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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 4:19:14 GMT -5
This set looks gorgeous!!! Is anyone here going to buy this? It retails for a staggering $500, but sites like Amazon, Cheapgraphicnovels & Instockrades will have significant discounts at around $300ish. Still not cheap by any means, but you get all of the X-Men ending with #143 (John Byrne's last issue).
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Post by Confessor on Mar 2, 2020 4:56:14 GMT -5
This set looks gorgeous!!! Is anyone here going to buy this? It retails for a staggering $500, but sites like Amazon, Cheapgraphicnovels & Instockrades will have significant discounts at around $300ish. Still not cheap by any means, but you get all of the X-Men ending with #143 (John Byrne's last issue).
I won't be getting it (I'm not much of an X-Men fan), but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the beautiful geekiness of this set. Very nice. |
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Post by shaxper on Mar 2, 2020 6:02:41 GMT -5
I love the concept, but I'm not a fan of the aesthetic look. Why can't the box hold the books snugly instead of leaving unnecessary space, and why the mustard yellow color? Why all the empty space on the box design, as well as a Silver Age image on the front of the box, and the image from GS #1 instead of a more visually striking and/or fresh/lesser-seen image of the team?
Content-wise, why include the first 60+ Silver Age stories but drop off with Byrne's exit? Conventional wisdom is that the run remains solid until a little past issue #200.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 2, 2020 6:23:05 GMT -5
^^ I was wondering about the wasted space in the box too. It would definitely look better with a more snug fit. I have to say though that I quite like the mustard colour scheme.
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Post by MDG on Mar 2, 2020 10:09:52 GMT -5
I tend to find unboxing videos... I don't know, kind of "peak first world." But a 26-minute unboxing video for a slipcased set of books? Yeeesh!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 10:34:35 GMT -5
I love the concept, but I'm not a fan of the aesthetic look. Why can't the box hold the books snugly instead of leaving unnecessary space, and why the mustard yellow color? Why all the empty space on the box design, as well as a Silver Age image on the front of the box, and the image from GS #1 instead of a more visually striking and/or fresh/lesser-seen image of the team? Content-wise, why include the first 60+ Silver Age stories but drop off with Byrne's exit? Conventional wisdom is that the run remains solid until a little past issue #200. I am assuming they plan on making a 2nd box set starting with #144-#? It's a shame they will not sell these books individually or at least separate the Silver Age books from the rest as I am mainly interested with the run beginning with GS X-Men #1. I am not into Omnibuses because of their enormous size so these HC books are perfect. I can already picture an ASM & FF similar box set. |
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Post by shaxper on Mar 2, 2020 10:50:18 GMT -5
It's a shame they will not sell these books individually Aren't these just repackaged Marvel Masterworks volumes? Granted, those are currently out of print, but I'm sure they will be repackaged and resold again within the next few years. |
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Post by rberman on Mar 2, 2020 11:32:01 GMT -5
I love the concept, but I'm not a fan of the aesthetic look. Why can't the box hold the books snugly instead of leaving unnecessary space, and why the mustard yellow color? Why all the empty space on the box design, as well as a Silver Age image on the front of the box, and the image from GS #1 instead of a more visually striking and/or fresh/lesser-seen image of the team? Content-wise, why include the first 60+ Silver Age stories but drop off with Byrne's exit? Conventional wisdom is that the run remains solid until a little past issue #200. I am assuming they plan on making a 2nd box set starting with #144-#? It's a shame they will not sell these books individually or at least separate the Silver Age books from the rest as I am mainly interested with the run beginning with GS X-Men #1. I am not into Omnibuses because of their enormous size so these HC books are perfect. I can already picture an ASM & FF similar box set. A second box set seems extremely unlikely, given that there has been no #4 omnibus covering issues after #175. That must mean that Omnibus #3 (154-175 plus "God Loves, Man Kills" and the Wolverine mini and the Magik mini) didn't sell as well as #1 and #2. To my knowledge #176-200 have never been collected in color. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 11:57:39 GMT -5
I am assuming they plan on making a 2nd box set starting with #144-#? It's a shame they will not sell these books individually or at least separate the Silver Age books from the rest as I am mainly interested with the run beginning with GS X-Men #1. I am not into Omnibuses because of their enormous size so these HC books are perfect. I can already picture an ASM & FF similar box set. A second box set seems extremely unlikely, given that there has been no #4 omnibus covering issues after #175. That must mean that Omnibus #3 (154-175 plus "God Loves, Man Kills" and the Wolverine mini and the Magik mini) didn't sell as well as #1 and #2. To my knowledge #176-200 have never been collected in color. Yes they have...X-Men Marvel Masterworks v12 ends with issue #200. |
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Post by rberman on Mar 2, 2020 13:17:14 GMT -5
A second box set seems extremely unlikely, given that there has been no #4 omnibus covering issues after #175. That must mean that Omnibus #3 (154-175 plus "God Loves, Man Kills" and the Wolverine mini and the Magik mini) didn't sell as well as #1 and #2. To my knowledge #176-200 have never been collected in color. Yes they have...X-Men Marvel Masterworks v12 ends with issue #200. Ah, I see that v12 is due to release tomorrow according to Amazon. These are releasing at a snail's pace due to all the side material they are including: Vol 10 (released Feb 2017) X-Men #176-188 Magik: Storm and Illyana #1-4 Marvel Fanfare #40 (Storm and Angel stories? I haven't read these.) Vol 11 (released Jan 2019) X-Men #189-193 X-Men Annual #8 X-Men/Alpha Flight #1-2 Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1-6 Vol 12 (released March 2020) X-Men #194-200 New Mutants Special Edition #1 X-Men Annual #9 Bizarre Adventures #27 (just the Nightcrawler story? or all 3 X-Men stories?) Nightcrawler #1-4 A lot of this material has been re-issued already separately as "X-Men/Alpha Flight" or "X-Men: Asgard Wars" or separate hardcovers and then TPB for Magik, Wolverine, and Kitty/Wolverine. Seems likely that Meltdown: Wolverine/Havok will be included too when its time comes. I guess they have to finish fleecing the market that pays $100 for each of these before releasing the omnibus form. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 2, 2020 13:59:55 GMT -5
I got into those Folio Society high quality slipcased editions of classic books years back, culminating in the six volume 1,001 Nights set, but these hardcover collections of modest old comic books seem like what C.C. Beck described as inappropriate: a huge orchestra playing Turkey In The Straws. I am hopelessly connected to the cheap format with the ads and letters pages. It may have seemed passable to do the E.C.s this way, or even Carl Barks ducks, but Werner Roth X-Men?
