Well this is lovely - definitive one might say!
The colour in Journey is very welcome and its all super lovely, but on to insane criticisms...
They really could have dropped last two stories - Willy Blanko and Shickelgruber - as they are froma different "era" of Stront. Instead, pad it a little with "Assault on Trigol 3" It would stlll have been about the same size (lets not forget Assault on Trigol 3 for Vol 3 at the earliest, please?
I'd have also put "The Collector" in this Vol rather than Vol 1 - looks like they are just repeating the Case Files, which is maybe why "Assault on Trigol" was missed? There are also two text stories they should have included here (or in the last Vol) - Night of the Blood Freaks with incredible MacCarthy Art and an earlier one from a Starlord Special I think with wth Steve Kyte art. Neither has bee reprinted, so I say definitive, but this misordering and omission makes it only "most" definitive, which is a shame when its so close and obviously a very classy product
Vol 3 could then have been Willy Blanko/Shickelgruber/Muties Luck/Doc Quince/Bad Boys for about 20 ish, plus annuals, Vol 4 then Portrait, Gronk and Kid Knee as a slightly bumper one, Vol 5 gets us to the 335 "relaunch" and so on
And final insane gripe is I would have used a Carlos image that was relevant to this era rather than Bollands later version, which would fit perfectly on Vol 3 (or Vol 4, as I'd have used that poster they used on the recent limited edition HB of The Son, whch is lovely, but again a bit "out of time")
The colour in Journey is very welcome and its all super lovely, but on to insane criticisms...
They really could have dropped last two stories - Willy Blanko and Shickelgruber - as they are froma different "era" of Stront. Instead, pad it a little with "Assault on Trigol 3" It would stlll have been about the same size (lets not forget Assault on Trigol 3 for Vol 3 at the earliest, please?
I'd have also put "The Collector" in this Vol rather than Vol 1 - looks like they are just repeating the Case Files, which is maybe why "Assault on Trigol" was missed? There are also two text stories they should have included here (or in the last Vol) - Night of the Blood Freaks with incredible MacCarthy Art and an earlier one from a Starlord Special I think with wth Steve Kyte art. Neither has bee reprinted, so I say definitive, but this misordering and omission makes it only "most" definitive, which is a shame when its so close and obviously a very classy product
Vol 3 could then have been Willy Blanko/Shickelgruber/Muties Luck/Doc Quince/Bad Boys for about 20 ish, plus annuals, Vol 4 then Portrait, Gronk and Kid Knee as a slightly bumper one, Vol 5 gets us to the 335 "relaunch" and so on
And final insane gripe is I would have used a Carlos image that was relevant to this era rather than Bollands later version, which would fit perfectly on Vol 3 (or Vol 4, as I'd have used that poster they used on the recent limited edition HB of The Son, whch is lovely, but again a bit "out of time")