Tuesday
Feb072012
Discussion: Borderlands Annual Sale 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Filed in Discussions, Events 
This year Adam had to attend the Borderlands Annual Sale all by himself… for the most part. To get him through this trying time he decided you bring you, the listener, along with him. Of course, we won’t subject you to that until the end of the show. First up is Adam and Shawn recapping the event along with a Dollar Bin Definitive Top 5: Comic Books Without Superheros.
Runtime 1 hour 24 minutes 32 seconds
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I forgot to mention I also picked up:
X-Factor: Visionaries Volume 3
Skrull Kill Krew
The End: Wolverine
Chronicles of Conan Volume 2
I attended the Borderlands sale too and had a lot of fun. I did see Adam walk in just as I was about to leave. The things I picked up were a bunch of Batman back issues (mainly issues of Legends of the Dark Knight), back issues if Clive Barker's Hyperkind and Ecto Kid comics (they're entertaining to any Clive Barker fan, plus they're written by Larry Wachowski of The Matrix fame), a handful of Creepy issues (along with an all Richard Corben issue I had to have), Violent Messiahs Vol 2 and The Complete Crumb Comics Vol 12. I have a lot of reading to do from now until doomsday.
As for my top five non-superhero comics they go as follows-
1. Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
2. EC Comics "New Trend" titles (Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Weird Science, etc.)
3. American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
4. Maus by Art Speigleman
5. Preacher
I would have included The Sandman or Swamp Thing on this list, but like you guys said they do feature superhero characters.
The Evolution of Metal is a cool show, man do I love me some VH1 Classic and no one should feel sorry for Fred Durst.
Fun stat: I said "That's what she said." about 8 times listening to the 1st part of this show.
My top 5 list based purely on what I like the best and nothing else:
1) Parker
2) Criminal
3) Fear Agent
4) GI Joe
5) Walking Dead
Black Sad & We3 are both fantastic but I only have 1 book of each and have or have read a lot more of the others on the list.
Maus is a good one that I've read. So are Criminal and Fear Agent. I need to finish Fear Agent. I can't believe I didn't think of Criminal. Its that damn spur of the moment pressure.
I started reading Black Sad last night thanks to the birthday gift to my wife from my lovely cousin Heather. I've finished the first part. So far it is good. I like the last line of the first part a lot. Dialog is a little clunky due to translation. Art is fantastic.
Top 5 Non-Superhero Comics
Too many things came to mind when you guys started talking about this topic.
All-Purpose
- Tintin
- Xenozoic Tales
- Maxx
- Queen & Country
- The Losers (Andy Diggle & Jock)
War Comics
- Team Zero
- Battlefields
- The Other Side
- Unknown Soldier
- The 'Nam
Manga
- Buddha
- 20th Century Boys
- Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
- Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
- Kare Kano: His & Her Circumstances