The months ahead

Those of you keeping tally (and I know there are some) will have observed that we are coming to the last handful of Essential volumes and may be wondering what now.

I won't be looking in-depth at DC's Showcase Presents volumes (although I might do another special one) or any other lines but instead will aim to bring the site to a neat conclusion in the New Year. But before I reach that I'd like to salute a few more significant titles that were never covered in the Essentials but I'll be doing it in a different way from before.

This time I'm going to look at some hypothetical Essentials, imagining the contents of a prospective first volume for a title based upon various other collected editions so as to get a good first chunk of the series. These reviews will appear in the regular slot and approximately alternate with the actual Essentials over the next few months. Watch out for the first one next week.

The new year ahead

Happy New Year everyone!

This year I'll be continuing to look at a wide variety of Essential volumes but this time with a little more structure as I go. There'll be a number of months where all the regular reviews will have a unifying theme. It could be a single series, a family of titles, the remaining series whose first volumes haven't yet been covered, an era or so forth. Not every month will have a dedicated focus but several will, especially with certain movies on the horizon. (And just because a particular character or group may not have an available Essential of their own doesn't mean they can't be marked in some way.) And there will also be the occasional post about other collected editions or individual issues.

To kick off, this month I'll be looking at the next volume of several series where the reviews so far have had the highest number of views. Some were incredibly popular immediately after I posted then, others have been steady over time.