Rising Stars Compendium

[Jan]

Found this on Amazon.com this morning. Due out tomorrow but I have to wonder about the 1280 pages.

Collecting the entire Rising Stars saga, featuring the entire series and limited series collections! This trade paperback collection delivers the entire story and some insights into the lives of the Pederson Specials from J. Michael Straczynski's groundbreaking series!

Jan

[Radhil]

My thought is that this is a collection of the novelized versions with a page count like that. Then again, I was under the impression they never finished with those books. And the cover certainly doesn't look like a novel collection, it looks like a TPB cover.

BN has the same listing, with no cover photo. Guess we'll see.

[Joe Nazzaro]

These telephone book-sized 'omnibus' editions were started by Marvel I think, a few years ago, but at a much higher price. I think they usually run about a hundred bucks a pop, so this is really not a bad price.

[sftv]

Rising Stars Collection

Top Cow/Image did put out the hardcover edition seen at http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Stars-J...9386262&sr=8-2 on Amazon. I think it was just a collection of the 24 issues and the preview releases. With the new TP at almost double the page count, and additonal writers listed (including Fiona Avery), it also probably includes all the spinoff titles done for the series (most written by Fiona).

The series was stalled for over a year and a half while Straczynski worked out some issues with Top Cow. During its run, Fiona did one miniseries, Bright, and then two more (Untouchable and Voices of the Dead) after Straczynski finished the final three issues.

Details on the release dates and such can be found on the Comic Book database at http://www.comicbookdb.com/search.ph...archtype=Title
(ignore the Tokyo Pop title).

Lee

[wwwmwww]

Wow that went quick. I see amazon already lists it as "Temporarily out of stock". So has anyone here picked this up yet? I'm considering it but was waiting on confirmation of its contents.

Carl

[Doom Shepherd]

Went quick? I don't think it went at all. I preordered mine back in September of last year, and all I got from Amazon was a notice that it was delayed again and again.

Now they say by March 1. I often wonder if the book is actually going to come out at all.

[wwwmwww]

Went quick? I don't think it went at all. I preordered mine back in September of last year, and all I got from Amazon was a notice that it was delayed again and again.

Now they say by March 1. I often wonder if the book is actually going to come out at all.

Odd... the website sill says it was released on Dec. 15 and that its out of stock. Sounds like an odd thing to say if it hasn't been released yet. Then again this wouldn't be the first time I've seen errors on a site. In this case it could be something as simple as they haven't updated the listing since the new delay. I wonder what the reason is for all the delays.

Carl

[Doom Shepherd]

Now it says December 15, 2008. Sheesh.

[raw_bean]

I'm having similar problems with the copy I ordered from Amazon.co.uk.

I wonder what the hold up is?

[JoeD80]

I see a release date of December 29th of 2008 now. Does anyone know if this latest planned release date is accurate?

[Chris Nolan.ca]

I've had a few email exchanges with Top Cow's publisher recently (unrelated to this title, but related to what's due to ship) and this isn't a book that's on the radar for the next while at least.

[glindros]

I have all the issues already. Any idea on what extras or new material will be included in the compendium?

[Doom Shepherd]

No idea. I just wanted it because 1 volume takes up a little less shelf space than 5. I started last year converting as many runs of my comic collection as I could into TPBs and HC's because I needed the space.

[raw_bean]

I've had a few email exchanges with Top Cow's publisher recently (unrelated to this title, but related to what's due to ship) and this isn't a book that's on the radar for the next while at least.

Well, that's annoying.

[DeMonk]

Top Cow/Image did put out the hardcover edition seen at http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Stars-J...9386262&sr=8-2 on Amazon. I think it was just a collection of the 24 issues and the preview releases. ...
Lee

I could check if you want. That is the one I've got. I don't think I paid that much for it though.