Post by cyberstrike on Sept 16, 2010 13:19:08 GMT -5
I was wanting to get a copy of the trade paper back of Madrox: Multiple Choice only to find it's out of print. Now I can understand that it's been well over 5 years since the book came out and while I did get the single issues. What I don't get is why has Marvel let it go out of print? It's the prequel to the current X-Factor series and if you renamed it for TPB/HC X-Factor vol. 0: Madrox-Multiple Choice it would still sell.
But that is not my only complaint with Marvel's TPBs it's with the fact that Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David vols. 2 and 4 are also out of print and yet another collection called Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero (which IIRC reprints material in Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David vol. 2) is still in print!
Now this makes no sense to me to have parts out of a series of TPBs stopped for one earlier collection that has no real value. If Marvel, DC, and other publishers want to make their TPB and HC better than they have to pick a style and stick with it. Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David should be the way to sell ALL of David's 150+ issues of the original series, while The Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero TPB should be out of print and be a part of the The Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David TPB series.
IIRC the only real reason why Marvel reprinted Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero to begin with was to help sell McFarlane's Spider-Man series since both he and Erik Larsen were the artists during the arc.
TPB series like The Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David are what help keep companies like Marvel in the comic book business and if you can't keep it simple and force me to re-buy another TPB (my original copy of the The Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero is pretty beaten up) because I can't get the story any other way and then I can't display them uninterrupted on my bookcase seems like a pretty shitty way to run a business to me at least.
Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero should be the one out of print and replaced by whatever volume number of The Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David series instead.
But that is not my only complaint with Marvel's TPBs it's with the fact that Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David vols. 2 and 4 are also out of print and yet another collection called Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero (which IIRC reprints material in Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David vol. 2) is still in print!
Now this makes no sense to me to have parts out of a series of TPBs stopped for one earlier collection that has no real value. If Marvel, DC, and other publishers want to make their TPB and HC better than they have to pick a style and stick with it. Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David should be the way to sell ALL of David's 150+ issues of the original series, while The Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero TPB should be out of print and be a part of the The Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David TPB series.
IIRC the only real reason why Marvel reprinted Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero to begin with was to help sell McFarlane's Spider-Man series since both he and Erik Larsen were the artists during the arc.
TPB series like The Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David are what help keep companies like Marvel in the comic book business and if you can't keep it simple and force me to re-buy another TPB (my original copy of the The Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero is pretty beaten up) because I can't get the story any other way and then I can't display them uninterrupted on my bookcase seems like a pretty shitty way to run a business to me at least.
Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero should be the one out of print and replaced by whatever volume number of The Incredible Hulk Visionaries: Peter David series instead.
