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Collecting the Publishers: America’s Best Comics

April 17, 2009
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America’s Best Comics (aka ABC) is the former Wildstorm and later DC Comics imprint headed by Alan Moore. Founded in 1999, it is best known for publishing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Nearly everything that ABC has put out has been collected in some way or another. Here are a few:

  • The Official America’s Best Comics website has merged with the Wildstorm site.
  • The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Absolute Edition Slipcased Hardcover Volume 1, 2 and The Black Dossier.
  • Absolute Promethea Vol. 1 Slipcased Hardcover collects Promethea #1-12, due in stores September 30, 2009.
  • America’s Best Comics TPB A Who’s Who of fantastic comics creators comes together for this handsome volume collecting the America’s Best Comics Special, The Abc Sketchbook, And The Many Worlds Of Tesla Strong.
  • Tom Strong
    • Books 1-6 In both Hardcover and Softcover. Collects the entire 36 issue run and Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales Volumes 1-2 collects the 12 issues series.
  • Top 10
    • Top 10: Book One (issues 1-7), Top 10: Book Two (issues 8-12), Smax, which was set directly after the series’ conclusion (issues 1-5), Top 10: The Forty-Niners and Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct (issues 1-5).

CCL Podcast #178 – Ex Machina Deluxe HC

July 9, 2008
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #178

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Sometimes a comic book comes along and makes you think. It makes you think about the world you live in; makes you think about your own life and makes you think about comic books in general and how they definitely are not just for kids. Writer Brian K. Vaughn (Y: The Last Man) and artist Tony Harris (Starman) do exactly that in Ex Machina and that is the reason we feature it on the CCL Podcast today. Yes, all of it is excellent story wise and artistically, but it’s with the incoherent editing of this Deluxe Hardcover from DC Comics/Windstorm, that I have a problem with.

Also on the show, as promised I tell you about my conspiracy theory with the upcoming X:Men: Longshot Premiere Classic Hardcover and its’ subsequent and timely Press Release from over the past weekend. And I read off a few e-mails regarding the Marvel Illustrated books and who they really meant for – and yes I have an issue with that, too.

So basically the show today is a very cynical view of things. All this and The New Releases of the Week.

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Chris

Links of note:
Fanboy
Timothy Callahan
Nine Panel Nerds Podcast
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