Citizen Wayne wrote:
emsvcs3 wrote:
Hi,

Where available, would you guys generally recommended these Omnibus editions rather than the individual Masterworks volumes?
Omni plus:
- cheaper way to collect the material
- Silver Age volumes contain letter pages
Omni minus:
-often unwieldy due to larger size
MMW plus:
- usually the first format for material (Golden and Silver Age... yes; Atlas age, yes... except for Amazing Adult Fantasy; Bronze age, usually, except for Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Tomb of Dracula, etc)
-easier to handle
- softcovers continue to roll out
MMW minus:
- many volumes are OOP
- no letter pages

Many around here have been known to dump their MMWs whenever an omni containing the material is released. Hasn`t been a case of omni`d material followed up by MMWs, so we don`t know if the opposite would be true.

  

Omnibuses that reprint MMWs have become much less unruly now that they use thinner paper. Previously they were using thick paper and sometimes containing 4 MMWs volumes, which was problematic.