 Hi everyone, this is Chichou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book haul video And this is a small comic book haul, nine comics and they're related to the same sort of event okay, and I've had these comic books on my radar for quite some time and I've been meaning to get my hands on them and basically I sort of Decided to go low budget and wasn't able to grab them and I was trying to low bid some of the auctions that were in play and it was always getting outbid by multiple people and some of the comics Some of the buys that I was looking at the sellers were going through eBay's shipping program And the shipping was just going to be insane and as you know if you've been watching some of the other comic book hauls I've decided not to buy from any sellers that are going through eBay's global shipping program because It's horrendous. The comics don't arrive safe. They're not packaged properly. It's extra cost There's multiple people handling and the seller sends it to eBay's shipping center in Kentucky or Tennessee and they just throw everything in a box and they send it to you so it cost too much Ghosts through duties. The comics don't come safely So I've decided not to buy from any Sellers that go through eBay shipping program. So if you're an eBay seller in the United States, please stop Using eBay's global shipping program. You're losing a lot of actually Bitters from the international market I just wanted to put that out there because it took me a while to get my hands on these comics Because these comics were from a Canadian seller. So I had to do the searches and Finally a Canadian seller were selling these and I put it on my watch list And this is one thing that happens with eBay. You can put things on your watch list, right? and I've seen this happen more and more when the For buy it now basically specifically so you can take comic books sets of comic books or individual comic books that You want to get your hands on and just put them on your watch list and as the time Clicks down to when the auction is going to end What happens with some sellers? They give you a discount offer, okay? Now these nine comic books were listed as buy it now for $40 $39.99 okay, and You know, I was thinking about pulling the trigger not pulling the trigger pulling the trigger not pulling the trigger and It was I think it came down to the last day that the auction was going to end or the last few hours That the auction was going to end and all of a sudden I started getting and I was watching a few other Buy it now auctions from the seller all of a sudden I started getting emails coming in that the buyer has offered you a discount and Instead of $39.99 They offered a discount of to buy it now for $29.99 Including shipping so shipping was included in this was free and just to let you know the shipping for this was like 14 Something like $15 so basically the seller ended up Charging me $15 for the comic books and he paid $15 with tracking with the comic books Right. I wasn't even expecting the comics to be Sent to me sent to me through tracking But he ended up doing that right so it was a great deal. Okay now For that intro, I'm not done with the intro by the way Let me tell you why I decided to pull the trigger on these ones because I am flying on low budget. I usually not Really buying anything unless I can get it for ridiculously low price, right? And this was a fair value. It was a good price But the reason I ended up pulling the trigger on this was because of a comment that Someone that's been following our comic books specifically videos that we've been loading on YouTube and bit shoot but YouTube for a number of years, right? He put out the following comment on The previous comic book video that we put out which was basically talking about I believe if we did some a couple of comic book hauls as well as Getting the amazing spider-man 361 gifted to us CGC grade gifted to us from a buyer that bought the books on eBay as well as us doing a review of Monstrous and Blackhammer and an in-depth review of Monk, right? And this is the comment that he posted on That video or one of those videos because I cut up the Monk one and put that up separately on the amazing Spider-man 361, right? so FRF Just so you know who this is and if you're watching this FRF, thank you very much for the reminder for me to get these books This was his comment Great to see you so happy Chicho for me all comics all comics roads lead to Grant Morrison Therefore when you showed your 3d comic, I immediately had to think of Superman beyond 3d Morrison and Doug Manki's two-part final cry crisis tie-in from 2008 Then the reason he's mentioning the Superman 3d because we did a comic book haul. We had the 1952 I believe Superman 3d that we Got at an amazing price, right? And then he continues. It's very nice Of course, I'm also campaigning for you to get Morrison and quietly's Pax America from 2014 this is probably my favorite comic of the decade Okay, I always joke that I was literally shivering with excitement when I first read it Okay, so he added a couple more things, but that's basically the Comment that got me pulling the trigger on this baby. And as you can guess, this is the Pax America comic in there as well as the all nine issues of the Malta multi-city sort of the series that came out from 2014-2015 and for some reason I didn't pick these out when they were coming on the shelf But very happy to have these right and my comments of my reply to FRF was the following ha ha definitely a fun time and an amazing gift There's a pun in there if you saw the amazing spider-man 361 Cgc unboxing and Brother all comic roads a road roads Leading to Grant Morrison is a great place to be and I agree with FRF if I was going to pick one writer that Could only read for the next year. Let's say it would be Grant Morrison. He is without a doubt one of my top I'll put five top five comic book writers. Okay, if I had the choice And I'll continue if I had to choose just one writer Morrison would be it and so I'm with you on this one I remember you mentioning Pax America before and I tried to get my hands on it on a set But kept on losing out on the eBay auctions. I believe it's just one issue with a maxi 12 issue follow-up Follow-up am I correct on this? Think it might be time for me to try it again, right and I was wrong in the 12 issue It's a nine issue set. He mentions FRF followed up with the With another comment. I'm going to read this comment