Absolute Sandman?

yourspaceholiday

Amazon says Absolute Sandman Vol. 1 is in stock and ready to ship. Isn't it not supposed to come out until November?

Adaemus1sf

DCcomics.com says it goes on sale November 1. But I'll be happy to get it early.

Charmy

Until now, I was not aware of the existance of "Absolute Sandman". I honestly can't thank you enough. Let's see what Chapters.ca has to say about it.

Chapters.ca wrote:

About the Book
A cataclysmic event has struck the Earth, and millions of people have vanished without a trace. No one is left unaffected--not even Superman. A year has passed and the Man of Steel is left with many questions and very few answers. As the action heats up and the stakes are raised, one huge question emerges: Just how far is Superman willing to go "For Tomorrow?"

Yeahbuhwha?

Clearly they are made of lies and treachery.

Grifter

Sounds like Lee Azarello Superman to me.

Adaemus1sf

This is the first of four collected volumes of the Sandman series, containing, I think, the first three trades. They've recolored a bunch of it, and it looks fantastic. I'm giving away my old Sandman trades and buying these new ones as they come out. Should be very classy.

KalTorak

This is the only reason I haven't stocked up on all the Sandman trades. Neil Gaiman posted a sid-by-side comparison of the old and new colorization a while back on his blog - it looks fantastic. I can't wait till the next one comes out - I'm craving Season of Mists.

vinhj

I got my copy from Amazon today. It looks good and the price I got it for was practically a steal.

DJ Eebs

How much are these?

deadonthestreet

Geebs wrote:

How much are these?

Looks like they're going for $65 online, $100 in stores.

Adaemus1sf

Yeah, Amazon said mine shipped yesterday. Kickass! That means next week should see both Absolute New Frontier and Absolute Sandman. I'm gonna need to call in sick on Wednesday for this.

yourspaceholiday

Absolute New Frontier got delayed until Nov. 8

Sars_Boy

yourspaceholiday wrote:

Absolute New Frontier got delayed until Nov. 8

Garlic Bread

somebody buy me absolute new frontier

please

Servo

Keith wrote:

somebody buy me absolute new frontier

please

someone already bought it for me for my birthday


i guess that doesn't help you much though

Sars_Boy

Servo wrote:

Keith wrote:

somebody buy me absolute new frontier

please

someone already bought it for me for my birthday


i guess that doesn't help you much though

Did he pre-order it or something?

Garlic Bread

I love Darwyn Cooke's art so so much

oddly enough, I enjoy most writer/artists' art

and by that I mean Darwyn Cooke and Matt Wagner

lostwords

Dangit, this thread just made me go to Amazon and buy it. So much for saving money. I hope the book comes soon, because it looks amazing.

Hardtarget

speaking of the absolute series my copy of Absolute Dark Knight was just delivered a couple days ago -



It's pretty awesome dudes

KalTorak

Hardtarget wrote:

speaking of the absolute series my copy of Absolute Dark Knight was just delivered a couple days ago -



It's pretty awesome dudes

I just saw that in Borders yesterday. Goddamn it looked sexy. Unfortunately I couldn't justify paying $100 for it when I already have DKR

Toji Suzuhara

This is pretty awesome, too. I really want an Absolute Animal Man, though.

This Absolute Sandman business is the reason I haven't gotten into Sandman yet. I want to get the nicest version if I like the book, but I don't know if I will until I read it. Sadly, I have no friends who have it to let me borrow it! It's quite a problem.

Bad Karma

Toji Suzuhara wrote:

This is pretty awesome, too. I really want an Absolute Animal Man, though.

This Absolute Sandman business is the reason I haven't gotten into Sandman yet. I want to get the nicest version if I like the book, but I don't know if I will until I read it. Sadly, I have no friends who have it to let me borrow it! It's quite a problem.

Well then, your only other option is thievery. Get your +7 Boots of Stealth on stick it to the man.

then let me borrow it

Sars_Boy

Toji Suzuhara wrote:

This is pretty awesome, too. I really want an Absolute Animal Man, though.

This Absolute Sandman business is the reason I haven't gotten into Sandman yet. I want to get the nicest version if I like the book, but I don't know if I will until I read it. Sadly, I have no friends who have it to let me borrow it! It's quite a problem.

I can't find that damn thing anywhere.

Also, are they going to release more Planetary trades? I guess they'll just release one giant 9 issue trade or something when it's finished.

DouglasDanger

I have that Absolute Planetary. Very good. I got it on ebay or somesuch place for a really good price.

Toji Suzuhara

The problem is that it's out of print, now. You'd be lucky to get it for double the price. I was so incredibly lucky to find mine. It was sitting on a really, really high shelf at one of the comic stores I don't usually visit. I grabbed it and bought it straight away.

