeekyr]

ButtonMan,

I just check the item number of the Metalzoic I had biided for and the one you have linked which are being sold by the same seller.

Both have different item numbers, though I got weird feeling it's the same book. It's out of print and how many of these books could this seller really have?

He's even using the same photo.

 

[Buttonman]

I wouldn't worry Thryll, the guy has 99%+ feedback on over 16,000 deals. He's likely a dealer with a few copies and one 'stock' photo.

[ThryllSeekyr]

I just got this today in the mail.

It looks good.

Will comtinue to read this, naturally.

Bit confused by the Graphic Novel number six written in the top right hand corner.

Is this part of a series?

[Ignatzmonster]

*Is this part of a series?*

Not in the sense we mean today. It was six in a series of comics of that format: oversized with glossy paper when that was a rarity.