Comments on: Transmetropolitan Revamp Plan Changes

By: MrSheen

MrSheen — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:37:54 +0000

Anyone know if the reprints are similar quality to the originals?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:13:14 +0000

How long did it take between final issue and the Starman project announcement? Maybe we just have to wait another 5 years or so for Transmet hardcovers. :)

By: Craig Welsh

Craig Welsh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:36:45 +0000

Why don’t they just do hardcover versions like they’re doing with Y and Starman? I understand not wanting to come out with $100 Absolute editions, but the Starman HC format would work perfectly fine for Transmet.

Very frustrating. I have the singles, but held off buying any collections in the hopes DC would come out with a nice collection, as opposed to whatever this confusing mess is.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:35:04 +0000

I don’t think so. I think it’s more a way to make the series make sense to new readers they hope to keep attracting in future years. They did a very small rebalancing among the Sandman trades way back when (moving issue 8 from one to another), and this seems like just the same thing on a slightly larger scale.

By: Rob McMonigal

Rob McMonigal — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:49:10 +0000

Oh this is maddening. This feels like just a cheap way to make people buy the trades all over again.

Between this, canceling Minx, a crisis every five minutes, and writing some of the most violent comics on their title books, I am beginning to think DC is purposefully trying to piss off comics readers.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:32:21 +0000

Sure, it’s cheaper, but it’s not a very representative sample. In my case, for example, I didn’t click with the series until issue 5.

Oh, there’s no way this could be a single Absolute — it ran 60 issues.

By: jamesmith3

jamesmith3 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:55:39 +0000

Having only 3 books in the first collection may be preferable if you’re not sure you’ll like the title– it’s a cheaper risk.

I’m no expert on printing, but isn’t this series too long to collect into a single Absolute edition? “Locas” and “Palomar” aren’t as long as “Transmet” (I think) and both are big enough to kill a man.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:01:29 +0000

Has there ever been a serious possibility of Absolute Transmet? I mean, I know some fans want it, but I don’t recall hearing anything more. Welcome, by the way, thanks for contributing.

Thekamisama: But is only three issues in that first collection really satisfying? Balancing the books in size seems reasonable to me.

By: Mayank

Mayank — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:02:56 +0000

Long time reader, commenting here for first time.. If they are FIRST going to goof around with TPB’s.. are we not going to get Absolute Transmet anytime soon?

By: thekamisama

thekamisama — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:25:24 +0000

So this format change is centered more from retail input than say, Warren and Darick, or readers? Smacks more of wanting higher price points on steady selling backstock items than an interest in the continuity of the material. I would love to know what the sales do with the reformatting, because the low price of the first volume of Transmet seems to help hook most new readers into trying it.