Trade news from the NYCC

DC Comics

• There will be more Absolute Editions containing Wildstorm material coming soon. As with other Absolute Editions, the colors will be retouched and cleaned up.
• There will be a new Manhunter trade paperback.
• There will be four trades of “52“.that will just feature the main lead stories, but not the backups. DC will collect those somehow in the future.
• No collected edition of All-Star Squadron is planned but did not rule it out in the future.

Marvel

• Orson Scott Card will write a new, exclusive Ender’s Game story that will only appear in the Red Prophet hardcover collection which collects the first six issues in July. The story will be called “The Gold Bug”
• Marvel will be collecting the covers drawn by artists for the Hero Initiative Ultimate 100 - 100 covers of Ultimate Spider-Man #100 drawn by various artists which are being auctioned off to generate funds for Heroes Initiative. The collected volume will, according to a Marvel source speaking to Newsarama, include all the covers except the cover drawn by Todd McFarlane. The release date for the collected edition will be announced soon, and will be distributed through the Hero Initiative.

Dark Horse

• There will another edition of Star Wars: Panel to Panel, coming in May. This second volume will focus on the characters of the Extended Universe and characters Dark Horse has added to the Star Wars mythos.
• The Hellboy Companion, will be text, with illustrations from Mignola, including old art and a dozen new pieces. The Hellboy stories will be explored in an essay format, and there will be some literary analysis and an explanation of where Hellboy fits into literary traditions.
• The Buffy Omnibus will run approximately seven volumes and is modeled after the Star Wars Omnibus volumes. Allie said that everyone at Dark Horse really enjoyed the fatter collections being done at other companies, but they wanted “really good design, god production, on good paper” for their stories. The Buffy Omnibuses will collect all of the non-Whedon Buffy comics in chronological order, beginning this summer. The second volume will be released next winter.