More referred orders!

I was quite surprised (again) when reading an email from Mycomicshop.com informing me I’ve had 5 referred orders in the last 6 months! So far, I have had 4 payments thanks to this affiliation system totaling a nice USD105.88 since I started my comics blog in august 2008. It won’t pay my bills but it sure is handy to purchase some more books!

As I had accumulated some credits from previous times, I’ve finally placed an order and got myself a nice copy of Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus that collects the series that was started by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction in 2006 (plus some more).

It is 560 pages of pure kung-fu awesomeness that I’ll be receiving very soon and all thanks to you my good readers. So I’d like to thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart… It’s not only the fact that I’m receiving some money out of it, but just to know that some people out there are really reading what I’m posting and it is actually beneficial to some of you in some way. It just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling and makes me somehow proud of this ugly looking (but useful) blog. :)

No more yellow mask on the shelves

It is, yet again, the end of an Iron Fist series… It’s funny how it seems to get cancelled all the time. So this month, August 2009, you are able to get the 27th and last issue. It’s a good and a bad thing, actually. It’s bad because his adventures are coming to an end (or he’s taking a break) and it’s good because I’ll finally be able to start buying the TPBs and know there actually is an end to the story.

It’s also good as this series was only planned to last for 6 issues, but Marvel probably got surprised by the rise in popularity and decided to have it run longer… It surely has something to do with Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker working on the title. The first issue came out with an USD2.99 price tag; you can now find it at USD18.00… Good return!

Fraction and Brubaker did not actually work on the 27 issues, and lot of people dropped the series when they left. But I’ve read many who regretted it and hopped in again as the series was still good after the new team took over. Seems to me like a good sign, I’ll probably buy the collected issues once the last TPB comes out.