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Strangers in Paradise: reading guide
Ninety chapters over fourteen years. How to approach it, and why the number on the cover is not enough to identify a booklet.
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Seven to Eternity: reading and collecting guide
Remender's most beautiful series and the most demanding. Why his interruptions gave him an undeserved reputation for incompleteness.
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Rick Remender: Where to Start
Three entry points depending on what you are looking for, what connects its series, and the trap of successive editions which is expensive for busy buyers.
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Remender variants: bonus ranges from 0 to 150%
Asking prices as of August 28, 2026: Deadly Class #1 doubles as a variant, Black Science #1 does not move a cent. The number of variations explains everything.
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The hidden thread of Remender's work: the gift that enslaves
His characters don't regret having failed, they regret having succeeded. The same mechanism under incomparable genres.
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Remender's short series: the best deals
Tokyo Ghost, Low, Death or Glory, The Scumbag: four complete stories in one or two volumes, and a market anomaly on certified copies.
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First issues of Remender: raw and certified do not mean the same thing
Asking prices as of August 28, 2026: the classification is reversed between raw and certified copies, and the multiple varies from 5.3 to 11.5 times depending on the titles.
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Rick Remender: the complete reading order
No obligatory continuity, but good and bad entry points. A journey in five stages, and the four order errors that lead to giving up.
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Rick Remender at the big publisher: what's worth the detour
His mutant series is the peak of his period of command. What he gained, and why the numbering traps buyers.
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Author series: why they are easier to collect
No reminder, no double numbering, no mandatory crossing. The title and number are enough — which is never guaranteed elsewhere.
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Remender in French: two markets that do not communicate
A translated volume is not valued like an original booklet. The trap of cutting, and the mixed strategy which costs the least.
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Remender designers: what really makes the price
28 certified copies on one title, 3 on another. Same screenwriter, same editor: only the artist explains the difference.
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