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Old 06-09-2017, 10:15 AM   #25962
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As for my physical book, well that's a real treat. The Wonder Woman Omnibus Vol. 1. This is the George Perez run on the book. Many people believe that Perez is largely responsible for the revitalization of the character in the 80s and 90s.
I got the first arc of that (at least; I'm not sure how long your collection is) free when I bought the animated movie. DC's done a few deluxe packs like that, a solid hardcover with a Blu-ray and DVD in the back, plus digital copies of both movie and graphic novel. Quite handy, really - in fact, I've been inching through Batman: Black & White for a while now. It's slow going not because it's bad, but because it's the book I keep on my iPad for when I'm accompanying my mother to a doctor's office and don't know if they'll have wi-fi.

I also scooped up some digital Marvel collections over the weekend, while Amazon had them marked down an additional 60% from their normal half-off-list. (For the math-challenged, that's a total of 80% off.) The first volume of the new Old Man Logan series was decent, establishing the character in the new Marvel universe and giving enough background for people new to the character to see where he came from, but I don't think I'll be reading further volumes. The second Gwenpool collection continued to remind me of Byrne's Sensational She-Hulk, but with a little different twist on the fourth-wall breaking. The first Champions collection was great - coming out of Civil War II, several of the younger heroes get disgusted with the adults fighting each other and form their own Just Do Good team.

Finally, I've started the big X-23 Omnibus, which collects about 450 pages of early work, starting with her origin miniseries. After watching Logan this weekend, I can definitely see how faithful they were to her backstory: enough to be very recognizable, but not so much as to needlessly complicate and prolong an already lengthy story. Next up will most likely be the second volume of the Miles Morales Spider-Man series, and then I get to wait until the next Spider-Gwen volume comes out in July before I can read their crossover. Looks like someone at Marvel screwed up the publishing schedule...
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