Collected Editions After Party

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Anonymous asked: White people buy more comics than blacks. Comics with white characters sell better than comics with black characters. And there are more real life white heroes than blacks. It should be a pure financial decision for Marvel to sell more comics featuring white Americans and for white Americans. Diversity is a failed concept.

brevoortformspring:

Good old days:

Now:

In which I go on for a very long time about DC’s new, free graphic novel and collections backlist catalog book.

gailsimone:

Today, I believe BATGIRL volume one is finally out in trade paperback, and volume two is out in hardback! And they are GORGEOUS!

Seriously, the trade design on these is lovely, absolutely beautiful. I hope you pick them up!

ACK! I’m told I jumped the gun on volume two, it comes out NEXT week. SORRY!

The confusion might be that it’s comics shops this week, bookstores next week, if that helps.

chulengo-blog asked: I saw that a new edition of the death and return of superman is coming. Instead of the almost 800 pages of the old one, this edition appears as a 1100 pages hardcover, including near 40 of extras. But still the amazon and DC websites says that includes portions of World without a superman (AKA funeral for a friend). I have the trades, and by my account, a omnibus this big should contain complete the three trades that compose the storyline, with room enough for the extras. Do you have any clue?

I don’t know, sorry. You’re absolutely right that the DC website and etc. says the new omnibus includes chapters of “World Without a Superman,” but the only difference between the new and old Death of Superman omnibuses in terms of issues actually listed is that the new one contains Justice League #69 and Legacy of Superman. See this post of mine for more details.

Your concern reflects a growing difficulty with DC’s solicitations — that is, that the solicitations don’t reflect or incorrectly reflect what’s actually in a collection. I think that’s a big deal — I don’t think you should be told one thing is in a book and later find out it’s another, whether more or less, especially when many readers buy their books online and it’s tough to return them. For omnibuses, I will routinely wait until I can verify the book’s contents once it arrives in my LCS before I’ll actually buy it, rather than pre-ordering.

Hope that helped a little.

UPDATE: We’re talking about this on Facebook now and it seems the new omnibus DOES include Funeral for a Friend. Thanks!

fluke74 asked: G'day, Will Neal Adams' Batman: Odyssey be added to the DC timeline?

No, sorry. Though not labeled as such, Batman: Odyssey is essentially an Elseworlds – it doesn’t reference established continuity (at least not post-Crisis) nor is it referenced by other books in turn.

For example, Hawkworld, though a miniseries, is on the timeline because the events were later reflected elsewhere in the DCU; but Odyssey is considered “standalone." 

That could change – Batman: Long Halloween ended up on the timeline because a Batman story, published years later, finally referenced it – but I’m dubious that it’ll ever end up on the timeline.

Let me know if you have more questions!

… The loser in all of this is the reader. There are heroes in the book, like Claremont at the beginning of his X-Men work and Frank Miller at the beginning of his Daredevil work – creators with the pure intentions of telling good and innovative stories. But there are even more examples of creators creating for themselves and not for the readers – John Byrne sticking a parody of Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter into DC’s Legends; Jim Starlin satirizing Marvel’s treatment of Roy Thomas in an issue of Warlock; Steve Englehart poking fun at Don McGregor in the pages of Avengers. Parody has its place, but there are times in Marvel Comics where the creators seem more interested in fighting their private battles on page than in telling a decent story … [Read more]

(Source: collectededitions.blogspot.com)

anthonym190-deactivated20130918 asked: Hello! I love reading your blog and have discovered quite a few books through your writing. What do you think about the current run of X-Factor by Peter David? Is it worth exploring (there are quite a few books so far)? Thank you for your time! Cheers!

I really like Peter David’s work (Supergirl, Young Justice, Star Trek novels) but I’m not following X-Factor, sorry. Watch the blog and I’ll try to get this answered for you.