I don't recall ever intentionally buying a collection of something I already had complete, in another format. Whereas I would definitely read the Captain Marvel bits of the omnibus from a Thanos (or a Starlin) POV, what about if I were in the mood to read just Warlock? Or when I get to the Warlock issues of the omnibus? The gallery edition is bigger, after all. I would possibly read MMW Captain Marvel if reading from that POV (as I did for a discussion just last year), but probably not MMW Warlock. I will never read the originals or the Special Edition or the 1992 series again. Warlock by Jim Starlin gallery edition - ? The Thanos War: Infinity Origin omnibus - check

Perfect!īut now Marvel has solicited the Warlock by Jim Starlin 'Gallery Edition' for December release, and it's even bigger than the omnibus edition! But do I really need it at this point? Will I ever read it? I guess I will whenever I am in the mood to read just Warlock, but what if I want to read the whole 'Thanos Saga' from Captain Marvel to Warlock to The Death of Captain Marvel? Won't I then want to read it in a consistent format? So here's my dilemma. Then, in 2019, Marvel released what I considered at the time to be the ultimate Starlin/Captain Marvel/Warlock edition ('ultimate' in that I would never need to buy another): The Thanos Wars: Infinity Origin omnibus, reprinting all of Starlin's Captain Marvel and Warlock stories, plus The Death of Captain Marvel graphic novel in a single edition. A couple of years later, I bought the two volumes of MMW Warlock, the first of which comprised the Thomas/Kane era, the second Starlin. In 1992 I bought the six-issue Warlock reprint series, which was identical to Warlock Special Edition, but it was printed on different paper stock and I wanted to file it in the same box with the then-current new Warlock series. when I was in college, I picked up all of the original backissues. It reprinted the Starlin version, of which I had been completely unaware of at the time. Then, in 1982, I bought the six-issue Warlock Special Edition and it wasn't what I expected at all. When I was a kid, I was aware of the Thomas/Kane 'Jesus Christ - Superhero' version of Adam Warlock from his appearances in Hulk, but I hadn't read the series.

'Size' as in omnibus editions and gallery editions and MONSTER-SIZE editions. What can we add to the comic book? That's something we may have to think about.' I've got my answer: SIZE.

Add a couple of pages to that, and you've got a comic book. You add a couple of panels to that, and you've got a comic strip. I'm going to paraphrase Jack Kirby from the '80s documentary 'Masters of the Comic Book Art' (available on You Tube): 'The way I understand it, the editorial cartoon came first.

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