TPBs. You collect? If So, What's on your Xmas list?

[chickrockguitar]

As the title says, if you collect TPBs, what's on your xmas list from Marvel, and why?

- Trying to complete a series?
- Interested in a new Mini?
- Trying out a new ongoing?

Just thought it might make for interesting talk :)

[Pheonix-NoRelation]

As the title says, if you collect TPBs, what's on your xmas list from Marvel, and why?

- Trying to complete a series?
- Interested in a new Mini?
- Trying out a new ongoing?

Just thought it might make for interesting talk :)


All of the above. :)

[chickrockguitar]

All of the above. :)Yes, but what titles are on your list? :)

[Pheonix-NoRelation]

Yes, but what titles are on your list? :)

Oh, alright. (I ask for alot, knowing I won't get even half of it but it's just easier this way.) Pretty much everything actually:

From Marvel:

Mostly all Spider-Man
Avengers Disassembled and tie-ins (Iron Man, Thor, Cap)
Avengers Assemble Vol. 1-4
Son of M and other Decimation tie-ins
Exiles Vol. 1 (lookin' to get into this series)
FF Omnibus
Other FF tpbs
Heroes Reborn TPBs
House of M tie-ins
Infinity Guantlet
Iron Man: The Inevitable
Runaways HC Vol. 1-2 (want to get into this also)
Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
The Sentry
Thing: Idol of Millions
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Book 4
Uncanny X-Men Omnibus

[Captain Exaggeration]

I've actually tied most of the loose ends of the stories I'm reading already with TPBs so I'm pretty much just getting "Marvel: Essential" books.... and a lot of them. :D

[kel25]

- Trying to complete a series?
- Interested in a new Mini?
- Trying out a new ongoing?

For all of the reasons above I have trades on my list. Too many to really mention but I'd like to get the few Ultimate trades missing in my collection. Along with a few series I've been eyeing but haven't tried out yet.

My friend asked me what I wanted for X-Mas about a week ago. I emailed him my TPB wishlist. He emailed me back and told me which one on the list he bought me. Glad to know it was one of the ones I was thinking about buying next but at the same time he kind of spoiled the surprise.

[milly3cat]

The New Mutants Vol 1 is coming out slowly on TPB and I will get them all...
Excalubur Classic maybe ...

[LordEd1976]

Avengers: Under Siege
Avengers Forever
Avengers: Ultron Unlimited
GLA Dissassembled
Captain America: Secret Empire
Blaze of Glory
Thing: Idol of Millions
Essential Spider-Woman
Essential Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition Vol.3
She-Hulk: Single Green Female"
She-Hulk: Superhuman Law
She-Hulk: Time Trials

I've also asked for several of the recent Marvel handbooks that I'm missing.

[Siddon]

Marvel
Fantastic Four Visionaries - John Byrne, Vol. 6
What If? Classic Volume 3 TPB
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Fables)
Essential Savage She-Hulk, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)
Essential Marvel Horror
The Eternals Omnibus
Hulk Visionaries: Peter David Vol. 1
Marvel Knights Spider-Man Volume 4: Wild Blue Yonder Tpb (Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))

Non-Marvel
Pride of Baghdad
The Authority Vol. 1: Relentless
The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1
Top Ten (Book 1)
Top Ten (Book 2)
Orbiter

[Pheonix-NoRelation]

Marvel
Fantastic Four Visionaries - John Byrne, Vol. 6
What If? Classic Volume 3 TPB
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Fables)
Essential Savage She-Hulk, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)
Essential Marvel Horror
The Eternals Omnibus
Hulk Visionaries: Peter David Vol. 1
Marvel Knights Spider-Man Volume 4: Wild Blue Yonder Tpb (Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))

Non-Marvel
Pride of Baghdad
The Authority Vol. 1: Relentless
The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1
Top Ten (Book 1)
Top Ten (Book 2)
Orbiter

I hope your just getting this to complete your collection: it was HORRIBLE.

(No offense by the way. The rest looks good. :D )

[DDM]

The Infinity Gauntlet TPB

[Toboe]

Well I was thinking about getting some of Bendis' Daredevil TPs or most probably HCs. I started collecting the title when brubaker and Lark came in and I loved it, so now I want to dig the previous arcs. Any suggestion of which one I should get first?
I also wanted to get the Frank Miller's Daredevil Visionaries TPs but I think I'll better wait for the Omnibus in february.
There's also the New X-Men Omnibus...

