The first one is of the old higher quality construction. It's not often you can reasonably predict a future clearance omni, but I would put money on this one being that. The first one could be had for $20-30 up to two years after it's release (haven't checked prices recently). If you can wait for a few years, or possibly less on this one, you can have more issues in a lower quality build. I picked it up about a year and half ago going in blind, because it was a cheap book and figured what the heck for $20 and loved the story, so I would definitely recommend getting one of them. The choice boils down to issue count verse build quality. If you are going to go for new print definitely ride out the time it is about as big a lock for clearance as you can have imo.