The Fed Ex van (a Mercedes Benz, by the way—company must be doing well!) brought me a box full of the latest issue of Rachel Rising. So now I can lay out all the issues to date and see two full color arcs. Numbers 1-6 are red and green, numbers 7-12 are red and yellow.
When I was a kid reading my way through a book series, my desire was to read the books in the order they were written. Many books frustrated me for years, trying to figure out the order they were written. Tin Tin, for example. Now of course, such answers can be found instantly—God bless Google—and I’m sure creator Herge would have been delighted for me to read in order of creation, but his publishers contended it was an unnecessary hurdle.
Maybe that’s why I like comics. A comic book is basically a numbered chapter. When I get enough chapters, I make a tpb. Look at a string of SiP or Echo tpbs and you’ll see they are numbered, too. You may hate the story, but at least you will never wonder which book to find and burn next.
As an extra touch, I added a color scheme to the covers to distinguish them from one another by tpb. Issues 13-18 will be tones of purple. I look at this and the confused little reader in me is satisfied. Herge is avenged.
they do look good. can’t wait to read it!
Hey, Terry!
Hi from Rio de Janeiro!!
When the next Rachel TP is due and why we can’t buy RR through Amazon yet?
Amazon has SIP, Echo but no Rachel!
See ya!
S.
The next Rachel tpb comes out next month in November. Don’t know about Amazon. I’ll check.
In Amazon US, RR Vol 1 is only sold through some sellers, not directly from Amazon like SIP and Echo, and it goes from $17.99 to $71.12 (!!!!!!!). Not that it does not deserve, but you are still selling it through SIP store.
In Amazon UK, £39.87 from some sellers.
And Amazon Canada – CDN$ 78.87 from sellers too.
It’s easier and faster for me buying through Amazon.
I have all your comics, since SIP vol 3 #1 (but I have the previous TP volumes); Echo, Paradise Too!, some Marvel comics, Calendar, poster, etc. But with RR I decided to try the TPBs, because it’s very hard for me here in Brazil to import your comics. I can’t afford one issue at a time (I’ll broke!!), and when SIP Vol 3 and Echo were released I could buy them through a comic book store from São Paulo (I’m from Rio). They lost some issues of Echo but SIP store provide them for me. And nowadays they do not work with imports anymore.
The downside of Amazon is that you can’t autograph my book as you did some times when I bought from SIP store. I hope you can fix this problem ASAP. I wanna read Rachel!!!
A big hug!
S.
I am so looking forward to Rachel Rising #12.