tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post9028923493598396990..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Legion Lost, Infinity Inc., Blackest Night paperbacks - more DC 2011 solicitationscollectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-52906690495573248202010-09-26T10:35:10.406-05:002010-09-26T10:35:10.406-05:00Atlantis Chronicles was great.....when AQUAMAN: TI...Atlantis Chronicles was great.....when AQUAMAN: TIME & TIDE was published followed by the series by writer PETER DAVID the debate was whether there could be a collection that large & by their calculations would be 25$...and the issue was finding a number of readers who'd pay that amount...I think there was an address where you could write if you wanted to see a collection...maybe MICHAEL EURY or someone else...(god how things have changed)<br /><br />I don't think DEATH OF GREEN ARROW was as long so as to allow a trade, even lead in issues would make the trade seem padded. Somehow, I feel better with writers' collections...like in Marvel they have a SPIDER-MAN VISIONARIES line....like JOHN ROMITA, KURT BUSIEK, ROGER STERN....it would be better had they collected the whole GREEN ARROW by MIKE GRELL....they have already collected THE LONGBOW HUNTERS....<br /><br />While I'd have jumped at INFINITY INC for a lesser price, I'd also love a set of ALL STAR SQUADRON & THE YOUNG ALL STARS,THE LAST DAYS OF THE JUSTICE SOCIETY....ya know the whole Thomas paraphernalia....it seemed then that Thomas isn't going to ever come into the modern day stories at DC...he worked on Marvel's modern day stuff, but at DC to the best of my knowledge he always was in the shadows....either the 1940 based titles, or ARAK.All I say is, I'll take the plunge if I have any sorta guarantee DC will continue to publish these and complete at least the INFINITY INC set in the SAME FORMAT. I was damn pissed off at the midway format change in BOOSTER GOLD, JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WONDER WOMAN, THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD & THE SPIRITAalok Madhusudan Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837619279211378828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-56276490787831300492010-09-25T08:26:09.569-05:002010-09-25T08:26:09.569-05:00I'd buy that Bane book in a heartbeat.
Sadly...I'd buy that Bane book in a heartbeat. <br /><br />Sadly, I think it's too late for me and Legion Lost. I would have bought it 5 years ago, but now my DC trade priorities have moved on.<br /><br />My wish list of collections -<br /> Atlantis Chronicles<br /> The Demon by Ennis/McCrea<br /> Young Heroes in Love<br /> The Death of Green Arrow<br /> Catwoman (from the start of Will Pfieffer's run till OYL)Hixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-82723997742816281822010-09-25T01:22:04.279-05:002010-09-25T01:22:04.279-05:00I'm agree with shagamu: I'm pretty glad se...I'm agree with shagamu: I'm pretty glad seeing "Legion Lost" collected at least, but... without collecting the previous issues before? "Legion of the Damned" + "Widening Rifts" would have been a perfect volume 1 for "The Complete Abnnet & Lanning Legion Collection".<br /><br />The fact that they hadn´t do that, makes me think DC isn´t going to publish "Legion Worlds" or the following issues written by Abnett & Lanning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-67235330714446081812010-09-24T13:25:03.630-05:002010-09-24T13:25:03.630-05:00if they do that, there are a few trades I'd li...if they do that, there are a few trades I'd like to see in that vein....classic villains are an underappreciated lot....I'd appreciate in the tradition of BATMAN VS TWO FACE/JOKER/SCARECROW/RA'S AL GHUL & SUPERMAN VS LEX LUTHOR/BRAINIAC/DOOMSDAY,the following villains<br />BATMAN<br />-BANE<br />-THE RIDDLER<br />-CLAYFACE<br />-CATWOMAN<br />-PENGUIN<br />(though CATWOMAN & PENGUIN were featured in BATMAN: THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD VOL 2,old edition,warner books)<br />-NOCTURNA(or maybe the GENE COLAN collection will remedy that)<br /><br />SUPERMAN<br />-CYBORG/HANK HENSHAW<br />-MONGUL<br />-MXYZPTLK<br />-TOYMAN (when he stopped being a joke & became a psycho is not clear)Aalok Madhusudan Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837619279211378828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-30556402146805005402010-09-24T10:12:28.183-05:002010-09-24T10:12:28.183-05:00I second a Batman vs. Bane trade that collects the...I second a Batman vs. Bane trade that collects the various uncollected Bane miniseries and one-shots. What a great idea!collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-15764376805270380082010-09-23T01:08:20.236-05:002010-09-23T01:08:20.236-05:00Ah well, I happen to prefer newsstock, I know I...Ah well, I happen to prefer newsstock, I know I'm weird....that's why I love the VERTIGO series whenever they do newsstock....Marvel never does newsstock except ESSENTIALS.