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By: Transmetropolitan Revamp Plan Changes » Comics Worth Reading

Transmetropolitan Revamp Plan Changes » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:27:08 +0000

[...] stated today that their plans to reissue the Transmetropolitan collections, first announced almost two years ago, have [...]

By: Still Looking for Revamped Transmetropolitan » Comics Worth Reading

Still Looking for Revamped Transmetropolitan » Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:37:48 +0000

[...] November 2006, DC Comics announced that they would be rearranging the Transmetropolitan collections in Spring 2007. It didn’t happen, with the plans delayed to Spring [...]

By: Lisa Lopacinski

Lisa Lopacinski — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:19:23 +0000

good to know, I guess. We try to keep Transmet in stock, so now I’m wondering how that’s going to work out. Looks like we’ll have to sell it out and then restock once this revised edition comes in. It always bugs me when they want to sell out before they make all of the new editions. Unless they have a clearance to get the old editions out, it can take a while for everything to sell out and then do a second printing and I would really rather have all of the issues on the shelf match.

By: Dave Mahlin

Dave Mahlin — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:01:39 +0000

To take James’ comments a bit further, the series breaks neatly into year one, year two, etc. I would have preferred to see them produce 5 big fat trades with 12 issues a piece, plus the one-shots (which consist mostly of text with spot gallery-style illustration) and assorted short pieces interspersed wherever the creators felt it was most appropriate.

Perhaps there will be Absolute editions someday with this format.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:33 +0000

Oh, cool, thanks for the info. Given the two one-shots, then that means 7 books might make sense (6 x 9 issues each = 54 + 1 more for the last 6 and one-shots).

By: James Moar

James Moar — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:47:08 +0000

To make things a bit less hypothetical, all of TRANSMETROPOLITAN (except vol 0) is built around 3- and 6-parter stories, or one-shots in sets of 3. So you’re looking at 6, 9 or 12-issue collections, really.