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Glad you liked Death/Return as well. I read the first tpb and wasn’t feeling it. I’ll go back to it at some point. I could definitely see why many consider it as DC just using it to jumpstart sales. It read as very cheesy to me. The Exile Omni has been much more readable. I’m a third of the way through and I haven’t felt like I’m forcing myself to go along at all the way I was with death/return. But I don’t want to judge that period until I’ve read the whole thing. Maybe will make my way to it after finishing exile.
I mean yeah it's really gimmicky, it certainly was when it was originally released too (if you're old enough to remember that). But once you get past that stuff and into the Reign of the Supermen issues, which I'd never read, I absolutely loved the rest of the book. I enjoyed that omni way more than I thought I would I highly recommend it.
It also helps that I bought some of the TPBs of issues between the two omnis, since it'll probably be forever until they release omnis conn citing the two.
That’s good to know. I didn’t make it that far before so will give it another try. Also, not too familiar with the gap between exile and death/return. Just did some quick research and looks like I need to collect the following issues unless I’m mistaken: Action Comics 647-683, Action Comics Annual 3-4, Superman 38-73, Adventures of Superman 461-494, Superman: The Man of Steel 1-17. That comes out to 126 issues which is enormous. Man they need an omnibus collecting all this. No idea why Superman has such few omnis especially when compared to Batman. I can’t imagine that all this has been collected in trades. I’ll do further research on it. I’m right now in the process of collecting all nine Byrne trades. Have four of the nine but some go for a lot on the secondary market. Thanks for the info. Will look into this more.
Last edited by Nab432; 12-22-2019 at 11:10 PM.
But, again, a few lingering DC books after the main paper stock switch remained at $2.99 and continued to use the glossy paper until they switched to the thicker matte stock, at which point they switched to $3.99.
And a lot of people love the new paper stock. I certainly do. I've heard plenty of creators say they love it. It's thick, less reflective, and colors look amazing on it. I think it's way better than the thin wrinkly glossy stock they had before.
For myself that is the impression I’ve got from what they’ve said. Considering the first new one already contains one and a half of the previous 3 (unless something’s changed) it’s not hard to come to the conclusion that they’d be collecting a lot more of the story in subsequent volumes!
BATMAN VOL. 12: CITY OF BANE PART ONE HC
Why a hardcover edition in a paperback collection?
Last edited by Brek Zarith; 12-24-2019 at 12:41 PM.
Can someone point me to a list of Justice League books and best way to collect them from New52/Rebirth onward. Ideally in oversized HC but regular HC is cool too. I got too excited and double dipped at a recent LCS clearance sale ($5 HC box, woohoo) and now I’m just confused on Justice League, Justice League America and Justice League United (any others?). Seems like some titles are collected in HC and some not (I only ever found justice league dark in TPB).
These recent buys were inspired by the JLI Omnibus 2 announcement, lol. Thanks in advance.