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The Richard Spencer Show: Twilight of the Gods with Mark Brahmin and Steven McNallen
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Hitler and Himmler in Weimar, 1938. Hitler’s valet, Karl Wilhelm Krause is carrying the Fuehrer’s coat.
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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross — The Forever Rain
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2018 In Review
2018 has been a year of recovery for the store. Sales grew 14% as compared to 2017, which had been down %17 as compared to 2016. Not a resounding recovery, but enough of a recovery, combined with our Patreon, to keep the store open. The recovery has been primarily in the core categories of graphic novels and comics. Despite stocking more games and statues, other product categories besides comics and graphic novels actually declined slightly in 2018.
And while most of the year sales grew, sales fell in the Fall and in November sales were terrible due the smoke and poor air quality we had. Then in December sales were “ok”, but not great compared to past Decembers.
When broken down by publisher, the recovery was pretty much across the board, with only DC’s recovery slightly smaller.
Marvel continued to lead in periodical comic book sales. DC’s monthly comic book sales grew in 2018. While Image Comics recovered the least. Image Comics just hasn’t really had any “hits” of mention in several years now.
Image’s evergreen graphic novels like SAGA, PAPER GIRLS and WICKED + DIVINE continue to dominate sales. Marvel collections actually did slightly better in 2018 thanks to Black Panther, Infinity Gauntlet and more indie style books like Ed Piskor’s GRAND DESIGN and Tom King’s VISION. While DC collection sales stayed relatively flat despite strong showings by BATMAN WHITE KNIGHT and METAL.
Here’s our top 100 Best Selling Graphic Novels. Just to show how dominate Image is in graphic novel sales her, I highlighted all the non-Image titles. SAGA and PAPER GIRLS cotinine to lead sales, but I wonder how they will do in 2019 with no new single issues of SAGA being published and PAPER GIRLS wrapping up. In addition, many other top-selling Image titles are planing on ending in 2019, like WICKED + DIVINE, EAST OF WEST, BLACK SCIENCE and LOW. It’s not yet clear what series could fill that potential gaps.
Full Title - Publisher
- Saga Vol 8 - Image Comics
- Saga Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Paper Girls Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Wicked & Divine Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Saga Vol 9 - Image Comics
- Monstress Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Saga Vol 7 - Image Comics
- Paper Girls Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Paper Girls Vol 3 - Image Comics
- Paper Girls Vol 4 - Image Comics
- Seven To Eternity Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Saga Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Black Panther Book 1 - Marvel Comics
- Monstress Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Deadly Class Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Saga Vol 3 - Image Comics
- Saga Vol 6 - Image Comics
- Saga Vol 4 - Image Comics
- Head Lopper Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Sex Criminals Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Wicked & Divine Vol 6 - Image Comics
- Snotgirl Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Saga Vol 5 - Image Comics
- East of West Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Woman World - Fantagraphics
- Head Lopper Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Low Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Tokyo Ghost Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Calexit Vol 1 - Blackmask
- Monstress Vol 3 - Image Comics
- Redlands Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Catboy - Silver Sprocket
- Descender Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Descender Vol 5 - Image Comics
- Seven To Eternity Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Wytches Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Batman White Knight - DC Comics
- Bitch Planet Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Watchmen - DC Comics
- Deadly Class Vol 6 - Image Comics
- East of West Vol 7 - Image Comics
- Kill Or Be Killed Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Bitch Planet Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Black Science Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Infinity Gauntlet - Marvel Comics
- Kill Or Be Killed Vol 3 - Image Comics
- Wicked & Divine Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Black Monday Murders Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Snotgirl Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Lazarus Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Prince & Dressmaker - First Second
- Adventure Zone Vol 1 - First Second
- Kill Or Be Killed Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Black Monday Murders Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Deadly Class Vol 2 - Image Comics
- East of West Vol 8 - Image Comics
- Moonshine Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Saga Deluxe Edition Hardcover Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Wicked & Divine Vol 3 - Image Comics
- My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol 1 - Fantagraphics
- Space Riders Vol 1 - Blackmask
- Deadly Class Vol 7 - Image Comics
- East of West Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Wicked & Divine Vol 5 - Image Comics
- 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank - Blackmask
- East of West Vol 3 - Image Comics
- My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness - Seven Seas
- Paper Girls Vol 5 - Image Comics
- Sex Criminals Vol 4 - Image Comics
- Incal Hardcover - Humanoids
- X-Men Grand Design - Marvel Comics
