Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Feb 9, 2012, 9:02 am
Sterling Gates's Supergirl: Bizarrogirl is an effective tribute to Superman stories gone past. Though Bizarrogirl was not originally intended as the last Supergirl collection before the DC New 52 reboot, it works to bring this Supergirl's story to a close and tie up a number of loose ends and plot ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Feb 8, 2012, 9:02 am
[A new guest review from Doug Glassman] Ever since I began collecting the Star Wars Essential Guides, handbooks and guidebooks have been on the top of my reading list. There’s something compelling about getting all of your information in one place, especially if it gives you an expanded view...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Feb 7, 2012, 11:02 am
Next Tuesday, Collected Editions will announce something new regarding the DC Universe Trade Paperback Timeline and Reading Order. This will be accompanied by a much-requested Timeline update. I'm quite excited by this announcement and what it heralds for Collected Editions. I hope you...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Feb 6, 2012, 9:02 am
... Azrael ever made headlines as "Batman Reborn" spin-offs, on the ... be sure, is toward the end of the book, when Batgirl ... Reapers so stringently in the end in part because she recognizes ... her mentor Oracle declaring herself dead, "Team Batgirl" becomes Stephanie and ... , who became ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Feb 3, 2012, 10:02 am
DC only announced the individual issues two days ago, but let's not be silly. Of course I'm going there. This summer, DC Comics will release seven Before Watchmen miniseries of 4 to 6 issues each, plus an epilogue and a single Crimson Corsair issue, equaling thirty-six issues by my count. &...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Feb 2, 2012, 9:02 am
[Guest reviewer Zach King blogs about movies as The Cinema King] While I'm taking you on a foray into the Marvel Universe with my Hulk reviews, I thought I'd also seek the comfort of the heroes I know and love so well. I turn now to an unofficial series of sorts -- "The Greatest Stories Ever ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 31, 2012, 10:32 am
On the Source yesterday, DC Comics Publicity Manager Pamela Mullins announced a host of new trade collections and graphic novels for the rest of 2012. This, on the heels of DC re-announcing the first DC New 52 collections -- this is, for the most part, everything not DC 52 for the year. I'v...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 30, 2012, 9:02 am
[Guest reviewer Zach King blogs about movies as The Cinema King] Halfway through Jeph Loeb's run on Hulk, I'm finding this whole thing to be a bit of a mixed bag. Maybe it's a case of parts being more than their sum, but for every high point I'm finding I have to wade through a few chapters t...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 26, 2012, 9:02 am
The end ought have been the beginning of the Superman: Return of Doomsday collection. That is, the book ends with an alternate cover for Justice League #55 by Dan Jurgens, echoing his iconic Superman #74 cover. It is in this way that one has to read all of Return of Doomsday, not as a story in its...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 23, 2012, 9:02 am
... a complicated and critical look at Superman that still preserved the character' ... Grant Morrison's current Action Comics Superman). The first chapter of ... similar dilemma, but approaches it differently. Superman encounters a plant in Kansas ... recognized moral ambiguity; Roberson...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 19, 2012, 9:02 am
Green Lantern is one of those series, as most readers will know, that's continuing virtually unchanged into the DC Comics New 52 relaunch. War of the Green Lanterns, though a crossover, needed not necessarily to be an ending; however, writer Geoff Johns accomplishes both, setting up the...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 18, 2012, 11:50 am
DC Comics has released their trade solicitations for April 2012, and it's no surprise that we're knee-deep in DC New 52 trades. Just past those, however, are a surprising number of archives, reprints, and Really Big Collections. This is the trend I'm personally watching in DC's collect...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 17, 2012, 10:02 am
It's been a while since I've written a "best of the year" post (back in 2005 and 2006, even), so thanks to frequent guest-poster Zach King for suggesting it. I'm posting it before the end of January, so that's not too late for a "best of 2011" post, right? My qualification process was simple ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 16, 2012, 9:02 am
Writer Matt Sturges's JSA All-Stars: Glory Days both confirms and rejects my assertion, after reading the previous volume Constellations, that JSA All-Stars is really just a new iteration of the classic Infinity, Inc. team. Plot-wise, there isn't much remarkable in Glory Days, but fans of the team...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 12, 2012, 9:02 am
... One -- fittingly, bringing the modern Batman era full circle -- Synder seems ... is not necessarily a positive. Batman's first victory, saving James, ... " kind of plot recently in Batman RIP. Synder offers suggestion after ... of Dick Grayson's parents, Robin Jason Todd, Gordon's wife ....
