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Post by Doghouse Reilly on Apr 12, 2024 10:32:03 GMT -5
I was reading Astro City from the beginning. Around the turn of the century, I started to trade-wait every series I was collecting, so I stopped picking up the floppies. I don't usually pick up trades immediately after they come out, and I didn't get any AC trades yet before publishers started with omnibus and Absolute type collections. I thought if any series warranted such packaging, it was Astro City. So I started waiting for an omnibus-type collection instead of regular trades. A year or two back, I figured that I waited long enough, and started picking up all of the trades. This morning I ordered another trade, leaving my trade collection missing only one more. While researching the (exorbitant) prices for this last one, I discovered that the first volume of an Astro City omnibus is scheduled for later this year. So if you've been waiting like I was, don't give up! Although this looks like it's gonna be thick, even for an omnibus - it's going to rival the Simonson Thor for thickest book on my shelf. I'm always impressed that these things don't ever feel like they're falling apart. Book binding might as well be magic to me. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 12, 2024 10:50:44 GMT -5
I was reading Astro City from the beginning. Around the turn of the century, I started to trade-wait every series I was collecting, so I stopped picking up the floppies. I don't usually pick up trades immediately after they come out, and I didn't get any AC trades yet before publishers started with omnibus and Absolute type collections. I thought if any series warranted such packaging, it was Astro City. So I started waiting for an omnibus-type collection instead of regular trades. A year or two back, I figured that I waited long enough, and started picking up all of the trades. This morning I ordered another trade, leaving my trade collection missing only one more. While researching the (exorbitant) prices for this last one, I discovered that the first volume of an Astro City omnibus is scheduled for later this year. So if you've been waiting like I was, don't give up! Although this looks like it's gonna be thick, even for an omnibus - it's going to rival the Simonson Thor for thickest book on my shelf. I'm always impressed that these things don't ever feel like they're falling apart. Book binding might as well be magic to me. Well, if they stitch them, they will last; if they glue them, keep the address of a commercial bookbinder on standby. |
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on Apr 12, 2024 11:44:17 GMT -5
I was reading Astro City from the beginning. Around the turn of the century, I started to trade-wait every series I was collecting, so I stopped picking up the floppies. I don't usually pick up trades immediately after they come out, and I didn't get any AC trades yet before publishers started with omnibus and Absolute type collections. I thought if any series warranted such packaging, it was Astro City. So I started waiting for an omnibus-type collection instead of regular trades. A year or two back, I figured that I waited long enough, and started picking up all of the trades. This morning I ordered another trade, leaving my trade collection missing only one more. While researching the (exorbitant) prices for this last one, I discovered that the first volume of an Astro City omnibus is scheduled for later this year. So if you've been waiting like I was, don't give up! Although this looks like it's gonna be thick, even for an omnibus - it's going to rival the Simonson Thor for thickest book on my shelf. I'm always impressed that these things don't ever feel like they're falling apart. Book binding might as well be magic to me. Well, if they stitch them, they will last; if they glue them, keep the address of a commercial bookbinder on standby. I was hoping you'd chime in about the binding. The results of the stitching process are just so remarkable to me. I do tend to be unusually grateful for the perks of the modern world, though. I just realized there's a possibility that the opus edition could get recolored, like publishers seem to do with everything these days. I always hate the recoloring, so I'll hold on to my collection of trades until I see how this turns out. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 12, 2024 11:48:44 GMT -5
Yeah, that's a pretty hefty book. Since you mentioned the Simonson Thor omnibus, I have to say that the latter's size was one of one two reasons I decided against it (the other was the recoloring, which I really didn't like) and went for the tpbs instead. I think my limit for an omnibus is about 700 pages - like the Simonson (again!) Orion book. Otherwise, on the topic of Astro City reprint collections, I'm more interested in the Metrobooks, esp. the first, second and third volumes. |
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on Apr 12, 2024 12:01:50 GMT -5
Yeah, that's a pretty hefty book. Since you mentioned the Simonson Thor omnibus, I have to say that the latter's was one of one two reasons I decided against it (the other was the recoloring, which I really didn't like) and went for the tpbs instead. I think my limit for an omnibus is about 700 pages - like the Simonson (again!) Orion book. Otherwise, on the topic of Astro City reprint collections, I'm more interested in the Metrobooks, esp. the first, second and third volumes. Once a publisher recolors a comic for collection, don't they generally use that recoloring for all subsequent collections? IIRC, Simonson's entire run wasn't collected before they put out the omnibus. Is the entire run available with original coloring, in collected editions? The final Astro City TPB I'm missing has yet to be collected in a metrobook, but if it does, I'll probably have to get that for the missing content, although half of it's going to duplicate what I already have. Even if I get volume 1 of the opus, Crom only knows when or if the opuses will get to the end of the series. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Apr 12, 2024 12:15:37 GMT -5
Once a publisher recolors a comic for collection, don't they generally use that recoloring for all subsequent collections? IIRC, Simonson's entire run wasn't collected before they put out the omnibus. Is the entire run available with original coloring, in collected editions? (...) His entire run was first collected in five 'Thor Visionaries' tpbs, starting in 2000 - which indeed have the original coloring. The omnibus was only published in 2010 or 2011. However, I don't think those tpbs are in print anymore. All of mine are either used or remaindered copies. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 12, 2024 13:06:08 GMT -5
Marvel, notoriously, did short print runs for their TPBs, especially in the early 2000s. The American Booksellers Association whined about it, as the Marvel trades did well in bookstores; but, Marvel wouldn't keep the books in print, as they were too geared to the Direct Market. They started improving that, in the Teens, but were never as good as DC about keeping trades in print for extended periods. Then again, they also didn't have as many creators to screw over by not letting publications lapse, so that rights reverted to the creators.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 12, 2024 13:09:35 GMT -5
I have all of Astro City as floppies, so I'll be pasing on this. But no doubt it'll be a handsome volume.
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