Batman: No Man's Land - TPB Rant

[Spitfire]

Anyone read the entire series of this? I could only get my hands on the trades and I'm so far rather disappointed with them. I feel they did a poor job on them. For one there's 84 total comics that were apart of the series and only 40 made it into the trades. There's points where I have no clue what's happening. My only semi-saving grace is I have several issues of Nightwing and Robin that take place during No Man's Land someone gave me when they were cleaning out their house. I still doubt this will fill in all the holes in the story left by the trades.

The story doesn't feel like it flows it sorta just jumps around from one story arc to another and they toss in random one issue stories to tie them together. Half the time characters randomly pop up and we're just supposed to know who they are and where they came from. When I have to look up what happened online to figure out what the characters are talking about I find that to be pretty poor.

The same thing happened to me with Knightfall. The entire Knightquest section of the story wasn't even collected. I know I could go after the singular issues if I wanted but I have no idea what order to read them in since these series take place across several different series. Also because they did this a lot of those issues are rare and sought after by other collectors.

Any idea why DC decides to omit stuff from the trades? The Cataclysm trade is twice the size of the other NML trades and cost about 20 bucks, which is what the other trades cost, around 17. I don't see why they couldn't have just included all the issues I'm sure people wouldn't mind paying 3 more dollars a trade to have everything.