Product Description: Collecting the Invincible Ultimate Collection Volumes 1-2 into one massive volume just in time for Christmas! Almost 800 pages of pure Invincible goodness. This is a can't-miss for any Invincible fan and a perfect addition to any reinforced, sturdy bookshelf.
overpriced and not very high quality ^ everybody says this book is overpriced. yes, it is true but i wanted my Invincible as big as possible. even though it is one of my favorite comics i am not happy with the book. it is big and the paper is high quality but the spine cracked when i opened the book for the first time. with such high price i would like to have the book quality better. it was money wasted.
Invincible is great; this book isn't. ^ I'm throughly in love with Invincible and have been reading it since about issue 19. The characters are solid and enjoyable, the humor is spot on, and the action is everything a capes book should be. I've been waiting idly for some time now to start actually buying the title as I have no desire to collect the individual issues but instead was looking for a good deal on collected volumes. Having great experience with Dark Horses' Hellboy Library volumes I bought this assuming a similar quality.
Physically this book is just not worth the money. The box it comes in is superfluous and easily damaged. (Mine was a little beat up in shipping despite excellent packaging.) The pages are so thin they are practically transparent and the physical dimensions of the book are just a centimeter too large for most of my shelves so it has to be stored with my over sized textbooks instead of the rest of my comic volumes. Worst of all there is almost no space between the binding and the start of the artwork so that many times I found I had to really pull at the pages to get at some bit of text or appreciate the art.
Unless you are getting it for almost nothing, this book is just not worth the money. Had I not purchased mine at a considerable discount I'd be rather displeased. I love the content, but the thing itself is just poor quality. I'll be purchasing the more reasonably priced Ultimate Hardcover editions when I continue my collection because, even though I am unaware of their quality, they can't be any worse then this.
Not worth the money. Buy the Ultimate collection HCs instead. ^ As others have pointed out, this volume is unbelievably overpriced and quite frankly not worth the extra money. For approximately the same amount, you could purchase the Ultimate Collections volumes 1-4. I highly recommend those volumes, and at 23.09 each, they are excellent value for money, and look great on the shelf. This series is absolutely fun, excellent reading and the stories in this volume are definitely worth getting, and quite frankly, if it were not for the fact that the regular HC weren't such high quality and excellent value, I would happily encourage anyone to buy this. However, when there's a much more accessible format of the same stories available, of comparable quality, a collection at this price point is pretty much a shameless money grab. It's essentially an author or publisher looking to extract every last bit of money from a good thing, and it isn't very smart. For the money involved here, you could easily get two different Absolute DC collections which would give many satisfying hours of reading.
A smarter thing for them to have done however, was to release volumes in oversized trade paperback formats. An 800 page paperback collection of volumes 1 and 2 of the HC for example, priced at just under the combined total of the two hardcovers, would have been an excellent way to get these stories out to a new audience while also providing an attractive and sensible alternative for the HC collections already released. Like I said, the Ultimate HC collections are excellent quality and well worth owning, and are also excellent value for money. I can't repeat that enough.
Definitely read these stories! But save your money on this one volume to buy all four HCs instead!!!!
Clearly worth the discounted price due to high quality ^ Enough has been said about this series, so I am sure you are aware it is the best superhero book on the market today. Nothing else comes close. Nothing.
A lot has been said about the high retail price of this set and yes, it IS overpriced, but Marvel and DC have far more readers and buyers for their special hardcover sets. Therefore Image has to price the set for profitability. It is what it is, so with Amazon's 30 to 40 % discount, the price is perfectly acceptable.
The set is sewn and not glued, so it can be read again and again without fear of pages falling apart or the binding starting to split. My set has been read at least three times, not to mention all the skims I have made through it over the last few years.
Also of note is that this supersized set is actually larger than the 12 issue Hardcovers. It's gargantuan. My only problem is the agonizing wait for volume 2, aws I read this series in HC. Thank heavens the almost two year wait is finally going to be over. As of the writing of this review, Volume 2 is weeks away from being released. Thank heavens!
I'm 37 years old and I love INVINCIBLE.
INCREDIBLY OVERPRICED!!!!! ^ This "complete library" collects Ulttimate Collections vol. 1 & 2. Let's do the math. You can buy those ultimate collections for a combined price of $46 on amazon, and still get oversized pages and a hardcover. That means for the price of this waste of space, YOU COULD ALMOST BUY 4 ULTIMATE VOLUMES!!! This is the most overpriced collection i've ever seen. Not even DC's absolute volumes are this pricey per page. BUY THE ULTIMATE VOLUMES!
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