Snyder's Batman

That's just the way it is. First are the singles (and digital releases) on Wednesdays, then once a story wraps it eventually comes out in hardcover. After that, the trade. If you're really looking to follow a story as it happens, floppies and digital are your only two options.

 

Rats. I just threw out my disc drive the other day...

 

does anyone have a date on when the rest of "Court of Owls" gets released??

 

DC are no longer "writing for the trade", as part of the New 52 initiative, they want people to buy the issues. If you want to read Court of Owls, (though I don't see why you would) buy the issues. Simple as.

 

wow thats horrible...I guess it will be 2 years until I can pick up the collected Death of the Family then...

horrible..

 

That is what the trades are actually for. Issues that are very old, not 12 months and less.

TPB's don't take up much less room than the single issues. Why not just buy them digitally, then they take up no physical space at all?

Then buy the trade. The trade off (no pun intended) is that you have to wait until the story is out of circulation.

But you now know 1 thing you do like, like so much you want to pursue further, so why not just pursue Snyder's Batman further?

No it's not horrible. Not even a little bit. DC Comics focuses more on comics, rather than graphic novels. If you want a story, just buy it. Otherwise, wait or buy the Earth One series.

 

Dude, trade paperpacks are the same thickness and size of issues stacked on top of each other. No space is being saved. It's literally the same thing.

 

Well then it's a personal preference, one that DC doesn't feel the need to cater to immediately, as sales for HC's/TPB's are never great anyway.

 

In my opinion, DC writers need to come together and collaborate. Too many alternate universes for Batman

 

What? There are only three universes: New 52, Earth-2 (where he is dead) and Earth One.

 

You've got to be kidding me.

 

DC can stay with that plan I don't mind having to wait for the trade, I've stopped buying singles completely and I don't do this whole digital downloading bullcrap, I don't even like using my smartphone for christsakes.

 

Snyder's Batman is the only modern take on the character that I can tolerate, so far.

It's not 100% perfect, but it's more than engaging, well done, and enjoyable enough to hook me even so. It's one of the better iterations I've sat down and read, and I've read many.

I've also stopped buying the individual issues in favor of having a nice, healthy, sturdy hardback sitting on my shelf with the title on the spine, so I'm anxious for March/April. Shame it takes so long, you'd think they'd make a killing with the film having just come out (and TDK Returns too).

 

Another reason for the extended releases is that they seem to follow the natural story arcs...the second TPB will have issues 7-12 in it, probably (12 was a one-shot so maybe it will be stuck in the third one, dunno). Normally they used to just release these books in 4 issue blocks, right? Even if it didn't make sense story-wise? Now they seem to be trying to make them follow the story arcs. The first TPB was six issues which is odd (not that they didn't charge more for it to make up for it...). The third TPB will also be five issues, if I'm figuring it out correctly (Death of the Family has two more issues to go, right?)