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 9, 2012, 9:02 am
It's hard not to imbue Batman: Eye of the Beholder with some kind of greater meaning (for me, at least) given that it's the final originally-numbered Batman comics collection before the DC Comics New 52 relaunch. Not that writer Tony Daniel is necessarily writing it as such; it's unclear how aware ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 5, 2012, 9:02 am
The Chase series has long been at the top of my and many other trade-waiters lists of comics for which we'd like to see collections, making the new collection -- to coincide with writer and artist J. H. Williams's use of the character in the Batwoman series -- both welcome and somewhat miraculous. ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Jan 2, 2012, 9:02 am
[This guest review comes from Wayne Brooks; Wayne's local comics shop is AfterTime Comics in Alexandria, Virginia.] In this wonderful medium we cherish often there are comics that do not get the press they truly deserve and fly under the radar. Black Lightning: Year One is one of those gems. T...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Dec 29, 2011, 9:02 am
I have not read what is probably writer Matt Sturges seminal work, Jack of Fables, or his equally popular House of Mystery. I've encountered Sturges's writing just a few times, most notably on the heels of Bill Willingham on Shadowpact, but those few times I've enjoyed myself (Final Crisis Aftermat...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Dec 26, 2011, 9:02 am
[Guest reviewer Zach King blogs about movies as The Cinema King] Continuing my romp through Jeph Loeb's Hulk collections, I found the second volume, Red and Green, to be somewhat less entertaining than Red Hulk but still with enough to enjoy in this fairly brief (three issues) installment of t...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Dec 15, 2011, 9:02 am
... three issues in the Batcave talking to Batman -- almost half the miniseries ... out Flashpoint as something else -- a different kind of event miniseries ... him so unhinged that he broke superhero rule #1 and messed with ... are grown men, unknowingly entering a new universe supposedly mor...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Dec 13, 2011, 9:02 am
... But why? Are we to attribute this to the secret emotional weapon that the Rogues used in Dastardly? If so, the book never even hints at it -- nor do the Rogues appear here at all, nor Captain Boomerang, who was so much a part of the last book's cliffhanger. In terms of solid storyte...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Dec 12, 2011, 9:02 am
... : Dead Again * Stormwatch Vol. 1: The Dark Side * Suicide Squad Vol. 1: Kicked in the ... "Twelve Labors" is the 1970s storyline that followed Wonder Woman's mod Diana Prince look, returning her to her ... DC is advance soliciting a collection of the current THUNDER Agents miniseries. * Bat...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Dec 8, 2011, 9:02 am
Writer Felicia Henderson's efforts on Teen Titans: The Hunt for Raven have already been pretty widely panned (Titans Tower has a good collection of quotes); perhaps not unrelated, the writer was later scheduled to write a Static Shock series but was later dropped from the title. I picked up ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Dec 5, 2011, 9:02 am
[A new guest review from Zach King, who blogs about movies as The Cinema King] After spending several months immersed in the magic mirror of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, it's time to take a page from the book of Monty Python and declare, "And now for something completely different." In th...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Dec 1, 2011, 9:02 am
The compulsions of the father are visited on the son, at least in Booster Gold's original iteration. In the twenty-five issues of the character's original series collected in Showcase Presents: Booster Gold, writer and creator Dan Jurgens never comes out and says so, but that Booster has inherited ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 28, 2011, 9:02 am
We now know that the first collection of Judd Winick's DC New 52 Catwoman series will arrive in May 2012, and I'm very curious to read the first arc in one book. We know from Winick's Green Arrow and especially from his Outsiders that Winick is not someone who writes without consciousness or though...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 24, 2011, 9:02 am
[This guest-post comes from Timbotron, who (impressively) reviews a comic every day at Comic-Per-Day Reviews] What a fascinating trade paperback! I am always a little leery of series produced by two publishers. Too often, they can lead to a muddied product that doesn’t stand out as belonging...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 21, 2011, 9:02 am
I have been wary of these Superman/Batman books of late. With no ties intentionally to continuity and a mission just to "tell stories," the individual issues have tended to be hit or miss -- there's some gems among Mike Johnson and Michael Green's Superman/Batman: Night and Day, but Joe Kelly's Big...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 17, 2011, 9:02 am
I'm doubly excited to start reading DC Comics's New 52 collections ever since they released the details last week. And now that DC's plans are more clear -- the Flashpoint books in March, and then the New 52 staggered about seven per month for the rest of the year -- 2012 is shaping up to be a very...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Nov 2, 2011, 11:02 am
Cancelled Trade Cavalcade -- where the Collected Editions blog looks back at some trades that never quite made print. Today we've got an interesting item called Nightwing: Target. Here's the description: Dick Grayson, the first Robin and teen sidekick to Batman, stepped out of the Dark Knight''s sha...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 31, 2011, 9:02 am
It should be enough simply to say that The Spectre: Crimes and Punishments, a collection of just the first four issues of writer John Ostrander and artist Tom Mandrake's 1990s Spectre series, has a glow-in-the-dark cover. I have owned a copy for almost twenty years, and the front cover still reveal...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 27, 2011, 9:02 am
