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Collected Comics Library Podcast #177

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This week on the show I tell you all about my adventures at Wizard World Chicago 2008. Including the people I met, the Comics Podcasting Panel and all of the collected editions that bought at unbelievable discounts – Legion of Monsters HC (Marvel), Essential Horror Volume 1 (Marvel), Stoker’s Dracula (Marvel), Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness (Marvel and Dynamite), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era - Tales of Suspense Volume 2 (Marvel) and Ex Machina Deluxe Edition HC (DC). In just a few days I’ve managed to read most of them.

Also, there is news that the Absolute Black Dossier will not include the 45 rpm song by Alan Moore. Wasn’t that the whole point of this edition? As much as I will probably pick it up, I’m over this whole soap opera.

Lastly, as usual I rundown the New Releases of the Week and congratulations to Joe of Lowell, Massachusetts on winning my giveaway of Kick-Ass #1 and 2 (Marvel/Icon).

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Chris

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Here is the Press Release

DC Comics is producing a new hardcover edition of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel. The 436-page hardcover edition will have a cover price of $39.99 and will be released in October, the same month that Titan Books will be publishing Watching the Watchmen, Dave Gibbons’ account of the creation of what is likely at this point, the most popular graphic novel of all time. The new hardcover edition will provide a deluxe presentation of the graphic novel classic at a lower price point than the $75, 464-page Absolute Edition.

Watchmen graphic novel have been building steadily since the film was announced. Watchmen was the bestselling non-manga graphic novel in American bookstores during the month of March  and sales should continue to grow as the premiere of the Watchmen movie gets closer.

Thanks to ICv2.com

Collected Comics Library Podcast #151

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In the wake of all the DC news of late, I offer to you, in this week of giving, a simple and yet well thought out, dissertation on what exactly my feelings are towards DC Comics this Christmas. To sum up, I’m not very happy about the whole “fall of the Archive” line of books nor am I pleased that DC is playing catch-up to Marvel when it comes to their new Deluxe Editions. I’m also not very pleased as to what I found when I compared the Black Dossier Hardcover to the Absolute Black Dossier which is due out this summer. For the feature this week I breakdown the price, content and page count, to help you understand just what the heck is going on and why Alan Moore and most of us are receiving coal, stamped with a DC bullet, in our stockings this year. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t blow a gasket and go off on DC (or anyone in particular) it’s more frustrating then anything else.

As for the rest of the show, there isn’t much else; I do the New Releases of the Week and remind you about the Question of the Month.

For those of you you want to hear more of me, feel free to come by John Mayo’s Comic Book Page podcast. John and I discussed the October 2007 trade numbers. I was also on the Pop Cult Online podcast hosted by Rick Gordon. I’ll post a link when it gets uploaded.
Merry Christmas!
Chris
Links of note:
Best Collected Editions of 2007 - forum thread
Alan Moore: Inside The Black Dossier
Official DC Comics Forum: DC Archives thread
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First off, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

Sometimes things just go you way.

For years now many of us true fans of DC Comics have been clamoring for a reprinting of the Starman trade paperbacks ever since the original series ended. See, the trades were at best a jumble of the series, and left out many important key issues and mini-series. As reported a few weeks ago Starman is going to be repackaged and now we have the details from this press release from DC:

STARMAN, the acclaimed DC Universe series created by writer James Robinson and artist Tony Harris, will be collected for the first time in hardcover, on high-quality paper, in THE STARMAN OMNIBUS, a series of six volumes beginning in May.

This series will feature new covers by Harris, and will measure 6.75 x 10.25. Collecting the entire STARMAN series, plus the Starman Annuals, Secret Files, 80-Page Giant, The Shade miniseries and much more, these volumes include stories illustrated by Harris, Peter Snejbjerg, Chris Sprouse, J.H. Williams III, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, Guy Davis, Teddy Kristiansen, Lee Weeks and many others, as well as several stories co-written by David Goyer.

Scheduled to reach stores in May, THE STARMAN OMNIBUS VOL. 1 HC is a 448 page title collecting STARMAN #0 and 1-16, with a cover price of $49.99 U.S.

It appears that the Omnibus line has taken over the Archive line: Starman follows on the heels of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volumes 1-4 and The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus. Speculation can now begin as to what the fourth line will be now that Jack is coming to town Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, anyone?

• Come see what’s coming out from Top Shelf in 2008!
• And speaking of Top Shelf, Tom Spurgeon, reports on Chris Staros and his thoughts on Delcourt’s Passing on Lost Girls
• Page-By-Page Annotations by Jess Nevins, Annotations And Other Pursuits, for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. If you’ve never been to this site you really owe it to yourself to do so and be prepared to spend the next few hours there.
• Podcasting: The Catholics at St. Joespeh’s get in the game
• Politics: Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris Tell America How It’s Gonna Be

And a special thanks to all of you who read my blog, download my podcast and use this site as a news, entertainment and resource tool. I could not to it without your continued support.

Welcome back to the new Collected Comics Library. Many of you may notice nothing, but if you look carefully to the URL in your web browser you’ll notice that it has changed. This week I decided to migrate everything from my Blogspot page back to the original URL of http://www.collectecomicslibary.com . Please change your bookmark accordingly. I’m now using WordPress for the software and this will allow me a ton more functionality. This will be a great benefit to you, the reader and listener.

One neat addition is the use of an app called PodPress. Now you’ll be able to click on the player and listen to that certain podcast that you choose, please note I’m still on the process of doing this, so give me a few days to update everything. I’ll be posting other updates for the next week or so, but for now just know that everything is accessible the way it was before and feel free to write me with any questions you may have.

With all the coding that I’ve been doing the past three days, I’ve missed out on the news, so I’ll have top catch up this weekend. Here are a few links I did come across:

• Good friend of the CCL, Bob Greenberger, has announced on his blog that his is writing and editing, The Essential Batman Encyclopedia, an A-Z updating of Michael Fleisher’s original Batman Encyclopedia. That right it will cover everything Batman from 1939-2007. Wow! The book is set for a June 10, 2008 release.
• DC Comics, Random House Ink Distribution Pact
• Eric Henrickson, The Detroit News, writes about All-Ages Comic Books
• Entertainment Weekly is featuring a 4 page preview of the new The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Graphic Novel, The Black Dossier by Alan Moore

Collected Comics Library Podcast #135
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