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07:56 / 11.02.05

Bought a trade as well after having ordered the single issues, and felt it was worth it for the better paper quality alone.

Fab job by our Cameron, as usual. All I can say (to DC) is: bring on the next arc, I'm in.

11:34 / 11.02.05

was just wondering... Cameron: will the feedback to 7 SOLDIERS' GUARDIAN in any way have an influence to DC in helping SEAGUY 2 see the light of day?

14:16 / 11.02.05

>> I asked if it would be possible to get at least an introduction (my suggestion was Terry Gilliam) but no dice.

Gilliam is an inspired choice for an intro. to SEAGUY - did you speak with Terry & he gave consent before you made the suggestion, or was it just a 'wish list, if we could get him to do it' sort of thing?

I agree 150% that trades should have SOMETHING that makes them special, if not an introduction (intro's are terrific and we need more of them), then some sketches or something.

14:42 / 11.02.05

Just bought one for a friend and she loves it. Thanks Cameron!

16:00 / 11.02.05

Thanks folks!

Hector, I have no idea if Guardian sales will influence a decision to do more Seaguy. Hopefully...? It's going to be a while before we see it anyway, as I have already signed a contract for my next project after Guardian,(a creator-owned 5-issue Vertigo series) that will keep me occupied until at least the first part of 2006.

Finder, Gilliam was just my wishful thinking, I've not had any contact with him. I figured Seaguy would be the type of thing that he would enjoy, and in the hugely unlikely event that there was ever a film made, he's exactly the guy I'd want to do it.

19:12 / 11.02.05

I thought more in the likes of the "Morrison/Stewart" duo/brand momentum's building, which [in my perfect imaginary world] could make DC say: "hey, people liked that, so did our pockets, what about more of that DIVERMAN of yours?" =)

but hey, it's already happening somehow; congrats on the new book, Cameron!

Jake, Colossus of Clout

16:32 / 14.02.05

Spill some dirt on your creator-owned Vertigo series, Cameron! Don't be a tease...

Off-topic... Doesn't it seem to you guys that in the late nineties to maybe 2001, almost every TPB that came out had an intro, or some initial sketches or a couple script pages or SOMETHING that made it a little special? I remember in one of his intros (Hitman, maybe?), Kevin Smith actually joked about how many introductions to comics he'd done, that he was DC's go-to guy when they couldn't get anybody else. Some writers would write the intro to their own book, just so it would have one. Now we get nothing at all.

I was sifting through and reorganizing my TPBs recently and I found some great intros- Alan Moore for Hellboy, Morrison for Waid's Flash, and a ton of big names for Sandman. You can pinpoint the drop-off by looking at the entire set of certain series- The Invisibles, Preacher and Transmetropolitan all had introductions for the first few trades, and then nothing.

What's the deal with this? Is it because Marvel finally got off their lazy asses and started to produce TPBs? DC felt like they had to pump them out quicker to compete? I'm not sure that flies, though because I just picked up the Starman: Grand Guignol trade (fuck Tony Harris for leaving that book- I want to see that done by him) on Wednesday, and I've been waiting for a new Hitman installment since the SAS one came out at least four years ago.

Sorry for the stream-of-conciousness. Any thoughts?

16:56 / 14.02.05

I think you're right in that paperbacks used to almost always have something extra, and it sounds like a reasonable theory that Marvel pumping out lots of TPBs suddenly (with little or no extras in most of them) may have led DC to follow suit.

21:31 / 14.02.05

I've noticed the lack of intros, and bonus material in the DC trades as well. This is definitly a more recent thing (I think back in the day, almost every collection had some sort of intro). Can't speak to Marvel, as I don't as a rule buy them. But...just got three Dark Horse trades in the mail from Ebay today. Each with an intro, and sketchbook pages (grendel:four devils, from, like, 10 years ago?; BPRD, with the Sook art, from a few (4?)years ago; and weird tales, vol 1, from last year.) The price point seems to be the same for each book, aroud 17.95 us, but the additional content makes me happier with the collections themselves. So...is this only DC?

05:50 / 15.02.05

I want to see another series, so I shelled out for the trade too.

Question: I bought it from a direct market shop rather than a book chain, so does this affect tpb sales figures? What i mean is, do book store & chain sales count more than DM sales. Are they tracked differently?

Vimanarama is the bee's knees too. Morrison is on a white hot streak these days.

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