Not sure what you want them to put in it to make it less skimpy. It's going to be all those flash issues those two worked on. Omnibus, Deluxe Edition - it's just semantics. The only other relevant material is just the Forever Evil and like a few other Flash issues Buccellato did after Manapul left the title.

I like my omnibuses bigger and better, it kind of diminishes what the word means. I understand the main attraction is Manapul's art, so they didn't want to offer a deeper run on the title from when after he left.

Personal preference aside, Omnibus doesn't technically mean big bulky book. The technical definition via Google search is "a volume containing several novels or other items previously published separately" and defined by Merriam-Webster as "a book containing reprints of a number of works."

This is an Omnibus of all the Flash with those two as the main creative team. Just like that tiny Devil Dinosaur by Jack Kirby Omnibus is the totality of Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur works, all 9 issues of it or whatever. And it's not like the 25 issues here is some paltry number. That's similar to say, the first Captain America by Ed Brubaker Omnibus. (Though with today's choice of thinner paper it will probably look significantly smaller.)

I have yet to read Forever Evil: Rogues Revolution by Buccellato, but Buccellato's story in the Flash Annual and his final arc found in the History Lessons trade featuring Deadman is different tonally than what he was doing before with Manapul. And then my understanding from there is Venditti sunk the title. Past those three Buccellato stories, I don't think you would want to go deeper regardless of whether or not Manapul was still writing and/or drawing, especially since that would just end abruptly somewhere in Vindetti's run (unless you're proposing one book that takes us to the upcoming end of the New 52). And if nothing else, stopping with Manapul opens up the opportunity for a second book with what would be Vol. 5-9 of the regular trades, plus maybe that Forever Evil book. I doubt that's going to happen though, but I guess it can inspire false hope for those Venditti Flash fans.

Update on my order. Came a couple weeks ago but haven't had a chance to really dive in yet. They definitely lost money on shipping to me. Three boxes at 35, 35, and 37 pounds costing $22.17, $22.17, and $23.17 even using media mail.

I'm probably going to start reading Batman by Neal Adams Omnibis I got from Amazon this week before anything else.

Pic needed!

What did they use inside their "bombproof" packaging? Newspaper?

Inside the main box are separate boxes as well. Packaging inside consisted of lots of newspaper with the individual omnibuses wrapped up in plastic bags.

Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 2

$39.38

List Price: $125.00
Save: $85.62 (68%)

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Orig...=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Finding it difficult to resist that price, even though I own them all digitally and not owning volume one would bug me.

Yeah, last month in this thread I was having a running discussion (with myself) about how Star Wars 2 was under $40. I bit, but 1 and 3 have stayed in the $90-100 range.

Did someone hear that?

It is very annoying. It is like they are taunting me.

Not owning volume 1 while owning volume 2 would definitely bug me.

It must have sold very, very poorly. It has hovered around this price before.

It's even down a few bucks to $36 something. But I can resist......

This is one of those expensive because it's so cheap things, because I bought it, but now I need to get the other two volumes which probably won't ever be that cheap.

60% off dozens of X-Men titles at Cheap Graphic Novels. Oddly, they don't seem to include the classic runs of old and new X-Men, just a lot of stuff that came afterward.

http://www.cheapgraphicnovels.com/x-men-sale-2016/

And my LCS appears to be taunting me about the Star Wars Omnibus #2 I bought.

My LCS has had a copy of volume 1 and volume 2 for the longest time. Full retail price of course, so they will sit there until there is some sort of deal, or they go out of print.

Up to $81 now. Y'all blew it!

May be old news, but Barnes and Noble is doing a buy 2 get one free deal on Image books. I ordered and got 3 Walking Dead hardcovers for about $44 shipped. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/imag...-free/_/N-1gmj 872 titles in the sale.

Barnes and Noble is having a "Buy 2 Hardcovers for $30" sale right now. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/sele...s/_/N-2iocZucb Included are some of the Buffy Library editions, among almost 300 other titles.

Instocktrades is selling the new printings of Amazing Spiderman vol.1 & Uncanny Xmen vol. 1 omnibuses for $49.99 each! I picked up Spiderman.

Hamilton Book has put up 9 new pages of stuff since mid-January, when a lot of us were discussing them: http://www.hamiltonbook.com/products...h=Start+Search

Great prices on a couple new Absolute's, there are some DC Archives, a Tales of the Batman, a lot of Farscape, etc.

I ordered COVER STORY: The DC Comics Art of Brian Bolland HC, and that just arrived looking great, in it's original shrinkwrap. Also ordered INFINITY INC., VOLUME ONE: The Generations Saga HC. Unlike previous batches of DC books this one was not shrinked (though it may never have been?). The condition seemed pretty good, though some cover wear/light scuffing was obvious. No remainder signs though.

I did see they'd added new titles, just because they sent me a physical catalog that I happened to skim through. I got a Captain America Epic Collection, the Marvel Frankenstein TPB, and The Sequential Art of Amanda Conner, which I heard was just a random collection of stories, but that's OK with me. Plus that Infinity Inc. and a couple others.

I thought about getting the Archie Goodwin Tales of the Batman but I already have it digitally and am now a tablet owner so maybe I'll actually read it now.

They have the two Freddy Lombard volumes for like $4 each. I bought them a few years back because they looked like Tintin clones, and I liked the first story but not so much the others.