Hello everyone.
I started reading comics last year, I mainly buy omnibus and TPBs.
Right now I have three regrets though:
- I have the first volumes of Spider-Man by JMS but the volume 5 is out of print.
- I missed Avengers by Hickman Omnibus volume 1. I saw it on sales one day but did not have the money for it, feels like it went out of print all of a sudden.
- I missed the Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus.
I really hope they will reprint these books, especially the Infinity Gauntlet one since Infinity War will release next year.
Before I started collecting Marvel and DC books I did not expect this kind of "out of print" problems.
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I know Born is in the Omnibus, but my understanding is that Born is the last part of an Ennis "'Nam trilogy". Platoon was missed out of the omnibus and we believe Ennis is to write a third miniseries - if this is correct, I figure it will be more likely all 3 miniseries will be collected together as a "by Ennis" OHC, as opposed to dropping Platoon into a mixed content Companion omnibus.
For the sake of 4 issues, I wouldn't mind the double dip.
Pure speculation, of course.
It’s the nature of a collecting market for a limited product. Most stuff is not really out of print if you simply want to read it. It’s just out of print in the omnibus format. The market of people buying expensive large hardcover comic books is limited so they won’t print so much that they always have to liquidate with low prices later. It does suck to have missed out on books though when you want to get into these books.
I am looking forward to Marvels November solicitations
October disappointed me, hoping up coming listings
Has a few gems.
Received my Ennis Punisher MAX Vol 1 Omnibus and Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt Deluxe.
Build on both looks solid.
I don't know how the story reads today with a person fairly new to comics, but I remember buying the first instalment
comic off the stands and being completely blown away with the last few pages. I really got serious into comics in
1980 and would be reading many Marvel books every week, but that Kraven story line (if nothing else) took him from
being a clown like Gibbon to a serious contender in the Spidey rogue gallery
Here's my take (and from someone who read it 30 years ago and was blown away). It's still a good story but in my opinion it has some problems. One thing I liked when it was initially published was the writing style. J.M. DeMatteis veered away from his (typical Marvel-style) wordiness and wrote experimented in what I'd say was some type of staccato style (for lack of a better definition).
At the time, I liked it. But now reading it, the writing feels kind of amateurish, like cheap poetry and very reminiscent of what Tom King writes over in Batman (in which the ideas/stories are not bad but the writing itself kind of sucks).
That said, the story itself holds up.
Just my two cents, Two Cents!
I got the epic previously and really enjoyed the story. I think it holds up well but I read some of the previous issues (Ned Leeds/Hobgoblin) back in the early 90s so the style of the day works for me. I will re read it at some point. I don’t think I will double dip but I may during a sale someday.
I just finished the original 6-part story from the book. I forgot all about the Vermin character. I also forgot how beautiful the artwork by Mike Zeck is.