General omnibus & hardcover discussion vol. II

[James]

I've been eagerly awaiting this book for months. I absolutely love Jae Lee's art. It's a shame that the binding is your typical DC mousetrap binding. Normally I'm not that picky on binding, but Lee's artwork deserves a proper binding so you can see everything. I really wish this were in OHC format. I have no idea what the story is about, but the art is just gorgeous. Can't wait to dig into it.

jae lee's art on this title has been one of the best things at DC in a long time. i've been picking it up in single issues and can't wait for each issue he is on. i especially loved his work on the annual with mongul. just awesome stuff. unfortunately, the arc that had brett booth on art was DREADFUL. unless you are a fan of brett booth, enjoy a horizontal format, or have an OCD for collected edition numbering, i'd say avoid volume 2 like the plague. i was nearly done with the series entirely with my disappointment over those issues, but when the next jae lee issue came out, i couldn't help myself.

[pud333]

Over the past couple of years, I had been buying strictly from online sources, like Chapters or Amazon, because the books were so much cheaper, and maybe only buying from my LCS once a month. Sometimes books were so much cheaper that I could get an extra HC for what I saved from buying online than from the LCS. However, I've been going to my local shops more and more and I've started buying more books from the stores themselves. 1) I feel better supporting the small guys. 2) It's been frustrating having to repeatedly send books back due to damage when shipped in crappy packaging (seems to be happening more and more lately). The only way I can guarantee my books aren't damaged is by going to the LCS and inspecting them myself. 3) there's nothing like the feeling of browsing through a comic shop for a while, taking in all the sights and smells, and then walking out with a couple books in a white plastic bag. I just find it so thoroughly satisfying.

[pud333]

That Jae Lee art is very cool. I met him once, in 1991 or so, the only convention I ever attended. Got his autograph on a Namor comic.

Very cool. I don't ever really bother with autographs, and I don't really care to meet the people that I am a fan of, but Jae Lee is someone I would dearly like to meet and have sign something.

jae lee's art on this title has been one of the best things at DC in a long time. i've been picking it up in single issues and can't wait for each issue he is on. i especially loved his work on the annual with mongul. just awesome stuff. unfortunately, the arc that had brett booth on art was DREADFUL. unless you are a fan of brett booth, enjoy a horizontal format, or have an OCD for collected edition numbering, i'd say avoid volume 2 like the plague. i was nearly done with the series entirely with my disappointment over those issues, but when the next jae lee issue came out, i couldn't help myself.

That's unfortunate. Booth is okay sometimes, but usually I find his stuff terrible. On Amazon it says Volume 2 collects issues 5-9. Did Lee do any of those issues?

[James]

That's unfortunate. Booth is okay sometimes, but usually I find his stuff terrible. On Amazon it says Volume 2 collects issues 5-9. Did Lee do any of those issues?

i can double check when i get home from work, but i'm pretty sure 5-7 were by brett booth and maybe 8 by kenneth rocafort. there was a big mix-up in shipping with some of the recent issues for the storyline of 'first contact' so i wouldn't be surprised if the issues for that trade get changed.

[dupont2005]

i can double check when i get home from work, but i'm pretty sure 5-7 were by brett booth and maybe 8 by kenneth rocafort. there was a big mix-up in shipping with some of the recent issues for the storyline of 'first contact' so i wouldn't be surprised if the issues for that trade get changed.

Is that the Anita Blake guy?
Yeah, he's really bad. I had to double check the credits and make sure it wasn't a Liefeld comic.

[James]

That's unfortunate. Booth is okay sometimes, but usually I find his stuff terrible. On Amazon it says Volume 2 collects issues 5-9. Did Lee do any of those issues?

ok, so issue 5-7 is brett booth, 8 & 9 is jae lee. the annual is jae lee, kenneth rocafort, and philip tan. 5-7 is an arc with toymaster and mongul. i bailed on that halfway through issue 6. 8 starts 'first contact' which crosses over with world's finest (which i'm not reading) and continues in 10. the annual deals with mongul and warworld, not sure if it ties in at all with previous mongul story. jae lee is on two upcoming issues, but DC has recently changed the solicits and when books are shipping, i'm not positive which ones they are.

who knows how this will all be collected. but point of everything, jae lee's art has been fantastic. brett booth not so much.