[Pyro]

Avengers Red Zone TPB (#65-70) - I love Olivier Coipel's art and want this so badly. Geoff Johns is great as well. Also it's got a fairly classic version of the team. I don't own too many comics of the classic Avengers.

Amazing Spider-Man vol. 10 New Avengers (#519-524) - I've got all the issues of JMS's run except for these so I'm looking to complete my collection.

I recently got into the Ed Brubaker Captain America series and am trying to collect it:
Captain America: Winter Soldier vol. 1 HC
Captain America: Red Menace vol. 1 TPB

Daredevil vol. 5-6 HC (Bendis/Maleev) - I also just started reading this, liked it, and want to collect it.

G.L.A. Misassembled vol. 1 - This was a great mini and I wanna support Dan Slott by buying it. Funny stuff. And I heart Squirrel Girl!

[Jeff-E]

Avengers, Kree-Skrull war
Avengers, Operation Galactic Storm book 2
Maximum Security tpb... what can I say I loves me some Kree


Live Kree or Die!

[Siddon]

Oh, alright. (I ask for alot, knowing I won't get even half of it but it's just easier this way.) Pretty much everything actually:

From Marvel:

Mostly all Spider-Man
Avengers Disassembled and tie-ins (Iron Man, Thor, Cap)
Avengers Assemble Vol. 1-4
Son of M and other Decimation tie-ins
Exiles Vol. 1 (lookin' to get into this series)
FF Omnibus
Other FF tpbs
Heroes Reborn TPBs
House of M tie-ins
Infinity Guantlet
Iron Man: The Inevitable
Runaways HC Vol. 1-2 (want to get into this also)
Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
The Sentry
Thing: Idol of Millions
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse Book 4
Uncanny X-Men Omnibus

Glass houses, anyways Iron Man is the only Heroe's Reborn trade I might get. I am shocked you haven't read Runaways yet though I would recomend that you skip over to Spidergirl. Runaways is way to dark for you and is very anti Claremont. Exiles you are going to love its a different series in the early years. The FF omnibus I would skip volume 2 is coming out and that is the birth of modern comics (it features the first year long arc).

[LordEd1976]

Avengers, Kree-Skrull war
Avengers, Operation Galactic Storm book 2
Maximum Security tpb... what can I say I loves me some Kree


Live Kree or Die!

wait a minute. there's a tpb of Maximum Secuirty?? When did this happen? Why didn't anyone tell me??? I gotta run and put this in as a last minute addition.

[TimGunn]

I get almost all my stuff in TPB, so alot!

I already own the backissues of these, but am replacing them as the trades come out -
X-Factor PAD Visionaries Vol 1
New Mutants Classic Vol 1
Excalibur Classic Vol 1 and 2

Regular series catching up on -
Ultimate FF Vol 6 Frightful
New X-Men Childhood's End pt 3
Wolverine Origins and Endings

Limited series I wanted to check out -
What If Mirror Mirror
X-Men Fairy Tales
Marvel 1602
Marvel Knights 2099
Secret War
X-23 Innocence Lost

[TimGunn]

Also - do you all like the tpb or the hardcovers? what about the oversized hardcovers that are basically two tpbs together? a lot of the ultimate line gets those, I've been wondering if I should switch to that,

I like to get them cheap, but I'm not sure that the oversized hardcover is actually any cheaper than just buying the 2-3 tpbs. Also I'm concerned about if they would be too big for a normal sized bookshelf.

[Michael P]

Marvel
Fantastic Four Visionaries - John Byrne, Vol. 6
What If? Classic Volume 3 TPB
Essential Savage She-Hulk, Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)
Essential Marvel Horror
The Eternals Omnibus
Hulk Visionaries: Peter David Vol. 1
Marvel Knights Spider-Man Volume 4: Wild Blue Yonder Tpb (Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))

Non-Marvel
Pride of Baghdad
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Fables)
The Authority Vol. 1: Relentless
The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1
Top Ten (Book 1)
Top Ten (Book 2)
Orbiter

Fixed the Fables for you. Also, Pride of Baghdad is great.

I've got the Fables HC, the PAD Hulk and X-Factor trades, and the most recent Complete Peanuts volume on my list.

[tetragene]

Young Avengers vol. 2
New Avengers vol. 1, 2
Women of Marvel
New Excalibur vol. 1
Avengers: Disassembled
Essential: Spider-Woman

[Sophisticated_Gamer]

I'm trying to get all of the 4 AOA books, and 52 stuff

[The New Fate]

There are a few TPB I would like to collect to connect different stories.
My local is haveing a big sale tis Fri. on everything except the new stuff from the last few weeks.

