"The First Death": now in the money-wasting hardcover edition!

[pith]

As if it weren't bad enough that LKH and Co. spread this story out over two comics when, with her overuse of narration, it barely needed one, now it's compiled in a hardcover. Yes, just like issues 1-6 of Guilty Pleasures, except at least with that collection, you got six comics, not two comics and a "character handbook".

(I think LKH is the one who needs the character handbook, not the readers, but hey, that's another post entirely.)

Anyway, for those interested in inflicted the pain upon yourselves or loved ones, enjoy. Because, in the grand tradition money-draining comic editions, there's not only the main cover (note the compensating-for-something size of her name on the cover) but also the obligatory variant cover.

I seriously wonder who's buying these anymore. Granted, I haven't done extensive comic shop research, but at the comic stores I go to, the Anita books are not flying off the shelves by any stretch of the imagination.

Comments

[dwg.livejournal.com]

EGADS. According to my Comic Book Guy, the comics have been oddly popular but he has no idea why. Last time I was in the Dingey Comic Book Store, I picked up the hardcover part 1 of the 1-6 GP, and stared in absolute horror at just how small and ridiculously expensive it was. I'm used to getting boob discounts from buying stuff in that store, but for the price of that one hardcover, I can get at least two or three Hellblazers, or a Hellsing and maybe that copy of I Am Legend that's been calling to me for a while. Or any other combination of product.

I think I'll stick to piracy, kplzthx. Oh shit, that reminds me...I need to PSA First Death #2. *facepalm*

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Well, I spent 20 bucks on the hardcover edition of The Gunslinger Early Years, but hey, that's Stephen King, and I knew what I was getting, and it was good, too.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

The guy on the variant cover looks like a John Constantine rip-off (http://www.insanerantings.com/hell/). And Anita looks like she's got ugly tattoos all over her face. Or is that supposed to be hair in her face? I can't tell.

In the original cover, Anita and the guy both have anime blue hair. This is not a look that Anita can carry off. Look at what TV Tropes has to say about blue hair on a woman (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HairColors):

Blue hair on a woman tends to indicate shyness or introversion, a correspondence which seems to have originated with Ami "Sailor Mercury" Mizuno from Sailor Moon. It also seems to connote extraordinary intelligence in both genders -- Ami Mizuno, again, but also Miki Kaoru from Revolutionary Girl Utena and Touma Hashiba from Yoroiden Samurai Troopers.

Intelligence? Shyness? ANITA?!

Does. Not. Compute.

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

SOMEBODY GET THE HAIR OUT OF HER FSKING FACE AIGHJ&^$%&

[mariakatarina.livejournal.com]

WTF on the first cover. Is Jean-Claude petting her hair? Are the tops of his legs supposed to be protruding with muscle definition (of muscles that do not actually exist in those places on the human body) or is that the pants themselves? And a fringed leather jacket?!

How many "Hello, the 80's called..." jokes can we get out of that?

[easol.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the most worthless comic prequel EVAH. Seriously, it's just another chance for Whorenita to play a tough-as-nails damsel-in-distress, and have all the men fawn over her awesomeness. Even more hilarious, Dolph and Zerbrowski are mislabelled -- priceless.

And, of course, it's there for for LKH to ramble on forever about stuff we don't care about, only to realize ten pages from the end that whoops, she hardly has any space left for her Big Kickass Climax. (Which is also tight and wet and rainmaking... whoops, wrong type of climax)

Either way, I am slavering for this hardcover edition to come out... because amazon doesn't let me write scathing, low-on-the-pH-scale reviews of books that haven't been released yet.

[denouement16.livejournal.com]

"(note the compensating-for-something size of her name on the cover)"

Funny that you mention that...I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that LKH's name took prominence on the cover with NiC, where the title of the book is smaller. I know the only pre-Nic hardback is OB, but LKH's name isn't that prominent. Anyone else notice this?

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

Holy mother of the gods and all their half-human spawn, that variant is Rob Liefeld terrible. She's supposed to be pointing her gun between her arm and her ribcage, backwards!? What the shit is this? Reservoir Dogs!? And why for the love of hell is Edward smiling?