COMICS! 100215
I have realised that I do have a lot of comics built up now. Many of which I've only read the one time. I always intend to go back and re-read some of them, but there's always some distraction to prevent that, it seems.
The nearest I seem to get these days is when I decide to buy the same stuff I already own in a new format, upgrading to a durable (to withstand the repeated re-readi - huh...) and space-saving hardback. And with Christmas come and gone, some of that extra money in the bank went toward a couple of hardbacks from IDW.
They're both very high-quality; lovely thick paper, bookmark ribbons, no silly dust-jacket... And somehow, both have a slightly irksome problem, but a different one in both cases!
So, firstly I bought a Transformers book - The IDW Collection, Phase 2 Volume 1. I gave up on buying single issues of the series a while ago and tradewaited instead, and this volume collects together the first 2.65 (yes, really!) TPB. Slight problem there, as given the irregular page-count of the paperbacks, it's not a simple case of just swapping two of them off the shelf for a lovely hardback.
That's fine. When the next hardback comes along, it'll make up for it. No, the real probklem is what's missing. Normally, one would expect a deluxe hardback edition to include some extra content right? Not in this case! The original TPB contained full cover galleries of the individual issues, as well as concept sketches, creator interviews, script excerpts, cast bios...
All of that is absent from the big ol' hardback! In failing to render its predecessors obsolete, it has not saved shelf space at all! Unless I just tear the relevant pages from the originals...
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The other book was
It does have a gap in the reading order. The old annual story, 'Run Makita, Run' is missing. Not a problem, as IDW published a 'treasury edition' comic prior to this hardback, with that and a few other hard-to-find bits and pieces. Excellent! Except where it comes to lining these books up on the shelf...
They're all different sizes! Even the RPG setting book!
Left to right, the original collected volumes 1 & 2 TPB I bought back in the day, the larger original format of volume 4, the treasury edition and the new hardback. That is going to be hodgepodge on the shelf, isn't it?!
I brought it on myself, though.
The nearest I seem to get these days is when I decide to buy the same stuff I already own in a new format, upgrading to a durable (to withstand the repeated re-readi - huh...) and space-saving hardback. And with Christmas come and gone, some of that extra money in the bank went toward a couple of hardbacks from IDW.
They're both very high-quality; lovely thick paper, bookmark ribbons, no silly dust-jacket... And somehow, both have a slightly irksome problem, but a different one in both cases!
So, firstly I bought a Transformers book - The IDW Collection, Phase 2 Volume 1. I gave up on buying single issues of the series a while ago and tradewaited instead, and this volume collects together the first 2.65 (yes, really!) TPB. Slight problem there, as given the irregular page-count of the paperbacks, it's not a simple case of just swapping two of them off the shelf for a lovely hardback.
That's fine. When the next hardback comes along, it'll make up for it. No, the real probklem is what's missing. Normally, one would expect a deluxe hardback edition to include some extra content right? Not in this case! The original TPB contained full cover galleries of the individual issues, as well as concept sketches, creator interviews, script excerpts, cast bios...
All of that is absent from the big ol' hardback! In failing to render its predecessors obsolete, it has not saved shelf space at all! Unless I just tear the relevant pages from the originals...
***
The other book was
It does have a gap in the reading order. The old annual story, 'Run Makita, Run' is missing. Not a problem, as IDW published a 'treasury edition' comic prior to this hardback, with that and a few other hard-to-find bits and pieces. Excellent! Except where it comes to lining these books up on the shelf...
They're all different sizes! Even the RPG setting book!
Left to right, the original collected volumes 1 & 2 TPB I bought back in the day, the larger original format of volume 4, the treasury edition and the new hardback. That is going to be hodgepodge on the shelf, isn't it?!
I brought it on myself, though.