I don't know, these things are not for me, I'd rather have the much cheaper facsimile editions, or even the old giant tabloid sized Treasuries. Comic books not looking like comic books is like putting clothes on King Kong sort of.
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Post by rberman on Mar 2, 2020 14:22:24 GMT -5
I got into those Folio Society high quality slipcased editions of classic books years back, culminating in the six volume 1,001 Nights set, but these hardcover collections of modest old comic books seem like what C.C. Beck described as inappropriate: a huge orchestra playing Turkey In The Straws. I am hopelessly connected to the cheap format with the ads and letters pages. It may have seemed passable to do the E.C.s this way, or even Carl Barks ducks, but Werner Roth X-Men? I don't know, these things are not for me, I'd rather have the much cheaper facsimile editions, or even the old giant tabloid sized Treasuries. Comic books not looking like comic books is like putting clothes on King Kong sort of. The journey of commercial art has many twists and turns. Jazz and blues started out in the scuzziest dives imaginable and ended up as music for the cultured elite, while hoi polloi moved on to something else. Orchestral composers went through a period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in which they plundered folk tunes and gussied them up for concert halls, sung by opera singers and the like. |
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Post by brianf on Mar 2, 2020 17:14:03 GMT -5
As someone who sold his new X-Men collection in the mid 80's and never picked up the Omnis or Masterworks I'm enjoying the Epic collections.
They throw in some other guests appearances, and looks like they have all the early Claremont / Byrne X-stories all in one place.
X-Men Epic Collection Vol 5 - Second Genesis
Collects Giant Size X-Men (1975) #1, Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #94-110, Marvel Team-Up (1972-1985 1st Series) #53, 69-70 and Marvel Team-Up (1972-1985 1st Series) Annual #1; Iron Fist (1975-1977 1st Series) #14-15; and material from FOOM (1973-1978 Magazine) #10.
Vol 6 is coming out in July -
X-Men Epic Collection: Proteus
X-MEN (1963) 111-128 & ANNUAL (1970) 3, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) 89 AND INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL (1968) 7
And coming out later in 2020 is Vol 7 - contents not announced yet
X-Men Epic Collection: The Fate Of The Phoenix
I'd love X-Men epics that run to issue #200.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Mar 2, 2020 17:35:01 GMT -5
I tend to find unboxing videos... I don't know, kind of "peak first world." But a 26-minute unboxing video for a slipcased set of books? Yeeesh! Does the guy lead with "And while I have never read a comic book, these will look great on my never-touched bookshelf" or does he wait till the end? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 19:54:05 GMT -5
As someone who sold his new X-Men collection in the mid 80's and never picked up the Omnis or Masterworks I'm enjoying the Epic collections. They throw in some other guests appearances, and looks like they have all the early Claremont / Byrne X-stories all in one place. X-Men Epic Collection Vol 5 - Second Genesis Collects Giant Size X-Men (1975) #1, Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011 1st Series) #94-110, Marvel Team-Up (1972-1985 1st Series) #53, 69-70 and Marvel Team-Up (1972-1985 1st Series) Annual #1; Iron Fist (1975-1977 1st Series) #14-15; and material from FOOM (1973-1978 Magazine) #10. Vol 6 is coming out in July - X-Men Epic Collection: Proteus X-MEN (1963) 111-128 & ANNUAL (1970) 3, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) 89 AND INCREDIBLE HULK ANNUAL (1968) 7 And coming out later in 2020 is Vol 7 - contents not announced yet X-Men Epic Collection: The Fate Of The Phoenix I'd love X-Men epics that run to issue #200. Same here, I no longer have the originals. The Epic books are great for me since I did not get the Masterworks when they came out. I need that v6 "Proteus" to complete my run from beginning through the Byrne years (#143). Although I have yet to pick up Epic v4 which contains all the other appearances after the comic was cancelled. |
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