to you as well. Okay so FRF saying Pax America was a Walls was part of multi multi Multiversity which equals two books play plus eight issues equals ten issues in total I believe it's supposed to be nine issues if it is supposed to be ten issues If you guys are watching this, let me know what the tenth issue is, okay, and then He continues, but I think PA works quite well as a standalone Here's a nice nice quote, and I believe these quotes are for Morrison, right? quote Morrison while an article referring to Pax America quote Morrison describes Pax America as a citizen cane and Here quote again. I think I just read the best comic comic of the year I think a book that functions as both an and homage and a challenge to Watchman honoring his themes and Formalist approach while making a very different argument about storytelling and the nature of heroism It grapples no engages with the spandex classic Using it as a starting point from which to do its own thing. Okay That's our intro to this haul and You know, I got a little write-up here of what the Multiversity is is a limited series of interrelated one-shots set in the DC multiverse in the new 52 a Collection of Universes seen in publications by DC Comics the one shots in this series were written by Grant Morrison Each with a different artist the Multiversity began in August 2014 and ran until April 2015 There's a little bit more write-up here. It's a complicated thing. I didn't do too much Reading of the wiki page and or any other articles I came across on this because I want this to be I don't want spoilers given to me, right? So how about with that intro out of the way like a 10-minute intro out of the way? Let's take a look at this. Now. I got this shipping was free ended up picking enough for $30 Canadian which ends up being like $22 $23 US including shipping now the shipping It's not coming the best of packaged Content as you can see here There's nothing protecting the sides of the comic. It's not bubble Packaging right and I'm not going to show you the front because all the names and addresses on there But I'm glad the person put fragile handle with care. Okay, and he had The society's using whatever you can get his hands on this is private confidential, right? So it makes it look important. I guess But let's crack this open and I'm you know, he graded these things at Very fine plus near mint minus, which is basically a reading copy from me, right? and I just wanted these to read because what FRF said his Most favorite comic book of the decade now the decade's almost over. We got like right now is December End of December mid December we're in right now. So the decade's almost over. He made this comment a couple of weeks ago So according to FRF his favorite comic book of the decade is in here, right? That's a huge saying because there have been some amazing amazing amazing comic books put out This decade really this is this has been the 2010s have been one of the most amazing decades if you're into reading comic books and collecting comic books ever So modern comics, I mean It didn't really there's no extra cardboard in this or anything So he just took the comics. He's got them individually backed and boarded The seller and he said he was going to do that but There's no extra protection in this, right now. I would never send out comic books like this Right, but we got out at a great price It was a seller in Alberta, I believe So let me pull this out Nice. Oh, maybe he does have an extra Board here. Oh, yeah, he does have an extra board here covering the cover of this thing So let's craft this open. It's like tapes are already falling apart Hilarious Some people in their shipping styles. I mean, look at this thing. It just comes off, right? So he did put a couple of extra boards on either side, right? So let's take a look at this. This is one Two Did he double? Oh, he doubled them. He doubled double them on both sides, right? So there should be nine comic books here. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. Okay, let's take a look at this They're all number number one And if you go to a wiki page just sort of lists them as which order we're supposed to read them in I haven't looked into the order yet, but when I'm reading these I'm gonna Look at that list and make sure I'm reading them accordingly, right? I'm not sure how important it is to do that, but I Think it might be important to do that So let's take a look at this thing. This one is the multiverse multi I got to pronounce this correctly multi-verse city the multi-verse city. This is Morrison Reese Prado Rufino comic Neighborhood watch. Take a look at this and they look to be, you know Yeah, very Near mint minors near mint like these look okay to me. I haven't cracked them open yet. So this is one of them Here's the other one multi-versity society of superheroes Dr. Faith and the SOS sort an invasion from Nightmarish parallel planet. Oh, this sounds amazing. Look at this thing Right Fantastic, this looks Phenomenal here, let's bring it over so you can see the cover Right, and here's a little write-up for it Great. I like dr. Faith. I I really like dr. Faith I Read some of the older issues One of the I don't know volume two probably or volume one. I think it's volume one way maybe From the 90s, I don't know if volume two or volume one. It was really good I really liked it and I like the character and I like the magic aspect of things and look at this rabbit I don't have never seen this rabbit before take a look at this one. Look at this guy. Who's this guy? Rabbit superhero, the bunny rabbit. Nice This is the Pax America That is Grant Morrison and Frank quietly and Frank quietly has done some amazing work, right? He did we three and he did the oh God, he did a few other things a lot of things So this is the one that FRF was saying his favorite comic book of the decade. So I'm looking forward to reading this This is gonna be my Holiday reading comic books, right? Fantastic, right? Pax America Time is the school in which we learn time is the fire in which we burn. Oh Delmore Schwartz, that's a quote from Delmore Schwartz. Look at this Right here. That is cool And as you know, we love I love making videos and talking about time so The multi-versity guidebook Together for the first time the Batman of two worlds The house of heroes on the siege Reveal the secret maps of the multiverse. This is multiverse is referred to a lot in The DC universe. Here's this one. This is the