[clayholio]

I've been wanting to get into Judge Dredd lately. There are a ton of stories collected from what I've seen. I also have heard that each story is pretty self contained / the stories aren't slaves to continuity. So my question is what are the best Dredd stories or collections in your opinion?

I have the first phone book that they put out (Complete Case Files), I'm not sure if that's a great one to start with. Like you said, it's all short stories, and hundreds of pages of short stories isn't the smoothest read. I haven't gotten any more of those because of that, but there's work by Brian Bolland and Dave Gibbons (I think) in there. Granted, it's early work, so it's not as evolved as their more famous work. I think there might be a greatest hits collection, that might be a better way to go. You can always go completist later.

I have the big slipcase Tank Girl hardcover, but haven't cracked it open yet. With all the cutting back on spending I've done, I will still probably never catch up to the material I have and the material I continue to buy annually.

I've still got a pretty big to-read stack, too. I bought two or three of the more recent Tank Girl mini-series digitally when there was a sale, and I haven't gotten around to reading most of those yet. I was just excited about that Tank Girl series because Jim Mahfood was drawing it.

[johnsme]

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Merry Christmas to me!!

That Basil Wolverton book is MFing BEAUTIFUL! Gonna take a bunch of pics of that and post them when I get a chance.

[johnsme]

I have no idea what happened to the site. Oh well, new thread...new books! These are the first two of about 6 more that are coming. I've never posted an image on here before so I hope this works.

http://imgur.com/a/dSXfr

Came the Dawn is my first foray into the EC Comics Library b&w reprints. I've seen the previews Fantagraphics puts up and liked it enough to give it a try. Found this for $7 on ebay so if I like it enough im gonna upgrade to the slipcase and resell this one. Looking through it, I think the stories that Wally Wood pencils and inks himself look better than when he works with Harrison. And most of the stories are written by the (now unfortunately) late genius Al Feldstein which is great. Read through some of the little essays before and after the meat of the book and they are really interesting looks into the artist and the history of comics.

The Frank Book is something I've been looking to find for a decent price in hardcover for a while. Got this one for a bit under what an ebayer listed it for due to the distance looking a bit shabby. But really,if you're gonna make a book with a beautiful, purple cloth cover with an embossed title like that, why even have a dust jacket? Pretty excited to read both of these but I am currently making my way through Cerebus (and loving it).

[dupont2005]

Excellent choices!

[victorxd1999]

we need to somehow get kalitariks amazing post of all the oversized hardcovers somewhere near the front page on this thread.

edit: this is weeks, did a name change. can't seem to get stuff changed in my profile yet.

Hey Weeks, welcome back. And also a welcome back to the rest.

[Mobe1969]

I've been eagerly awaiting this book for months. I absolutely love Jae Lee's art. It's a shame that the binding is your typical DC mousetrap binding. Normally I'm not that picky on binding, but Lee's artwork deserves a proper binding so you can see everything. I really wish this were in OHC format. I have no idea what the story is about, but the art is just gorgeous. Can't wait to dig into it.

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What book is it?

[pud333]

ok, so issue 5-7 is brett booth, 8 & 9 is jae lee. the annual is jae lee, kenneth rocafort, and philip tan. 5-7 is an arc with toymaster and mongul. i bailed on that halfway through issue 6. 8 starts 'first contact' which crosses over with world's finest (which i'm not reading) and continues in 10. the annual deals with mongul and warworld, not sure if it ties in at all with previous mongul story. jae lee is on two upcoming issues, but DC has recently changed the solicits and when books are shipping, i'm not positive which ones they are.

who knows how this will all be collected. but point of everything, jae lee's art has been fantastic. brett booth not so much.

Thanks! Hm... I love Lee's art so much that I may still have to get v2 even if they collect it with Booth's arc and the fact that I don't read World's Finest. We'll see I guess.

What book is it?

Superman / Batman: Cross world.

[victorxd1999]

Has anybody here ordered from Book_any on Amazon.co.uk? They offer very low prices but I'm not sure how the packaging etc. Is

[Balakin]

Has anybody here ordered from Book_any on Amazon.co.uk? They offer very low prices but I'm not sure how the packaging etc. Is

you mean books_any? yeah I ordered the first Sandman omnibus from them. The packiging was nothing special (a box and an inflated plastic bag in it) but the book was 98% unharmed, it arrived in 2 weeks (which is the average USA-Hungary shipping time) and it was cheaper than any other options, so I was absolutely fine with the purchase.