All New Marvel Collected Editions

**JJ87** · 07-05-2017, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by Orion

Honestly Infinity being an "event" was more of a Marvel marketing department ploy than anything else. It's seamless with the rest of Hickman's run, basically just middle chapters in a very large story. Secret Wars was able to be more of a real event coming at the end of the run and slightly shifting the focus characters-wise. Regardless this is one of the ten best Modern (post-bankruptcy) Marvel runs/stories so if you're used to just picking up event books the quality will be far superior.

It's safe to assume there will be two or three volumes total, depending on if they decide to include the non-Hickman written Avengers World title. Secret Wars' inclusion is also currently up in the air and I think it could go either way.

There were so many battleworld/war zones Secret Wars titles that I'm not sure they'd ever go the separate omnibus route but you never know. Also unfortunately most of them were terrible.

Thanks for the reply, I'll probably pick the first omni next month if still available.

**Balakin** · 07-05-2017, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by Rimmer

regarding all the Ant-Man posts (love the Ant-Man love around here lately!) For Pym, remember he was "Scientist" Pym in West Coast Avengers. He was really cool in that. Although the omnis are way out of print and overpriced, that'd be your most complete way of getting those issues.

And I highly vouch for Spencer's Ant-man run. Lang is kinda a bumbing idiot at times, and not everyone likes that interpretation, but it is a really fun read. I'm also not sure how Cassie went from teenager who seemed to be like 17-18 from Young Avengers to suddenly feeling like she's like 14/15, but whatever. It is definitely in the same vein as Spencer's Superior Foes of Spidey series. I'm hoping they will omnibus this entire Ant-Man run once the next movie comes out, that would be my top pick for an Ant-Man omnibus. I love Hank, but most of his appearances are totally scattered, and the original Silver Age series is REALLY silver age and kinda corny and a little slog to read. Spencer's series is top notch and just really fun. Not a lot of comics are FUN anymore.

And not sure if anyone mentioned it, Lang was in Fraction & Allred's FF series, which was really good. I would say the Fraction FF omni is your best bet to get those, it was clearanced and can still be found on ebay and the like for around $35. the regular Fantastic Four issues were kinda bland, but the FF issues were awesome.

It's been a while since I've read YA and Mighty but I always thought Cassie was meant to be a bit younger than the rest of the YA team, like 14 or 15 while the others are 17-18. I think other artists just aged her a bit because they mostly draw sexy, adult women so that's just how they drew every female character (like how every other artist turns Kamala into a sexy bollywood actress/model while Alphona drew him as a cute young girl). So I think her being a bit younger in Spencer's run is consistent with how her character should be.

**Captain Craig** · 07-05-2017, 09:47 AM

I'm surprised that even at 60% off the Dr.Strange Sorcerer Supreme Omni is still only coming in at #5 on IST Top 10 Seller list.

Also, silly question I know, do we think Marvel will do a Dr.Strange vol.2 that finishes up the Strange Tales stories. It's about 20 issues but those are 1/2 as long and only equivalent to about 10 issues of material. What could they do to stretch that out? Did Dr. Strange appear in some related titles during that time span. I'd hate to not get that run complete due to the remaining material not being beefy enough.

**Orion** · 07-05-2017, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Captain Craig

I'm surprised that even at 60% off the Dr.Strange Sorcerer Supreme Omni is still only coming in at #5 on IST Top 10 Seller list.

I don't think it's surprising. It's not an acclaimed run or even a well-known title. I'll be getting it because I'm a 90s guy and bought all the issues surrounding Infinity Gauntlet at the time of release but it's not a book I'd go out of my way to recommend to anyone.

**legion_quest** · 07-05-2017, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by Captain Craig

I'm surprised that even at 60% off the Dr.Strange Sorcerer Supreme Omni is still only coming in at #5 on IST Top 10 Seller list.

Also, silly question I know, do we think Marvel will do a Dr.Strange vol.2 that finishes up the Strange Tales stories. It's about 20 issues but those are 1/2 as long and only equivalent to about 10 issues of material. What could they do to stretch that out? Did Dr. Strange appear in some related titles during that time span. I'd hate to not get that run complete due to the remaining material not being beefy enough.

I believe I remember that the collections editor that posts over at MMW forums indicated that they planned to do another few omnis for that run, and then the Englehart stuff

**Peter Parker** · 07-05-2017, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by Orion

I don't think it's surprising. It's not an acclaimed run or even a well-known title. I'll be getting it because I'm a 90s guy and bought all the issues surrounding Infinity Gauntlet at the time of release but it's not a book I'd go out of my way to recommend to anyone.

And now that we know Doctor Strange is being Epic collected I am going to go that route to get those issues.

**AstonishingXMan** · 07-05-2017, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Orion

You are forgetting the "X-Universe" book which took place during the event and should have been included in the main omnibus.

X-Universe doesn't have any X-Men characters in it and it's non-essential to the main plot. Cuts had to be made, AOA's page count was probably the largest Omni at the time.

**Avengers1986** · 07-05-2017, 07:18 PM

Kinda shocked this is out of stock at InStockTrades, wonder if its going out of print after 2 years. I should try to buy the Civil War mega box this year.

http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marv...E-HC/JAN150885

**Hi-Fi** · 07-05-2017, 07:50 PM