"Titans Hunt"

It's DC Comics's Fall 2015 trade paperback and hardcover collections! This list is now complete and updated with my comments, barring any late-breaking additions.Big items on this list are two from Grant Morrison,and a deluxe-size edition of. Don't miss, however, a couple of nice Chuck Dixon reprints,and(to go along with the recent Dixoncollections), and acollection;; a deluxe edition of Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino's; a newcollection by Mike Grell and a newcollection by Marv Wolfman; plus acompanion collection. Read on for more!Note that all of this information is subject to change before publication.As solicited just this past month , we have some suspicion this might be the first in a series of Scott Snyder/Greg Capullo Absolute Batman collections.Obviously I have no objection to Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams's seminalgetting all the continued attention it deserves, though I do wonder how the 1970s artwork will hold up in large-scale format.I don't know much about, but by popular demand, theproper collection includes issues #18-21 and 23-24.is #1/2 and 4-9.is #11-16.Said to include#35-40,Annual #3, the Damian Wayne story from#4 (one of the best of the initialstories), and, though not. Since this is the last trade of the series as it's cancelled before, I expectwill actually be in here, too.Continuing this series of meant-to-attract-video-game-fanscollections. It doesn't say it specifically in the solicitations, but the temporary cover art for this collection showsAnnual #14 by Andrew Helfer and Chris Sprouse, which I consider history's creepiest, most definitive Two-Face story. Hope it's in there.Final collection of the weekly series.So "Noir" is "black and white"; "Unwrapped" is pencilled but without inks. Nice to see "modern" stories getting this treatment, as our history becomes classics ...A collection of Superman/Batman "clashes." Given we already got our, I wonder what else this will collect, and if the emphasis will really be on fights between Batman and Superman, and whether that means full storylines or just parts of stories (, excerpted?). This seeming emphasis on Superman and Batmangetting along is troubling; the movie producers have the unenviable job of making us take sides but then they ultimately need us to come to like both characters., on the other hand, has largely emphasized the characters' teamwork; I'm not sure the DC movie team has the right idea.Appears to collect just#35-40 and none of the tie-ins (which will appear in their owntrade, below), which keeps with the pattern of thetrades that preceded it.The full contents aren't listed, but these are previously-uncollected stories between(recently announced for a new collection) and(roundabouts#560,#727,#80, and so on). I've probably literally been waiting for this collection for almost fifteen or so years. A good amount of this is written by Chuck Dixon, reflecting an overall trend lately toward DC reprinting Dixon's work --, previously, and in these solicitationsandRather surprised to see DC reprinting this. I appreciate the sentiment -- though I don't completely recall, apparently the original trade was printed maybe with some non-essential material excluded, and this new collection "includes chapters never before reprinted chapters." At the same time, this story was not great, up to and including the weird torture death of Robin/Spoiler Stephanie Brown that was written and drawn so awkwardly that everyone involved's discomfort nearly bled off the page, and in the spirit of DC'sit surprises me they're choosing to bring this up again. Good for completists, though!I've never read this mini-series written and drawn by Matt Wagner, but I've heard good things about it; something silly that put me off it is that there seemed some fan interest in finding where this fit into continuity, when it ultimately doesn't; likely this deluxe edition is meant to coincide with themovie. I have some sense this is set within the same "timeframe" as Wagner'sbooks.A new collection of Chuck Dixon's firstmaterial, namely#1,#1,#1-4,#1,#1, and#3. This is essentially the contents of the existingandtrades, except it excludes#1-6. I think this is athing, however, because it suggests the next volume might collect#1-6 and beyond; Dixon's#7-19 and issues from the #20s and #30s have never been collected, but hopefully this is a sign that they might be.Glad to see this Will Pfeifer collection that follows the Ed Brubaker collections. It wasn't surprising we got re-printed, more-complete Ed Brubaker collections because, well, Ed Brubaker, but whether DC would continue to collect this into theera ofwas another story. Collects the pre-series #38-49.DC recently announced this expanded collection of Neil Gaiman'sVertigo event, with a new story added. It does seem a little strange to me though that this should only collect the Gaiman material and not the, andannuals that went along with it. That would make it more of a must-buy for me.Here's a nice surprise in time for. If you don't have it, the deluxe size would be a lovely, special-but-not-too-imposing format in which to readHooray! A second collection of Marv Wolfman's 1990sseries! This one collects the "Terminator Hunt" storyline, issues #10-13 and Annual #1 (there was acrossover issue, #68, where Lois Lane's sister Lucy gets caught in the crossfire, that I think they should include here, too). Either this is the last of thesecollections or something really extraordinary is about to happen, because the nextissues are part of the"Total Chaos" crossover with[and], which I have wanted to see collectedbut never have been. [Edit: Mistakenly identified this as "Titans Hunt," not "Total Chaos." Verily I'd like to see all of this collected -- basicallyand its related series all the way from issue #71 through issue #92, if not all the way to issue #100. Still,] I'm not optimistic that now is the time.Don't let the title fool you; what's really notable about this collection of Garth Ennis's#40-48 and Annual #2 is all Hitman -- the origin of Hitman (also collected in thebooks) plus a Demon/Hitman team-up.A paperback of the previously-releasedVol. 