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CCL Podcast #229 – Trading The Green Lantern Corps (Blackest Night)

July 22, 2009
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #229
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DC Comics is underway with their big summer event Blackest Night. Today on the show I look at two recent trade paperbacks that not only feature members of the Green Lantern Corp, but Corps members who are playing pivotal roles in said event. Including a few that are confirmed Black Lantern Corps members. One has to wonder if the stories that were chosen for Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: In Brightest Day (Volume 1, 2008) and Tales of the Green Lantern Corps (Volume 2, 2009) were done so by design or if it’s just coincidence. We also take a look at what Geoff Johns had to do with these books, and Alan Moore and the Green Lantern prophecies that he foretold, too.

Just a quick caveat before you listen to this podcast, this is a follow up to the Around Comics Blackest Night Podcast that is did earlier in the week (Monday July 29). You may want to listen to that round table discussion first.

As for news, there isn’t much to go on this week, just that’s no surprise. Comic Con 2009 starts today with Preview Night and I’ll be gathering and Twittering all the Collected Edition news and information I can find. Next week for CCL Podcast #230, I’ll go over it all in detail.

All this and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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Collected Edition Blog browsing on Thursday afternoon

July 16, 2009
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For the past nine days it’s all been about Wednesday Comics, Blackest Night and gearing up for Comic-Con International; let’s see what’s been going on in the world of Collected Editions:

CCL #224 – X-O Manowar: Birth HC (Valiant)

June 17, 2009
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #224
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This week on the show we talk about something from the What’s Old Is New Again category: X-O Manowar: Birth HC (Valiant). It’s akin to: What if Conan The Barbarian traveled to the near distant future only to find Iron Man’s armor? First released in 1995, X-O is a story about a man out of time and a man with the most powerful weapon in the universe. The initial series ran for 70 issues and Aric, our hero, actually did meet up with Tony Stark at one point. The hardcover itself is very nice that includes remastered artwork of issues 0 and 1-6, a complete cover gallery, script and pencil pages and a new story published just for this volume and it’s all done by Bob Layton, Jim Shooter, Barry Windsor-Smith and Joe Quesada.

As for the news this week, if you’ve come by the blog this week, then you’ve noticed that a few items popped up but for the most part many companies are keeping quiet until Heroes Con occurs this weekend. I also go over a couple of DC and Marvel solicits that caught my eye, including one Essential Sub-Mariner Volume 1.

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Chris

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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 #214 – Chris Staros, Top Shelf, Publisher

April 1, 2009
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #214
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Here at the Collected Comics Library, I tend to focus on the bigger companies. That’s no accident because they have such a huge share of the market, but I do my best to highlight some of the publishing efforts of the Independents. Today, is one of those days, as I sit down and talk with Chris Staros, Publisher of Top Shelf Productions. In the conversation we cover Alan Moore’s Lost Girls and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, Jeff Lemire’s Essex Country Trilogy, The Surrogates, Marshal Law and so much more including a few upcoming books will sure find way onto your shelf like, Far Arden, Second Thoughts, and Moving Pictures. I want to thank Chris for taking time out of his busy schedule to come on the show.

Chris

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