How many absolute editions do you own? Be honest.
I have Watchmen, All Star Superman, and Ronin.
>>92466198
How the fuck is Kingdom Come that thick? I have a lesser hard cover version with all the concept art and is not thicker than a supermarket book
Watchmen, Ronin, Top 10, all of Promethea, Hush (it was on sale), Batman Incorporated and Sandman volumes 1 and 2.
I could've picked up V for Vendetta for £20 a couple of years ago but didn't and now it's one of my big comic regrets like when I passed on a recently OOP Colossal Conan for £50.
for a while Absolute editions were the only thing available here in Spain (no slipcases though) so I have a bunch:
> Watchmen
> V for Vendetta
and a whole lot of batman:
> Batman: Year One
> Batman: DKR and DKR2
> The Killing Joke
> Arkham Asylum (includes the whole script which is actually longer than the comic itself)
actually I dunno if these correspond exactly to American Absolutes but they're oversized, hardcover, and usually have a bunch of extra material. I also have All Star Superman and The Long Halloween as hardcovers but those arent oversized and dont have many extras besides some interviews and sketches
>>92466271
Probably paired up with the sequel.
>>92466198
Batman and Robin, Ronin, and Batman Year One
>>92466329
>>92466276
Which one has the best special features? I'd be bummed if I got one that was barebones.
None. I appreciate the format but if I'm gonna lay down that much money for a singular volume I'd sooner spend it on an Artist's Edition
If omnibuses count I've got the House of Secrets one, pretty gorgeous
>>92466450
Dark Knight Returns has a lot of good extras (even though the downside is that it doesn't have everything that was included with the 10th anniversary hardcover). Watchmen is okay but I don't know if the new smaller hardcover releases include the extras or not.
>>92467163
The TDKR absolute doesn't soud very absolute to me.
I have New Frontier, Sandman vol 1, Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night and GL Rebirth
I've got All-Star Superman, New Frontier, Batman and Robin, Sandman 1-5, Death and Batman Inc. Expecting Final Crisis in the mail in a week or so. I also had Long Halloween but Sale's art wasn't enough for me to hold onto that one, I sold it years ago.
Really wish Marvel had an equivalent line for their books. Omnibuses are fine and all for complete runs but sometimes you want a coffee table book that weighs as much as a coffee table.
>>92466198
I own the complete sandman omnibus
Just started collecting recently though
>>92466198
Only thing close i have is the Fear Agent Library editions... and theyre unwieldy as fuck, really annoying to read despite the content being really great.
>>92466198
What is the point of these things exactly?
>>92469493
Bigger editions to appreciate the art
>>92466358
Then its trash
If only Waid got Ross to work on it, it could have been good like KC
Does the doom patrol omnibus count?
Cuz I have that thing and it weighs 10 fucking pounds.
>>92466198
I only have Sandman Vol. 1.
>>92469525
Omnibuses for both Marvel and DC are usually about collecting complete runs of a title in a slightly higher quality than usual trade paperbacks. Better paper, sometimes slightly bigger art. They're usually like >>92469458 Morrison's New X-Men was a thousand pages of badly bound comics with a single slim hardback cover to keep them together. Absolute editions are higher quality paper, bigger size, come with a hardback slipcase and more extras usually. Both are equally capable of stunning a burglar when used as a cudgel, Absolute Editions are just more likely to hold together in one piece after you've bludgeoned him to death with the first twenty issues of Sandman.
>>92469525
How is it? I heard the binding was glued instead of sewn and decided to pass on it.
ASS
Final Crisis
Infinite Crisis
Sinestro Corps War
Wonder Woman
A couple of them I only got because I got really good deals. All the ones I want are OOP, so I just get new ones that come out that I'm interested in.
>final crisis
>batman & robin reborn
>batman inc
I really want authority but I can't bring myself to buy it
The only one I have is All Star Batman and Robin, and I only got it because it was discounted down to $50. Absolute Batman Year One looks nice, but I'm conflicted about getting it just for the original coloring.
>>92469783
The new printing they did for Morrison's New X-Men is really solid. About 5 years ago they improved the binding and made the pages a little thinner.
And Marvel's Adamantium/Vibranium/Platinum/King-Sized format is so stupid large I love it.
Long HalloweenIdentity Crisis
>>92466198
I saw Absolute Ronin for cheap and wanted to buy it, but people seem to be mixed on it. Is it worth reading? The premise is super interesting to me