Starman Omnibus #2
Huzzah! The second opus of Starman was indeed at my beloved Comic Book Shoppe, and I managed to get my greedy little hands on it. Matt had ordered four copies, and they all went lickety split.
It's a lovely hardcover edition, and it just happens to include the issues from Starman #17 through 29. In addition, they threw in the first Starman Annual, and issue #12 from Showcase '95 and issues #4 and 5 from Showcase '96 for good measure. It ain't cheap, but I think that it's a good value nevertheless. I've been trying to track down some of the early issues from Starman for quite some time, and now I don't have to.
Incidentally, the Starman Omnibus #3 is supposed to come out on June 17, which incidentally is my birthday, so my Sweet Baboo has a ready-made PERFECT present for me this year. It is also a much smaller gap in the amount of time between the release of #2 and #3, because it has simply been AGES since the first one came out, I think it was possibly spring of LAST year.
There's even a nice foreward from Tony Harris,who did so much of the very distinctive artwork, and an afterward by James Robinson, AND a whole bunch of the "Times Past" type entries from the Shade's Journal, that are sweet indeed.
So...if you happen to have an extra $50 or so lying around, and are in the mood for a REALLY fabulous story and art, this is definitely the way to go. And unlike stocks or bonds or even a meal in a nice restaurant, this will stay with you, and can be taken out and re-read any time that you like.
Starman is a bit like Blue Beetle to me. I like Jack, the central character of course, but I like the supporting cast even more, such as Shade and the O'Dares, Mikaal, Ted Knight, the Dibny's and even the city of Opal itself. Really really good stuff.
posted by SallyP @ 7:01 AM
4 Comments:
$50! Wow. I'm used to the hardcover editions being pricey, but it's still a shock to hear about it. I still need to go pick up the latest Neal Adams collection, but those are pricey, too!
Glad you finally got your Omnibus, Sally! Now, the question is, is #3 REALLY going to come out when they say it is? ;-)
I sure HOPE that the third volumn comes out when they say it will. I can't really understand why it wouldn't, actually, it is all printed material, it isn't as though they are waiting on an artist or a writer, although I suppose writing a foreward or two takes a little bit of time.
But yes, it's not cheap. On the other hand, there is a LOT of content, so I suppose that it all works out in the end. Expensive or not, they flew off the shelf at my comic book store.
I tried to get into Starman when it came out, and just couldn't seem to do it. A collection might be a good way to do, so I can read a good chunk all at once and get sucked it. But $50? Ow. Are there Starman trades? LOL!
And I gave you an award:
http://comicsnthings.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-got-premio-dardo.html
Tony, there are quite a number of trades, but some of them are out of print, so it is hard to find quite a bit of the earlier stuff. But the softcover trades of the later work are pretty readily available and fairly inexpensive.
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