When Absolute Planetary Vol 2 comes out, I'll be sure to pre-order it on Amazon for the discount.

I imagine there'll be that 9 issue trade you're talking about once it's finally done, seeing as though it's almost impossible to find back issues. I still don't have 24 or 25 because they're so hard to come by.

Ed: But yeah, I hear Sandman's awesome.

DarkPrimus

Wait, there's an Absolute Animal Man?

Adaemus1sf

DarkPrimus wrote:

Wait, there's an Absolute Animal Man?

Not yet, but there should be.

Sars_Boy

Adaemus1sf wrote:

DarkPrimus wrote:

Wait, there's an Absolute Animal Man?

Not yet, but there should be.

Oh god, yes.

Absolute Transmet as well.

And Absolute Young Justice. I'd pay so much money for that.

I'd probably suck some cocks if I had to.

Just to get it.

Bloods End

Sars_Boy wrote:

Adaemus1sf wrote:

DarkPrimus wrote:

Wait, there's an Absolute Animal Man?

Not yet, but there should be.

Oh god, yes.

Absolute Transmet as well.

And Absolute Young Justice. I'd pay so much money for that.

I'd probably suck some cocks if I had to.

Just to get it.

If they makea young justice one it won't be for a long time.

lostwords

Oh man, Absolute Young Justice would be amazing. I've been thinking about sending all my YJ issues to that company that binds comics in hardback format, and just have a big honking book or two with the complete Young Justice collection.

Toji Suzuhara

lost4words28 wrote:

Oh man, Absolute Young Justice would be amazing. I've been thinking about sending all my YJ issues to that company that binds comics in hardback format, and just have a big honking book or two with the complete Young Justice collection.

Would you be kind enough to repost the link? I wouldn't mind having my JLI in an easy-to-access format.

lostwords

Toji Suzuhara wrote:

lost4words28 wrote:

Oh man, Absolute Young Justice would be amazing. I've been thinking about sending all my YJ issues to that company that binds comics in hardback format, and just have a big honking book or two with the complete Young Justice collection.

Would you be kind enough to repost the link? I wouldn't mind having my JLI in an easy-to-access format.

Hmm, I haven't tried this service before, but this site has some amazing example: http://www.capitolbindery.com/

The samples they have in the "Various Comic Books" link looks absolutely gorgeous. Here's a few:



Someone posted another link a few months back, but I didn't save that link, so if anyone else has another service, please to be posting

EDIT: oh man, someone actually did a Young Justice collection:

apologies for the overload of pics.

Fencingsax

Do you need your own comics for that?

Hardtarget

KalTorak wrote:

Hardtarget wrote:

speaking of the absolute series my copy of Absolute Dark Knight was just delivered a couple days ago -



It's pretty awesome dudes

I just saw that in Borders yesterday. Goddamn it looked sexy. Unfortunately I couldn't justify paying $100 for it when I already have DKR

Its 60 bucks off of amazon

Garlic Bread

Fencingsax wrote:

Do you need your own comics for that?

Yes, I believe.

also if any of you do that to your Young Justice, you have to let me borrow it so I can read it all

Sars_Boy

Damnit, I'm debating whether or not to do this.

I really like my singles, but that's just damn cool.

Grifter

I own all of the Sandman trades. Not sure if I want to order the Absolute version or not. I own Absolute Authority and Absolute Planetary. Both excellent books to own. I was fortunate enough to order them when they first came out. I'm still on the fence with this one.

Whippy

I am hells of geting this. I bought a full sandman run off ebay two or three years ago for a song, and I have absolutely no problem spending another chunk of money on this series. It may be overhyped and overpopular, but god damn this is a good fucking book.

p.s.-I really really really do not like the idea of binding comics like that, because a serious amount of the page gets lost in the spine/crease/whatever/thing

DouglasDanger

Yeah, I imagine too much of the page gets lost that way, unless the binder does something really specially, like scanning and reprinting all of the pages. I bet that would be prohibitively expensive though.

robosagogo

DouglasDanger wrote:

Yeah, I imagine too much of the page gets lost that way, unless the binder does something really specially, like scanning and reprinting all of the pages. I bet that would be prohibitively expensive though.

But looking at the example, it doesn't seem like any of the page is lost.

Cariblue

robosagogo wrote:

DouglasDanger wrote:

Yeah, I imagine too much of the page gets lost that way, unless the binder does something really specially, like scanning and reprinting all of the pages. I bet that would be prohibitively expensive though.

But looking at the example, it doesn't seem like any of the page is lost.

"Example"

Garlic Bread

yeah, there aren't enough Birds of Prey comics to fill 7 books, so it's probably photoshopped