<br /><br />Maybe the paper might be shoddy in comparision to the traditional sleek paper but I just treasure PREACHER (I've got the new edition for maybe the 1st 2 or 3 trades or maybe they were supposed to be on shiny paper? who knows? I love the rest), FABLES, Y THE LAST MAN, the older Batman trades like KNIGHTFALL, CONTAGION,CATACLYSM,NO MAN'S LAND.....<br /><br />The only reason they look SO inviting is that I don't own UNDER THE HOOD V2 & LEGION LOST as a concept seems intriguing...what's more,it gives me hope that if these are being collected,and same for the QUESTION DENNY O'NEIL, many of my random batman loves might be too, maybe someday like HAUNTED GOTHAM was collected....I'm talking about YEAR 3, TEN NIGHTS OF THE BEAST, SWORD OF AZRAEL, random BANE underpinnings like VENGEANCE OF BANE, BANE OF THE DEMON, BATMAN: BANE...how about a BANE TALES in the vein of BATMAN VS TWO FACE,SCARECROW TALES, TWO FACE & THE RIDDLER...collect all the non KNIGHTFALL BANE stories,in addition to the ones mentioned above,I think there are just a few issues of BATMAN & a tale from BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS called VERITAS LIBERAT....maybe in the tradition of DOOMSDAY OMNIBUS.....OK I'll stop now<br /><br />Please let them be placeholder prices...I really want LEGION LOST,INFINITY INC,DEADMAN & UNDER THE RED HOOD.....I'll even give up & buy LEGACIES,BOP & TALES: GENE COLANAalok Madhusudan Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837619279211378828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-17007358838310878382010-09-22T15:33:16.684-05:002010-09-22T15:33:16.684-05:00In comparison to Wonder Woman: Warkiller, Warkille...In comparison to Wonder Woman: Warkiller, Warkiller contained six issues for $14.99; roughly $2.50 per issue. Legion Lost will have twelve issues at $30, so it's also the same, $2.50 per issue. Under the Red Hood should be fourteen issues for $30, which is only $2.14 per issue. <br /><br />Entirely I recognize at the outset how the price looks steep, but I think those two in particular are larger trades where one is getting more for their money. No doubt the unit cost doesn't compare to Our Worlds at War, which is some years older and probably on a lesser paper stock; but compared to something recent, it seems about right.<br /><br />Or, as dl316bh says, they might just be placeholder prices.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-2347959820980822062010-09-22T15:27:17.824-05:002010-09-22T15:27:17.824-05:00@Aalok: I think those are just placeholder prices....@Aalok: I think those are just placeholder prices. The War of the Supermen hardcover was something like thirty five or forty dollars when it first popped up on the radar. As I recall a more reasonable price appeared when we got closer to when it was scheduled.dl316bhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779958088602323101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-71239602221111769162010-09-22T13:31:12.578-05:002010-09-22T13:31:12.578-05:00My point was that even a few 192 pg HCs were 40$ a...My point was that even a few 192 pg HCs were 40$ a pop, LEGION LOST & BATMAN: UNDER THE RED HOOD are 30 $ for PB.....I wasn't on the Amazon prices.....it's these prices that seemed excessive...I've seen RETURN OF SUPERMAN as a massive PB for 20$, same with OUR WORLDS AT WAR @ 25$Aalok Madhusudan Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837619279211378828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-12082101686899133892010-09-22T11:05:04.433-05:002010-09-22T11:05:04.433-05:00Amazon preorders always start out at cover price w...Amazon preorders always start out at cover price when items are first available to order. As more orders are placed and they're better able to gauge demand, prices drop. For example, I ordered The Unwritten vol 2 at $12.99 when Amazon first listed it, but by the time it shipped, they only charged me $8.76.<br /><br />But $30 for a Green Lantern Corps hardcover does seem unusually high even by those standards.hilkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355736315398159865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-35829665437777597322010-09-22T05:52:52.990-05:002010-09-22T05:52:52.990-05:00And now that the solicits have reappeared, don'...And now that the solicits have reappeared, don't the prices seem a bit....excessive?