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D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Big Grim wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Big Grim wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Well, it hurt, but I spent the $300 to go the TAAO route and now I will finally own the Marvel run

I did the same. Decepticon edition (plus the Autobot odds and ends.)

~ Grim

I went Autobot, Grimlock edition baby!

Grimlock WAS tempting but the Decepticon edition just won me over on looks.

You manage to get the signed book plate?

~ Grim

No, I backed pretty last minute and that one was sold out

That's a shame. I admit, I backed it pretty much immediately, given the Cobra box I got from the GI Joe version, last year. So I managed to back the book plate for the Starscream edition.

~ Grim

Watch out for emails regarding your PDFs. I received the email today and downloaded all four of my "Til All Are One" Compendiums.

~ Grim

Hard copies are still on track to ship next month, I am excited

The physical books are unwieldy as can be. Gutter loss is pretty rough, not as bad as it could have been but not great. I've only read the first issue so far and the lettering was very obviously touched up with some kind of OCR system and it resulted in some really nonsense errors.

I knew somewhere inside that this was a cash grab, but I'm still disappointed. Convenient to have all of this stuff in one place, at least, and still certainly a cheaper way to get these comics than buying single old floppies. Once the initial bleh of the middling quality wears off and I really get reading, I'm sure I'll be more positive about it.

ScottyP wrote:The physical books are unwieldy as can be. Gutter loss is pretty rough, not as bad as it could have been but not great. I've only read the first issue so far and the lettering was very obviously touched up with some kind of OCR system and it resulted in some really nonsense errors.

I knew somewhere inside that this was a cash grab, but I'm still disappointed. Convenient to have all of this stuff in one place, at least, and still certainly a cheaper way to get these comics than buying single old floppies. Once the initial bleh of the middling quality wears off and I really get reading, I'm sure I'll be more positive about it.

Unfortunately, these compendiums were sourced from Hachette's Definitive G1 Collection, which itself sourced its copies of the Marvel issues from IDW's "Classics" remasters that created new errors in their attempt to correct existing ones, and which also used some faulty copies of certain issues that contained some misprints and low-quality art not found in other better-quality copies of the original issues.