Where to buy the comics in the US or online?

Can anyone point me in the right direction of where to buy season 8 comics online in the US? I've never read/bought comics before so it's a little confusing!!

Amazon or TFAW are both decent. 🙂 Just be careful, with Amazon, that you're ordering the right comic and not paying an outrageous price for it.

I have subscriptions for both comics from TFAW (Things From Another World), and they've always delivered so far. The biggest problem is that I generally get one issue delinered about the time that the next one hits the stands. Back issues are usually available through Amazon.Com, and you can usually pick which cover you want from them.

If you want to get the comics the DAY they come out, go to yellowpages.com or somewhere and see if there's a comic book store in your area. They usually (unless they're buttheads like my local comic store) have them out on the Wednesday they're released.

naw im just starting so obviously i have some catch up to do!! you can pick the cover you want?! so confusing!!!

Almost every issue has a "main" cover and one (or more) "variant" cover(s). So, yeah; you can decide which cover you like best and get that one. Or you can get all of them. 🙂

Um...one more question, sorry for being so daft about the comic world..BUT...what's the difference btwn the individual comics and the graphic novels? So confused!!!!

The individual comics are tiny pieces of the story. The graphic novels, or Trade Paperbacks (TPB), have a whole arc in one book. Unless you're an avid collector, I'd suggest getting the TPBs of the ones you've missed at this point.

I agree - although if you purchase locally (i.e. walk to the comics store) you'll discover that there's really no price difference in the US between the TPBs and the individual issues.

Typically, trade paperbacks (or "trades" or TPBs) have a sturdier cover than regular issues and often can save you a couple of bucks overall, since they are a collection of issues. However, I just started on Season 8 as well and so I added up the issue dollars versus the TPB dollars and discovered there was only about a dollar difference. It may really make a difference for online ordering when it comes to shipping price, though.

Each TPB will also tell you which issues of Season 8 it has inside - usually about 5 issues collected in one TPB. Sometimes you have to look hard for the information; I believe it's on the inside front cover of these ones. And I'm sure there's someone on the board who can tell you which issue numbers are in the two TPBs that have been put out for Season 8, anyway.

p.s. with the variant cover thing, just be sure that you look for the number of the issue you need, and that should do fine. For example, take an issue 17 and a variant issue 17. They'll look totally different on the outside, but open them up and it's the exact same comic book inside. I'm caaa-razy about these Jo Chen covers, so I just stopped buying the regular covers altogether!

^ Good points. I wasn't thinking price when suggesting the TPBs, but convenience. 🙂