<br /><br />Even taking the page count into consideration?Aalok Madhusudan Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837619279211378828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-86397264581477268712010-09-22T00:05:25.426-05:002010-09-22T00:05:25.426-05:00The Legion Lost TPB is great news indeed, but I wi...The Legion Lost TPB is great news indeed, but I wish DC would collect the first two arcs by Abnett, Lanning and Coipel (Legion of the Damned and Widening Rifts) first. Let's hope Legion Worlds and their run on the ongoing Legion series finally get collected, too.shagamuhttp://mbbforum.com/mbbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-75517926639370712092010-09-21T14:11:21.543-05:002010-09-21T14:11:21.543-05:00Exactly ,CE. Staying in India means I don't ge...Exactly ,CE. Staying in India means I don't get anything from the local online services unless it doesn't have an ISBN<br /><br />Noted,CE. Being against piracy in general & staying in a country where the monthlies & Prestige formats do not usually reach open market,I got a bit confused. The blurb for UNDER A YELLOW SUN seemed too much like an ELSEWORLDS story....so I thought it'd be somewhere in the middle.<br /><br />Rather would love to see the books in a rather better format than get the reprint 'comics' imported to India,spending as much,eventually as much I'd if I find the issues from a back issue bin in the US.Aalok Madhusudan Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837619279211378828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-2147404626064530752010-09-21T12:45:30.019-05:002010-09-21T12:45:30.019-05:00@CE: Trust me, you don't want to read those tw...@CE: Trust me, you don't want to read those two "lost" Teen Titans issues. They're terrible; even Gail Simone herself has referred to them as a screw-up on her part. I don't get why they're collecting them in anything at all.dl316bhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779958088602323101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-13951501146085466112010-09-21T09:28:00.557-05:002010-09-21T09:28:00.557-05:00Superman: Under the Yellow Sun isn't Elseworld...Superman: Under the Yellow Sun isn't Elseworlds, Aalok —- nice list, but that one's a favorite of mine, so I thought I'd point it out. Involves Clark Kent chasing a mystery while at the same time writing a mystery novel, with (comic book) sequences from the novel interspersed with the main action.<br /><br />I get why some readers like the DC Comics Presents Young Justice and other specials -- hard to find comics, cheap price point -- and that's fine for them. Personally, I enjoy reading my comics in long-form collections, so the DC Comics Presents specials reflect certain things that I want -- reprints of Young Justice comics, "lost" issues like the Gail Simone Teen Titans two-parter that was never collected, some great Jeph Loeb Superman stories -- but not in the format that I want to read them, so that disappoints me.<br /><br />In as glad as I am that DC is giving these stories recognition, my personal belief is that trade paperbacks (carrying an ISBN and available from retail store catalogs) carry more permanence than single issues, and indeed these DC Comics Presents books tend more toward the "single issue" format. If DC Comics Presents is a stepping stone for DC to go "whole hog" on a collection of Chase or Young Justice, then I'm glad for that; but, if we could have had a collection and instead the DC Comics Presents issues just come and go, I'd feel like that's a wasted opportunity.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-13420793502867911432010-09-21T00:48:38.648-05:002010-09-21T00:48:38.648-05:00.
And the problems with YJ in those specials is wh....<br />And the problems with YJ in those specials is what exactly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-73752830311643711602010-09-20T23:33:31.607-05:002010-09-20T23:33:31.607-05:00The Legion lost trade is most welcome.. i was thin...The Legion lost trade is most welcome.. i was thinking about this series the other day itself (hoping to do a post on it actually).. i am glad its finally getting collected..very glad..<br /><br />Now only if they start collecting Young justice and Impulse.. Hardcovers would be nice !.. <not the way they are collecting young justice now- with " DC presents specials"..Mankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167767525488146492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-85155716666895062712010-09-20T22:01:35.688-05:002010-09-20T22:01:35.688-05:00They seem to have pulled the links from Amazon.They seem to have pulled the links from Amazon.Jeffrey Hardy Quahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011880432832659089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-6289673179532825732010-09-20T19:12:33.736-05:002010-09-20T19:12:33.736-05:00Your links to LEGION LOST and INFINITY, INC. are n...Your links to <b>LEGION LOST</b> and <b>INFINITY, INC.</b> are not bringing up a solicit for these collected editions. <br /><br />Where are the solicits or is this just a partial wish list?HellBlazerRaiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12015895593976794867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-17015148149388292512010-09-20T16:16:29.929-05:002010-09-20T16:16:29.929-05:00I'm happy for:
