Change Is Constant Deluxe Edition Hardcover
 

July 3rd @ an SRP of $40...

Thought it was worth mentioning so I could ask: At $10/issue, can I assume this collection will be printed on sheets of pure gold?

Link?

The only place I've seen it listed is Amazon's $26.57 pre-order.

Supposedly they may include Kevin's layouts as well.

I feel that special edition hardcovers should contain double the number of issues contained, if not a crapload of bonus material.

Damn, I'll buy it. I'm a sucker for hardcovers.

I'll just buy it anyway, but here's hoping for lots of bonus material.

Pure gold.........classic.

Barnes & Noble is offering it a half-dollar(ish) more expensive. Still, discounted from the seemingly absurd SRP of $40...
I'll agree with the price if that turns out to be the case.

How is $40 absurd for a full-color hardcover book that we really have no details on yet? Especially when the discounted prices are quite reasonable.

I think he's preceding on the assumption that this hard cover is only 4 issues, which makes the individual issues cost $10 each in the hard cover. There has to be more to it than just the 4 issues, though. If not, then that is a bit nutty.

Exactly. Especially because you are not only paying for those issues. You are paying for a nice, hardcover package. With Kevin's layouts to boot, and I'm sure a few more extras. I wouldn't be opposed to pay $40 for it but I know I can find it cheaper.

The Amazon link says it will include Kevin's layouts for each issue as well as some preliminary art and totals 192 pages. That's about double the issues, so not too much "new" material, but a good amount of extras if you count the layouts. I bought the TPB so I could read the 4 issues as one story arc as intended, but I will probably pass on this... Eastman fans will probably be excited though.

http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutant...0142406&sr=1-4

The price is ok.
Just a bit more than the Deluxe Edition HCs of other companies.
but not that much.

I am going to skip the already released TPB and buy this one when it is released.

to be honest i love TPBs more. As long as they are not too thick, which having a probability of the pages falling apart... They are easy to read. Much less art lost cause of binding, compared to HCs.
But since i am buying this baby not for reading ( or at least not for a first experience reading, just for shelf collection ), while owning the single issues, Deluxe HC edition is a better choice for me.

For the Eastman layouts, I'll pick this up.

I could use a definition for "layouts".

It's like storyboards. The general placement, "camera" angles and blocking is done in layouts, to be referenced for the actual panel drawings.

They've been printing some pages of these in the monthly books. Which brings me to the conclusion that you haven't been reading those. Which makes me wonder even more so why you're so snarky about the price of the book.

This is a layout.

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryP...46&GSub=124370

After the script is made, Kevin will ''Layout'' the story by drawing it, besically to show Dan what to draw. Often there will be notes next to a panel to let the artist know a certain feeling or mood that is to be captured in that particualr panel.

Someone needs a nap. Why might you be getting so defensive about this? I'm just pointing out that hardcover + a few extra pages that aren't available elsewhere doesn't seem like a fair excuse for a 220% boost in SRP.

But if you just want to read the stories, you can spend $12 on a TPB and read the stories. But a hardcover is a nicer package and for the collectors.

I gotta agree with gobo that $40 MSRP is f***ing theft for even what this book is. For one, a hardcover book isn't that much nicer of a package (and certainly can't cost that much more to produce), and layouts don't constitute as full issues because of the simple fact they're works in progress, no matter how awesome.

So yeah, even at $25, I feel like this is highway robbery, but I'll still be buying it anyway because I really love Eastman's work.

"Collector" schmollector, something like this shouldn't be priced so high, and I can't understand ANYBODY defending that price.