Here's what I'll buy ...

100 BULLETS VOL. 12: DIRTY TP
Writer: Brian Azzarello
Artist: Eduardo Risso
Collects: 100 BULLETS #84-88
$12.99 U.S., 128 pages ... I read this series through the TPBs, and it's one of my favorites. I'll RE-buy 'em all if they over get the HC treatment.

HEAVY LIQUID HC
Writer: Paul Pope
Artist: Paul Pope
Collects: HEAVY LIQUID #1-5, newly recolored
$39.99 U.S., 256 pages ... I'm a recent Paul Pope convert. What other work has he done for DC/Vertigo that's been collected?

Y: THE LAST MAN DELUXE EDITION VOL. 1 HC
Writer: Brian K. Vaughan
Artists: Pia Guerra and José Marzan Jr.
Collects: Y: THE LAST MAN #1-10
$29.99 U.S., 256 pages ... I still need to read the last TPB. God, I love this series! More than happy to 'upgrade' these to HCs.

THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 4 HC
Writer: Neil Gaiman
Artists: Marc Hempel, D'Israeli, Glyn Dillon, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston, Teddy Kristiansen, Richard Case, Michael Zulli, Jon J Muth and Kevin Nowlan
Collects: THE SANDMAN #57-75 and a story from VERTIGO JAM #1
$99.00 U.S., 600 pages ... This series is worth every penny of the ocst for this format. Thanks, DC!

JOHN CONSTANTINE, HELLBLAZER: PANDEMONIUM HC
Writer: Jamie Delano
Artist: Jock
An original graphic novel
$24.99 U.S., 128 pages ... An original HC by Jamie Delano? I'm there! (This is one series where I own the original comics back to #1, so I pass on the TPB collections)

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: BLACK DOSSIER TP
Writer: Alan Moore
Artist: Kevin O'Neill
The original graphic novel, now in trade paperback
$19.99 U.S., 200 pages ... Sorry, I could not bring myself to pay the HC prices for this one (or the other LOEG collections), but I'll gladly read it in TPB format.

If you have not read any Northlander yet, do so! It's great (but I'll stick with the monthly issues).

One of my long term projects is to pick up all the Fables and Jack of Fables collections ... I missed the boat on that one.

A question for anyone out there ... what are your opinions on The Exterminators and Scalped? Are they worth getting ??

I'm really hoping that Preacher and the Alan Moore/Rick Veitch Swamp Thing issues get the Deluxe HC treatment soon!


My first comic books: Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes #202 and Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #23.  What a great way to start!