1. This one was thinner than the next two, by comparison; I wonder how paperback binding and a paperback spine is going to work when these collections really get to omnibus-size.Collects#36-40, up to, plus a story from#7.I really liked what I've read of Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino'swork, and no disrespect to the new team but I was sad to see Lemire leave the book, seemingly somewhat suddenly. This is reported to beissues #17-34, theissue, and the story from, about three trades worth. Given how quickly this run came and went, I'm glad to see it get this recognition.Hooray also for the next collection of Mike Grell's(though neither collections of John Ostrander'snoron this list is concerning). This collects issues #21-28 of the 1980s series, including a guest appearance by Warlord Travis Morgan, another of Grell's popular characters.If I understand correctly this is the soletrade bywriters Andrew Kreisberg and Ben Sokolowski, collecting issues #35-40, before Ben Percy takes over post-Collects#1,#35-37,#35-37,#35-37,#35-37,#6-8, andAnnual #3, verily the lastcrossover before. Somewhat worrisome is that the already-solicitedcollects#35-40 and the annual but#1; I really hope the only place to read that isn't just here.This would seem to collect Dr. Fate material from his Golden Age appearances to 1970s material, to theminiseries by J.M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen (Kent Nelson as Fate to Eric Strauss and his mother Linda as Fate), sending just before the ongoing DeMatteis series in the late 1980s.Collects the variousspecials:#1,#1,#1,#1, andAnnual #3, back-ups from#35-39.I'd have been all over this had it been released when Kid Eternity was regularly appearing ina couple of years ago. That's just me; I'm sure the impetus nowadays is author Grant Morrison.Something special was inevitable for thecollection, and deluxe format is a satisfactory opening salvo. This includes thein addition to all the issues.No word on the contents yet, but of course we're still waiting to see if these paperback editions will result in more complete or straightforward collections ofthan the omnibuses did.No word on the contents other than this is the next collection of the Chuck Dixon series. Last volume collected the same as the original second volume,, issues #9-18. The original volume three collected issues #1/2, #19, #21-22, #24-29. The missing issues, #20 and #23, were respectively parts of the "Cataclysm" and "Brotherhood of the Fist" crossovers; for completeness, I wouldn't mind seeing them restored to this volume.Among other issues, this collects the Phantom Stranger material from, making it the third (by my count) collection to includematerial, afterandWe know this is a collection of Robin Tim Drake stories by Chuck Dixon, and the apparent presence of artist Tom Lyle suggests this could be one collection of all three of theminiseries that preceded Dixon's ongoing series. If indeed it includes, that would be the first time that miniseries has been collected. Othermaterial has been collected out of order inand, so maybe this new collection series will put all of that back in order.No word on the contents, but asVol. 2 collected issues #1-14, the first two (numbered) trades, this could collect Vol. 3 and 4,and, issues #15-24, and that would leave the fourth new volume to collect the final two trades, issues #25-36.Another definitively 1980s series that I've really wanted to read; afterandis only logical. Said to collect issues #1-18 of the series plus#24.I guess this re-print of the already-released collection of John Ostrander's firstissues is meant to coincide with the movie. My hope is that maybe this will finally lead to the release of, previously solicited and then cancelled ; I'd been looking forward to that one.I liked Scott Snyder'sOK, and the Yanick Paquette artwork is going to be sensational in this large-scale format. Seems to me that if DC is going to do the New 52deluxe, only fair that Jeff Lemire's related, superlativeseries get the same treatment.Make that four collections now ofmaterial, with this collection of Max Allen Collins's Wild Dog stories. (I mainly remember Wild Dog for the stark-looking DC house ads.) Between this and the, seems about time for a collection of Collins'sThe first volume written by Meredith Finch with artist David Finch.Collecting what will apparently be, but I hadn't heard announced yet, a twelve-part digital series written and drawn by Jill Thompson ().Not to save the highlight for last, but it seems we can expect the Grant Morrison/Yanick Paquette graphic novel in November. No additional clues on the story aside from that Morrison "once again pushes the boundaries of the graphic novel page in his mind-bending new take on the most powerful woman in the DC Universe."Maybe not as many real shockers in this list as in the one from last August , but still some stuff to look forward to.