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[personal profile] pith2007-12-12 12:07 pm

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

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.

The Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures Handbook



The Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures universe is so complex and multi-layered they had to put out a handbook. Actually, the extent to which it's worth snarking on that is limited; it's just a thing they do in comic land, they put out handbooks. Next there'll probably be the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures Sketchbook, and then the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures How to Draw Anita Blake Vampire Hunter in Ten Easy Steps. Anyhow, the handbook is pages and pages and pages of text with some illustrations thrown in here and there. It's like ... the novelization of Guilty Pleasures.