First up thanks very much Mr. NT for The Stuff. It was (and is - it'll take time to devour it all) awesome and some of it seemed tailor made for my own weird taste. Cheers.
"just", Effendi? "Just"!
"Just" over one thousand pulse-pounding pages of natty nostalgia between two coruscating covers; the titanic tales that talentless thickwits have been sensationally strip mining for delirious decades! And the man says "Just"!? Not enough of a bombastic bargain, huh? Well how about the Sensational One throws in the original libidionous letter pages? Thrill as Paul "Teenie" Gambaccini declares the Fantastic Four "awful" before Damascusly declaring them to be "rad"! Rapturously read the benign and becalmed Bullpen bulletins; with the feverish and frenetic fanfares of The Salacious One himself! Excite the egghead within with ecstatic essays by pulsating personages as Jon B Cooke! More!, you challengingly cry, More! Well just for you the Sexadelicious One has let the Humpable House Of Ideas raunchily reproduce each and every proudly quivering page bigger than ever before!
Excelsior!
So yes, you are correct, but you get the letters pages and some essays. Oh,and the pages are bigger. What I want to know is; where are the Omnibook solicitations for:
Thor (Jack "You KNOW" Kirby) Thor (Walter "Odinson" Simonson) Captain Marvel (The Gene "The Dean", Gil "Sweet Lips" Kane and Jim "Stirring" Starlin run) Dr.Strange (Ditko and beyond!) ROM: Space Knight (You'd all buy it, really.)
Admittedly they are good value for money (cost of 3 volumes of MM against that of 1 Omnibus edition) but surely they could have come up with new introductions, and something more interesting than reprinting the letters pages.
I'd say it was like you could read my mind but we all know you are The Watcher and Know And See All. Cheers muchly for the bespoke magic. "In an age when Giants walked the Earth - HE was the mightiest of all!" 'Nuff Said!
I just checked my Omnibooks and I must offer correction to my earlier generally true but specifically false statement. The more recent the reprinted contents the more you get.
The Frank Miller Omnibooks have pencil art pages, script pages, interviews and stuff making them the best in terms of extras. But the Frank Miller Daredevil Omnibus (with Born Again) is a little excessive including as it does the inside front covers and back covers of Born Again and Love and War. Which if you want to relive the heady drama of the original indicia and barcodes is just excellent.
The older stuff (Spidey, Hulk, FF) will be letters pages and essays. Although there is the odd pencil art repro and (bafflingly) a gallery of covers of the reprint appearances of the stories. But hey! It's the stories you're after and here they are bigger than ever! Did I mention the pages are bigger?
Maybe they'll do a few Omnibooks collecting John Byrne's FF run? That'd be good.
(I think Ryan O'Neal just turned up in Bones. If he hasn't had some "work" done, I'm Moon Boy.)
