Hi all,
Forgive me if this has been discussed, but I wanted to make a new thread because it applies to DC & Marvel and I wanted to get your thoughts about this issue I have.
Why in the name God-Doom does DC & Marvel not release "Complete Collections" in reading order with the authors various one-shots ant tie-ins?
Let's take Jason Aaron's Thor run; he wrote:
Thor: God of Thunder #1-25
Thor #1-8 & Annual #1
Thors #1-4
The Mighty Thor #1-23, 700-706, Generations Thor & Unworthy Thor & Mighty Thor at The Gates of Valhalla
Unworthy Thor #1-5
Thor #1-16
King Thor #1-4
But his run is contingent on (this is how Thor becomes Unworthy)
Original Sin #0-8
Original Sin Thor & Loki #5.1 -5.5
Then we have War of The Realms and other titles written by Aaron and we have Avengers written by Aaron all of which tie in to the Thor story.
So why doesn't Marvel just release books where all of the related titles and one shots that are written by the same author in one title?
Wouldn't it make more sense to release books that a new reader can just read and follow the plot without having to pick up separate books that might have different trade dress and in turn making one think it is not part of the same story?
I would love to have this run with trades that have the same trade dress in reading order and equally sized. Why doesn't Marvel want my money?
The same can be said for DC think about Morrison's Batman Omnibus where it doesn't even include Final Crisis which is extremely important to his Batman story and it doesn't even have the whole Resurrection of Ras Al Ghul story. It only has the chapters that are written by him, it makes no sense.
Sorry again if this has been covered but maybe the members on these boards can explain their rational.