That's my old comic shop, The Laughing Ogre in Columbus, under Godzilla's foot, in one of the 80 or so, shop-specific variant covers IDW is making for the first issue of their new Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters book. In general, I loathe variant covers and think they are a terrible thing for the medium and industry, but this is actually pretty cool, and specificity of the particular variants seems like it would encourage a purchase, rather than send anyone scrambling to collect them all for speculative purposes (I would hope, anyway; it would take a ton of work, time and money to track down 80 covers from shops all over the continent, wouldn't it?). My new store, Books Galore in Erie, seems to have been spared.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Neat.
That's my old comic shop, The Laughing Ogre in Columbus, under Godzilla's foot, in one of the 80 or so, shop-specific variant covers IDW is making for the first issue of their new Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters book. In general, I loathe variant covers and think they are a terrible thing for the medium and industry, but this is actually pretty cool, and specificity of the particular variants seems like it would encourage a purchase, rather than send anyone scrambling to collect them all for speculative purposes (I would hope, anyway; it would take a ton of work, time and money to track down 80 covers from shops all over the continent, wouldn't it?). My new store, Books Galore in Erie, seems to have been spared.
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