Yeah, agreed. It's just one of those classics that always gets mentioned. (Well at least until the abortion that is the Nu52.)
Another thing about this run is that - yes the dialogue can be a little Bronze-Age campy and over dramatic - but the panels are filled within mindless unneeded passages. It's a lot quicker read than a lot of older runs.
Another for 20!!!
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Hes got books now?
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Anyone ever buy any Avatar Press stuff? I remember getting loads of good to excellent volume 1's by some pretty heavy hitters, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore and Garth Ennis and the like but apart from Gravel and Freak Angels nothing seemed to get a volume 2, is the company still going?
If a hardcover or deluxe hardcover version comes out (or existed and for some reason I didn't know), I'll sell off the TPB or lesser-format and upgrade. But some things are only in TPB and that's fine if I like the series enough. Other than a select handful of series I'm considering ditching TPBs all together if I can find digital editions of the TPBs.
Gotham Central is certainly going to be oversized. The regular HCs are not oversized. But if you don't want the heft of an Omnibus, then you obviously have to get the different volumes.
Avatar is still very much around: http://www.avatarpress.com/. I see the "God Is Dead" trades around all the time because they sell it using Hickman's name even though Hickman only co-wrote the first six issues. The 7th trade collection collecting through issue #42 just came out. The early stuff got pretty bad reviews so I don't know who is actually buying this series to keep it going like this.
Crossed by Garth Ennis (and now others) is another huge series for Avatar. Uber by Gillen is up to 5 TPB volumes. The Uber hardcover was a one-off "Extended Edition" with extras "limited to 5000 copies and an additional 350 ‘Remarqued’ pieces that includes an original sketch and signatures of Gillen and White." It wasn't necessarily supposed to be the ongoing trade format for that series.
Avatar originally just published mini-series from people like Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis and Alan Moore. None of them seem to be as well reviewed or as well regarded as their more known works. So maybe the mini-series factor explains why you don't see many volume 2s, as no volume 2s were ever planned.
Y'all should be reading Alan Moores Providence from Avatar.
Unsettling stuff.