The SCs are on #44 while the HCs are at #192. If we got one HC and two SCs a month it would take 12 and a half years before the SCs caught up to the HCs and the Masterworks volumes would number around 340. I think it is safe to say that we will never get to that point and the MMW are likely to end sometime before that happens.

If they went to two a month or even if they just followed the original release schedules (for example releasing both Cap Vol 2 and GA Sub-Mariner in October instead of one in October and one in Novermber) they would move ahead fast without cannibalizing HC sales. Right now the SCs are about halfway through the 2005 releases. We started on that year this May and won't be finished until next August. The 2006 books will be another 16 month schedule. 32 months to release books originally released over 24 months. I don't quite understand why the reprints take longer to get out than the originals did but apparently thats the word.