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Pull List: Survivor Mode! – Reading Comics Released on 8 July 2026

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You’ve seen The Pull List before. But, can I live through The Pull List: Survivor Mode?

Here’s the pitch: Instead of just reading comics and encountering both good and bad ones along the way, what if Pull List reading was more like a video game – complete with health scores, damage, and special challenges?

Could you put your pull in the right order to read only the VERY BEST books for as long as possible? What if you had to read a book from a different publisher every time? What if you had to start with your LEAST FAVORITE book on your pull list? Or what if you had to read a random #1 issue?

Will I survive the experience? Tune in to find out!

Marvel Omnibus Reprint: Daredevil by Charles Soule

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Daredevil by Charles Soule Omnibus 2027 EditionNear Mint Condition announced a Marvel omnibus reprint for March 2027, and it is the number one most-demanded reprint by fans (according to the 2026 NMC Reprint Poll!): Marvel Omnibus Reprint: Daredevil by Charles Soule!

It’s wild to me that Marvel didn’t get a reprint of this omnibus out in 2026, since Daredevil: Born Again focused on elements of Soule’s run in both 2025 and 2026. Reprinting the book in 2025 might’ve been too much of an early spoiler, but in 2026 fans were clamoring to pick up this material after watching the first season.

Instead, we got a trio of digest-size trade paperbacks. And, honestly? That’s a great read on where the market is right now. Collected editions are selling well right now when they are affordable and comprehensive, and omnis are only one of those two things.

However, as DC has proven repeatedly in the past year, when material is hotly demanded you can release it across multiple formats at the same time! And, nothing at Marvel is more hotly demanded than Daredevil by Charles Soule, which topped the NMC poll in both 2025 and 2026.

This is huge omnibus (1200+ pages!) of a run that I thoroughly adore and heartily recommend. Charles Soule is a real life lawyer, so he brings an amount of legal grounding to Matt Murdock that we’ve never seen before. Soule is also a big idea guy. He invents an iconic new villain in Muse, gives Daredevil a sidekick in a way that really works, and pushes Kingpin and other existing cast members in all new directions.

Plus, the art on the run is great from front to back – including work from Ron Garney and Phil Noto, two of my all-time favs. [Read more…] about Marvel Omnibus Reprint: Daredevil by Charles Soule

Marvel Omnibus Announcement: Star Wars Legends: Legacy Omnibus Vol. 2

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Near Mint Condition announced a Marvel omnibus for April 2027 that brings us within just three volumes away from completing a massive line of books that stretch from 1977 to 2014: Star Wars Legends: Legacy Omnibus Vol. 2!

Star Wars Legacy is effectively a “100 Years Later” period of potential future canon of the old Star Wars Universe that existed prior to the Sequel Trilogy and the start of Marvel’s new Star Wars comics continuity in 2015.

Star Wars Legends: Legacy Omnibus Vol. 2 will collect the remainder of Star Wars: Legacy (2006), adding the Star Wars: Legacy – War (2010) mini-series and the subsequent Star Wars: Legacy (2013) ongoing to wrap up the collection of this title.

With the collection of this remaining Star Wars Legacy material, we’re left waiting for just three more omnibuses in the Star Wars Legends line to complete its nearly 40 years of comics coverage: [Read more…] about Marvel Omnibus Announcement: Star Wars Legends: Legacy Omnibus Vol. 2

The FOMO Show – Top 50 Comic Book Collected Editions I Want to Buy (or already missed out on)

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Do you get comic book FOMO – “fear of missing out”? Do you stare at books as their stock slowly dwindles, worrying that if you don’t buy them now you may never have them? What if you leave a collected edition on your wishlist for so long that it turns into the next white whale and costs you 100s of dollars to spear?

Welcome to my life. In over 15 years of buying collected editions, I’ve left many books on my wishlist a week too long. I’ve even had books go out of stock WHILE I WAS CHECKING OUT!

And, while some of you might not have a hard time snagging a recently out of print trade paperback in the states or Europe, here in New Zealand it means I not only have to find a copy – I usually have to pay an omnibus-sized amount of shipping to get it to NZ.

If the book I missed was an omnibus? I’m looking at a over the cover price just in shipping, before we even get to the price of the book!

That all means that FOMO (and its partner, ROMO – “regret of missing out”) is a very serious and expensive fear for me here in NZ!

On this stream I’m going to cover my Top 50 FOMO books. These aren’t necessarily my “MOST WANTED.” They’re books I fear missing out on or regret missing out on. Some of them are still around. Some of them just can’t be shipped to NZ. And, some of them are so out-of-print that we can go years between one of them popping up on eBay.

Are there any I should empty my bank account chasing after RIGHT NOW? I’ll let you be the judge of that.