Well, I guess I should say that I no longer do the Omnibus thing. I love the look of them, I love that they hold as much as they do and I truly wish I could enjoy them, but they are way too bulky for me to read. I don't usually lay a book on a table to read as my neck gets all kinds of cramped and tired (a big reason I like digital by the way ... I can hold it anyway I want) so Omnis (or omni?) kind of end up just staying on the shelf looking pretty ... just like
my copy of the Big Damn City
And also, I must admit that I have started trading most of my hardcovers away
In-fact, I don't think I have one single Marvel or DC hardcover any longer. I started trading them into a few of the used book stores around here as to:
A - spread the love to (hopefully) new, young readers. As I never read them anyway and find digital so much better for me, I will always choose the digital version if I want to read older stuff. The main reason I decided to join Marvel and DC Unlimited (it's just easier calling DC's version the same thing) was to start getting rid of the big two books I never, ever open.
B - To get my novel collection going again. Even though I only go with the paperback option and thus have no true "collector's value", I find I enjoy having books on my shelves more than HC !!
Plus, Marvel and DC's pricing is so damn ridiculous for F'n reprint material that I traded one Wolverine HC (which when you trade in something it only garners a return of a quarter the cover price, so they can sell it for half the cover) for the first two paperbacks of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive ... which of course I will never open as I will listen to the audiobook instead
So yeah, I don't have much left at all really. A few things that I just can't seem to trade in like
the aforementioned Big Damn City (which I tried to trade once and one store said no ... curse on the cover
)
the first 11 HC's of Walking Dead (12 comics each)
the first 10 of Invincible Ultimate Collection (12 comics)
a good bit of Warren Ellis stuff (Authority, Planetary, Global Frequency, Ocean etc ...)
Criminal (just a couple)
All of Terry Moore's NON-Stranger in Paradise stuff (nothing wrong with that SiP stuff, I just never bought it)
Saga v1 (I do want v2 but I keep forgetting to order it
)
Hickman's Manhattan Projects stuff ... and maybe one more? Red Wing? I think? Its not here but I think I have it?
a couple more, spattering here and there that friends are currently "reading"
that I can't think of. I know my boy Dave did enjoy my Preacher stuff, and he isn't a comic guy, so that made me happy. And hey ... he still has that shit!!!
But yeah, not a lot at all. Heck, eventually I think I will get rid of them all anyway. Well .... except for Saga, the Ellis, Moore and the Hickman stuff ... and possibly the Brubaker stuff and ... if I ever get any, some Remender stuff