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But DC always says that the expenses and demand aren't enough to make blahblah and other excuses based on cheapness.


To be fair, DC doesn't "say" anything of the sort -- they just haven't, till recently, been approaching the business the way that Marvel has, publishing the same material over multiple formats that provide opportunities for (and will support) the expense of additional work.

And hey, more power to Marvel, for being able to get away with doing that. That's a fine line, and they've been walking it well. But I think there's a legitimate grievance to be expressed that you couldn't spend $50-$60 on a Masterworks voulme with complete confidence that the contents had been created to the very highest we couldn't-do-any-better-than-this standards -- you could wait for the second printing (if there was one), though, or you could spend another $100 on an Omnibus. Or maybe wait and just buy a paperback, instead, several years down the line (if you don't mind not having the material in hardcover).

And this isn't just the original run of Masterworks, this is since the series was relaunched, all under the same consistent Editorial guidance.

This does not bother me, personally, because I made the decision early on to just buy the paperbacks -- the combination of not wanting to spend the money, not wanting to worry about availability, and not wanting to have to worry about the quality of the work. But if I had been buying the hardcovers, and if these kinds of details mattered to me, well, I think I'd be irritated.

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