For real! I've been thinking the exact same thing with thick trades. Plus I'm getting way too many omnibus so I'm kind of glad to get compendiums to save space

Or even just a hardcover, I always get sad spending like 20$ less than a omni on something that I know is gonna get destroyed with repeated reading

@@dddaaa6965 Or that you’ll have to spend at minimum an extra $70+ to have custom rebound as an omni with comparable Big Two board art and a dust jacket in still a standard size format.

STARMAN had 6 Omnibus Editions about 10 years ago, though.

@@oliverl.5834 They were standard size hardcovers, just labeled omnis, maybe one day some true omnis.

They better keep these compendium in print, I want to read these series and what better than at a good price.

Yeah I’ve been surprised how well the compendiums have held up. I think I’ve read 5 so far and only one invincible compendiums had a little wear on the spine

@@fishin4bass2002 Yup Invincible is the only one I've gotten with a spine crease.

Agreed, not everything needs to be hardcover. Not everything need to be oversized. These things were made when there wasn't even the thought of a complete collection book or oversized deluxes.

Grendel is an amazing book!! Dark Horse needs to put out a library edition of Grendel already!

Same! I’m very excited for both this and volume 4 of the Grendel omnis.

@@ryanb3665 Vol 4 was fantastic too! Quite a lengthy prose piece in it written by Greg Rucka with the occasional art piece by Wagner. Loved it. Made for a surprisingly novella inclusion in an already brilliant book.

@@geminisundone If you've only read the omnibuses, you might want to try to find a copy of the _Batman/Grendel_ collection too. It features a cool Hunter Rose/Batman story, and then a Grendel Prime/Batman story that ties directly into the main saga, showing where Prime went when he disappeared during the "Devil Quest" stories. There's also _Grendel vs The Shadow,_ another Hunter Rose crossover story, and _Devil's Odyssey,_ a recent series that picks up after the fourth omnibus finishes. And that will be followed by _Devil's Crucible_ which Wagner is currently working on (edit: or he *was* working on them anyway; apparently, they've been temporarily sidelined while he put together a brand new and much expanded version of _Devil by the Deed,_ which is due later this year -- it's a 120-page retelling of Hunter's story, in the style of the original, but incorporating details from the various "Black, White & Red" stories into a single narrative).

@@geminisundone orion's reign was pretty much a novella too hahaha with all that text.

That would be sick man

Hope you enjoy it!

There is a crossover over between the golden age Sandman and Morpheus later in the series.

Not at all.

I don’t sleep. I wish I was kidding.

Nothing at all.

@@NearMintCondition as always, you rock. Thanks! :)

Not yet.

@@NearMintConditionDamn

It stands on its own.

I feel your pain! I have all the earlier collected editions of this book but they never got to the end, so a good chunk of the series was never collected. I’m going to pick this up and sell my earlier editions.

It’s been almost 30 years since I last read the issues. So the changes must have been subtle.

@@NearMintCondition they are really not!

Do you have pics or a link to a comparison? I really don’t remember there being a huge enough difference.

@@martinalvarez1264 I agree, I think there are big differences & I’m comparing what’s on DC Universe Infinite. On the very first page, everything in the dream is black & white, while the DCU version (which I thought was closer to the original comic) has color. But on the other pages, sometimes the colors like purple, green or yellow are too saturated. And for the people’s faces in that first story, they look too white. The coloring was very subtle in the Baxter comic.

Oh lol what I meant is where is my hardcover collection!? I have the first two for so many years.