I'm sorry you didn't find the Stanley books to your liking Brian, I thought they turned out wonderful. But I love the entire design aesthetic. As for the Starman archive (2), I preferred it to the 1st one myself.


I don't so much mind the idea of trying to make the paper look aged, it's just that I rarely see the effect employed in a way that doesn't become distracting. The effect in Starman looked more like parchment paper than newsprint -- I only looked at the John Stanley books in Barnes and Noble, but it seemed too dark.

(Ironically, I think it was Marvel that did it best in a Golden Age reprint, from about ten years ago.)

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