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I stopped buying the softcover trades of Hickman's Fantastic Four/FF after the first six or seven volumes so that I could read the whole thing in the omnibus but I just checked Amazon and discovered that it doesn't collect everything and that a volume 2 is coming at some point. 
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Happy Hippo posted:I stopped buying the softcover trades of Hickman's Fantastic Four/FF after the first six or seven volumes so that I could read the whole thing in the omnibus but I just checked Amazon and discovered that it doesn't collect everything and that a volume 2 is coming at some point. redbackground fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Sep 18, 2013 |
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Sep 18, 2013 04:23
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Happy Hippo posted:I stopped buying the softcover trades of Hickman's Fantastic Four/FF after the first six or seven volumes so that I could read the whole thing in the omnibus but I just checked Amazon and discovered that it doesn't collect everything and that a volume 2 is coming at some point.
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Sep 18, 2013 09:25
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redbackground posted:It's a pretty long run, dude. (edit: 60 issues, I think? The gigantic loving ASM omnibus doesn't even have that many.) Yeah, I put that together after I noticed the "Volume 1" in the title. Still disappointing. irlZaphod posted:Yeah but it includes the Dark Reign: FF stuff, and it's printed in reading order too. I'm the same, I bought 5 or 6 of the HCs, but only read 1 of them because I saw the omnibus was on the way. And that's the selling point for me, I think. The very thought of reading one issue in a trade, then another issue in another trade, and so on, really rubs me the wrong way.
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Sep 18, 2013 14:32
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Happy Hippo posted:Yeah, I put that together after I noticed the "Volume 1" in the title. Still disappointing. What's disappointing, not getting a $200 1800 page Omnibus?
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Sep 18, 2013 19:56
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Glenn Danzig posted:What's disappointing, not getting a $200 1800 page Omnibus? Also one which spine would not be able to hold the thing.
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Sep 18, 2013 20:26
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bobkatt013 posted:Also one which spine would not be able to hold the thing. It's the Fantastic Four, obviously the book would be made out of unstable molecules.
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Sep 19, 2013 00:00
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Is anyone planning on buying the Iron Man "Epic Collection"? I'm really curious to see how these books turn out. People have been wanting colored Essentials books for a long time.
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Sep 20, 2013 15:44
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TheManWithNoName posted:Is anyone planning on buying the Iron Man "Epic Collection"? I'm really curious to see how these books turn out. People have been wanting colored Essentials books for a long time. They did have them sort of with the premire hardcovers.
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Sep 20, 2013 15:47
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Is DC less fastidious with their collected editions? I'm quite keen to read the Shazam series Jerry Ordway did in the late-1990s but it doesn't seem to have been collected beyond the original graphic novel. Same deal with the post-Zero Hour Legion Of Super-Heroes. I've also seen that there's going to be a big JSA hardcover collection, but from what I can see it's meant to be "JSA by Geoff Johns", so does that mean they're going to leave out the first story arc that James Robinson wrote? Seems a bit of a bad move to me, since that arc remains pretty important for the rest of the series; it'd be better suited for the deluxe hardcovers JLA is getting. I mean, sure you can get the TPB (assuming it's still in print) but surely it would make better sense to keep the whole thing together.
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Sep 20, 2013 19:30
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Metal Loaf posted:Is DC less fastidious with their collected editions? I'm quite keen to read the Shazam series Jerry Ordway did in the late-1990s but it doesn't seem to have been collected beyond the original graphic novel. Same deal with the post-Zero Hour Legion Of Super-Heroes. I used to say that DC's trade department is run by retarded apes, but that is mean to retarded apes. DC trade departments makes no sense and its as awful as Marvel's is good. You know how Marvel will release the trade a month or two after the arc ends? DC waits until the next storyline is over and the following one is halfway done. Also yes the JSA omnibus will not have the storyline that sets up most of the fist year storylines. ALSO FINISH SHADE YOU FUCKS!
