Are these going to have all the stories of an era in one book? Why would I want this over an omnibus?

What's the selling point of this?

How is gutter loss a thing in 2026?!? Haven't we, as a modern civilization, had enough experience with printing hardcover books yet? Do printers and publishers really not know how to avoid this?

As title states I’m lookin for suggestions on best omnibus options for nightwing and def want some of his classic cake shown off

I owned a trade paperback copy of Watchmen that has been worn out and read front to back. I'm thinking of buying a DC Absolute next, and one of the options is the Absolute Edition.

Is the upgrade worth it to you guys, even though there is no difference in contents between the two versions?

More of a rant. Cheap graphic novels is emailing customers that have already preordered the absolute wonder woman deluxe saying that they either have to pay more or cancel for store credit.

I think this is so stupid. I see this as them not honoring the price that we agreed on. If you cant guarantee the price, then why allow preorders?

Edit: I do agree with what a lot of you have said, blame DC for the change and I agree, 100%. But I also feel that if I agreed to pay 1 price, I will pay that 1 price. I was not aware of the stipulation of the price not being guaranteed. But I thought that was the whole point of preordering?

Need some help to figure out if I NEED to buy the Messiah Trilogy Omnibus to go along with the Gillen UXN Omni? Or are they not in the same time frame?

Comics being a visual medium.. do you buy Omnis just for their good artwork?

Any idea when a reprinting of this will be released? Vol 4 is being reissued so likely 5 will be next.

Seems that the wave of cancellations hit me today via DCBS. I originally preordered it under the original MSRP marked down to $25.99. It was already steep at that price for 12 issues. But if it’s resolicited at a higher price, I’m out. How do you feel about it?

Now that the facsimiles have printed through. Do you think that they will reprint this in at least a trade soon? Or is it worth snagging the singles just in case. I just want to own this some way at least.

Like the title says i want to collect Wonder woman post crisis, and only in omnibus and ohcs, i have the Rucka, omnibus, rebirth and new 52 is on the way. What should i also get and please list books that are oop so i know which to get when they get reprinted . Thank you

Just wanted to show off what arrived today: the Ram V Omnibus featuring Evan Cagle’s cover for Detective Comics #1062. I just love that look…

Fun little story:

I'm getting back into comic collecting, and I'm taking a hard swing towards omnis and compendiums, starting with JSA Compendium One.

When it arrived, I opened up the first page and... I could barely read the text - I could definitely see it and make out the words, but I was straining. That's when I remember that I have astigmatism, a condition I didn't fully understand until I realised how it impacting my ability to read older comics.

See, astigmatism is a condition where the lens of the eye is warped, warping your vision along with it.

This impacts your vision in a lot of different ways, but most relevant to comics is lines. Astigmatism causes lines to appear thinner than they otherwise would, so thick lines appear thin, and thin lines even thinner that cause the text to flicker and blur.

You can already see how this would impact the joys of reading.

I don't have as many issues with newer books, as they do their text digitally. The lines are thicker, smoother and just easier to make out, but older books with hand written text that borderline abuse italics? Yeah, I think there's a reason I didn't get into comics until the mid-2000s and always struggled going back to older books.

Not to mention, a book page being a three dimensional plane that warps and folds makes the problem even worse, as the distortion changes depending on the angle the text is being read at.

I've also got a connective tissue disorder, so I'm often shifting and moving my position to remain comfortable, which means reading the book from multiple, slightly different angles.

I'd tried glasses in the past, but they were a bit too inconvenient for what I was gaining, given my eyesight was perfectly functional beyond the mild astigmatism. "Mild" is relative, however, and clearly the strain I was experiencing while trying to read was anything but "mild", which told me it was time...

I needed, at bare minimum, reading glasses.

So, no joke, I took the giant brick of a Compendium into the optometrist and we tried all sorts of different lenses using the comic as the reference. We also did the eye charts and everything, but the glasses were specifically being chosen around whether I could see Hawkman's pecs with the absolute clarity that they deserve! 🫡🫡 Oh, and the text. We definitely focused hard on text too...

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Long story short, this resurgence in my comic passion has encouraged me to finally get some dedicated reading glasses and helped me to properly understand my visual impairment in a way I didn't before.

And by extension, this is also encouraging me to take my eyesight more seriously, as I want to enjoy these stories for years to come...

Decided to go for a Snyder vol. 1 with no slipcover cause I could grab it for 50 and now after having it for a few days I wish I hadn’t 😂

The spine on the Snyder’s look so sleek and crisp on a shelf and I wish I had gotten the better one.

i don’t think that’s what it’s called

Outside of Ultimate Spider-Man, what are some of your favorite modern day Spider-Man omnibus (or story arcs) you would recommend?

Include the writer & artist with your recommendation so I can checkout some of their other work as well!

Hopefully it gives a small insight into each collected edition.

Natural/ambient lighting was used but due to gutter loss it’s harder to capture the omni’s early pages, whereas the absolute lays over beautifully.

In order:
1. Absolute / Omni
2. Absolute
3. Omni
4. Absolute / Omni
5. Absolute
6. Omni
7. Absolute
8. Omni

Got 6 omni’s delivered today! £300 pound for those so pretty good deal overall! (Got the MGS deluxe for 130 a little while ago too! Whale caught, yay!💛)
Hopefully when my course calms down a bit I’ll have time to crack em open!

My goal was to fill this shelf by the end of the year, I have been getting about 1-2 per month. I have space for 1 more before I’m out of space, any suggestions to fill the last slot?

I read the first 5 issues a few weeks ago and had to have the run. TPBs for this are equally as rare and expensive. I have to imagine the print run on these is small. This has been fun. Vol 5 is generally around $250-300, if you can find it. I'm fine with having 1-4 for now lol. Opinions on this run?

Acquired my first omnibus this week and was thrilled it arrived safely! Thing is huge lol! Already got vol 2 ordered will try to fund vol 3 in the next month or two

Yesterday, I finished DC Finest: Killing Joke, which I started last week while on vacation, and I finished the Knightquest omnibus. I only had part of "The Search" left to read on that one. Today, I'm starting Knightsend. The only part of this story that I haven't read yet is "Troika." After I finish this, I'm gonna read Ghost Rider 2099.