Important!

Hey everyone, long time Marvel fan here. I started getting into comics and currently reading Frank Miller’s Daredevil run (loving it). Afterwards I want to start Jonathan Hickman’s Marvel saga (up to Secret Wars). Which runs should I read beforehand to get the full context of all the characters? I’m aware of Avengers, New Avengers, Fantastic Four, and Inhumans but need clarity on which runs to read for each to get full context and properly experience Hickman’s run. A comprehensive list would be greatly appreciated and don’t hold back because I will read them all haha. And of course, no spoilers please! Thanks!

If you had the powers of Shazam, would you ever turn back to just being a normal human if you're past your prime already?

I've been rereading Alan Moore's Miracle Man and it's a question that came into mind.

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Need some more boxes but not sure which ones to get

If there's anyone here with a job in comics, how hard it is to get a job like that today, and how hard it is to get it without a college degree?

Some say the only important thing is being good at it and some people say you won't even get a job WITH a degree. And that getting one without it is nearly impossible.

I saw the trades in my LCS recently and I didn’t know about the run previously. Have any of you read it? and if so, why did you think? Is it worth checking out?

Saw this comic online. Thought it’s very cute. Where is it from?

I have a memory from year 8 of secondary school (which is only like 3 years ago lol) in English class

I was reading a Captain marvel book and a dude in front of me turned around and looked at the front cover. The cover was literally just Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) pulling her glove and looking straight ahead. This guy then asks “are you reading porn?” And I said “no??” And I showed him the page I was on (which was also completely innocent) but he kept going on about me being a weirdo

That then put me off of reading girl lead comics for a while because I was so worried of people thinking I was reading porn. But now I realise it’s stupid and that dude is a misogynist who sees a woman and immediately thinks of sex

Basically I got a copy of Absolute Wonder Woman #1 a little while ago and one of the pages was falling out. I scheduled a return, but I don’t know how to mail stuff

So I asked my mother to help me. She said we’d sort it out the next day. We didn’t for the next week because my nephew and niece were over and we were too busy.

I then asked her again after this week, telling her that we need to get it done because I don’t know when the return window closes and I’m scared I’m gonna lose the chance. She helped me package it and then said she’d deliver it the next day. She didn’t. Then she said she’d deliver it the next day. She didn’t. She couldn’t deliver it today because Sunday. She’s now saying she’ll deliver it first thing tomorrow (Monday) but I’m panicking because I just checked and the return window has passed by a long shot (2 weeks)

Does anyone here know if I could appeal for more time from forbidden planet? This is all out of my control. It’s not my fault this wasn’t done sooner.

Next week we'll open nominations for the BestOf awards. We'll have a post sticked to the top of the subreddit with top-level comments for each category, and users can reply to those top-level comments with their nominations. After a week we'll take the top nominations, stick 'em in a poll, and let everyone vote for their favourites.

These are the categories we ran last year, there's 25 of them! That's a lot! I'd prefer not to add more, but I'm open to suggestions and clarification.

• Best Writer
• Best Penciller
• Best Inker
• Best Colorist
• Best Letterer
• Best Cartoonist (someone who writes and draws their own series)
• Best Comics-Related Individual, Group, or Professional
• Best Ongoing Series (Marvel)
• Best Limited Series (Marvel)
• Best Ongoing Series (DC)
• Best Limited Series (DC)
• Best Ongoing Series (Not Marvel/DC)
• Best Limited Series (Not Marvel/DC)
• Best Alt, Underground, or Independent Comic
• Best Original Graphic Novel
• Best Single Issue
• Best One-Shot
• Best Cover
• Best Panel or Page
• Best Story Arc, Event, or Back-Up
• Best Comic-Based Movie
• Best Comic-Based TV Series
• Best Digital-Premiered Comic
• Best Moment in Comics
• r/comicbooks Subreddit Award (for users, posts, moments specific to the subreddit)

If you want to see what the winners looked like, you can check out the 2023 winners here.

I remember reading this series in 3-5th grade, possibly written between 2000-2010. Featured great art and illustrations of vampires, zombies, etc. Small books, only consisting of about 30-60pages. Seem to remember it being a detective/hunter narrative. Can’t remember much else other than the library only have 5 or 6 of the books, and being so excited when they ordered another. Please, this is driving me crazy!

I recently sold a part of my comic book collection via ebay. At the end of the day, the ebay fees + the cost of shipping cut the profit I made on it by almost 80%, so I wound up taking a tremendous loss and had a ton of regret with the sale. To be frank, I hadn't anticipated just how much the shipping and packaging was going to cost, and just how exorbitant ebay fees had become since the last time I sold anything there (over 5+ years ago.) I grossly underestimated it.

