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Marvel Announces "Epic Collection" Graphic Novel Format

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  • nweathingtonnweathington Posts: 6,748

    ctowner1 said:

    I just hope that these aren't intended to replace the Masterworks series, because, if so, I will be quite upset.

    It could be - I mean are they goign to have complete color reprints of the entire runs of their books twice?
    They already do, with the Masterworks volumes coming out in both hardcover and the later paper trades.
    ctowner1 said:

    OTOH, perhaps these are on cheaper paper?

    Which is why I would be upset if these were replacing the Masterworks. I'm investing money in slowly acquiring the archival class hardcovers on good stock paper -- I don't want to suddenly have a shift to volumes with cheaper paper and poor reproduction values.
    I seriously doubt they’ll end the Masterworks line. Marvel has always been about repackaging material in different formats. Converting the original art to digital and recoloring it takes time and money, so the more mileage they can get from it the better. Perhaps they’ll slow down production of the Masterworks, or end series when they reach a certain point in time, and perhaps they’ll lower the print runs and not worry so much about keeping Masterworks in print very long, but I don’t expect them to go away.
  • SteevenSteeven Posts: 215
    These look pretty sweet!
  • SolitaireRoseSolitaireRose Posts: 1,445

    ctowner1 said:

    I just hope that these aren't intended to replace the Masterworks series, because, if so, I will be quite upset.

    It could be - I mean are they goign to have complete color reprints of the entire runs of their books twice?
    They already do, with the Masterworks volumes coming out in both hardcover and the later paper trades.
    ctowner1 said:

    OTOH, perhaps these are on cheaper paper?

    Which is why I would be upset if these were replacing the Masterworks. I'm investing money in slowly acquiring the archival class hardcovers on good stock paper -- I don't want to suddenly have a shift to volumes with cheaper paper and poor reproduction values.
    I seriously doubt they’ll end the Masterworks line. Marvel has always been about repackaging material in different formats. Converting the original art to digital and recoloring it takes time and money, so the more mileage they can get from it the better. Perhaps they’ll slow down production of the Masterworks, or end series when they reach a certain point in time, and perhaps they’ll lower the print runs and not worry so much about keeping Masterworks in print very long, but I don’t expect them to go away.
    The Masterworks has become a HUGE moneymaker for Marvel, not just because it sells about 3,000 - 4,000 of the initial print, but because it finances the digitization and restoration of older work so that it can be endlessly repurposed in digital and other formats.

    These books seem like a way to reprint the longer stories of the 90's that won't ever be popular enough to be in a Omnibus. None of these books have much appeal to me, but I'm sure that people who have nostalgia for Marvel's stuff from the 90's will be happy, and really, most everything from the Bronze age has seen print in the last 10 years or so.
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