You mean with the Spidey one? There are usually two kinds of Omniboo: the ones driven by collecting issues in order, which I think generally start from a good starting point or collect a series or an event, and ones that are creator-driven. So the Byrne FF, McFarlane Spider-man, Jim Lee X-men, and Simonson Thor ones will start where they started and even skip fill-in issues that they didn't do.

Yeah the McFarlane Spider-man,would like to see a review. Don't most people who were interested in certain runs of creator-driven comics,wouldn't they have them already((unless they were before the 1970s)?
Seems like they are way behind releasing Vol. 2 of Spider-man 60s.
Hopefully DC will get on the ball and start releasing Batman and Superman from the 1960s,afterall they are the companies cash cow's.

I don't know for sure, but I tend to think collections of stuff from the 80's and 90's tend to do better, volume wise, than older stuff. There are fanbases for both, to be sure, and the older stuff is much harder to find, but for some reason for nostalgia purposes fans don't mind buying and rebuying stuff that they remember fondly in omnibus form. For instance, I bought that Byrne FF run in multiple formats, including when it was first coming out, but I'll rebuy the omnibus. I did the same with Simonson's Thor (though that featured some recoloring at least) and would eventually do the same with Peter David's Hulk, if they get around to it.

Amazon keeps putting McFarlane in my Gold Box but I haven't bitten yet. I do have all three TPBs so it's a tougher sell. With Simonson it was easy because I only had one TPB, and buying the rest would have cost more than the the 'Bus. But I did bite on the Byrne even though I have almost all the TPBs, because that run is awesome.

This is some sexy shit right here!

Damn that is sexy. My gf reads these and I had gotten here 3-4 HC's by the time this was announced, but the high cover price kept me from it

This looks pretty cool. Always up for a 1970s Omni!

This one I don't know much about.

wow, is that the biggest since the 1963 Amazing Spiderman?

Was Age of Apocalypse even good? That was after I'd quit on X-Men. I quit in the 280s.

No. I didn't think so anyways. That's the crossover that made me stop reading X-books.

I thought AoA was great at the time... they basically replaced all of their X-books for four months with stuff set in AoA with the normal creative teams. However, it didn't really hold up all that well when I re-read it years and years later in collections (partly because the books are not necessarily tightly tied in together, and part of the charm was reading whatever came out that week). Certainly not something I'll re-rebuy just to have in omnibus format.

The recent Walt Simonson Thor omni was 1192 pages

Looks like the John Carter Omnibus has the same content (issues 1-28 plus annuals 1-3) as the recent Dark Horse TPB? Although it sounds like that's B&W--this would be significantly different if it's color.



Years ago, I read one John Carter story in which he rescues Dejah Thoris. It was a bit of filler somewhere (Tarzan maybe), but I finally found it this year in the John Carter Weird Worlds volume. It was nice to read the rest of the run, though the quality seemed to sag later in the series.

So I started reading the Michelinie/McFarlane omnibus. The first two issues were apparently the start of Michelinie's run (or I have no idea why they included them), and McFarlane is not on art yet. The next two issues have McFarlane inked by Bob McLeod, and at first had me thinking that it was going to be a long haul to get to the McFarlane art I remembered. But then there's a clear change with the fifth issue (#300) where Todd apparentl inked himself. Then I looked in the front of the book and McLeod is not even in the credits (they did not remove him from the individual issues).

i looked up an interview with McLeod where he complained that McFarlane was getting a full pencillers credit (which brought his own inking fees way down) and yet was throwing in sloppy breakdowns, leaving a lot for the inker to do. They had worked together on a New Universe title before (Spitfire, I think) and McFarlane liked his inking then, but for Spidey he did a clean, fast inking job... Todd hated it and I got him replaced.

There are other interesting parts of the article, especially the kind of old-school approach McLeod had. Certainly the Mary Jane on the first page of Spidey 300 is very, very different from the ones in 298 and 299, and McLeod explains that in his day, there was a certain standard for drawing Peter Parker and Mary Jane, and if you didn't do it right Romita Sr. would redraw the heads for you.

While I appreciate his points I'll admit the main reason I bought the volume was for the McFarlane art... the dynamic poses, the squiggly lines, the questionable anatomy, but it all worked with Spidey. And I like McFarlane's style, as a kid, much better than the house style that was all over Marvel at the time (and exemplified in the first four issues of the collection) Anyway, an interesting read:

http://www.comicbookbin.com/bobmcleod002.html

And I think the upcoming X-Statix one is 1200.

Just got notified that my Byrne FF Omnibus got bumped back to 11/29 delivery. I guess that's bad, but I didn't really notice the original date so no real disappointment.

The Byrne FF omni is also currently 52% on Amazon, $60.xx.

I don't recall seeing it in the solicits, but the Avengers omni is up for preorder at DCBS. Maybe a late addition?

I just put in a $350 order @ CheapGraphicNovels.com and picked up the Amazing Spider-Man (MacFarlane) and Astonishing X-Men (Whedon) and will be posting some mini-reviews as soon as my order comes in.

I also picked up a whole lot of older DC/Wildstorm titles I need to catch up on.

I got a shipping confirmation for the Evolutionary War Omni today from Amazon. I'm used to them being atleast 2 weeks behind, so I was surprised.

So I'm stuck about halfway through the McFarlane Spidey omni, and have pretty much lost my motivation to finish it. I said earlier that I was a big fan of Todd's art as a kid, but a lot of this stuff just doesn't seem to hold up to me today, especially the non-Spidey parts. I wonder if this is how I'll feel about the Claremont/Lee volumes too.

http://www.amazon.com/Untold-Tales-S...490348&sr=8-50

Cool. Ramping up for the new film I see.

Here is the official solicit -

And this is interesting. Is the Dark Tower re-solicted, but with a more comic book cover? I guess the first version mirrors those gorgeous Donald Grant Dark Tower Limiteds Editions.

Never would have thought we'd see an Untold Tales Omni. I mean, I loved the series when it came out, but I don't even know if they released tpbs of these issues.