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Mike Baswell
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Forgive me if this has been answered before, but is there an IDW collection of the the final sets of books from when JB revived the series through to Aftermath? I have the individual issues, but would love to have a collected edition as well. Thanks!
Edited by Mike Baswell on 02 March 2020 at 8:38pm
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Tim O Neill
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There are three really sharp hardcovers covering these issues. Stealing from
my own "New, Recent, and Classic" sticky thread:
Next Men Vol 1: SCATTERED (2011) - hardcover - (reprints #31/1-34/4; new "A
Flame About This High" intro by JB; includes cover gallery, two pages of B&W
art pages from issue #1, and series announcement promotional art)
Next Men Vol 2: SCATTERED, Part 2 (2011) - hardcover - (reprints #35/5-39/9'
includes cover gallery featuring alternate B&W cover art)
Next Men Vol. 3: AFTERMATH (2012) - hardcover - (reprints #40-44; includes
cover gallery featuring alternate cover art)
Highly recommended!
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Mike Baswell
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Thanks Tim! Either those aren't listed on the IDW site anymore or there was something wrong with my search criteria. I'm on the hunt now though.
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I have copies that I picked up when they were released, but
I have yet to see them pop up in a used bookstore.
While I still have the original issues, these books are my
way of revisiting my favorite JBVerse series.
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Geoffrey Langford
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I bought all the reprints etc from IDW - it was annoying the original issues were published in different sized hardcovers, so my bookshelf now only displays the IDW paperback collection of the original run and hard covers of the new material
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Wallace Sellars
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QUOTE:
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Mine are on the shelf, but I wasn't happy about that either.
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John Byrne
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In the Biz, the technical term for that is “a goof”.
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Ben Herman
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I read the original run of Next Men, so I really need to get the continuation from IDW. Yet another item on my much too long "Stuff To Buy" list.
The one criticism I had about Next Men was (25 year old spoilers!) the arc of Sathanas...
Okay, so Sathanas is / was actually Senator Hilltop. Due to his future self traveling back in time, Hilltop knows that eventually in the future he is going to get defeated, escape into the past, and die, but not before setting in motion the events that will lead to his transformation. It's obviously a closed time loop. The one thing that never made sense is that Hilltop / Sathanas was a power-mad egomaniac, so I can't see him meekly accepting that he would eventually die in the past as part of some predestination paradox. Why didn't he try to come up with some sort of plan to perpetuate his existence, create a clone of himself or a copy of his mind before the events of 2112 so that he could continue to exist in some manner in the future after his defeat and trip back in time.
Anyway, that's something that's stuck in my head for all these years, that Hilltop / Sathanas seemingly never had any plan other than to guarantee his own creation. I think that could make a really compelling story for Byrne to tell one of these days.
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It's obviously a closed time loop.•• Obviously, Sathanas would disagree. (Recall, too, that a definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome each time.)
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Obviously, Sathanas would disagree.
(Recall, too, that a definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome each time.)
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Oh, well, maybe one of these days poor Sathanas will get it right.
In any case, I would still enjoy seeing you write the character again. I seem to recall in the letters pages of Next Men that you had at least considered doing a sequel to 2112.
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But Sathanas wouldn’t be in it. He travelled to the past in 2112.
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Well, if Sathanas DID finally figure out a way to change events then maybe he could show up again.
Whatever the case, with or without Sathanas, I felt that 2112 had enough interesting threads in it that there is fertile ground for a sequel if John Byrne decided he wanted to revisit that world.
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