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Watching the Absolute editions

The release of WATCHMEN: THE ABSOLUTE EDITION and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes have to be one of the worse double whammy of expensive book acquisition desires in a while

+ WATCHMEN: AN ORAL HISTORY
+ Who'd Watch These Watchmen?
+ Readers Top Rated All time 100 Novels: A close race between Lolita and Watchmen for 3rd place.
+ Coming soon: DC UNIVERSE: THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP
+ Eternal Dreaming - Sandman: The Absolute Edition news...

" I heard that they are definitely doing is an Absolute Sandman. Because frankly, the first twenty odd issues of Sandman (in particular, but there’s more running through) were colored for a process that hasn’t been used for twenty years on that old paper stock. And now the paper stock is amazing, the print process is amazing and we’re still using the colors which look worse and worse with every printing. That’s not satisfactory. We’ve always known we needed to recolor the first two graphic novels and maybe the first couple issues of Dream Country. Steve Oliff took over on Sandman 19 and 20 and made it beautiful but at that point it was a computerized process. We’ve always wanted to recolor those and that I think, is incentive enough. The question is how are we going to do it and what will the Absolute Sandman be? For example, I don’t know whether the physical mechanics of book production will actually allow for a two thousand page book. A complete Sandman book would probably look like something encyclopedia sized. On the other hand, it would be a really cool object. And you could kill somebody if you hit them with it. "

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Watching the Absolute editions

The release of WATCHMEN: THE ABSOLUTE EDITION and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes have to be one of the worse double whammy of expensive book acquisition desires in a while

+ WATCHMEN: AN ORAL HISTORY
+ Who'd Watch These Watchmen?
+ Readers Top Rated All time 100 Novels: A close race between Lolita and Watchmen for 3rd place.
+ Coming soon: DC UNIVERSE: THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP
+ Eternal Dreaming - Sandman: The Absolute Edition news...

" I heard that they are definitely doing is an Absolute Sandman. Because frankly, the first twenty odd issues of Sandman (in particular, but there’s more running through) were colored for a process that hasn’t been used for twenty years on that old paper stock. And now the paper stock is amazing, the print process is amazing and we’re still using the colors which look worse and worse with every printing. That’s not satisfactory. We’ve always known we needed to recolor the first two graphic novels and maybe the first couple issues of Dream Country. Steve Oliff took over on Sandman 19 and 20 and made it beautiful but at that point it was a computerized process. We’ve always wanted to recolor those and that I think, is incentive enough. The question is how are we going to do it and what will the Absolute Sandman be? For example, I don’t know whether the physical mechanics of book production will actually allow for a two thousand page book. A complete Sandman book would probably look like something encyclopedia sized. On the other hand, it would be a really cool object. And you could kill somebody if you hit them with it. "