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News: Trade Reviews of 2004
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Pipeline, Issue #394: TRADE REVIEWS OF 2004
Tuesday December 28, 2004
written by Augie De Blieck Jr.(excerpt)
From DC:
JLA / AVENGERS: THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION OVERSIZED, SLIPCASED HARDCOVER (Aug 2004)
DC keeps gobbling up smaller imprints, starting with WildStorm and moving this year to Humanoids and 2000 AD. This means more trades, collecting both the old and the new. I think they have close to the entire Alan Moore collection in print now with the 2000 AD books.
One of the highlight books of the year, though, was Steven Seagle's autobiographical look at the Superman concept with IT'S A BIRD. Moore's SMAX was one of the most entertaining volumes of 2004, a TOP TEN spin-off that kept the easter egg hunt alive while abandoning the American cop show formula for a more fantastic and fairy-tale-gone-wrong mold. Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen's SUPERMAN: SECRET IDENTITY is second only to Seagle's book for the Superman title of the year. The regular monthly titles still fail to pique my interesting.
The JLA/AVENGERS volume might get the award for reprint of the year. Never before has a larger sized reprint been so necessary. George Perez's art on the series screamed for this large size edition, and the supplemental book was a welcome addition to it, even if some of the teeth were cut out of it.
JLA/Avengers
