General omnibus & hardcover discussion vol. II

[Balakin]

Went to London yesterday to pick up the Deadman Gallery edition, also picked up Black Hammer vol 1.

Black Hammer is freaking fantastic. Couldn't put it down on the train ride home. Heart, humour, intrigue, the lot. One of the best books I've read in sometime, the wait until January for volume 2 is probably going to kill me.

I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book

...and I still don`t have the Kelley Jones Batman GE either. Dang!

[JPAR]

On another note, I think the Valerian & Laureline hardcover 1 is coming out from Cinebooks this week. Worth picking up?

It's old skool European comicstuff. You'll love it or hate it.

[Balakin]

Just finished up Zenith. One of the last big works of Morrison that I hadn't read, and I really liked it through and through. Yeowell's art was pretty great too.

On another note, I think the Valerian & Laureline hardcover 1 is coming out from Cinebooks this week. Worth picking up?

I have that hc for like 3 weeks now. It`s not bad and probably will get better as it goes on, it`s all ages French sci-fi fun. Art is quite cartoony. If you like that give it a try.

[ER Prest]

It's old skool European comicstuff. You'll love it or hate it.

I have that hc for like 3 weeks now. It`s not bad and probably will get better as it goes on, it`s all ages French sci-fi fun. Art is quite cartoony. If you like that give it a try.

The extent of my Euro comics(besides British) exposure is mainly Jodo, Moebius, and Manara. Along similar lines?

[Balakin]

The extent of my Euro comics(besides British) exposure is mainly Jodo and Manara. Along similar lines?

noooooo nohohohohohohooooo nononononoooo...
nope
more like Asterix or Tintin. Art style is more Asterix than Tintin. The stories have fun retro sci-fi concepts but I didn`t find them as funny as the other two mentioned series.

[drd]

I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book

...and I still don`t have the Kelley Jones Batman GE either. Dang!

I paid £110 off the shelf so I didn't have to worry about shipping damage.


Well, technically I didn't pay anything as I got the GF to pay for it as a birthday present.

This is my third AE book, after the Watchmen Artifact Edition and Alien by Walter Simonsen. I want the Hellboy AE as well but that sold out before I had the chance.

[Balakin]

I paid £110 off the shelf so I didn't have to worry about shipping damage.


Well, technically I didn't pay anything as I got the GF to pay for it as a birthday present.

This is my third AE book, after the Watchmen Artifact Edition and Alien by Walter Simonsen. I want the Hellboy AE as well but that sold out before I had the chance.

there's gonna be a new HB AE but I'm not sure if it's new stuff or a reprint. Shame it won't have lettering either way.
btw AEs and GEs ship in their own protective boxes so there can't really be any damages. Also FPI usually has them the cheapest and they are really good with packaging.

I've paid even more for a single AE before but I kinda got the AE bug at the time and 80 is not a bad price at all especially for the Graphitti designs ones.

[ER Prest]

noooooo nohohohohohohooooo nononononoooo...
nope
more like Asterix or Tintin. Art style is more Asterix than Tintin. The stories have fun retro sci-fi concepts but I didn`t find them as funny as the other two mentioned series.

Hmm, gotcha. I'll have to see if I can find some previews before I decide. Thanks!

[JPAR]

Hmm, gotcha. I'll have to see if I can find some previews before I decide. Thanks!

http://www.dargaud.com/bd-en-ligne/v...90328cf81d7acd

http://www.dargaud.com/bd-en-ligne/v...09562f02d93dcb

This is the French one. Can you see the art.

[Balakin]

I was googling for previews and found a series of reviews on the forbidden planet blog
http://forbiddenplanet.blog/tag/cinebook/

the writer says the series really becomes a classic with the 9th volume which probably will be in the 3rd hardcover (I think that comes out right around the movie) although Empire of a Thousand planets which is in the 1st hc was quite enjoyable but the first story, he claims was quite bad.
I enjoyed certain aspects of the first story but I'm quite sure it won't engage most of the new readers who want to try the series out because of the movie that remindes them of the 5th Element.

[LordJulius]

I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book
I don`t want to spend £80 on a single book

...and I still don`t have the Kelley Jones Batman GE either. Dang!

Well, then if I was you I wouldn't, under any circumstances whatsoever, click on the following link. Never, ever, not even once.

http://marvelmasterworksfansite.yuku...Dark-Horse-etc

[Balakin]

Well, then if I was you I wouldn't, under any circumstances whatsoever, click on the following link. Never, ever, not even once.

http://marvelmasterworksfansite.yuku...Dark-Horse-etc

you are not making this any easier

[LordJulius]

you are not making this any easier

You didn't follow the link, now, did you? Didn't I tell you not to?

Same thing happened to me though. Didn't want to get it. But luckily it was my birthday a couple of days ago, so I could justify the purchase. However, other books like Saga vol. 2 need to wait now.

[zevious zoquis]

So since I have all this EC goodness at my disposal I thought I do a quick comparison.

Here's Jack Davis three ways. left is the current Darkhorse color archive. Middle is the Fantagraphics B&W and right is the original Russ Cochran EC Library B&W:




And all three books for relative size:

[zevious zoquis]

And closer shots of all three in the same order: