Hideous costume updated to be even more hideous: This person does not care for Sensor Girl’s new costume, as seen on a cover image of an upcoming issue of Adventure Comics. (Via When Fangrils Attack)
Tim O’Neil is really into Top Dog: And thus the X-Babies miniseries was worthwhile after all.
Curt Purcell would really like to read some popular DC comics in trade: So why doesn’t DC have them ready for him to purchase in an agreeable format?
Must you read Tony Isabella’s 1000 Comic Books You Must Read?: Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon and Wired’s Hugh Hart weigh in.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:18 am
DC and their multiple volumes to cover one storyline is total bullshit. For the longst time, Hush was collected in two skimpy volumes. Superman: For Tommorow is STILL only available as two thin, overpriced volumes. All-Star Superman? Sinestro Corps War? Same deal… You want them? Gotta buy them in mutiple volumes. It’s crap. None of these would be oversized Omnibus style books. I’ve never understood DC’s reasoning in this. It just keeps me from buying stuff I’d like to read.
Oh, and it’s a different matter entirely, but when the hell is DC ever going to collect Mike Grell’s run Green Arrow? Unlike today, that Green Arrow was a great title.
December 12th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
I’ll second what Shaun said. I don’t like to compare the two, but in this case, Marvel’s HC program is vastly superior. Not only to they put out practically everything in collected forms, they generally put out large collections. If I’m not mistaken, didn’t they put out 2 tpb for the first Ultimates run fairly quickly, then much later down the line put out the hardcover of the whole series? That seems like a good way to do things.
December 13th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I was always under the impression that Marvel did worse in regards to trade releases (based on DC’s Vertigo and ‘evergreen’ output) until I started looking up some DCU titles a few week ago. Boy was I wrong.
Batman R.I.P., for example (which FINISHED in November 2008) is still not available in softcover. It won’t be until May 2010. Roughly 1&1/2 years. The Green Lantern titles also seem to share similar release gaps. At least Marvel keeps their SC releases within a year of publication.
Just noticed the first of the Dark Reign books for Punisher as well as Dark/Mighty/New Avengers while in Borders the other day. All from their first publication issues from the first half of this year and all now available in softcover. Which is around what it should be. Spider-Man keeps about a year behind in SC, but the 3 issues a month thing is a more legitimate excuse to me.
So I guess I can look forward to reading (in my hands, at least) Batman & Robin and Blackest Night in about 2012. Joy.