Doesn't the stern omni end abruptly as he didn't finish the hobgoblin arc? How does this affect the read? I used to have these in singles but sold them when I got into collected editions so I don't really remember.
Sorry, I have no clue how to search for anything in these forums. A while back, did Krisis post a Road to Secret Wars reading list with graphic novels from the Ultimate Universe? Or was I dreaming this? Don't ask why I have reoccurring dreams of Krisis.
Just finished the Trial of Captain America omnibus (read the run before). Did anyone else find the jump from #619 to the new #1 a bit jarring with no explanation of Fear Itself or why Bucky goes quiet and Steve is back in uniform? I know Fear Itself 7.1 is in the Return of the Winter Soldier omnibus but it goes from Bucky escaping prison to Fury telling Steve that Bucky is too tainted to carry on being Cap straight into Steve's new series.
There isn't just one thing that an "Omnibus" is. An Omnibus can be a complete run of #1-15, or it could be the complete run of say, an author, which would exclude parts the author didn't write. As DC has shown with some of their collected editions based on artists, they'll jettison arcs and leave them incomplete if the featured artists didn't draw one of the issues in the arc. Sometimes when it's a showcase of a certain writer and artist on the title, they'll still include an issue where one of the pair was absent. So there are a lot of different directions these Omnibus type books can go depending on the purpose behind them.
This Omnibus is a bit more about Todd McFarlane than it is about this particular Spider-Man title. It's the Complete Todd Collection for this title. Todd's story, Todd's vision, Todd's art - not Larsen's. So unfortunately that creates a gap for collectors who want every single related thing, but overall it does not appear that it's going to affect the Omnibus in any significant way. As Near Mint pointed out, the gap is covered in the Revenge of the Sinister Six HC. If the Omnibus was supposed to be more about the title than about Todd, they would have collected the Revenge of the Sinister Six issues too and made a larger Omnibus.
And that actually could have been quite logical for Marvel to do since they really love taking these Marvel Premiere Classic HCs and mashing them together for Omnibuses. (Still waiting on that Mark Waid Captain America Omnibus, Marvel). But they decided Todd was the big sell, not the Spider-Man title.
If this was the Epic Collection line, that gap would be annoying if Marvel didn't collect that missing issue at all. But that's not where we're at with this Omnibus.
We're so close to the next UXM Omnibus.
I would have started reading them if I could get a XM 1 -- just passed on one at 250...new it would be gone with the quickness and it is. Can't bring myself to drop that much on a book, any book that isnt like the bible autographed by God or something.
I always feel like right when I give in and pay a lot for a book it'll get reprinted lol biggest fear dealing with omnibus for me.
IMO you can easily skip the first two X-Men Omni's and just start with UXM. The X-Men stuff is your typical Silver Age fair and is summed up several times throughout UXM.
On another note are a lot of people planning on picking up the Spidey BND Complete's because they are going to better than the previous BND collections or just because they've never read it before? Has it been collected in OHC before?
Can anyone give me a quick review/pics of the Avengers Vibranium collection? It's in the Midtown sale and I am gently considering it.