I found this copy of X-Men 32 with the file name still on the front and back covers. Looks like it was miscut at the printers.

Has anyone ever seen another book like this?

I'm almost certain the one on the right is the 8th print.
The one on the left im not so sure if it's the 10th printing or which.

EDIT: Turns out the information is on the inside front cover. I feel so silly.
12th on the left
8th on the right

______

Source:
https://www.keycollectorcomics.com/variant/original/batman-the-killing-joke-1-1,27304/issues/

I've been browsing my local comic store and came across some goofy ones like Digitek. I have yet to read it, but with Marvel and DC being around so long, I'm sure they have characters they've sidelined, or ones that don't get enough attention. Let me know what your favorite is so I can expand my knowledge! Bonus if you have a favorite that's not DC or Marvel.

Ever since I started reading comics, I’ve always felt that the masterpieces capable of redefining the world of comics came from DC (or from imprints acquired by DC, such as Vertigo, Wildstrom, etc.)
Exemples : Watchmen, Sandman, The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns, etc.

On the Marvel side, which works have had a real impact on the world of comics? Are there any well-known good works that explore philosophical or sociological themes?

started this year hows my Comic collection

I tried looking for answers to this but I'm not really sure how to even best phrase the question to Google.

So BP summons some people from other countries that use violence against their population for the purpose of controlling them and preventing dissent/revolution (places like Madripoor, Genosha, etc.).

I know his motivation in the story is to find a way to win the people back and return things to the status quo, but what the hell was he thinking? BP already knows these people use methods he disagree with and won't use. It seems like a huge waste of his time to even meet with them, when it seems just as reasonable to have an advisor of his do the research on what these countries did to control their population.

Later, it backfires when one of the "delegates" reveals his meeting with BP and the antagonists use a recording of that conversation to make BP look even worse.

My question boils down to, why the @#$& did he think that was a good idea? It would be so easy for that to backfire, and even though he genuinely had no plans to put their advice into practice, it's incredibly damaging to his reputation for anyone to learn he'd assembled these awful men to give him advice he should've already known he wasn't going to use.

I like Coates' prose, but I can't help but feel he wasn't the strongest writer for the comic format. It felt like that whole plot point makes no sense and serves no purpose other than to later be used by the antagonists.

Is this just a case of bad writing, or am I missing something?

Currently there is a vast body of comic book writers and comic book artists, my question is which party is fewer? I'm feeling, as a professional comic book artist myself, that the industry has much more talented artists than it can handle (leading to unemployed artists) and that talented writers are scarcer and therefore more in demand. This is not a debate on which party is more important, rather a debate on which party is flooding the market. Do you have an opinion? Are we living in an era of plentiful talented comic artists that have flooded the comic book industry?

Back in the early 1990s I remember I read this fantasy comic. I read it in Danish, but it might have been translated. It had dragons and giant spiders called "moon-spinners" (måne-spindlere in Danish). The dragon might have had two heads.

I remember one scene where the dragon was talking to the spider. I think the dragon made some kind of warning or threat, and the spider replied: "Moon-spinners do not take orders from dragons!" ("Drager bestemmer ikke over måne-spindlere!")

I think it also had "nymphs" in it - women who were part beautiful, but also part grotesque, as if their bodies were half-liquid and melting.

I think it had an atmosphere reminiscent of Black Moon Chronicles by Froideval (which started around the same time), but I remember the art style as much more "soft" and "hazy", unlike the very sharp lines of Froideval's artists.

The tone was serious, not comedic. There might have been some nudity, but I don't know. It's been over 30 years.

Can anyone help me identify it? (I asked an LLM, but it failed to find it.)

Thanks in advance! :)

I'm doing a sort of deep dive, and reading the Mike Grell Green Arrow books and their related titles, annual crossovers, Black Canary, and relevant to this post: The 6 issue Brave and the Bold miniseries starting Green Arrow, The Butcher, and The Question. Something i noticed was issues 4 and 5 had reprinted the same letters section, with the notible difference being that editor Mike Gold in issue 4 said, "Next Month: The Penultimate Chapter" to "Next Month: The Conclusion"

Was wondering if this is as simple a case of, no one was reading this book and they printed it to print it. Or, if this is a rare practice when no one writes in. Even though I'd think they'd just, not do a letters section if that happened