I’m just getting back into reading a couple Marvel/DC heroes, although I’m down like the last 12 crossover events. There’s a bit of catching up to do, as well as relearning some characters.

If I ever do get Seige, I’d only get it if it’s collected, with no ads & affordable and then only if I’m not into something else. All I want is a good and complete read. If I can’t get it, I’ll just move on to something else (and there is a lot to choose from out there).

Personally, I think they are moving too fast for my wallet, but it’s great that they are being produced more like books and things have started to be reprinted. I can get everything I wanted to read and missed.

Our spending habits should already dictate a massive new trend to comic sales within the market. It’s no longer just the collector out there. Although the new hardbacks are trying to bring in some new collector…

It’s also much easier to show others in a collected format.

Having said that, I do have a question – what are the copyright infringements on lending material such as this? It leads into the online thing.

Pulling it out on my ipod would be kinda neat, but needing a battery to run it and not being able to pull it off my shelf for a flick through doesn’t appeal just yet.

Online copies would really only be for the internet-kids, trades for the traditional book-readers or adult newcomers/returners. And I think the direct market is for our “scouts” and old-school collectors. I wonder, in two generations time, what the internet-kids will collect…

I guess I’d be classed a returner.
And I think I went off topic.

I agree that the director’s cut constitutes a second printing. On the other hand, Marvel’s past director’s cuts featured unfinished, uncolored artwork, maybe even sans dialogue/captions (with the script included on other pages). If that’s the case here, it’s not an optimal reading experience, but it’s a reprint all the same.

It is kind of stupid as you say to go “We won’t reprint the issue! We’ll just have what was in the issue plus some bonus stuff, but its not a reprint!”

Its like me saying you can’t have this cupcake. Yet you can have this identical cupcake, plus some icing! Yet again, just so you know, you can’t have this cupcake.

I think you’re actually responding to the Blackest Night destruction promotion, though, not the non-news release I was taking apart here.

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That just seems so juvenile to me. I mean its one thing to playfully jab the competition, but that seemed like a nerdy “nyah nyah” that makes the company look foolish.

Or worse, “Hey- it’s on The Pirate Bay!”