That being said, I am continuing to to sell large portions of my collection and I have a buyer that will be purchasing over 300 comics. What are some recommendations for the most cost effective packaging and shipping? I've been told I may wind up saving the most money by shipping the comics out in batches of 50 in smaller boxes. It'll be a lot to ship but ultimately save in cost.

Thoughts/suggestions on what to use and how to ship, particularly what shipping services (UPS was disgustingly expensive)? TIA.

I’ve been reading comics for a while but I’d like to learn about the history of them. Not necessarily lore history but more stuff about writers and stories of characters and stories being invented. Any suggestions for videos, articles, or YouTube channels?

Can you think of any "superheroes" who 1: don't have superpowers and 2: didn't inherit a business or ton of money from their parents? Someone lower or middle class who either taught themselves physical or mental skills to a superhuman level, or who built technology with money they earned at a regular job?

I recently started collecting comic good and my favorite storylines are the ones that have Harley Quinn and Batman as friends/allies or the ones where he’s trying to reform her. That’s one of my favorite tropes. I’ve been having trouble finding comics like that because whenever I look for them I always get the ones where she’s too far gone and all of that, is there a way to find specific comics like that? For what I’m looking for right now and possibly later if I have something specific I want?

Welcome to the Weekly Pull List for Wednesday December 04, 2024.

As 2024 draws to a close, I want to thank to everyone in the WPL community for your invaluable contributions to our weekly posts. You continue to make this a vibrant space to discuss weekly comic books!

Over the past few weeks, I've mentioned some adjustments to how we calculate pull list results. These changes have opened up exciting new possibilities to exploring the data we're generating.

With that in mind, I'm excited to announce that I'll be compiling year-end WPL results for 2024 and plan to share them in our December 29th pull list post. To make this as relevant and interesting as possible, I'd love to have your thoughts on what kind of insights or data points you would be most interested in seeing. Please share your ideas along with your lists for this week!

As always, thank you for your continued help in curating the lists we use to track pulls for the coming week. We've added a comment to this thread called 'WPL books shipping December 04, 2024' and populated it with the list we are currently working from for this week. Please respond to that comment and add any books you do not see listed that you are expecting this week. The list we create together will be used to calculate the WPL Results.

Below are links to other shipping lists where you can see what is expected be on the shelf this week:

• Comic List

• League of Comic Geeks

• Midtown Comics

• Previews World

Last Week's Most Pulled Titles:

Based on 68 submitted pull lists and 73 books shipping.

1. ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #2 (48)
2. JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #1 (43)
3. BLACK CANARY BEST OF THE BEST #1 (28)
4. SUPERMAN #20 (28)
5. NIGHTWING #120 (27)
6. DETECTIVE COMICS #1091 (24)
7. ACTION COMICS #1077 (22)
8. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #4 (22)
9. BATMAN THE LONG HALLOWEEN THE LAST HALLOWEEN #3 (21)
10. GREEN ARROW #18 (21)
11. UNCANNY X-MEN #6 (21)
12. IRON MAN #2 (19)
13. FLASH #15 (18)
14. POWER GIRL #15 (17)
15. ULTIMATE BLACK PANTHER #10 (17)
16. HARLEY QUINN #45 (15)
17. BATMAN SANTA CLAUS SILENT KNIGHT RETURNS #1 (14)
18. WEST COAST AVENGERS #1 (14)
19. BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #19 (13)
20. INCREDIBLE HULK #19 (13)
21. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #62 (12)
22. MYSTIQUE #2 (12)
23. DAZZLER #3 (9)
24. BLADE RED BAND #2 (8)
25. VENOM WAR #5 (8)
26. SPIDER-BOY #13 (7)
27. ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN NOIR EDITION #1 (6)
28. MULTIVERSUS COLLISION DETECTED #6 (6)

Please have your lists for the /r/comicbooks Weekly Pull List posted here by end of day Tuesday (EST) in order to have them included in the results for the week. Thank you!

Pull list calculations are based on books listed in the 'WPL books shipping week of December 04, 2024' comment below. Don’t see an issue scheduled to ship this week listed there? Please let us know!

For a while I’ve had my comics in piles around my room, though I do plan to get a long box soon to organise them all. I put them all in some safer places but I found my copy of Absolute Superman #1 with tons of other issues piled on top of it. I panicked, pulled all of the comics out the pile and found that it had gotten a rip at the top of the back cover. I genuinely felt tears coming.

I know that sounds really pathetic but comics are literally my favourite thing in the world. I hate to see them get damaged. I’m gonna start taking better care of my single issues from now on

This also sucks because now I have to rethink taking them to school. They’re in my backpack and now I’m petrified that they’re gonna get bent or ripped. So now I might only bring trades and hard covers in to read.

Anyone else? Or am I just a crybaby

I wanted to get the compact version of it to finally read the book but I already know the whole story. All the twists. Nothing could surprise me