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Blackest Night - Whats the timescale like for it?

  • 25-08-2009 08:27PM
    #1
    oxygen_old
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    Hey. I back read Green Lanterns Rebirth and Sinestro Wars. I liked both of them, so said I would give blackest night a go. Thing is tho, I read the first two in trade paperback, Im a bit long in the tooth to be collecting comics every week, so I think I will wait till blackest night is over, then read the trade.

    Anyone know when blackest night is running until?


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  • #2
    Ridley
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    oxygen wrote: »
    Hey. I back read Green Lanterns Rebirth and Sinestro Wars. I liked both of them, so said I would give blackest night a go. Thing is tho, I read the first two in trade paperback, Im a bit long in the tooth to be collecting comics every week, so I think I will wait till blackest night is over, then read the trade.

    Anyone know when blackest night is running until?

    July through till October says the checklist in the FCBD issue.


  • #3
    Fysh
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    If that's this checklist (PDF) then it only gets you halfway through the series - I'd guess it'll be going on until February assuming there are no delays...


  • #4
    Ridley
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    Fysh wrote: »
    If that's this checklist (PDF) then it only gets you halfway through the series - I'd guess it'll be going on until February assuming there are no delays...

    It is. My bad, it even says part one right there on the page. One more reason for me to dislike DC Comics. ;)


  • #5
    NuMarvel
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    Just so you know, DC have lengthy gaps between the end of a series/arc and the release of the paperback collection. You could be looking at up to a year before the paperback is released.


  • #6
    Fysh
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    NuMarvel wrote: »
    Just so you know, DC have lengthy gaps between the end of a series/arc and the release of the paperback collection. You could be looking at up to a year before the paperback is released.

    Yeah, they're bloody murder for it. I seem to recall reading some comment from Dan Didio about how he wanted to build a loyal audience of monthly readers, which is well and good but seems to ignore the growing bookmarket audience and the dwindling comic shop audience.

    Oh well. Luckily Vertigo has Karen Berger in charge and under her they've got a damn fine collected editions program.

    In terms of Blackest Night, DC have released a hardcover of Final Crisis this past June - which is about 4 months after the main series ceased publication. So at the earliest, you can expect a hardcover collection of Blackest Night June 2010. Which, knowing DC, would mean a softcover collection in, what, June 2011? 2012? It's really hard to know, their collected editions methodology seems to have more in common with scrying than a grounded business model...


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  • #7
    NuMarvel
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    Just a quick update: Amazon.com now have the BN hardcover listed with a release date of July 2010. Amazon's release dates are sometimes a bit behind actual sale dates (for graphic novels anyway), so looks like Fysh was spot on with an expected release date of June 2010 for the hardcover.

    This is assuming no unforseen delays in the mini series itself.


  • #8
    Lame Lantern
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    NuMarvel wrote: »

    This is assuming no unforseen delays in the mini series itself.
    They already announced a skip month in January to allow Ivan Reis to draw like a mentalist for the last two issues.


  • #9
    NuMarvel
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    Lame Lantern wrote: »
    They already announced a skip month in January to allow Ivan Reis to draw like a mentalist for the last two issues.

    Going a bit off topic, but I'm glad that DC have scheduled that skip month into the plan instead of soliciting an issue for January knowing it and/or a later issue would miss release dates. 8 monthly issues would have been great, but given that each of the issues so far is longer than the standard 22 page story, and that the last issue is supposed to be as big as the first, then I'm perfectly happy with this break.


  • #10
    Lame Lantern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭Lame Lantern


    NuMarvel wrote: »
    Going a bit off topic, but I'm glad that DC have scheduled that skip month into the plan instead of soliciting an issue for January knowing it and/or a later issue would miss release dates. 8 monthly issues would have been great, but given that each of the issues so far is longer than the standard 22 page story, and that the last issue is supposed to be as big as the first, then I'm perfectly happy with this break.
    Yep, I totally agree and I always like hearing of the mainstream comic companies sacrificing a rigid shipping schedule for the sake of quality.


  • #11
    Sleazus
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    NuMarvel wrote: »
    Going a bit off topic, but I'm glad that DC have scheduled that skip month into the plan instead of soliciting an issue for January knowing it and/or a later issue would miss release dates. 8 monthly issues would have been great, but given that each of the issues so far is longer than the standard 22 page story, and that the last issue is supposed to be as big as the first, then I'm perfectly happy with this break.

    Plus they've filled January with all sorts of treats (literally bring cancelled series "back from the dead" in a metafictional twist - I'm looking forward to James Robinson's Starman #81).


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