Pimping the Trades: SHAKARA!

[The Adventurer]

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It is a shame we couldn't have had the trade held back until the second book finished, then had the whole tale to date presented in one bulkier volume, but it's hard to be churlish when presented with a book like this.
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Things as I see it, the first Shakara Book was printed when the art in 2000AD was narrower then it is now, so the 2nd book will have the current "magazine" dimentions.  So unless you wanted alot of wasted whitespace in the first book section or shrunk art in the Book 2 section, splitting the book makes some sense.

As it is, as soon as I finish up picking up all the 2000AD/DC stuff I'm going to start picking up these Rebellion reprint albums, as I think I can get most of them through Amazon Canada without tomuch trouble, if not places like Milehighcomics.com.  Still they're alot trickier to get then the DC trades, both because of scarsity on this side of the pond and the UK pound going one hell of a long way farther then the US Dollor.  Hits the pocketbook HARD.


I really hope Rebellion sticks with the larger paperback style DC trades in the future, they're much nicer then a 52 page hardcover. That's an insane format in my book, not even worth it.

[Grant Goggans]

The Adventurer wrote: "I really hope Rebellion sticks with the larger paperback style DC trades in the future, they're much nicer then a 52 page hardcover. That's an insane format in my book, not even worth it."

Oh, I think it's completely ridiculous.  It's apparently popular with the French, though.  They've been printing their Asterix and Tintin volumes, and their Bilals and Moebiuses, in that fashion for decades.

I can see buying a "skinny" for a single-run serial.  Reprinting Hewligan's Haircut or Necronauts or Rain Dogs in that format makes sense, but I'd still like the page count bumped up as much as possible with extra features, sketchbooks, unused drawings and so on.  The Necronauts book does this very well.  But in the case of Shakara, certainly not.  The completist in me might shell out for a Rainbow Spine paperback of the entire run (I understand it's intended as a three-book series...?), but I'm not about to pay $45-50 for three separate skinny hardcovers.

Same thing with Bec & Kawl, or Lobster Random.  The whole run to date would fit in a Rainbow Spine book, so I won't support a skinny hardcover of just 8 episodes.  No way.

--Grant

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[The Amstor Computer]

Well, the Euro format books would be far more enticing if they were actually a reasonable price. I ended up shelling out nearly ?20 for the Button Man trade. Now, that's a gorgeous hardcover edition, with beautiful art on glossy paper, but it's still nearly ?20 for, what, 80 pages?

Does anyone know how much the typical hardcover / paperback album goes for in Europe? They've *got* to be cheaper than the current ?10-12 we pay for a Rebellion hardback, surely?