guidebook Looking forward. I've seen the the map that they're showing here this guy here and there's another map here And there's multiple maps of the multiverse. I was never able to figure it out. Well, to a certain degree Yes, and no, but I didn't jump on the multiverse bandwagon right away And I haven't really yet. It's just became too complicated, right? like Marvel and DC their universes the The relaunches and all those parallel universes multiverses and one it's just became too much for me too complicated But very much looking forward to reading this especially this one favorite comic of the decade Hey, wow, wow, wow And just so you know the favorite as far as I'm concerned my favorite comic of the decade for the 2000s Would have to be from valiant comics and it's the book of death fall of Harbinger and I'll put that in the same category as fall of the book of death fall of Bloodshot as far as I'm concerned fall of Harbinger and fall of bloodshot were My two favorite comic books in the 2000s in the last decade. There's a lot I'll say in my top 10 or my top 20 maybe right But those are the first two that come to mind and we did a reading of book of death fall of Harbinger Sort of ASMR chill reading and the writer for that comic Fall of Harbinger right Joshua Dysart He saw the comic saw the reading that we did the video that we put up and he posted a comment saying Wow, he loved the reading and he said the way the reading was done because he mentioned that he he'd been doing yoga for a number of Years and the way we did the reading and just flipping the pages looking at the panel the way the story flowed in that reading really instantly kicked them into a Meditative meditative state that he tries to reach Through yoga right so that was a huge compliment. I sort of went fanboy on him. Oh my god Fantastic. Thank you for a comment. They I'm glad you liked it and all that jazz right so to me fall of Harbinger For the record It would have to be in follow bloodshot to my favorite comic books of the decade Let's take a look at this one Multiversity the just Superman Batman is The world's finest bro Era with shocking I'm not thatting little girl anymore. Oh my god Connell don't call me super boy. Awesome. This looks like tabloid style. Take a look at this one Fantastic, I hadn't looked at these in depth before I always go a little research And I say okay, I want to get these comics and I try to get my hands on them and then When I can get my hands on them and then I start looking into into them a little bit more in depth, right? That man's Superman bromance. Look at their smiles. Hey Is the world's finest romance over is it over? I don't think so. I don't think so And their mothers are both Martha, right? Look at this one nice Thunder world adventures Awesome and the movie for this was not bad. Well, I don't know. I don't think it was based on this but It shows that cool cool cool Look at this one. What's this? What's this? Multiversity masterman Impossible you must be cheating you bet. I'm cheating, but you won't know how until it's too late Overman versus uncle This looks dark. This looks seriously dark. Look at this Look at this This looks crazy dark Let me give you the full view on this thing Let's get this stupid type of world Gotta read this gotta read this Fun fun fun uncle Sam and what's this Superman's name? Overman Looks like an evil dude We'll find out. We'll find out look at this one Ultra comics only you can save the world if you value your lives. You must not read this comic Oh more this must be this is Morrison style just creating chaos right and humor Dark humor in there with Morrison black humor That looks great looks great Nice nice and what is this one? Justice incarnate Wow Reimagination of all the the Justice League you got the flash Awkward man, but it's awkward when you got Batman Superman Who's the one in the back? It's got to be Wonder Woman, but I don't know look at this one Go I'll show you so you see so this is a I'm assuming based on the different universes In places and this guy was selling these for six bucks a pop. I guess $5 $6 most adversity number two. Oh, that is number two. So this was number two. This is number one number one Number one issue number one So they all seem to be number one except the last one number wise So We'll find out. I'll have to find out which way the order of reading for these is so fantastic And this has been sitting on my here. I got a couple of days ago So I got to leave a feedback for the seller because he left the feedback When he knew the comics had arrived saying, thank you very much for the payment and stuff like this. I don't know I Put the seller on my watch list. I don't know if I'll be buying from him again because the Shipping was on the horrendous side Like if this was coming from anywhere other than Canada from Alberta, it would have been damaged up to yin-yang, right? Like just by fluke it arrived relatively safe There wasn't any holes in it and stuff But we'll see if I if he's got some stuff that I want to buy as a reader copy You know, I have on my watch list. I'll keep on watching some of the stuff that he's putting out and If I get some funds and I get an amazing deal and put things on my watch list and he offers offers a discount towards the end Maybe we'll pull the trigger. Okay I thought I'd share that with you guys because I know this is an important read and FRF has been Telling me to buy this for the last couple of years where it was on my radar. I was getting emails when new New sets were being put on eBay, but I wasn't able to win any of them the ones that I bid on, right? So I'm glad for the reminder. Thank you FRF for Getting this into my hands, right? Very much looking forward to it and I'll read it before the decades over so I Can make a decision if it's Harbinger a fall of Harbinger book of death fall of Harbinger and fall of bloodshot if they're going to be my favorite reads and they're both standalone single-issue comics that you can read just like packs America as well, right? So after reading packs America will make a decision which one's going to be our favorite comic book of the decade Okay, I thought you you guys would appreciate this comic call pretty small one, but pretty important books Tie into many things and Morrison writing them Very very very happy to have this in the collection and have an opportunity to read this Event, okay aside from that. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now