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Every Missing Aquaman Omnibus, Mapped | 2025 Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus Poll

May 14, 2025 by krisis

It’s time to map the DC Universe! In June, I’ll be joining with Near Mint Condition to launch the Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus 2nd Annual Poll! This post explains every Aquaman omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

Through the end of May I’ll be covering DC entire publishing history by mapping missing omnibus volumes to fill in every gap in your DC oversize shelf! That’s all leading to the kickoff of the Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus 2nd Annual Poll on Near Mint Condition the first week of June.

Aquaman isn’t historically a strong seller for DC in collected editions. Even a pair of films didn’t prompt DC to release any omnibuses to support them.

As a result, we have just two Aquaman omnibuses to date – his historic and much-beloved mid-90s run by Peter David, and Geoff Johns scripting him at the start of Flashpoint. That’s it! No Golden, Silver, or Bronze Age material. Nothing from the 2000s. And, nothing from after Johns’ run.

If you want to see more Aquaman omnibuses from DC in the future, a vote on this poll is one of the only ways to let them know aside from buying the remaining copies of that Peter David book!

New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Image Comics – January 1 2025

December 28, 2024 by krisis

What’s this? An Image Comics new releases post?! Indeed – we’re going to give this a try for a few weeks and see how it goes. Do you care? Do I? Let’s find out with my first ever Image Comics releases post, covering Image Comics January 1 2025 releases.

This week in Image Comics: The Massive-Verses’s multiversal saga, Samurai vs. Dragons, the penultimate issue of Saga Season 2, Walking Dead kicks off “What Comes After” in color, and more!

I have barely read any Image series in the past two years, so these posts will give me a chance to re-orient myself to what Image has been up to while I’ve been focused almost-entirely on catching up on Marvel.

I’ll say that this post in particular covers an entire slate of books I don’t particularly enjoy, but I sure do know a lot about them! I’ll try not to go too negative. I’m more excited for future weeks that include more new series rather than this line-up of mostly venerable entries.

The Krisis Pick of the Week: Saga (2012) #71! It’s a big deal that Season 2 is wrapping up later this month, and it makes a great time to binge on what you’ve missed.

This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week, plus collected editions. This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and comment on every series with a new issue out this week to help you figure out if they’re for you. Plus, for some long-running series, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Indie Comics to find out how to collect that title in full! There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto Image Comics January 1 2025 new releases!

Image Comics January 1 2025 Collected Editions

Note: Image Comics collections hit the direct market 2-3 weeks prior to when they ship to the book market, so if you order these books today from a traditional bookseller they will still be pre-orders.

Invincible Vol. 7 [New Edition]
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534375062)
This new line of slim paperback editions of Invincible (2003) have now fully departed from the mapping of the originals. The original Vol. 7 collected Invincible (2003) #31-35 and this new edition collects Invincible (2003) #35-41.

That means they’re slightly more efficient at collecting the series than the original paperbacks, but there are so many collection options for Invincible that these still are one of the least efficient ways to pick it up.

Are there so many options that I need a Guide to Invincible? Sound off in the comments if I should add it to my list of guides for 2025!

Radiant Black Vol. 6: The Catalyst War – Infinite Earths
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534397248 / digital)
The Massive-Verse flagship title has an innovative take on a multiverse story, with this paperback collecting both the A and B versions of Radiant Black (2021)#28-30 (the “B” versions are numbered as “.5” issues) to wrap up “The Catalyst War” storyline.

The B issues come out on the same date as the A issues, are titled the same, and tell the same story in the same time period beginning from the same splash page – but in different realities!

I fell off of this book early on, but I’m impressed that what started out as “loser stumbles into superhero technology” has escalated all the way to multiverse shenanigans in just 30 issues.

Do I need to add a Guide to the Massive-Verse to my collection of indie guides? We all know my weakness for shared universes, so it’s definitely tempting!

Read on for a summary of all of the Image Comics January 1 2025 single issue releases! [Read more…] about New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Image Comics – January 1 2025

Aquaman & Flash Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus 1st Annual Poll

May 6, 2024 by krisis

The mapping continues, my friends! From now until May 19, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted DC omnibus volumes every day! Then, on the 19th, I’ll be joining with Near Mint Condition to launch the first annual Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus Annual Poll! This first post covers every missing Aquaman & Flash omnibus, from the Golden Age to the present day.

This post explains potential Aquaman and Flash Omnibus Mapping for votes on the Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus 1st Annual Secret Ballot. I’m posting all of these maps before the poll begins to give people the time to consider their favorites, correct our mapping mistakes, and catch books I might have missed.

Why pair these characters? Because they are both Justice League members known by the wider audience thanks to their movies. Plus, even with a whole Flash family there’s a relatively limited amount of them compared to the Lanterns, who will need their own post!

If you don’t know DC well enough to know what to vote for, stick around for my explanations! Learn why the team behind the poll decided on these books and titles. You should leave a comment giving us feedback if we missed the mark or left out a book you’d want to vote for or read.

If voting is now open, you can use this as your crib sheet! Or… just find some great comics to read!

Remember: These mappings are just my suggestion of how DC could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes and build your personal reading list, but your vote on the poll is NOT an endorsement of my specific map. It’s a vote in favor of DC creating a book with that title or covering that period.

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