Standard sized
Deluxe
Omnibus
Absolute
Thanks for the review. As an Amazon buyer I'm always a bit behind. Mostly just making sure nothing went horribly wrong before my copy was sent out. I love golden age Superman stories and have read my archives 2-3 times each and the first omnibus. It's great to have them all together chronologically.
Also I agree on Darwin...gonna miss that guy for a long time
Whatever quality, I just want DC to keep churning out these Batman, Superman, WW Golden Age Omnibi....until at least the 40s are finished off. Full 50s volumes might be unrealistic, but obviously, I'd want that too. 60s I don't care really, to be honest (I may change my mind when the full 50s volumes are out ).
Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
So apparently DC cancelled the Waid Flash trade, the Brave and the Bold omnibus and the New 52 Flash omnibus today.
Waid has confirmed the cancellation of his trade, but the omnibusses appear to have been pushed back rather than cancelled, but with DC, that probably just means cancellation by proxy, as this is the third time that New 52 Flash omnibus has been postponed so I'm at the point where I just dont think it'll ever see the light of day.
I will raise my throne above the Stars of God
I'm super pissed about the Waid trade, bit what the hell is up with the Flash Omni? Its the exact kind of this that would sell like hot cakes in the mainstream market. There is no way it won't make a huge profit. Are they just trying to cancel all of the amazon preorders or something?
Cyclops was right
Wait what? They cancelled the N52 Flash book? That makes ZERO sense! That thing would sell like crazy! Maybe they're going to re-solcit with the entire N52 Flash run in a massive book? I really doubt it, but I can't make any sense out of this otherwise.
Man. I'm super pissed about this. I've been wanting to read this forever but it just keeps getting pushed back and it's such a no-brainer to publish. I guess I'll just get the trades now. **** it.
Can't say I'm surprised about Waid Flash. Whatever's going on with that is something petty behind the scenes.
Brave and the Bold was a bizarre omnibus choice for Batman. Cancelling it was probably the right move from a bottom line standpoint. It looked completely locked and ready to go, though, so they probably already did all the layout work and everything. I have to say its cancellation doesn't surprise me, but it does worry me. DC has been carpet bombing the market with these releases this year, releasing a lot of them in quick succession, probably more quickly than the market can support. And they haven't been making the most sensical choices with what to release. I'm worried they may interpret soft sales as lack of interest rather than the market saturation/non-maximized demand situation they've created. I mean, Silver Age Supergirl? Silver Age Suicide Squad? Golden Age Superman v2 released the week after SA JLA v2? Golden Age Superman v3 scheduled 6 months from now, with SA Teen Titans, GA Batman 2, SA Flash, BatB Batman, and Golden Age Wonder Woman scheduled in between?
I don't do this for a living or anything, but even I can tell you with absolute certainty that to maximize profits you need to space out the Superman volumes more, the Suicide Squad book and the Supergirl book are bad ideas that shouldn't have been done, BatB isn't the best Batman omnibus you could be putting out (not even in the top 20), and just in general you should only be releasing one of these premium collections of older material every two months. I mean seriously, in June and July alone you're releasing five of these. It's too many. Books like GA Superman and SA JLA will sell in the long run, but you definitely hurt your initial sales and now you're being reactionary because of a situation you created. Arrrrghhhhh.
I'm really, really worried about Silver Age Flash vol 2 now. Really, really worried. Although there's a small chance the N52 Flash got bumped again because SA Flash is scheduled for the same time and maybe they don't want to put out two Flash omnibuses at once. I really hope that's all this is. If SA Flash gets the axe I think the classic material omnibus reprint line is in trouble. Flash is supposed to get previously non-Archived material in it, too, so the axe would be an even stronger bad sign because presumably DC sunk money into art restoration for this book already.
If this is just DC pushing things back to space them out more, then that's wise and actually the correct decision, in my opinion. But why cancel and require re-solicit? Are they going to raise prices to $100 or $125? Also fine, just as long as they keep coming. The prices have been below what Marvel charges anyway so we know the market will support more.
DC have been pretty aggressive with reprints in general lately. Look how quickly they're cranking out those 90s Nightwing reprint books and the 00s Catwoman. They were doing the same with Robin but cancelled vol 3 just as we were getting to the good stuff with the introduction of Spoiler, also "to be re-solicited later." Aghhh. I hope they're sincere.
Okay, I wrote a novel.
I'm certain SA Teen Titans and GA Batman vol 2 are safe, though. They revised the TT solicit just recently to add more issues and the other is a Batman book, a REAL Batman book. And it comes out in two weeks. Golden Age Wonder Woman is probably also safe because of the movie coming out shortly and the politics of cancelling it, which wouldn't be pretty.
But I never would have thought they'd touch the N52 Flash book. That's just colossally dumb.
I wonder if the Wonder Woman will reprint the Archives or the Chronicles that had edited content. Your right I'm sure that it wont be cancelled. I'm thinking 2017 will see SA Superman volume 1 with at least the three Archives reprinted. The Legion of Superheroes should get it's first volume next year as well as long as the program stays around.
I'm still optimistic.
Oh not happy if the Brave and Bold omnibus has been cancelled... I posted earlier that I'd had an email off Amazon saying it had been put back till mid February, so hopefully it will be that and not a total cancellation.
Unsourced rumor is no SA Superman but that Superman and Batman will continue to get 2 volumes per year and Wonder Woman will get 1 per year getting to the silver age quickly since they want to restore these books before they cant find them. I choose to believe this to be true you can decide for yourselves
Last edited by Tony; 07-13-2016 at 09:24 PM.
From Waid's Twitter feed,
Update from DC: miscommunication from Diamond. (WHAT? THAT NEVER HAPPENS!) Flash collection is delayed but, I'm told, still a go.
JLA Vol 1 & 2 Dust Jacket controversy and GL Vol.2 Omni binding have been talked to death but I would like to highlight that they got the Table of Contents wrong in Superman: Golden Age Vol.2 (see towards the end of the 4k video I put together). Interested to hear your thoughts on this.