Standard sized
Deluxe
Omnibus
Absolute
Gotham Central / Planetary Omniboo
I have the first printing of Planetary and while he binding is a bit stiff but it's not horrible and afaik the later printings or at least one of the later printings improved on the flexibility of binding. Still better than what it used to be.
Also as other's said it has printed cover which combined with the fact that it's a bit thinner than GC makes Planetary feel a sturdier book.
Also this is the only oversized version that collects the JLA, Batman and Authority crossovers too, the absolutes and the trades didn't so you had to pick up the deluxe. And that Batman story alone worth owning the whole thing in one package IMHO.
Don't know if the Knightfall omni has been discussed recently, but on the subject of omnibus quality, I am very happy with it. Thick paper (but pretty wavy in my climate), nice binding, art-printed cover. Is it safe to say that DC's omni paper quality has truly overtaken Marvel's?
Question: I'm about to finish the Flash by Morrison & Millar TPB. Really liked it overall. Is there really no collected edition that follows it up? I think the next issue is Wally West's wedding, and the return of Mark Waid, so I would have expected that to be collected somewhere!
Waid came back to tell one more story (Dark Flash/Walter West) before Johns took over. Its self-contained, so you can skip it for the time being and read John's run. The first 2 books of Waid's run are available. They look to be doing 3 a year, so it'll be about 3 years before we get to the end (assuming his Impulse will also be a part of these expanded re-releases).
He only did a year and a half I think, so I'm half expecting it to be collected in the Flash volumes. So far, all cross-overs and even stuff not by Waid has made it into the books. Since they cross during "Dead Heat", I know those will at least be included.
Thank you all for clarifying the Planetary omni. I've had that book on my IST wish list forever, like seriously at the very bottom of it now. Looks like it's time to finally click that add to cart button.
Cheers for the info, I have the Absolutes already but the slipcases got damaged and I'm considering replacing them.
I used to own Hawkman(and the Flash Omnis, Orion etc) so I'm a bit sceptical of DCs Omnis after those experiences.
This is all great stuff, good to hear they'e put out a better product and then gone back and improved it.
Atm I have the Absolutes and the Crossing Worlds TPB, not an ideal situation. So the Omnibus sounds like it will inch me closer to my collection nirvana of upgrading all of my tpbs to HCs and it will be worth reading too.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/05...e-collections/
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