I don't know, I used to believe DC when they told us "we are never going to do Essentials" and look at DC now...


I think the spirit of that comment was that they weren't going to do books like the Essentials -- that were poorly printed, cheaply bound, and used the lowest-quality materials for reproduction (including very poor and very obvious scans of pages that were missing). For whatever superficial similarities there may be, I think it's fair to say that DC successfully avoided following Marvel's model.

But that aside, I think you're overlooking my point, that DC just does not make a great deal of money on sales of a $15 paperback! (I overestimated the price before, sorry.) This idea that it's suddenly going to seem like a useful proposition to spend the money on 160 pages of new color separations for these books seems far-fetched, to say the least.

(As for color Showcase volumes, we've been through that discussion so many times over the past several years that I think by now most people understand by now why the economics of a 500-page book in color in that format just won't work.)

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