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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 13, 2011 5:52:02 GMT
I can't wait. _Surely_ mine must arrive today...
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 13, 2011 7:23:31 GMT
What is the repro like on the strips? Please tell me it is better than previous IDW/Titan efforts.
-Ralph
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Post by Jaymz on Oct 13, 2011 8:24:31 GMT
Yeah, decent repro, on a par with their recent US Classics book, just too small.
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Post by Dave on Oct 13, 2011 15:14:59 GMT
Amazon are saying they are having trouble getting copies and (at the moment) I might not get this until next month. I may just switch my order to the Book Depository. It's a whooping 4 pence more, but at least I know I'll have it soon.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 13, 2011 15:25:13 GMT
Burns tells me I get a credit in the thanks section. See if you can work out what for.
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Post by Dave on Oct 13, 2011 15:35:34 GMT
Well I don't have a copy to check but I'm going to guess the History section makes mention of the school visit/project/letters thingymejig?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 13, 2011 15:38:15 GMT
yup :-)
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 13, 2011 16:35:30 GMT
Mine's here! Five stars to the Book Depository.
Yeah, with both the US and UK books I started out with an Amazon order then changed to the BD when I realised they'd get it to me quicker.
Classics US Volume 1 is the best single TF book ever purely in terms of the greatness of the story content, but it failed to excite me as I was quite happy with the previous Titan books - though they split the same material over two-and-a-bit volumes. It wasn't an essential publication.
In all _other_ respects that matter, Classics UK Volume 1 looks like being the best book ever, and unlike its US counterpart it excites the pants off me on account of the care, effort and dare I say love that has gone into its making, and the sheer quantity of never-before-reprinted-in-book-form material. The page before the contents page alone made me nearly weep with joy.
I would type more, but I'm too keen to get away and read the thing!
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 13, 2011 18:13:02 GMT
Saw it in FPE at a whopping £23!!!! That's a shame. It's too expensive for a paperback.
However, Turnbull has one on order for me from The Internet.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 13, 2011 23:35:09 GMT
Indeed.
Awaiting Shamazon to dispatch.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 16, 2011 6:11:30 GMT
Having read it from cover to cover, it's such a fantastic book that I would feel churlish to join in the complaints about the size of the reprints. I was so delighted to read stories like 'Crisis of Command' in book form that I was oblivious to the size whilst reading it. It all leads perfectly into where the Titan UK reprint books begin ('The Icarus Theory'), which I shall be keeping (as well as buying future volumes in this series, of course).
Still debating what to do about the US volumes. If they do the entire run including all the mini-series (including Transformers Universe #1-4) I'll very likely keep buying it, keep my nine Titan hardbacks (which cover US #1-50) but possibly lose all the Titan paperbacks. But I'll keep the fourteen Titan paperbacks (covering US #1-80) until I know the actual extent of the IDW project.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 16, 2011 6:34:15 GMT
I've been wanting a complete TFUniverse for years that incoporporates the profiles used in the later US comics ..... and any unprinted ones that are still in existance: There's preview art of Sinnertwin for TFU v2 used in a letters page that never given a text entry to go with it. Somewhere out there there may be art for every 87 & 88 toy....
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 16, 2011 6:38:50 GMT
I've been wanting a complete TFUniverse for years that incoporporates the profiles used in the later US comics ..... and any unprinted ones that are still in existance: Agreed. (I'm positively salivating at the thought of it.) The missing 1987 art is all in The Complete Ark. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 16, 2011 10:03:56 GMT
Switched the order from Amazon to The Book Depository. Getting fed up with them.
Andy
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Post by KnightBeat on Oct 16, 2011 13:03:20 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 16, 2011 13:34:44 GMT
Switched the order from Amazon to The Book Depository. Getting fed up with them. Wise man. Yeah, the covers on the UK volumes are gorgeous. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 21, 2011 13:11:19 GMT
Both copies arrived this morning!
Andy
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Post by legios on Oct 21, 2011 19:51:14 GMT
My copy is estimating despatch tomorrow and delivery on Monday. We shall see....
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 22, 2011 1:15:28 GMT
Mine arrived a couple of days ago from Amazon. Splendid stuff all round. Good work, James!
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Post by Kingoji on Oct 23, 2011 15:37:09 GMT
I could shed a tear at the sheer joy of this book...
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 23, 2011 19:20:14 GMT
I now have it and have put it to one side to look at properly during the week ahead.
-Ralph
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Post by jameso on Nov 2, 2011 1:06:07 GMT
Got my copy today courtesy of James W and Orbital and it really is top class. So much love and detail gone into it. Just from a few quick flick throughs already discovered lots of previously unknown information.
I do think though that the quality of the actual reprints isnt so amazing that I could never want to have the original issues still, but reprints at a different size than originally printed really bugs me anyway.
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Post by jameso on Nov 2, 2011 17:40:05 GMT
Oh, something I did find interesting was James Hill says the text stories exist in the annuals after the editor wanted to use prose stories that Marvel in the US had but there was a license issue so they had to write new ones. Anyone have any idea what these prose stories that Marvel US had were, because I'm not aware of any.
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Post by legios on Nov 2, 2011 20:57:15 GMT
I've had a proper chance to have a look through this now and I do think it makes for a fascinating volume. The extensive background essays make for fascinating reading and a great window into the early development of the comic and the fact that even now there are still new things that I am learning is a testament to their thoroughness.
The actual reprinted material represents a sizeable chunk of my remaining "wish list" of Transformers comics material, and does contain three of my all-time favourite stories (Man of Iron, Crisis of Command, Wrath of Guardian/Grimlock) - a second volume with Icarus Theory/Dinobot Hunt, Robot-Buster and Second Generation to round out the list wouldn't go amiss though. :-)
The actual repro of the stories seems pretty decent, considering the age of a lot of this material. I am a little bothered by the decision to print them at slightly less than the A4 page size. It feels a little odd to me in layout terms alongside the full page format of the historical articles. I can't fault the breadth of content though - what with the text stories, fact-files and strip stories all represented it does feel like a primer on the UK comic experience. It is on nice paper too. That may seem frivolous but the quality of the paper of a trade can make or break the overall experience sometimes, and IDW has very much got it right in this case.
(Is it this same paperstock that they are using for the recent trade of US issues? Because if it is then that has just been upgraded to immediate purchase from soon purchase).
All told this is a pretty good brick of Transformerness indeed, and one I am very pleased to have on my shelves. Darned good stuff.
Karl
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Post by primenova on Aug 13, 2012 13:38:02 GMT
Currently reading the book - just about to read Simon's first story.
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Post by primenova on Aug 22, 2012 9:47:22 GMT
Just got the last 2 texts stories to read - which I have only ready twice in he past. Read al the comics at least 7 times [Marvel run].
But one thing has lead to a question - which maybe answered in the text in v2.
Mike & James state they where writing 4 issue to fill in before the next US issue was printed. So they wrote #41-44 has 1 story arc - which I never knew it was. So US #13 was planned to be printed in UK #45,46. Can't wait to pick up v2 to see if a reason for change in plan is given.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 14, 2015 13:28:28 GMT
I agree with my past self.
Bought UK Classics 1 in a Comixology sale. Enjoying the articles and the magic of digital means I can enlarge scans of letters page etc so easier to read. Five pounds well spent.
-Ralph
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