Todays New Trades 10/11/2013

Hawkeye Volume 2 and some other comics or something. It should be noted that Vol 1 of FF from Marvel contains issues #4-8 as the first 3 issues are collected in Fantastic Four volume 1. That's not confusing at all.


DC have the pricey but gorgeous Blackest Night, Absolute Edition. This Slipcased, 576 page hardcover collects:

Blackest Night #0-8,

material from DC Universe #0,

Green Lantern #44-48, 50-52.

Bonus material includes: Character sketches and designs, Blackest Night #1 script, as well as commentary from several members of the creative team.

BOOM! STUDIOS

Bravest Warriors Volume 1 TP

DARK HORSE COMICS

Avatar The Last Airbender Volume 5 The Search Part 2 TP
Sky The Art Of Final Fantasy HC
Star Wars Purge TP
Tokyo Babylon Volume 2 TP

DC COMICS

Absolute Blackest Night HC (resolicited)
Diablo Sword Of Justice TP
Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos HC
He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe Volume 1 TP
Justice League Dark Volume 2 The Books Of Magic TP
Saga Of The Swamp Thing Volume 4 TP
Supergirl Volume 2 Girl In The World TP

IDW PUBLISHING

Best Of EC Volume 1 Artist's Edition HC
Ghostbusters Volume 5 The New Ghostbusters TP
Locke And Key Volume 5 Clockworks TP
X-Files Classics Volume 1 HC

IMAGE COMICS

Prophet Volume 2 Brothers TP
Savage Dragon On Trial TP

MARVEL COMICS

Avengers Volume 2 The Last White Event HC
Dark Tower The Gunslinger The Way Station TP
Essential Captain America Volume 7 TP
FF Volume 1 Fantastic Faux TP
Hawkeye Volume 2 Little Hits TP
Superior Spider-Man Team-Up Superiority Complex TP
Thor Gods Gladiators And The Guardians Of The Galaxy TP

Marvel NOW TPB's. Fantastic 4 & Gambit.

These are the first trades I've picked up since Marvel's NOW relaunched. The only change in design is a new logo on the spine. Well, the exact same logo but smaller. Because clearly making your books stand out on the shelf isn't important to Marvel anymore.

Compared to DC, Marvel have been really consistent with their spine logos for well over a decade now have had the same standard logo, varying in colours. This makes for one really neat bookshelf. Not only will these new trades look stupid next to my existing comics. It's going to take a couple of years to build up a block big enough so that they look good enough on their own.

New design on the right compared to previous.

That's my only complaint though. I'm impressed that Marvel have had the sense to compile Fantastic Four and FF together, with volume 1 Containing issues 1-3 of both titles. This seriously increases my chances of picking up volume 2. The inside covers feature a handy, chronological reading order of Hickman's run on the F4 in trades.

As for bonus features. Included in the back pages are variant covers, concept art, character designs and a guide to where Marvel's AR app can be used throughout the trade to access extra content. 6 issues for £11.99
                                         

Variant covers In bonus material.

I only picked up Gambit because I enjoyed #1 on the Marvel free digital giveaway so much. So they've already turned that into one sale from me. Fair play. The trade design is identical to that of F4. Collecting orders for X-men and Schism on the inside covers and no bonus features but very reasonably priced at £13.99 for 7 issues

Marvel AR app guide

Catabloguing: Fantastic Four

After the universe expanding New Avengers I decided this week should be the much more self contained Fantastic Four run by Jonathan Hickman.

All books written by Hickman with artists listed underneath. F4 is used for Fantastic Four & FF for Future Foundation.

Fantastic Four: Dark Reign 01-05.
Chen.

F4 V.1 Solve Everything. 570-574.
Eaglesham.

F4 V.2 Prime Elements. 575-578.
Eaglesham.

F4 V.3 The Future Foundation. 579-582.
Edwards.

F4 V.4 Three. 583-588.
Epting/Dragotta/Brooks

FF v.1 Tomorrow. 01-05.
Epting.

FF v.2 All Hope Lies In Doom. 06-11
Epting.

F4 V.5 Forever. 600-605
Epting.

FF v.3 The Supremor Seed. 12-17
Bobillo.

FF v.4 Whatever you Want to be. 18-23
Dragotta.

F4 V.6 Foundation. 605.1-611
Garnet/Choi/Stegman/Camuncoli.

Other relevant comics.

X-Men: FF
ASM: Fantastic Spider-man

Hickman's Fantastic Four is one of those beautifully crafted, modern runs on classic characters that completely reinvents the franchise. His big picture story telling rewards the kind of fans that pour over every panel and then start over again as soon as they finish.

This grand sci-fi epic explores hidden worlds within our planet as well as outer space and inter-dimensional. While the science side of things is well researched and even better executed, it always, as it should in a F4 comic, takes second place to the books central theme of family. Valerie and Franklin are the absolute stars of Hickman's run.

Highlights include: the Dark Reign intro (Thunderbolts vs F4 kids) any moment between Valerie and Doom, the absolutely heart breaking "silent" issue, the newly extended F4 family and the inclusion of Spider-Man.

I'll leave you with a text I got from my friend Matt, who after borrowing the first four volumes said. "It's like someone's taken a science dump inside my head."

List compiled with help from @alsoMike.  Thanks