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Random Stranger posted:That does seem a bit redundant with the Absolutes but I'm not going to shed tears on it taking a slot in the printing schedule. Don't forget the annotated Sandman too. I'm mostly pissed because I've had to tell multiple customers at the shop that we can't order them Lucifer paperbacks because they are out of print, oh, and good luck finding them online, because if they were even anywhere remotely affordable online, we'd have ordered some and had them in stock. I know Sandman is a cash cow, but the fact that they let its 75-issue multiple-Eisner nominated spinoff go out of print while producing poo poo like this is frustrating.
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Glenn Danzig posted:New Lucifer TPBs are coming. Really? This isn't like the hardcovers that were mentioned and never heard of again?
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Glenn Danzig posted:http://www.amazon.ca/Lucifer-Book-One-Mike-Carey/dp/1401240267/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355165125&sr=1-18 That's something at least. Looks like oversized paperbacks instead of hardcovers, but at least it will be in print again.
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:Is it really that good of a series? A lot of Mike Carey's work at Marvel was hit or miss for me. His Marvel work is pretty much nothing like his Vertigo work. I generally enjoy about half of his Marvel stuff (namely UFF and X-men: Supernovas), but his Vertigo is all aces for me. Hellblazer, Lucifer, Crossing Midnight, and The Unwritten. Also, part of the reason I love this forum is that there are at least a few people who, like me, enjoyed Lucifer more than Sandman. bairfanx fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Dec 11, 2012 |
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redbackground posted:No, that's my point: Vol. 1 (according to solicits) is going to be regular sized because it's got to fit in with the rest of the NEW 52 hardcovers. loving up collections is DC's bread and butter. I thought some of the New 52 were oversized? Or am I misremembering and it was just that some were HC and some TPB?
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Alhazred posted:Nope. loving DC making my shelf looks weird. I must've just glanced at the hardcovers and assumed when I saw them next to the TPBs. I haven't had any desire to buy the collected editions yet. I think Batman Inc is probably the only one, and I'll certainly be waiting on that.
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Random Stranger posted:Actually people who buy collections of comics are larger than the people who buy comics. It's been that way for about ten years now. I feel that this doesn't actually include the people who buy ridiculously expensive collections of comics, though. Maybe it does, but I can't remember the last time I saw any gigantic hardcovers in bookstores. Borders used to occasionally get absolutes in, but I don't think I've ever seen them at a Barnes and Noble.
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Jan 2, 2013 01:35
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al-azad posted:My B&N has Absolute Sandman and a bunch of omnibuses. The comics section is larger than normal as they have Fantagraphics' huge newspaper books like Prince Valiant and even two copies of Building Stories. I saw mine has 3 copies of Building Stories as well as one of the new annotated Sandman volumes (both of these priced at $50, I think? which is why I wasn't really counting them toward the $100-125 range of hardcovers) , but that's it for the bigger, pricey stuff. That's really cool that they actually have awesome, weird Fantagraphics stuff, though.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Is the I Kill Giants hardcover edition worth the extra money? Is it oversized or is it just extra stuff in the back? I've been meaning to pick it up and amazon has both but I'm not sure if I want to drop the extra 20 bucks. Not only is it oversized with extra material, but it also has an immeasurably better paper quality. Maybe the TPBs are better now, but every one I saw before was made with flimsy paper that seemed to absorb humidity and get wrinkly far easier than your average TPB. The hardcover is on beautiful paper and should last for years. It is $20 more, but considering that I thought the TPB wasn't worth the paper it was printed on, it was a no-brainer for me. Casyl posted:Here's the Christmas haul, which'll get added in at some point with all the other stuff I've gotten in the last several months. Sorry this picture turned out so dark. GrandpaPants posted:
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Alhazred posted:It's good. I can't speak for long-term durability because, you know, it's just been a few months, but the art is great, nothing's lost in the gutters.
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Adam Strange posted:http://www.tcj.com/this-these-past-weeks-in-comics-1213-all-of-you-remain-trapped-here-with-me/#comment-127149 Yeah, it's pretty much the bane of everyone's existence.
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sporklift posted:I have been thinking about picking up the Invisibles Omnibus because I have been getting more into Grant Morrison. Will it stay in print for a while or should I jump on it now. Is there a way to tell what books are gonna disappear? I still regret not picking up that Ennis Punisher Omnibus for $50 a few years ago. Things like this will almost certainly never be reprinted. If it ever is reprinted, it will be years and years.
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Feb 1, 2013 06:31
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Hakkesshu posted:Is there a Marvel equivalent of this? There is only one Paul Levitz.
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Shameless posted:DMZ and Invisibles are getting deluxe HC editions. Is DMZ any good? And yay! Animal Man vol. 5 (the old series that is) Ugh, gently caress off DC, I picked up that omnibus because I assumed you were going to be dumb about more Invisibles.
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boom boom boom posted:God, if those new collections include the letter pages there's gonna be a lot of people unloading their omnibuses. I assume they never will. But this will cause me to triple dip on Invisibles if they do.
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Rhyno posted:How many trades actually do include letter pages? How many comics have letter pages that were actually relevant to the series in any way?
