DC Hardcover Collected Editions Part 3

[victorxd1999]

Hi guys.
Would you consider Absolute Batman Inc. "stand alone enough" to be a good read even though you haven't read much modern Batman?

Most recent reads on Batman from me are No Man's Land and Hush

... or are there better stand-alone choices out there in HIGH quality production (binding, paper, color, cover etc.)?

I think Absolute Long Halloween (followed up by Dark Victory and Haunted Knight) is the best choice for a stand alone Batman story available in Absolute

[Dark-Flux]

I think Absolute Long Halloween (followed up by Dark Victory and Haunted Knight) is the best choice for a stand alone Batman story available in Absolute

Ditto. Plus Absolute Dark Knight.

Also, Arkham Asylum just got a new deluxe HC.

[drd]

My Copy of Batman Inc just got delivered. Gorgeous book. Slight damage from speedyhens complete lack of protective packaging but they were £15 or so cheaper than amazon

Heres the table of contents, apologise for the glare but you should be able to make it out.




Issue#11 and the special get pushed to after the bonus content to keep the flow of the main story

[momaw]

Just ordered Absolute Batman Inc from IST. I'm very happy to have Final Crisis, Batman and Robin and now Inc in Absolute.

It was a shame they didn't finish Inc out in Deluxe though. I may sell off my Deluxe B&R and Inc part 1 at some stage although they do look good with Black Hand, RIP and Return of Bruce Wayne. Maybe I'll keep them and hope for a deluxe part 2 to have most of the run in that format.

[Russ840]

My Copy of Batman Inc just got delivered. Gorgeous book. Slight damage from speedyhens complete lack of protective packaging but they were £15 or so cheaper than amazon

Heres the table of contents, apologise for the glare but you should be able to make it out.




Issue#11 and the special get pushed to after the bonus content to keep the flow of the main story

Excellent. Can you post some more pics of the cover and case etc. ?

[drd]

Excellent. Can you post some more pics of the cover and case etc. ?

Fronts


Backs



Dumb Typo I just noticed in the bonus content



About 36 pages of bonus content giving brief descriptions of the various heroes that show up during the run, cover breakdowns and the like. Theres no kind of introduction or interview with Grant though which is a huge shame as its the culmination of all his work on the character I'd of appreciated some sort of "exit interview"

[Russ840]

Fronts


Backs



Dumb Typo I just noticed in the bonus content



About 36 pages of bonus content giving brief descriptions of the various heroes that show up during the run, cover breakdowns and the like. Theres no kind of introduction or interview with Grant though which is a huge shame as its the culmination of all his work on the character I'd of appreciated some sort of "exit interview"

Thanks dude. It look awesome. I can't wait for my copy to arrive in two weeks ( sad face ). I agree with you on the interview. It's a shame we done get that. So would you say the extras for the batman and robin absolute are superior?

[MartinNL]

That Batman Inc Absolute looks gorgeous!! Can't wait till amazon.de ships my copy, which will hopefully be next week.

[TheTemp]

So fellow DC readers. What series do we think will follow the suit of Superman Unchained and become the next series to get the Oversized treatment from the New 52? (Damien: Son of Batman was just a miniseries!) Personally I would think New 52: Future's End will get an Omnibus like 52 did, and I HOPE they do the same with Batman Eternal... But I don't know if they will. In terms of ongoing series, I would think Snyder's Batman is a shoe-in, as is Johns' Justice League. For my hopes, I would enjoy Higgins' Nightwing, Red Lanterns, Justice League Dark, Red Hood & The Outlaws and a couple others. If not Omnibus at least some form of OHC!

[Balakin]

Theres no kind of introduction or interview with Grant though which is a huge shame as its the culmination of all his work on the character I'd of appreciated some sort of "exit interview"

Absolute shame. Love his commentaries and interviews. Another reason not to waste my money as I already have the deluxe of the first part of INC. (still, reaaaalllyyy nice looking book).

[Balakin]

Hi guys.
Would you consider Absolute Batman Inc. "stand alone enough" to be a good read even though you haven't read much modern Batman?

Most recent reads on Batman from me are No Man's Land and Hush

... or are there better stand-alone choices out there in HIGH quality production (binding, paper, color, cover etc.)?

