True, but I'm speaking in terms of price per issue sort of value. Bang for your buck, not resale price or monetary worth.
True, but I'm speaking in terms of price per issue sort of value. Bang for your buck, not resale price or monetary worth.
So what's the deal with the masterworks? What are they? Why are they so popular? Are they overdosed or regular or smaller? Are they popular because they collect the older stuff?
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Either pretty cool, or I got the worst manufacture defect yet.
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I agree that Marvel Masterworks are great quality, but now a days so expensive for the books they are reprinting. I fell out of love when the titles moved past the 60's for the most part. Trades are great and very comfortable to read but for things I know I'll continue to love and reread I wish for sewn binding.
Very cool. I think those pages were originally 2 separate 2 pg spreads in the 1960s era floppy issue.
Regarding the current state of Marvel Omnibuses- I agree there is a definite downturn in overall quality but simply citing Masterworks as a superior alternate format is not telling the whole story. Having seen the S.H.I.E.L.D. omnibus up close, in person - it looks fantastic and was only $5 more expensive (at release date) than a recent Masterwork HC (DD v.9), which has less than 1/3 the total number of pages. Masterworks are no longer a bargain. Maximum profit seems to be the ultimate rule at Marvel and I don't see how any complaints or minor protest will make a difference. No one asked for the 90s omnis but there they were. We can praise the quality of MMW all we want but that will not accelerate the speed at which Marvel releases them or makes them more affordable.
In an ideal world, Marvel would print more relatively inexpensive OHC's at the same rate they publish Omnis and MMWs but that simply doesn't fit in their financial plans for quarterly profit margins.
Hi guys, going to London and Sheffield early next month so can any Britons here suggest any good collected edition comic shops or local bookstores around? Hoping to find Civil War Spider-Man HC lying around somewhere.
For London, you want to check out Gosh! Comics, Forbidden planet, Orbital comics - You can walk between these 3 in about 20 minutes. There is also the Book and Comic exchange in Notting Hill, sometimes some good stuff in here but hit and miss.
Be warned, they are not cheap, and I don't expect you will find civil war spiderman
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You've pretty much summed up my feelings on the subject. The build quality on these Marvel Omnibuses has tanked ever since the Michelinie Iron Man book--cheaper paper, cheap paper casewrap that scuffs easily and absorbs fingerprints, and problems with the bindings. I shouldn't have to work so hard as to create cardboard supports for each book I buy in hopes that the binding won't be damaged by its own weight.
I rarely buy any omnibuses anymore (used to buy one or two per month). I was tempted to buy Werewolf By Night, but its too huge to comfortably read and has all the aforementioned problems with build quality. The only Marvel books I routinely buy are Masterworks hardcovers. If I can find a TPB at a huge discount I might bite (bought a huge pile for a $1 each at a used bookstore a while back), but I'm not a huge fan of Marvel TPBs because they usually use cheap paper for those too (I was in the LCS yesterday and noticed the pages wrinkling on some Epics). Besides $40 for a glued paperback doesn't make me want to start collecting Marvel TPBs either.
The last couple of months I've bought fewer and fewer books and my reading has dropped off considerably. I've been spending more time and money on other hobbies. I might be feeling a bit of comic burnout. :-/