LEGION LOST
INFINITY INC. VOL 1...I'm happy for:<br />LEGION LOST<br />INFINITY INC. VOL 1<br />BATMAN: UNDER THE RED HOOD<br />DEADMAN VOL 1<br /><br />I have a few issues of Inf inc near Crisis on infinite earths,but they never seem to make sense, so I'd love this series, as well as the similar team book ALL STAR SQUADRON, sharing only the writer tho.<br /><br />DEADMAN I'd always wanted to see & I'm glad if this book is by ADAMS, as 52's interlude with Rama Kushna & Nanda Parbat made me too enthu for more Deadman & I scoped out the Deadman Omnibus only to discover it's out of print.<br /><br />UNDER THE RED HOOD,I'm hoping collects both volumes of UNDER THE HOOD as the 1st is available while the 2nd is out of print.<br /><br />I'm not too enthu about GENE COLAN unless this series opens the doors for more comic creators, say KELLEY JONES,JIM APARO,GRAHAM NOLAN,TOM MANDRAKE,NORM BREYFOGLE<br /><br />TALES OF THE MULTIVERSE would have been a nice way to see the other ELSEWORLDS stories which are not in print,rather as they were concieved as one shots,or prestige formats,or annuals,quite a few come to mind....<br />1994 ANNUALS<br />SUPERMAN: LAST SON OF EARTH/LAST STAND ON KRYPTON, DISTANT FIRES, KAL, UNDER A YELLOW SUN, WHOM GODS DESTROY<br />BATMAN: IN DARKEST KNIGHT , THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP, THRILLKILLER, The Blue, the Grey, and the Bat, The Book of the Dead, Brotherhood of the Bat, CASTLE OF THE BAT, DARK ALLEGIANCES, GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT, MASQUE, NEVERMORE, THE BATMAN OF ARKHAM, REIGN OF TERROR, MASQUE, GOTHA NOIR, SCAR OF THE BAT<br />I could go on and on and on.....<br />Infact I think there is a relative scarcity of ELSEWORLDS stories currently in print. I think there's only RED SON, HAUNTED GOTHAM, BATMAN VAMPIRE, THE GOLDEN AGE, GENERATIONS 2,THE NAIL/ANOTHER NAIL, KINGDOM COME/THE KINGDOM....if you don't count the not-officially-ELSEWORLDS-but-non-canon JUSTICE, DARK KNIGHT RETURNS/STRIKES AGAIN/ALL STAR BATMAN & ROBIN, ALL STAR SUPERMAN, BATMAN YEAR 100...that gives you something if not the obscure ones which I'd really love to see, even STAN LEE'S JUST IMAGINE for that matter....Aalok Madhusudan Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837619279211378828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-81148444140865830412010-09-20T15:54:13.984-05:002010-09-20T15:54:13.984-05:00I wish they'd do a "Tales" thing for...I wish they'd do a "Tales" thing for certain writers as well; as many years as it's been since trade collections began rising in prominence, I find it ridiculous that there still isn't a comprehensive collection of Denny O'Neils Batman work, or at the very least a comprehensive collection of his collabs with Neal Adams.dl316bhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779958088602323101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-55816930153768128072010-09-20T15:45:03.160-05:002010-09-20T15:45:03.160-05:00Quite right; "Tales" threw me. Yours is...Quite right; "Tales" threw me. Yours is "Tales of the Batman -- Tim Sale" and mine is "Tales of the Multiverse -- Batman." Still, sadly, no others in that series; could've been Tales of the Multiverse Superman and JLA collections, at least.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-14435763094296347882010-09-20T15:41:11.363-05:002010-09-20T15:41:11.363-05:00You're thinking of the Batman Vampire book by ...You're thinking of the Batman Vampire book by Moench & Jones. The Tim Sale book was an artist-themed collection of Sale's otherwise-uncollected Batman work - included his Shadow of the Bat issues, "Blades" from LotDK, and more.allstarmatcheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16754758277080185925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-81134056148387712532010-09-20T15:22:13.672-05:002010-09-20T15:22:13.672-05:00Which itself was, if I understand correctly, the o...Which itself was, if I understand correctly, the one and only "Tales of the Multiverse" book that DC published. Pity; I was hoping some key Elseworlds might be re-branded in this way.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-64994677196370965272010-09-20T14:53:15.136-05:002010-09-20T14:53:15.136-05:00The "Tales of the Batman" label makes me...The "Tales of the Batman" label makes me think it's more like the Tim Sale volume they put out in 2007.allstarmatcheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16754758277080185925noreply@blogger.com