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Starman is the only one I can think of, with James Robinson himself answering letters for the first few years and talking about his own interests in art, literature, film, music, and collectibles -- all things that bled into Jack Knight's personality and interior monologues. I mean, my point was that the letters pages to The Invisibles (at least the ones I've read, haven't seen them all) actually add to it in a substantial way instead of being "oh, that's a neat thing."
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Endless Mike posted:I'm in the middle of moving. Hence the box of Absolutes. (Granted, it is not a third floor apartment.) I gave away about 2 linear feet of hardcovers last week. Already starting to purge and I'm not moving til the end of July. Of course, that's not much of a dent yet.  Or maybe  I just don't want to have to move it all.
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ShortStack posted:I had heard that the colors or something was off about the Kingdom Come absolute. Do they look okay to you? Kingdom Come is one of my favorites and I'd love to have the absolute but if the art is off, ya know what's the point? I think the big problem people had is that there were rumors that it was just upscaled from the TPB art, and that it was done poorly enough that you could tell. I haven't actually looked at my copy in a couple of years (which probably means I should part with it...) but I don't remember thinking anything looked off.
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May 27, 2013 00:38
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Colonel Pancreas posted:Planetary is loving phenomenal. No idea what the quality on the omnibus will be like compared to the Absolutes, but it's probably the best way to pick it up, given the first Absolute is obscenely expensive. There is talk of deluxe volumes. Which they should've just done from the loving beginning, but whatever.
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dik-dik posted:What's the best way to pack trades for moving? Just put them all in some longboxes and drive carefully? Depending on how much time you have, asking your LCS if they have any extra Diamond boxes is a pretty good idea. I swear to god, the best thing Diamond has ever or will ever do is make boxes. TPBs slide in with ease, though anything larger will fit in a bit awkwardly.
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motherbox posted:As happy as I am for Absolute Batman Inc, they'd better put out Absolute Batman RIP so that I can have the entire run in ridiculously large form. Except for Return of Bruce Wayne, right? As that's not scheduled right now, is it? And it'll be a $75 absolute for 6 issues because of course it will DC, of course it will.
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Hakkesshu posted:I forget, is there any significant format difference between OSHCs and Marvel's regular hardcovers? I've decided that I want to own Thor: God of Thunder in physical books, but I'm wondering if I should wait for the larger collection that comes out in the fall. If it's just a matter of thickness, I don't care. Also, OSHCs tend to be a pretty reasonable deal when you're buying comics, while the standard hardcovers have always felt like a waste of money to me.
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StumblyWumbly posted:Is Godland good? It seems weird and interesting. I like Godland. Weird and interesting is about right. I'm picking it up in the Celestial Editions, though, and was wondering if anyone knows when they plan to release the last one?
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Alright, cool. I was mostly mildly worried because it's $30 and I'm used to hardcovers being way more expensive. Prestige format hardcovers--basically hardcovers for a standard trade size story--are often overpriced. When they collect multiple trades worth of material like Glory, Godland, Marvel's oversized hardcovers, the new Invisibles hardcovers, generally they're the best deal you're going to find short of buying cheap back issues.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:One of my local comic shops is having its 32nd Anniversary sale this weekend, in which you can buy any TPB or hardcover and get a second one for 32 cents. With Absolute Inc out, it would be hard for me not to hop on the train to overpriced hardcover town and get it and another one for essentially half off. Speaking of, I assume Absolute Inc is a solid reproduction?
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Rhyno posted:I guess nobody is really clamoring for it and with his fall from grace at Marvel they don't have any reason to push his work anymore. I'm pretty shocked that the Hawkeye Omnibus is hitting in three weeks. Figured I'd check the price on that out of curiosity. Remember when buying OSHCs and Omnibuses was actually a good deal? 24 issues for $100 MSRP. At least it's oversized. Edit: Also, I know there's a delay between LCS and bookstores/Amazon, but holy poo poo, Amazon says June.
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Uthor posted:What's up with that? Pretty sure poo poo went south with Fraction and Marvel after the dozen or so Inhuman rewrites?
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Uthor posted:Finally got my copy of the new Little Nemo book from last year's Kickstarter. I got mine last week too and was shocked to see how much bigger it is than the Taschen book. loving gorgeous.
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Uthor posted:My friend has the Sunday Press Books ones. They're not complete, but I believe they're the same size. I've got them up with my absolutes/slipcases on top of a 4x2 expedit. The Nemo really deserves to have its cover displayed though, especially considering that there's nothing on the spine. So that might change soon, we'll see.
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Gaz-L posted:I think it's racing with Archie's horror books at this point. Sabrina #2 is allegedly out in a couple weeks, but I'm not holding my breath. Were the Archie books solicited though? I didn't think they were? Is this just Marvel loving around with Hawkeye because Fraction didn't do what they wanted him to? That doesn't make any real sense to be, abut at the same time, it feels like it all went to poo poo when they asked him to rewrite Inhuman however many times before handing it to Soule?
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notthegoatseguy posted:Hawkeye was never really a monthly book anyway and has never tied into anything at all so it is one of the few books where you can probably hold it up for the art and sales won't be hurt too badly. At this point, sure, but I get the feeling you've never worked in a comic shop?
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GorfZaplen posted:Alright, thanks! Are the hardcovers larger? I can't remember. The content is definitely the same, though.
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