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Great topic! Gotta say The Goon. I read like the first four trades and was sold, took a leap on the Library edition and it blew my mind. Super thick pages, sewn binding, just the size alone. It totally changed the reading experience. Now I know to try out a trade or two and if I love the series, sell those and upgrade!
I think my first oversized hardcover was probably the X-Statix Omnibus. Around that time I would have also gotten Astonishing X-Men, Immortal Iron Fist, The Runaways OHCs, and the Deluxe Y: The Last Man volumes.
For me it was the Dark Tower Omnibus. I love the novels so much I decided to pick up the omnibus after perusing a few trades. I wanted to add it to my Dark Tower library and now I only buy oversized hardcovers (or the best hardcover formats available: i.e. Bone, Maus, Essex County). My comic/graphic novel habits now look like this: 1. I read the stories digitally. 2. If I like them enough I wait for the ohc/omnibus/absolute/library edition. 3. Reread in the new format and enjoy. 4. Repeat until broke or out of bookshelf space.
I went in reverse order Rick. My friend talked up Dark Tower so much that I decided to get the omnibus. Probably not the best place to start on the series, but I enjoyed it enough to move on to the novels.
That's cool, Reece. I guess that means Ka really is a wheel.
I'm a relatively new omnibus/HC collector for a few years...but for me it was the Infinity Gauntlet Omnibus. I had the single issues (gave them away years ago...wish I didn't now!) but I thought it would be amazing to read the event in one single book! Little did I know it that it would not be presented in chronological order! I still enjoyed it never the less. I absolutely love cosmic Marvel...it's what got me into reading comics...Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock and Thanos storylines from Starlin and the like just amazed me.From there I decided to focus on my favourite characters, namely Daredevil, Batman and Thanos. Nowadays I keep branching out into new stories I 'have' to collect and read and the collection keeps growing. I really need that bookshelf.
Nice. I try to focus on Batman and Superman, but am open to really any indie series out there. Bats seems to get screwed for OHCs though. And I also need a bookcase!
Yeah, I'm surprised there aren't more Batman deluxe editions or omnis. With his popularity I'm sure they'd sell easily. Knightfall may begin to change that problem.
Hopefully. I have like two Bat hardcovers.
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That's awesome. Sadly I didn't get into comics till way into adult life.
Yeah, it would've been nice to have started collecting early so that I wouldn't have missed some of the oop books. But then again, I probably didn't have money to collect back then.
Exactly. Don't even have enough now ; )
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My first omnibus was the recent Lee Doctor Strange. Not super into the bulk.
My wife got me a paper back copy of Y: The Last Man for my birthday 3 years ago after I had started getting back into single issues comics for the first time in almost 20 years (im 35 now). Apparently the guy in my local shop suggested it based a description of me (in retrospect, who is Y: The Last Man NOT a good fit for?). About 6 months later I was frustrated with the X comics and since the X-Men had always been my favorite team I looked for ways to go back and read old issues. I didn't like the digital experience so stumbled upon the Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 Omni on eBay and DRAMATICALLY overpayed for it (before understanding about re-prints, shopping on IST, etc.). Now I am off single issues completely and loving collecting.
For me, strangely enough, it was the Marvel Zomnibus. I won it on an eBay auction for a fairly cheap price without fully realizing how big the book would be. Once I received it I was hooked and I've been chasing the hardcover dragon ever since.