TOP COW GOES BACK TO PRINT ON SOLD OUT COMPENDIUMS

[MattBrady]

<i>Press Release</i>

<b>“New Printings Available Mid-March!”</b>

<blockquote>Top Cow Productions is pleased to announce that all three Compendium edition trade paperbacks have sold out at the distributor level. The three initial Compendium releases – Witchblade Compendium Volume 1 Trade Paperback, The Darkness Compendium Volume 1 Trade Paperback, and Tomb Raider Compendium Trade Paperback – were released in December to overwhelmingly positive acclaim. All three volumes were overprinted, but quickly sold out starting with the Witchblade Compendium Volume 1 Trade Paperback which has also been nominated for a Diamond "Gem Award".

Additionally Top Cow has announced that they have gone back to press on all three Compendium editions and additional inventory will be available for immediate reorder beginning the second week of March through Diamond Comic Distributors. All three volumes collect 50 complete consecutive issues in full color and total 1248 pages for a bargain suggested retail price of $59,99. The low price point gives readers an average savings of over $150 at retail.

"We're ecstatic at the Compendiums initial success", said Filip Sablik, Vice President of Marketing & Sales, "This was a significant gamble for a publisher our size and we're elated that the response has been so positive. We could have announced the sellout earlier, but we wanted to be able to announce a simultaneous reprint so retailers can capitalize on the demand for these books".

Additional information on the three Compendium editions can be found at www.topcow.com . </blockquote>

[nikoli29]

Awesome. I've been reading more and more about Top Cow, especially with the week long coverage on Newsarama, and it seems pretty interesting.

Have to get my hands on the Witchblade volume.

[Scorned1]

Those compendiums books are probably the best plan that Image/Top Cow as a whole ever thought of to bring in readers. I hope they'll expand their catalog to other books that finished/canceled collected.

[EMeadow]

Those compendiums books are probably the best plan that Image/Top Cow as a whole ever thought of to bring in readers. I hope they'll expand their catalog to other books that finished/canceled collected.

That means one more compendium. You could everything else that fits that format in one book, they all ended so shortly unfortunately.

LOL though that could be different for books started pre-Witchblade.

[Scorned1]

That means one more compendium. You could everything else that fits that format in one book, they all ended so shortly unfortunately.

LOL though that could be different for books started pre-Witchblade.

What about Strike Force, Cyberforce, or Rising Stars? don't they need their own compendium edition? I love me some Cyberforce. Not the ones with Pat Lee though.

[Dood Lee]

What about Strike Force, Cyberforce, or Rising Stars? don't they need their own compendium edition? I love me some Cyberforce. Not the ones with Pat Lee though.

I think Rising Stars already got one. It was released as a HC i think.

[Yanni Salami]

What about Strike Force, Cyberforce, or Rising Stars? don't they need their own compendium edition? I love me some Cyberforce. Not the ones with Pat Lee though.

Top Cow said that they might put out a Cyberforce compendium but nothing has been officially announced.

[LaughingJak]

I think Rising Stars already got one. It was released as a HC i think.

Yeah- and it's AWESOME.

[Frankfurt]

I'm still waiting for the hardcover version we were promised in the topcow.com forum.

I just wish the covers weren't so damn ugly. It boggles the mind how they choose to cram a buncha random images (including inner art) and mess that even more with cheesy Photoshop effects... They have some of the best artists, and yet, they destroy it with their god-awful design team.

[The Guvnor]

This is good news, and Top Cow deserve the sell outs for having a great idea.

[jeremysee]

i bought THE DARKNESS compendium, it is such a gluttonous heaping slab of comic greatness...ain't nothin like 1300 pages of brilliant comic mayhem all in one book....

[NightRiver]

This is good to hear for Top Cow. I just ordered my Tomb Raider compendium. And I plan on picking up the Witchblade one. Does Top Cow have the rights to Dark Minds? I would love a Dark Minds compendium.

[rchilton]

cool, glad they are seeing success with this. Picked up the tomb raider compendium for half off at a con a couple weeks back, not really my usual reading, but man - well worth getting.

[jza1218]

I need more Magdalena

[Don Mega]

1248 pages for a bargain suggested retail price of $59,99???

Dayum I gotta get my greedy hands on one of these.

[idkidd]

I really hope the other publishers embrace this format too. It's just damn cool.

It adds yet another format for publishers to sell their work (floppy, Premier Hardback, softcover tpb, oversized hardcover, and this omnibus. I want a 50 issue collection of Thunderbolts, Cable & Deadpool, JSA, Seven Soldiers...I could go all day.

So cool!

[superhornet3]

I really like the compendium idea. I havent bought one but Im hoping for a Cyberforce one. I bought the Cyberforce vol. 2 tpb and it was 8 issues worth for 14.99( i got it for $10) online. They are really putting out affordable collections in brilliant color. I am going to buy more of their collections soon enough.