Marvel Collected Editions

[DrGregatron]

It's not a huge deal but I'd rather not have posts discussing current developments on this thread.

Can we discuss the apparent current development of the $125 is the new standard omnibus price?

[Jorge]

Yikes! Another 850 page book for $125! Count me out!

Marvel is just pricing me out all around. I just can't justify the prices.

With out reading a bunch of threads, what's the consensus around this? I've been reading them since the early 80s but I'm finally give out. Between Image and DC, especially with digital, I can get great quality for much cheaper.

[Captain Planet]

Can we discuss the apparent current development of the $125 is the new standard omnibus price?

Can't tell what your tone is with this comment.

[krisis]

I think I may have just scored my best eBay find of all time. We'll see if the book ships. It's one of those crazy and obscure "everyone lists it for $2,500" books.

Fingers crossed.

[Captain Planet]

I think I may have just scored my best eBay find of all time. We'll see if the book ships. It's one of those crazy and obscure "everyone lists it for $2,500" books.

Fingers crossed.

Oo, Oo, is it the gutenberg bible?

[Captain Planet]

So, I'm reading WatXM omnibus and the more I read of it the more bummed I am that we don't have Gillen's run collected. I'm perfectly okay with Fraction's run remaining in Ultimate Collections but I can't believe we didn't get Gillen's UXM collected in an OHC. Between AvX, UXF, WatXM and Gillen's UXM you get a pretty complete slice of the modern X-Verse in OHC. Something we haven't gotten for a long time.

Not only that but Gillen's Run is the second best part of all that (I prefer UXF). I mostly hated the characters themselves that he worked with but he crafted some great X-Men stories.

[krisis]

So, I'm reading WatXM omnibus and the more I read of it the more bummed I am that we don't have Gillen's run collected. I'm perfectly okay with Fraction's run remaining in Ultimate Collections but I can't believe we didn't get Gillen's UXM collected in an OHC. Between AvX, UXF, WatXM and Gillen's UXM you get a pretty complete slice of the modern X-Verse in OHC. Something we haven't gotten for a long time.

Not only that but Gillen's Run is the second best part of all that (I prefer UXF). I mostly hated the characters themselves that he worked with but he crafted some great X-Men stories.

Preach!

If they released a Gillen Omnibus I would actually pony up for my despised WatXM omni just for the beautiful bookshelf. I actually held out hope for a long time that the Fraction material from Messiah Complex to Nation X would merit an Omnibus, since the main thrust of X-Men stories is almost all OHC from Morrison forward - but no dice!

(OHC Path: New X-Men > Astonishing X-Men > Rise & Fall & Supernovas (but not some other stuff afterwards) > Messiah Complex > (Fraction) & X-Force > Nation X > Necrosha > Second Coming > (Fraction / Gillen) & UXF > Schism > (Gillen) & Watx - yes, I know that excludes a lot, but those contain all of the serious plot threads. A Legacy omnibus would wrap things up nicely )

[Joyus]

Marvel is just pricing me out all around. I just can't justify the prices.

With out reading a bunch of threads, what's the consensus around this? I've been reading them since the early 80s but I'm finally give out. Between Image and DC, especially with digital, I can get great quality for much cheaper.

Think my Omni count for this year is 4 vs 10+ last year.
I vote with my wallet and gone are the days where i feel i miss out if i don't buy something.............. wel kinda

Another foot into the digital side.

[NZ_InFerno]

It's not a huge deal but I'd rather not have posts discussing current developments on this thread.

I thought it was spoiler-free, apologies.

[Horizon]

Yikes! Another 850 page book for $125! Count me out!

What bums me about this (and Marvel's jump from $3 to $4 a few years ago) is that the increase is 25%. I understand that prices go up, but I think $110- although not as round and pretty sounding- would be a lot easier to swallow for the Omnibus line. Same with comics. They should have jumped to $3.50 from $3, not $4.

$125 would be better, I guess, if they went back to nicer paper. I just received the Witchblade Compendium last week, and have been reading it. Although it's a softcover with a weak binding, the paper quality is a lot better than the recent Omnis. So what is justifying this $25 price hike? With the exception of the Stern Omni, Cory isn't restoring them, so there's little cost there.

Again, I get that prices will rise, but what other business raises their product's price 25%?

[momaw]

So, I'm reading WatXM omnibus and the more I read of it the more bummed I am that we don't have Gillen's run collected. I'm perfectly okay with Fraction's run remaining in Ultimate Collections but I can't believe we didn't get Gillen's UXM collected in an OHC. Between AvX, UXF, WatXM and Gillen's UXM you get a pretty complete slice of the modern X-Verse in OHC. Something we haven't gotten for a long time.

Not only that but Gillen's Run is the second best part of all that (I prefer UXF). I mostly hated the characters themselves that he worked with but he crafted some great X-Men stories.

Not sure what Marvels problem is with putting Gillen in OHC. His conclusion to JMS's Thor should have been OHC'd. His Uncanny X-Men should have been OHC'd. And his Journey into Mystery damn well should have been omni'd.

[victorxd1999]

Not sure what Marvels problem is with putting Gillen in OHC. His conclusion to JMS's Thor should have been OHC'd. His Uncanny X-Men should have been OHC'd. And his Journey into Mystery damn well should have been omni'd.

They are omnibussing his Young Avengers

[Commissioner Gordon]

Marvel is just pricing me out all around. I just can't justify the prices.

With out reading a bunch of threads, what's the consensus around this? I've been reading them since the early 80s but I'm finally give out. Between Image and DC, especially with digital, I can get great quality for much cheaper.

I used to be more willing to pick up an omnibus of material I wasn't familiar with if it sounded interesting or if it was a celebrated run on a character or team, but those days are over now. I have no problem spending my money on companies that are putting out better product for less money, so Marvel's lost me for the most part.

[Peter Parker]

Oo, Oo, is it the gutenberg bible?

Still easier to find than The Ultimates Omnibus!

[DrGregatron]

What bums me about this (and Marvel's jump from $3 to $4 a few years ago) is that the increase is 25%. I understand that prices go up, but I think $110- although not as round and pretty sounding- would be a lot easier to swallow for the Omnibus line. Same with comics. They should have jumped to $3.50 from $3, not $4.

$125 would be better, I guess, if they went back to nicer paper. I just received the Witchblade Compendium last week, and have been reading it. Although it's a softcover with a weak binding, the paper quality is a lot better than the recent Omnis. So what is justifying this $25 price hike? With the exception of the Stern Omni, Cory isn't restoring them, so there's little cost there.

Again, I get that prices will rise, but what other business raises their product's price 25%?

If they would switch to better quality paper like Dark Horse or IDW use in their high end I could live with another price hike, but $25 is asking a lot for paper especially when Big Damn Sin City was 1300+ pages and Library Edition size for only $100. But for some reason I suspect this is a price hike plain and simple--no returning to quality product like nice faux leather boards now that we're going down the current path.