Cut Carefully and Play Loud

Post date: May 05, 2012 2:56:35 PM

Grant Morrison's Supergods is released in trade paperback on 26th June and, judging from the page count on the Amazon listing, has some extra material (probably the chapter on the Christopher Reeve Superman movies that Morrison mentioned in the Mindless Ones' interview).

Also out soon is the hardcover Dinosaurs vs Aliens from Dynamite, available 5th June (with a Free Comic Book Day preview available today if you're lucky); the first collection edition of Morrison, Mark Millar and Carlos Ezquerra 's Judge Dredd: Inferno on 17th July; the first Action Comics hardcover, Superman and the Men of Steel on 7th August; giant-sized Absolute hardcovers of Final Crisis (bumped back to Christmas but now including the two Batman issues alongside all of the Morrison-written Final Crisis tie-ins), 52 (20th November) and Morrison's 16 issue run on Batman and Robin (still unsolicited at the moment) and finally the two mammoth Omnibus collections of New X-Men (15th August) and The Invisibles (24th August).

How much Morrison material does that leave that hasn't been collected in a hardcover 'deluxe' edition? Doom Patrol, Animal Man, certainly not much else from the big two. And you'd have to bet on those two being on DC's horizons for next years trade programme, so long as the end of Morrison's exclusive hasn't resulted in too much bad blood. Just think, a nice, neat shelf of hardcovers instead of all of those boxes of comics...