- Batman Vol 4 (Rebirth) - DC Comics
- My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies Hardcover - Image Comics
- Wicked & Divine Vol 7 - Image Comics
- Best We Could Do Illustrated Memoir Soft Cover - Image Comics
- Black Hammer Vol 2 - Dark Horse Comics
- Descender Vol 4 - Image Comics
- Black Hammer Vol 1 - Dark Horse Comics
- Deadly Class Vol 3 - Image Comics
- Deadly Class Vol 5 - Image Comics
- Low Vol 4 - Image Comics
- Saga Deluxe Edition Hardcover Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Legend of Korra Vol 2 - Dark Horse Comics
- Sabrina Chilling Adventures Vol 1 - Archie Comics
- Southern Bastards Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Vision Hardcover - Marvel Comics
- Wicked & Divine Vol 4 - Image Comics
- Black Panther Book 3 Nation Under Our Feet - Marvel Comics
- Black Science Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Your Black Friend And Other Strangers Hardcover - Silver Sprocket
- Best We Could Do Illustrated Memoir - Abrams ComicArts
- Black Panther Book 2 Nation Under Our Feet - Marvel Comics
- Dark Nights Metal Deluxe Edition Hardcover - DC Comics
- Killing & Dying by Tomine- Drawn & Quarterly
- Rumble Vol 1- Image Comics
- Black Panther Book 4 Avengers of New World - Marvel Comics
- Low Vol 2 - Image Comics
- Extremity Vol 1 - Image Comics
- Hilo Vol 4 Waking The Monsters - Random House
- On A Sunbeam - First Second
In all I’m guardedly optimistic for 2019. I think the upcoming Deadly Class TV show has a lot of potential to expose how great the original comic book series is to a larger audience. DC’s new kid’s imprints INK and ZOOM also have the potential to build new readers for their characters.
But at the same time there are larger industry issues that are worrisome like the focus on selling more variant covers rather then attracting more readers. But more leaders in the comic book retailing community seem to be grasping the problems better and that could spark change. But at the same time the corporate pressures could very well threaten the long-term viability of comic book publishing.
(Source: missioncomics)
- Saga Vol 8 - Image Comics
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Takbir - Wiki
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ok but I saved this dying hummingbird today with sugar water and some tlc at work today. His name is Rufus bc I think that’s the type of humming bird he is. I hope he migrates safely and lives a happy life. 💕
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Official beat for I get the bag by Migos and Gucci Mane
Produced by Metro Boomin
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Sandra Bullock did not go undercover for the FBI at a beauty pageant for y’all to be calling her “the lady from bird box”
That woman has been in countless iconic movies for almost 30 years now, y’all better put some RESPECT TO HER NAME
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Title of Nobility Clause - Wikipedia
The Title of Nobility Clause is a provision in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution,[1] that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts members of the government from receiving gifts, emoluments, offices or titles from foreign states and monarchies without the consent of the United States Congress. Also known as the Emoluments Clause, it was designed to shield the republican character of the United States against so-called “corrupting foreign influences.” This shield is reinforced by the corresponding prohibition on state titles of nobility in Article I, Section 10, and more generally by the Republican Guarantee Clause in Article IV, Section 4.[2]
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No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.[3]
Titles of nobility
The issue of titles was of serious importance to the American Revolutionaries and the Framers of the Constitution. Some felt that titles of nobility had no place in an equal and just society because they clouded people’s judgment. Thomas Paine, in a criticism on nobility in general, wrote:
Dignities and high sounding names have different effects on different beholders. The lustre of the Star and the title of My Lord, over-awe the superstitious vulgar, and forbid them to inquire into the character of the possessor: Nay more, they are, as it were, bewitched to admire in the great, the vices they would honestly condemn in themselves. This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.[8]
He felt that titles blinded people from seeing the true character of a person by providing titled individuals a lustre. Many Americans connected titles with the corruption that they had experienced from Great Britain,[9] while others, like Benjamin Franklin, did not have as negative a view of titles. He felt that if a title is ascending, that is, it is achieved through hard work during a person’s lifetime, it is good because it encourages the title holder’s posterity to aspire to achieve the same or greater title; however, Franklin commented, that if a title is descending, that is, it is passed down from the title holder to his posterity, then it is:
groundless and absurd, but often hurtful to that Posterity, since it is apt to make them proud, disdaining to be employ’d in useful Arts, and thence falling into Poverty, and all the Meannesses, Servility, and Wretchedness attending it; which is the present case with much of what is called the Noblesse in Europe.[10]
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A true warrior queen has risen
C h o s e n
I want her to be in charge of everything, just like the Lady intended.
to clarify, these are two different young girls pulling two different swords from two different lakes, about a year apart. strange women in ponds will continue to distribute swords
Listen maybe Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is a good basis for a system of government.
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