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Sep 20, 2013 19:32
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It seems to me that most of the New 52 stuff has been collected so far, but I'm afraid I'm not really interested in any of that. Looking at the Wikipedia lists of collected editions for major books like Superman, Green Lantern and the Flash, there's a good bit of stuff (especially in the last ten years) but before that there's a lot of pretty big gaps.
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Sep 20, 2013 19:45
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Metal Loaf posted:It seems to me that most of the New 52 stuff has been collected so far, but I'm afraid I'm not really interested in any of that. Take for example Wonder Woman since its awesome. They just released the third collection. However, and entire arc has already happened so in order to catch up you have to find all those back issues. In the case of Marvel you can easily find the trade within a couple of months of the arc ending. As for the pre 52 stuff a bunch of the good stuck is out of print so have fun finding it.
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Sep 20, 2013 19:47
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You'd think with how much the guys in charge at DC like their Silver Age there'd be more of that out. It must be a sinister scheme from editorial to trick people into thinking there was no DC before the New 52. 
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Sep 20, 2013 19:54
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Metal Loaf posted:You'd think with how much the guys in charge at DC like their Silver Age there'd be more of that out. No it is just there trade department really really sucks.
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Sep 20, 2013 19:56
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For the New 52 they only release one trade or hardcover a year for a series. Unless they change that they will continue to fall farther and farther behind until you have years between when stuff comes out and when it's collected.
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Sep 20, 2013 19:57
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bobkatt013 posted:No it is just there trade department really really sucks. Well, surely the company must employ somebody whose job it is to worry over all the money they might be losing out on.
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Sep 20, 2013 20:04
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They make up for it by publishing things like the New 52 Omnibus. First issue of 52 different, unconnected series.
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Sep 20, 2013 20:12
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Metal Loaf posted:Well, surely the company must employ somebody whose job it is to worry over all the money they might be losing out on. This is DC comics we are talking about
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Sep 20, 2013 20:15
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StumblyWumbly posted:They make up for it by publishing things like the New 52 Omnibus. First issue of 52 different, unconnected series. Now, to be fair, Marvel did that as well with the Marvel NOW! Omnibus. Actually, to be even fairer, I appreciate that things go out of print and there just isn't a demand for new releases (I'd be dead keen on having a look at the New Mutants Classic books but the first one's run out and goes for silly prices now), but at least Marvel seems to do a better job of getting stuff collected to go out of print. If I could go back to my earlier post for a moment: Metal Loaf posted:I've also seen that there's going to be a big JSA hardcover collection, but from what I can see it's meant to be "JSA by Geoff Johns", so does that mean they're going to leave out the first story arc that James Robinson wrote? Seems a bit of a bad move to me, since that arc remains pretty important for the rest of the series; it'd be better suited for the deluxe hardcovers JLA is getting. I mean, sure you can get the TPB (assuming it's still in print) but surely it would make better sense to keep the whole thing together. I've just had a look at the issues included in the JLA deluxe editions; do they only include the issues written by Grant Morrison? That's a bit rubbish, because I quite liked the Waid stories in between. Maybe they'll be collected retroactively (ie. in Vol. 5, which will have to start with "Tower Of Babel"). I'm looking at the Chris Claremont/Jim Lee omnibus on my shelf and, even though his name isn't on the front cover, there's a lot of Marc Silvestri in the book, but it's included anyway. I can understand dropping fill-in issues (I'd say a three to five issue story arc goes beyond being a fill-in and becomes a mini-run in its own right sandwiched between the larger one), but yikes. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Sep 21, 2013 |
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Sep 20, 2013 20:55
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Marvel at least has a significant portion of their back catalog available in digital form, both as single issues and in the Digital Comics Universe. (Still laughing that Marvel named their digital comics initiative DCU.)
