Standard sized
Deluxe
Omnibus
Absolute
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Yes, two words: Flash-Waid
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Last edited by JBatmanFan05; 03-19-2015 at 05:46 AM.
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Your conversation with JBatmanFan05 just added the new softcover edition of Final Crisis to my wishlist.
I read Final Crisis when it came out but exchanged my floppies to get more paperbacks and never bought a collected edition. So this would complete my Batman by Morrison TPB collection (which is the only consistent format the run has been released in).
I'd love to have the whole run in hardcover, but until all Absolutes are solicited (which won't happen, by the looks of it), I'll stick to the softcovers.
What does the Absolute change from the standard-sized HCs and TPBs? I do know that Burnham was to redraw some of the fill-in pages, but that was no incentive enough to justify the upgrade in my opinion, besides the fact that Morrison's cool farewell essay is not included in the Absolute.
The only difference for Absolute Batman Inc is that all the pages are now from Burnham, some of the pages are so much better because he reworked them. Changing the paneling and angles on a few pages but the content is the same. Similar to Final Crisis they changed up some of the paneling, but they did not add new pages like they did in Final Crisis. We3 also got some pages added when it got put into deluxe format, I am a big fan of it especially Batman Inc changes as Burnham is fantastic.
I get what you're saying, but it truly is a classic run that stands the test of time. Seriously, if you can get it cheap, do yourself a favor and hold your nose and get the floppies or the tpbs. It is worth it.
In fact, that whole volume (I believe it began publication in 1987) is excellent - even the stuff before Waid is pretty good.
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I bought the single HC editions. Found that they lack in so many ways, that I stopped buying these HCs alltogether for the whole series/edition. The focus on one artist as so many downsides, like missing stories or covers, that were painted by another artist. Absolutely wrong presentation.
If they come up with a consistent presentation focused on complete stories and full reproduction of the comics, in complete order (!), I am in. But these best of centric editions are not for me.
LOL, DC finally puts out a Batman omnibus and people start complaining.
Don't get me wrong, I understand your arguments, but I for one will be buying the Neal Adams omnibus.
However, I wish they'd release the O'Neil Adams Green Arrow/Lantern in Absolute instead. And no, that slipcase edition doesn't count.
I agree with everything you've said, The O'Neil omnibus has its problems but i'll be supporting it anyway. I don't have the material in any other format and considering how much we've been wanting a Batman omni it seems silly not to support the one they do actually put out.
GA/GL deserves an Absolute, I have the slipcased version you speak about and its really nice book with pride of place in my collection but its not oversized. Its getting a Gallery edition (DC's version of IDW Artist Edition) sometime late in 2015 and of the 7 Gallery Editions they've announced (Batman by Kelly Jones, Ronin, Dark Knight Returns, Sandman, Superman/Batman by Michael Turner, GA/GL, Killing Joke) 4 of them have Absolute editions out already so who knows what could happen.