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Invisibles: Trades versus Singles

Krug

00:09 / 28.07.03

I haven't read the Invisibles.

I've read the first twelve issues and bought the first trade but have been too poor to buy the whole collection.
Now with my birthday over I want to buy no other books but the whole series.
I always buy my books from Amazon but thought I might save money on ebay. Checked ebay and found the complete set up in singles.

Do the trades have extra material? I mean the singles have the letters page which is the real reason I'm considering them. So do the trades have good intros or afterwords etc?

Trades or Singles?

Advise me.

Hieronymus

00:16 / 28.07.03

Other than the Invisible Ink letters in the first volume, the trades are really the way to go in my opinion. Was flipping through them today in fact and was reminded of how solid they are in collected form.

PatrickMM

00:21 / 28.07.03

There's only two differences in content between the trade and the singles.

In Volume 2, issue 4, the last page of the issue was not reprinted in the trade, however, it is available online, so it's not that big a deal.

In Volume 3, issue 2, four crucial pages were redone for the trade because they were confusing and inaccurate to Morrison's script in issue form. I haven't actually seen the original pages, but from what I've heard the new pages are much better.

sleazenation

07:49 / 28.07.03

all the invisible ink letters pages are available online (or at least were...) For my money trades are definitely the way to go - the stand up to puiltiple reading so much better and look nicer on the shelf...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:11 / 28.07.03

And to add to what Patrick said, some word balloons fell off a page in issue 7 (IIRC) of Volume 3 and were restored for the collected edition.

But to be honest, I think copies of the first volume especially are getting rare as it wasn't that popular at the time, at least until apres wank, so any copies you do find are probably more expensive than they are really worth. Go with the trades.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

08:19 / 28.07.03

I have some of the missing pages here : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fish1000/index/lostandfound.htm

I will be happy to host the parts from vol3 that changed if anyone can supply scans to me!

zarathustra_k

16:03 / 28.07.03

I have a vol. 3 TPB and a bunch of the pages are upside down and some of the word ballons are cut off and unreadable. What sould I do? I bought it over ebay.
Help?

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:13 / 28.07.03

1. Bang your head repeatedly against a wall shouting "I'm a moron that's got ripped off!"
2. Go to a fucking bookshop and buy a proper copy.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

17:45 / 28.07.03

Zarathustra, you might have reason to complain about the seller to ebay if they suggested that the book was correct

FinderWolf

18:22 / 28.07.03

Where are the INVISIBLE INK lettercols available online? All I've ever seen are occassional excerpts on The Bomb and in ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES, the paperback guide/annotations that Disinfo put out several months back. I'd love to read the lettercols in their entirety! Thanks in advance...

18:38 / 28.07.03

Hunterwolf, on the Bomb website there's a link to the original Invisibles iste, where the letter columns are all keyed-in.

Wonder why those got stopped in Volume 3...

Mazarine

22:13 / 28.07.03

It wasn't cheap, but there was something immensely satisfying about hunting down each of the singles, from back in my capricious spendthrift youth. I think the color quality is a bit better in the individual issues than in the trades, and, of course, they open wider and can be made to lie flat, unlike trades.

So, if you have the means, I'd go with the individual issues. It's a fun little treasure hunt, (although probably not that difficult a one if you've got a pretty good comic shop nearby).

Spatula Clarke

22:39 / 28.07.03

Invisies worked well as a monthly, but as you're going to be reading them all together you may as well go for the trades (if that's the cheapest option). In terms of single issues, try and pick up #2 of vol 3 as well as the final TPB - the two different takes on certain panels combine to make the explanation of what's going on more complete than they do on their own.

Krug

10:49 / 29.07.03

Thanks people.

So no good intros?

FinderWolf

20:10 / 29.07.03

Sypha, thank you very much for telling me where to find the original INVISIBLES lettercols - I've always wanted to read these and I spent some time yesterday poring over 'em!

And as for your question, oh Ampersandic one, I think only the first volume of the trades has in intro. (by Peter Milligan, if memory serves). None of the other trades has an intro. at all. I think there's like one bonus pin-up between all the trades (I have them all). So not much to crow about on the extra material/introduction front.

Interestingly, some of the trades do have a little 'recap' page which seem to have predated the Marvel recap page idea by about 10 years....

Dave Philpott

01:53 / 02.08.03

Did they black-bar names in the indies the way they did in the TPB's?

Perfect Tommy

02:19 / 02.08.03

You mean like, "XXXXXXXXX was a shit. Kennedy was a good man"? Yes, those are similarly blacked out.

gravitybitch

18:47 / 02.08.03

Mabe I'm just being blind, but I can't find the link to where the letters are. Could somebody post it, please?

thanks!

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