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Sep 21, 2013 22:05
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TheManWithNoName posted:Is anyone planning on buying the Iron Man "Epic Collection"? I'm really curious to see how these books turn out. People have been wanting colored Essentials books for a long time. Answering my own question, I took a glance at a copy at the store today. It really is just a colored Essential book. 20+ issues on semi-glossy paper. No numbers on the spine either, but it does say Volume 10 of the Iron Man series on the back of the book, which is a nice touch for the spergs. I don't really care for Iron Man that much but I can see myself getting Spider-Man or F4 collections down the road. I guess the problem I have with this line is that much of what they are releasing first has never been reprinted for a reason.
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Sep 25, 2013 03:23
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Arriving in today's post: Hurrah! BUT!  SO... 
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Sep 25, 2013 15:59
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I just got my copy of the Fantagraphics Usagi Yojimbo box set and drat it is a nice book. I wish Darkhorse would put library editions of Usagi out. Digest sized TPBs don't do comics justice. Even if they put out something like the BPRD hardcovers... Is Usagi just not that big of a seller?
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sporklift posted:I just got my copy of the Fantagraphics Usagi Yojimbo box set and drat it is a nice book. I wish Darkhorse would put library editions of Usagi out. Digest sized TPBs don't do comics justice. Even if they put out something like the BPRD hardcovers... Is Usagi just not that big of a seller? I'm pretty sure there was a two volume hardcover set a few years ago. Or is that what you're referring to?
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Sep 26, 2013 03:10
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TheManWithNoName posted:I'm pretty sure there was a two volume hardcover set a few years ago. Or is that what you're referring to? Yeah. It collected the Fantagraphics run. There are about 20 more Dark Horse trades after that need to be made bigger and better. Two or three per hardcover with all of the covers.
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Sep 26, 2013 05:56
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Speaking of Dark Horse trades, are their Aliens omniboo worth a drat? They're super cheap and I know at least some of those comics kick insane rear end but I've seen some worrying reviews saying the pages fall out a lot.
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Sep 26, 2013 07:12
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We stopped ordering the DH digets omnibus books completely because half the time they show up with chunks of pages falling out. They're a terrible product. IDW releases an identical format with no quality issues. DH is slowly becoming the worst at making trades.
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Sep 26, 2013 07:15
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The Hickman FF Omnibus is out and it's super slim.
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Oct 2, 2013 17:18
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Rhyno posted:The Hickman FF Omnibus is out and it's super slim.
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Oct 2, 2013 18:17
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That is nice. I can't wait for Amazon to get me mine. In two weeks. Hopefully I'll have a paycheck again by then!
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Oct 2, 2013 18:20
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Rhyno posted:pix How nice is the new Steranko Nick Fury collection? Rhyno posted:Sorry that first pic is fuzzy, didn't notice it until I put it on imgur. redbackground fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Oct 2, 2013 |
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Oct 2, 2013 18:47
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Sorry that first pic is fuzzy, didn't notice it until I put it on imgur.
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Oct 2, 2013 18:49
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Do you say it's slim because of low paper weight or thin covers, or just compared to things like Simonson's Thor?
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Mister Chompers posted:Do you say it's slim because of low paper weight or thin covers, or just compared to things like Simonson's Thor? The last few Omni's I've bought have been huge so yeah, this is tiny in comparison.
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Compared to USM, how readable is it? Do you still need your pedestal to read it or could you conceivably actually hold it up like a normal book? I mean, poo poo, I'm buying that bad boy regardless, I just wanna know if I can take it camping without killing myself.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:40
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LordPants posted:Compared to USM, how readable is it? Do you still need your pedestal to read it or could you conceivably actually hold it up like a normal book? Very readable. I'll do a side-by-side when I get home.
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Rhyno posted:We stopped ordering the DH digets omnibus books completely because half the time they show up with chunks of pages falling out. They're a terrible product. IDW releases an identical format with no quality issues. DH is slowly becoming the worst at making trades. This surprises me because the Hellboy stuff is done really well.
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I recently got my copy of the UXM Vol. 1 omnibus reprint in the post; it looks like it's roughly the same size as that, judging from the picture (maybe a little bigger).
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