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New Comics! Yay!

I got some comics today, a few new ones that I missed on DCBS and some back issues I found at Half Price Books.

Some New Issues

• Dark Wolverine #75
• Dark Avengers * Uncanny X-men: Utopia
• Dead of Night: Werewolf by Night #2
• Blackest Night #1
• Superman: World of New Krypton #5

Some Back Issues

• The Uncanny X-Men #323
• The Uncanny X-Men #343
• The Uncanny X-Men #419
• The Uncanny X-Men #420
• The Uncanny X-Men #423
• The Uncanny X-Men #425
• The Uncanny X-Men #434
• The Uncanny X-Men #459
• The Uncanny X-Men #461
• The Uncanny X-Men #463
• The Uncanny X-Men #464
• The Uncanny X-Men #465
• Excalibur #78 (LOL Douglok!)
• Excalibur #79
• Excalibur #90
• Power Pack #1 (Better than Near Mint!)
• Power Pack #3
• Critters #6
• Critters #11
• Anne Rice’s The Queen of the Damned #1
• Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour #1

All the Uncanny X-Men were half cover price and the rest were in the quarter bin. Erin and I crawled through the two boxes they had and kept making jokes about how many Nomad comics were in them. Were we Nomad fans, we could’ve probably had a complete run. We’ve pledged that we’ll do a quarter bin run on all the Half Priced Books stores in Austin. Sounds like fun to me.

I really wanted more X-Men Vol. 2 issues. X-Men Vol.2 is now called X-Men: Legacy. It’s the continuation of the 1991 Jim Lee series. Basically at this point in the X-Men mythos there were more leading mutants in the Uncanny X-Men comic than they could fit into the ongoing stories. Then they took advantage of Jim Lee’s popularity and let him head the team on for a new title that would follow Cyclops’ team. It started at issue 1 (the 90s were big on first issues) and has gone through several name changes. At issue 114 it became New X-Men (don’t get me started), at 157 it went back to X-Men, and at 208 it became X-Men: Legacy. I have about half of the run so far. I can’t wait to get them all.