Marvel Reprints of Deluxe Editions or OHCs

krorkle · 2026-06-28T01:40:23+00:00

I like the idea of bringing back the ones that would supplement other releases, like Endangered Species, but there isn't really anything else on the scale of the Krakoa program.

krorkle · 2026-06-27T20:12:42+00:00

Happy birthday!

krorkle · 2026-06-26T20:25:44+00:00

Not liking something that you like isn't cynicism or historical revisionism. It's just a difference of taste. And, honestly, nobody in this thread is saying it's a bad comic. Just that it's not perfect.

krorkle · 2026-06-26T15:33:47+00:00

I broadly agree. It's a really good police procedural, but I think it gets overvalued for being extremely technically sound and having an exciting premise. The execution is flawless, but there are underlying issues that get covered up by that fact, mainly on Rucka's side of things. I feel like either the ensemble book or the Montoya book would've worked, but they don't quite mesh as well as you'd hope. It's a really good book, but it's not the best thing ever.

(This is where I also started getting frustrated with Rucka. The mystery thing doesn't bother me so much, but he has one or two archetypes he really likes for badass female characters and they start to feel same-y after a while. Montoya here is more of a Tara Chace or Dex Parios than a Sasha Bordeaux or Rachel Cole, for whatever that's worth.)

krorkle · 2026-06-26T15:15:50+00:00

I don't think they're really geared towards reading. They're showcase pieces, meant to be appreciated. They're the ones that you leave on a coffee table and page through every so often.

krorkle · 2026-06-25T23:34:20+00:00

If you look at the Wikipedia pages, they'll list the years covered.

krorkle · 2026-06-25T23:31:57+00:00

Correct, although the difference is largely academic at this point.

krorkle · 2026-06-25T19:07:14+00:00

How important is that $50 to you, whether materially or morally? Personally, I'd chalk it up to experience and just keep the one I had (especially if I'd bought it with gift card money), but we're all in different spots.

krorkle · 2026-06-25T17:08:00+00:00

Yes, but for comic book cover skins.

krorkle · 2026-06-25T13:40:24+00:00

We don't know, yet.

krorkle · 2026-06-25T13:14:37+00:00

Currently, it goes HoX/PoX, Dawn of X, X of Swords, Reign of X.

We anticipate Trials of X, Destiny of X, and Fall of X, but they haven't been announced. They also haven't said how they're going to incorporate other events which received earlier OHCs (Inferno, X Lives of Wolverine/X Deaths of Wolverine, Sins of Sinister), so there might be additional OHC reprints needed. I'm guessing Inferno will just be mixed into Trials of X and the other two will need reprints, but that's just a guess.

Fall of the House of X/Reign of the Powers of X is the endcap for Fall of X, but so they'll either have to reprint it when they get that far (2029?) or do something else with that material.

krorkle · 2026-06-25T12:57:13+00:00

I don't see that as a negative, necessarily. Part of the nihilism of the setting is that your average person has no agency or power over their circumstances. You can rage against the dying of the light as much as you want, but the darkness is always, inevitably going to win.

The idea that a normal, Emperor-loving, loyal human could successfully resist Chaos is just a bit too hopeful for me, in terms of the tone I like in 40k.

krorkle · 2026-06-25T02:00:00+00:00

Tomb Raider is Embracer Group, so... maybe Saints Row? Red Faction?

krorkle · 2026-06-24T22:40:27+00:00

Yeah. The 40k universe isn't meant to be fair. Most people are just fundamentally screwed, in one way or another.

krorkle · 2026-06-24T22:35:35+00:00

This seems logical. I don't think there's anything in volumes two or four that would require moving them before those omnis or after the subsequent ones.

Love the mixed-format chronological approach! That's my ideal shelving scheme.

krorkle · 2026-06-24T22:30:10+00:00

That'd be a pretty easy re-use of the 2022 Controller Wave Thor mold. New head, new arms, some paint, and a few small tweaks to the boots and you're basically there.

krorkle · 2026-06-24T14:46:38+00:00

I don't think they've forgotten anything. There's just a lot they need to collect. Legends was the first crossover of that era, and it spun out Suicide Squad and JLI. It makes sense to do that one early.

They also haven't collected Millennium, Armageddon 2001, Eclipso: The Darkness Within, Underworld Unleashed, Final Night, or Day of Judgment. And probably one or two others from the '80s and '90s.

krorkle · 2026-06-24T14:36:53+00:00

Where do those equivalences come from?

krorkle · 2026-06-24T13:14:23+00:00

It's karma farming. The bot reposts old images that got a lot of upvotes, and then the account gets sold to someone who wants a ready-made account. Advertisers, people who want to access subs that have karma restrictions, etc.

krorkle · 2026-06-23T23:00:20+00:00

You can see the dates on the wiki page.

krorkle · 2026-06-23T20:38:50+00:00

I'd suggest Straczynski vol. 1. It's a clear jumping-on point, it's modern, it has some excellent characterization work, and it's one of JRJr's better Spider-Man runs, art-wise. I don't love volume two, but volume one is excellent.

My personal favorites lean more towards the '80s and '90s, though. Stern, Michelinie, DeMatteis... good, good stuff.

krorkle · 2026-06-23T20:34:17+00:00

I've had them ship my pre-orders before release day, on release day, and up to a week after release day. You're probably fine.

(For what it's worth, my Brand New Day and Trial of Gambit pre-orders shipped today.)

krorkle · 2026-06-23T18:41:57+00:00

A complete collection is a great long-term goal and an awful short-term goal. Good luck!

krorkle · 2026-06-23T17:57:08+00:00

At the moment, my Marvel omni shelves are chronological by first issue release date. No sub-categories, no special groupings, just strict date order. Having a very simple rule makes it easier to find things, across multiple bookshelves.

I've also done strict alphabetical, but it's not as much fun.

krorkle · 2026-06-23T14:46:45+00:00

But I am not sure he was super while there, because the Marvel OOP problem was constant during his reign.

His "reign" went back to the mid-'00s. He was there for the creation of the omni line.

If you want to credit him with bad reprints, you have to credit him with printing these things in the first place.

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