"And so we return and begin again." For those of you just joining us, we've been looking at the seven-trade collection of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles since March. Now that I've reached the end of my seven reviews on a trade-by-trade basis, I'm left with the question -- what d...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 26, 2011, 1:02 pm
Cancelled Trade Cavalcade -- where the Collected Editions blog looks back at some trades that never quite made print. You were going to see a different Cancelled Trade Cavalcade today, but in light of the fact that Suicide Squad Vol. 2: The Nightshade Odyssey suddenly disappeared from DC Comics's re...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 25, 2011, 5:54 pm
While we're talking continuity, I'll close out the day mentioning how pleased I am to see DC soliciting collections of the Superman Retroactive and Wonder Woman Retroactive specials, with Batman, Green Lantern, Justice League, and Flash collections certainly on the way. Given that each main st...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 25, 2011, 11:02 am
I care about continuity. ... Seems like almost a shameful admission, doesn't it? I read an "Ask Chris" column by Chris Sims on Comics Alliance the other day (not realizing the column was from January!) and it stuck with me. A reader asks, "Are there any great Superman Storie...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 24, 2011, 9:02 am
... To be sure, Robinson's Omega is a heady mash-up of ... any reader to madness, but in Omega it's elevated to a kind ... standard fare. Justice League of America: Omega is the first solo adventure for ... as the Justice League; here, the "Omega" storyline is just underway when ... his...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 20, 2011, 9:02 am
[This guest review comes from dedicated Aquaman fan Wayne Brooks; Wayne's local comics shop is AfterTime Comics in Alexandria, Virginia.] Aquaman: Death of a Prince has three things going for it. One, it’s a really great introduction to the Aquaman universe (it even has his origin in it). Two, it ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 19, 2011, 11:02 am
Cancelled Trade Cavalcade -- where the Collected Editions blog looks back at some trades that never quite made print. First up, from the annals of DC Comics's solicitations, Robin: The Final Fight: All of Robin''s training and crime-fighting by Batman''s side comes to a head in this spectacular vol...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 18, 2011, 11:02 am
After a day of teasing out all of their January 2012 solicitations group by group on their blog (which I find a lot more fun than having to wait till 5 for everything), DC Comics has released their first 2012 offerings -- plus their collected editions. Here's what caught my eye: * Batman vs. The Bl...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 17, 2011, 9:02 am
Tony Bedard's Green Lantern Corps: The Weaponer is an improvement over his previous volume, in large part because of this story's more interesting villain. Weaponer is shockingly similar to Revolt of the Alpha-Lanterns in terms of overall plot, however, and suffers from some of that boo...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 13, 2011, 9:02 am
... 's learned about himself over his two-volume "quest for self-realization," ... second volume of Black Ring begins with the two-issue crossover with ... drawn by different artists -- again, not the most hopeful anniversary fare, and ... post was syndicated from Collected Editions, the chro...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 10, 2011, 9:02 am
I'm skeptical of one claim bandied about in the run-up to the DC Comics relaunch, that the relaunch would clear the decks of years of continuity choking off writers creativity. Letting alone that I believe continuity to be essentially inescapable, Gail Simone's Secret Six: The Reptile Brain is a pe...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 7, 2011, 11:02 am
... my interest in the Huntress miniseries grew exponentially when I learned about this ... Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus no more! Our friends at ComicList broke ... news that DC cancelled orders for the Teen Titans Omnibus by Geoff Johns hardcover volume ... like an omnibus." Origi...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 6, 2011, 9:02 am
News broke as I began writing this that Keith Giffen would be taking over the new DC Comics Relaunch Superman title with issue #7.While  I have concerns about the implications of the change, the fact that Giffen will write one of DC's flagship titles leaves me overall enthused. Though Giffen has w...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Oct 3, 2011, 9:02 am
I've decided at this point I'd read Peter Tomasi's comic book adaptation of the phone book, if he wrote it. Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors is another winner from Tomasi after a string of such on Green Lantern Corps. With the years-long run-up to Blackest Night behind him, Tomasi is ab...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 29, 2011, 9:02 am
[The seventh in our series of guest reviews on Grant Morrison's The Invisibles by Zach King, who blogs about movies as The Cinema King] With the final volume The Invisible Kingdom, Grant Morrison's seven-trade opus The Invisibles draws to a close -- only I'm not sure if it's with a whimper or ...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 28, 2011, 12:02 pm
In my far-from-comprehensive and unscientific poll that ran here over the past week, half of respondents said they'd like to see DC release collections of the New 52 relaunch books solely in paperback. Gosh, I think you people are going to be disappointed. Given that all of DC's major re...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 26, 2011, 9:02 am
The Secret Six is back to wonderful mayhem with writer Gail Simone's Secret Six: Cats in the Cradle. I continue to believe, unfortunately, that the title is not as strong as at the beginning of the series, but Cats in the Cradle is a marked improvement over the last volume, Danse Macabr...
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Collected Editions posted an article on Collected Editions - Sep 23, 2011, 9:02 am
[This is part two of the Collected Editions review of Superman: Grounded. Read part one of our Superman: Grounded review at the link.] For the DC Relaunch, Grant Morrison talks about creating a Bruce Springsteen-type Superman -- jeans, T-shirt, more hardscrabble and earthy than superheroic. J...
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