We shouldn’t just collect or flip books, we should also read them. A good story can make your purchase well worth the money spent if you ask me. After all, we buy books to read for entertainment right? Even if you can’t flip them, reading is just as rewarding (particularly in our current scenario).
This is the Stay at Home Quarantine Omnibus Edition.
With all the shelter in place orders around the country and world, we can always turn to reading to occupy the time away. So for all you people who don’t like reading comics digitally and don’t want to whip out the floppies to read from the back issue long boxes, that’s why the Comic Gods created Omnibuses.
I’m going to kick this one off with one of the best Batman runs in the past 20 years, Tom Snyder and Capullo really set the bar high for anyone taking over after their run.
Batman by Snyder & Capullo Omnibus HC Vol 01
The first 33 issues of BATMAN from the New 52 era by writer Scott Snyder, artist Greg Capullo and others are collected in this new hardcover!
These are the tales that introduced the deadly Court of Owls, brought back The Joker (minus his face!), delved into the Dark Knight’s past in ‘Zero Year,’ and plunged Gotham City into darkness, courtesy of the Riddler!
It’s an epic, acclaimed and bestselling run that you will want to revisit again and again!
Probably the best of their run, the first 33 issues. It’s $100 at TFAW but honestly, if you bought the floppies you’d spend well over $100 to get yourself the first 33 issues of this run.
This next one has been on my checkout and wish list to read for quite some time. Just haven’t pulled the trigger myself but now that I’m making my to-read list a bit smaller, maybe now’s the time to add it to the order, stick in the pile and finally read it.
Brahm Revel’s critically-acclaimed series is collected for the first time in one volume in the Guerillas: Omnibus Edition!
Private John Francis Clayton is on his first tour of duty in Vietnam, facing death at every turn in the middle of a war he doesn’t understand. Clayton is just trying to stay alive when he encounters an elite platoon of…. simian soldiers?!?
This squad of chain-smoking chimps is the most dangerous fighting force in the jungle… but whose side are they on?
You can still find the floppies for relatively cheap.
I loved the show on Amazon and have yet to read the comics. It’s been on the read list for quite some time. So I’m going to have to start picking up these omnibuses to read as I’m not gonna bother with all the single issues.
All-new printing collecting the first 14 issues of the critically acclaimed series, now heading to live-action on Amazon Prime! This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone’s got to make sure the ‘supes’ don’t get out of line. And someone will!
Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother’s Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth – superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them – sometimes – need to be taken out of the picture. That’s when you call in The Boys! After the opening story arc introducing Hughie to the team (issues 1-6),
Dark avenger Tek-Knight and his ex-partner Swingwing are in trouble (issues 7-14). Big trouble. One has lost control of his terrifyingly overactive sex-drive, and the other might just be a murderer. It’s up to Hughie and Butcher to work out which is which, in Get Some.
Then, in Glorious Five-Year Plan, The Boys travel to Russia – where their corporate opponents are working with the mob, in a super-conspiracy that threatens to spiral lethally out of control. Good thing our heroes have Love Sausage on their side.
Featuring some ever-so-slight tweaks the creators have meticulously restored, The Boys Omniobus Volume 1 also features bonus art materials, the script to issue #1 by Garth Ennis, a complete cover gallery, and more!
I just wish they did a bigger Omnibus that wasn’t just the first 14 issues to pack these with a bit more reading.
Alright, this next one is on back order cause it was suppose to be released the first week of April but honestly, right now is the best time to order as it’s 54% off at TFAW.
It’s one of the classic modern reads I think from Starlin and then they threw in Hickman’s run dealing with Thanos and his quest for Infinity.
Infinity by Starlin & Hickman Omnibus HC
From the epic that began it all to the blockbuster event to end all blockbuster events! For Thanos, the Infinity Gauntlet is the ultimate prize. With it comes omnipotence: absolute control of time, space, power, reality, the mind and the soul.
On the edge of armageddon and led by the mysterious Adam Warlock, Earth’s super heroes join in a desperate attempt to thwart one nihilistic god’s insane plunge into galactic self-destruction. Years later, Thanos makes a world-shattering return, seeking to claim Earth while the Avengers are caught in a war in deep space! Galactic empires will fall as his crazed plans come to fruition! From the cosmic minds of Jim Starlin and Jonathan Hickman come the bookend chapters of the Mad Titan’s quest for Infinity!
Collecting INFINITY GAUNTLET (1991) #1-6, INFINITY #1-6, NEW AVENGERS (2013) #7-12 and AVENGERS (2012) #14-23. Rated T+
That’s all I got for this Omnibus edition of my trade and hardcover picks.
I wasn’t wild about Snyder at the time (everything he wrote was always so touchy-feely), but in hindsight he was the glory days before The Toilet King came aboard. If I’m being 100% honest, just about anything is better than the ’90s grimdark nonsense under Denny O’Neill’s editorial reign of terror. But perhaps I’m assuming the CHU audience was actually born before 2000? I dunno.
“But perhaps I’m assuming the CHU audience was actually born before 2000? I dunno.”
I was curious, so according to analytics, around 27% of our audience on CHU is in the 18-24 age range.
That makes sense. I probably shouldn’t have said that- I was born in the ’90s myself, but still hated Denny’s Batman titles even as a kid!
You make me feel old when you say you were born in the 90s.. 😉
I’m planning on ordering the Paul Dini Batman Omnibus. I had been looking for something like it the last several months.
https://www.amazon.com/Batman-Paul-Dini-Omnibus/dp/1779505515