(from When Reporters Repeat, The Savage Critics, 10 October 2012)
So, the Dave Sim / IDW press release went out wide, and several sources are specifically reporting the story as though this means that IDW is publishing a paper collection of Cerebus comics. I do not think this is correct. In fact, I'm sure it isn’t. Read the release again, slowly - this HAS to be for a DVD (?)
collection of the digital files, not a print book...
DAVE SIM:
I appreciate Brian Hibbs' When Reporters Repeat. My bad. Sincere
apologies. I don't speak the language of 2012. I said "hard copy" in the press release
because it seemed like a way to differentiate a DVD from just
downloading 0s and 1s. I appreciate him correcting it.
I'm also not
really picturing a "rare and expensive EXCLUSIVELY" version from IDW
LIMITED. From what I understand IDW does make their rare items
available they're just expensive even at wholesale...
(I
have to be careful, I don't know what's confidential information here: I guess the retailers asked them to take the prices off of their
Artist's Editions so the retailers could mark them up to what they
needed to mark them up to. Which I can see: part of what you're
selling in that case is the copy of Wally Wood Stories in that
particular store. You don't need to pay shipping, as the customer. You
can just buy it, strap it to the hood of your car like a moose you just
hunted and drive away) :)
...It's going to take a lot
of discussion to come up with a package -- or packages -- that make
sense: building it from the DVD out. What can we do to make the "only
10 of them" $500 version just unbelievably cool so that you get off on
it when it's sitting all closed up on your coffee table just as much
when you're reading and listening to it? It's not how I think, but it
does seem to be where we are/where we're going as an environment. I was
and am perfectly content with the High Society trade paperback "as is"
but "as is" doesn't seem to be where we are/where we're going.
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