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03-30-2020, 06:44 PM
nightwrite
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Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 113
Hello all,
I'm new to the forum but I've lurked for a few years. I really love this place and I appreciate the multi-tiered focus on all aspects of the GI Joe franchise. I'm a comics guy myself. I haven't owned the toys since I was a kid and the wife already puts up with my comic habit, so it's the Hama-verse (Marvel through IDW) all the way. I gave up on IDW's alternative line a while back.
Because IDW apparently canceled the complete collections (and because I'm stuck inside like everyone) I'm gathering the paperback GI Joe Classic volumes, Special Missions, and recent IDW ARAH hero series custom-bound for my personal library. I've gathered most of my materials, including the 25th anniversary figure comics, the old Marvel Order of Battle trade, the Yearbook trade, and anything else that probably belongs. This is a huge project that will result in 5-6 large hardcovers. I'm not sure how to go about this, so I'm looking for input. I can:
A. Bind them in the proposed reading order that people have listed in this forum (here:
https://bit.ly/3dDOyoJ
), or something close to it, minus the DDP stuff. This will take an enormous amount of work and recopying many, many pages to correct placement of covers. This seems the most logical, but I can...
B. Bind ARAH and Special Missions separately, because they only seem to, IIRC, actually cross over a couple of times. That would preserve the story flow of ARAH and not have the jumping-back-and-forth affect of reading self-contained stories every couple of issues. I could only include the essential crossover issues to preserve the flow. Marvel does this with their two series of Conan hardcovers--the main title only reprints issues of Savage Sword when the story mandates it. I'd need to learn which issues of ARAH continued in SM, though.
C. Say "screw it" because this is insane and I should just put the paperbacks on my shelf and grab a different one when there's a crossover.
Any ideas? Has anyone around here tried this before? I was really disappointed when the Complete Collection series up and died, but that still had some of the problems inherent in both of my suggestions (incorrect issue placement, missing issue or two, etc.).
I'm just looking for feedback at this point. I read the original 155 a few years ago and the first 50 IDW books, so I'm a little rusty on the degree of interplay between ARAH and SM, among other things.
Thank you all in advance!
NW
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