[kel25]

Also - do you all like the tpb or the hardcovers? what about the oversized hardcovers that are basically two tpbs together? a lot of the ultimate line gets those, I've been wondering if I should switch to that,

I like to get them cheap, but I'm not sure that the oversized hardcover is actually any cheaper than just buying the 2-3 tpbs. Also I'm concerned about if they would be too big for a normal sized bookshelf.
I always buy TPB over Hardcover because I like all of my books being the same.

The HCs I've seen are just slightly taller than a TPB. So shelf space shouldn't be to much of a problem.

I've only owned one hard cover that my LCS ordered for me by mistake. They thought it was a TPB when it was a hard cover. Out of respect for my LCS I decided to buy the book. It was priced at $25 but he gave it to me at cost so I payed around $16. When the book came out in TPB the price was $15. Going by that I doubt HC are much of a deal. Although, the over stuffed HC may be different. I've never done a price comparison with them.

[Polarity]

I will give Exiles a try. Probably New Excalibur once Clarmont returns. (I love Dazzler, I don't love Tieri. The Authority and Avengers Forever. Checkmate.

[The Mirrorball Man]

I don't "collect" comics: I buy them and read them.

And it's not "Xmas", it's Christmas.

And oh God how annoying I sound. Sorry about that. Shutting up.

[Lord S]

Well for X-Mas, I'll be sure to look into some trades I've had my eye on for a while. One that comes to mind is 'Avengers/Defenders War'.

I know it's probably a little early to look for 'Planet Hulk' on trade...not sure if the story is still ongoing, but if it is, I'll be chasing it as soon as it's over.

[chickrockguitar]

Well, as I started this thread, I guess I should post my list :)

I don't really collect Trades as a rule, but:

- NYX
- X-Factor 1 (Trying this series out)
- Ultimate Spider-Man 1 (Gonna start to read this series)
- Ultimate Spider-Man 2

I buy Paperbacks where I can, as I like them better, I find Hardbacks too heavy and annoying when I'm reading, lol. Same with Prose Hardbacks.

I'm waiting for Pride Of Baghdad in paperback.

[ednemo]

My answer to this thread:

New X-Men Omnibus
a few Ultimate HCs
Runaways Vol. 2 HC
Invincible Vol. 3 HC

[scottv]

Ult Spider-Man
Ultimates
and other random Ultimate titles

[TransformersFan]

I really want to get Avengers: Forever. Im gonna try to place special order from my LCS.

BTW: Avengers: Red Zone is really pretty to look at. A bit gory too, what with all the dead bodies and infected people.

[Rob on the Job]

A very timely thread, from my personal standpoint.

My Mom always gets me a gift card from Barnes & Nobles -- it's the gift I like best. Every year, I've used it for non-comics, but this year I want to spend it on trades. I figure I'll have about $75 or so.

So I've been looking at what's available and I'm having a heckuva time trying to figure out what I want.

I love "Fables" but I've read all the collections through my library. I don't want to blow my gift card on something I've already read.

I was a big fan of Gruenwald's "Squadron Supreme" two decades ago, but the more I read about today's Squadron, I don't think I'd really enjoy the Straczynski trades that much.

I'm thinking I might spring for the two volumes of Darwyn Cookie's "New Frontier," maybe the Legion of Super Heroes vol. 2, the trade of the Steranko Fury/Shield Issues, and maybe an Ultirmate Fantastic Four issue.

Then again, Mom might screw me over and give me an oven mitt instead.

[MadroxTMMan]

Is the Mark Gruenwald "Squadron Supreme" 12-ish series worth reading? I totally dig the current Supreme Power version of the Squadron Supreme.

[Love Machine]

Is the Mark Gruenwald "Squadron Supreme" 12-ish series worth reading? I totally dig the current Supreme Power version of the Squadron Supreme.

Its very much of its time, and you might find it dated somewhat...I have a real soft spot for that series thou,

[FlameOn4]

Ult Fantastic Four vol 6
Ult X-men vol 14
Essential Spider-man vol 7
and i wouldnt say no to a coupla random daredevil and FF essentials thrown in there.

[jpk]

If you have a good LCS near you, check on the back-issue single copies first. I own a handful of TPBs, but whenever possible I buy the monthlies. They need our support!