I think you can enjoy ABINC on his own but it's better if you've read the whole Morrison run before.
As victorxd1999 wrote Dark Victory and Long Halloween are better for stand alone reads. I really didn't like Hush and couldn't finish No mans Land with all the tie ins.

[The_Dark_Knight]

Hi guys.
Would you consider Absolute Batman Inc. "stand alone enough" to be a good read even though you haven't read much modern Batman?

Most recent reads on Batman from me are No Man's Land and Hush

... or are there better stand-alone choices out there in HIGH quality production (binding, paper, color, cover etc.)?

No, I really think starting with Inc would leave you confused and bewildered (it even did that to a lot of people who had already been following Morrison's Bat-saga!).

Morrison's work can (almost) all be collected in either very nice deluxe OHCs or Absolutes. If I were you I would start with the Black Glove Deluxe, then if you like that move on to RIP Deluxe. From there you can decide if you want to get Absolute B&R (though it sounds like it may be starting got go OOP?) or track down the 3 B&R deluxe OHCs (volume 2 is kind of hard to find for below cover price), and also deluxe Return of Bruce Wayne. That will catch you up to Batman Inc.

I'm not quite sure what your specifications are for high quality books, but if you want to get into current Batman definitely grab Snyder's N52 run. They're all in HC, none are OOP, and most agree it's one of the best Bat-runs in ... ever really. Less psychedelic than Morrison, less grim and gritty than Miller. The tone, in my opinion, falls in line with a slightly darker (in some areas, more than slightly) Batman: The Animated Series. The HCs aren't the highest quality of books from a production standpoint, but most agree they're higher quality than the Marvel Now standard trim HCs.

[The_Dark_Knight]

I've held the opinion for a long time that we won't see anymore Morrison Batman Absolutes.

Theres no chance of everything Bat-Morrison being absoluted but on the tiny chance we do get another absolute, Black Glove + R.I.P. makes the most sense.

Like Johns' Green Lantern story (Rebirth, SCW, Blackest Night), Morrisons' major beats of his Batman Story (Death, Absence, Rebirth?/Excess?) is complete in Absolute form even if it feels like we're cheated out of a volume by one of them being Final Crisis.

Omnibus announcement for Late 2015/Early 2016 (Same timeline as Johns' Green Lantern) is my bet.

I disagree for the reason that it seems to me there's a significant distinction between the manner of collection of Johns' GL run and Morrison's Bat-run. While it's true that only the "major" arcs of the GL run are in Absolute, those arcs are not immediately contiguous. There are significant story gaps between Rebirth, SCW, and BN - gaps that wouldn't make a lot of sense collected as an Absolute. With the Bat-run, however, the first Absolute we got was B&R and the next one we got was Inc. The first issue collected in Inc immediately follows the final issue collected in B&R. They're contiguous. I don't think it's an unreasonable inference to draw that DC is considering collecting the entire run in Absolute, especially considering the remainder can pretty easily be collected in its entirety in two more Absolutes of similar size to the two already released. Not saying it's a sure thing, but I don't think the situation is directly analogous to the GL collection situation as you imply.

[drd]

So fellow DC readers. What series do we think will follow the suit of Superman Unchained and become the next series to get the Oversized treatment from the New 52? (Damien: Son of Batman was just a miniseries!) Personally I would think New 52: Future's End will get an Omnibus like 52 did, and I HOPE they do the same with Batman Eternal... But I don't know if they will. In terms of ongoing series, I would think Snyder's Batman is a shoe-in, as is Johns' Justice League. For my hopes, I would enjoy Higgins' Nightwing, Red Lanterns, Justice League Dark, Red Hood & The Outlaws and a couple others. If not Omnibus at least some form of OHC!

Dial H has already been announced for the Deluxe treatment.

Looking back at some of those wave one books that got cancelled. Demon Knights, I Vampire and Frankenstein were great and I'd upgrade my trades in a heart beat.

Now that Swamp Things ending, 2 thick deluxe/mini omnis collecting all of that would be amazing, one for Snyder one for Soule.

[Dark-Flux]

Id love for Azzarello & Chiangs Wonder Woman to get the omni/deluxe HC treatment.