Melkorjunior wrote:
and not some stupid collection of kids comics...


Sometimes that's exactly how these odd design decisions seem to me--as if some of the people putting these collections together are a little embarrassed by the content and trying to disguise the fact that they're reprints of individual issues of comics anyway they can. The Simonson Thor stuff isn't a graphic novel. Almost nothing Marvel ever releases is a graphic novel. It's all just periodical comics. Back in the day we bought them off spinner racks. What's so wrong with that? It's a funnybook, kids.

I could deal with losing the logos, if they had at least kept issue 337's logo. Changing that issue's cover composition just so it'll sync up with the rest of the changed covers just strikes me as the worst sort of arbitrary decision-making.
I can't believe that is the reason they left off the logos and issue numbers. If it was, why did they include a table of contents listing all the original issues? Or better yet, why did they list the issues the Omnibus reprints on the back of the dust jacket (where someone who thought it was the largest original graphic novel ever might see it's a reprint and refuse to buy it)? 

The decision was made at worst to avoid the extra work it would take to put the graphics back over the original, higher-quality art they used, and at best to showcase the cover art in a way it hasn't been widely seen before. With the amount of work that was put into this book, I think it was the latter.


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