Okay, someone sez:
New X-Men Availability: 7 volumes in trade paperback from Marvel, or the actual issues are 114-154. The first volume is E For Extinction, and it's a good idea to start there even though the Riot At Xavier's book is actually the best one.
Forget the trade paperbacks: the hardcovers are actually cheaper, print the art bigger, and collect the stories in the arcs that Morrison prefers them to be collected. But mostly they're cheaper!
-- kit brash (kitbras...), November 22nd, 2004.
However, Amazon tells me that the vol 2 and 3 of hardcover seels for about $100 to $200 each. Were they limited edition or something? Given this, should one still start out with buying vol 1 of the Hardcovers, rather than the E is for Extinction trade? I'm asking for a friend--I told her to buy the first hardcover, but now I'm worried she'll buy that and it'll overlap weird with the subsequent paperbacks--but if the hardcovers are good enough deals, I'll buy it myself, even though I have it in floppies.
― asdf, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)
Nevermind, I found it for cheaper on Froogle
― asdf, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)
My guess is they're likely out of print, hence the kollecktorskum prices. It used to be that the 3 hardcovers were as cheap as the trades, maybe even a little cheaper.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)
also the hardcover has the sideways annual in it, and the paperback doesn't. okay it was a bit rub, but it introduced Xorn.
― Kit, Thursday, 1 June 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)
also the hardcover has the sideways annual in it, and the paperback doesn't. okay it was a bit rub, but it introduced Xorn.I've got the trade paperbacks, and while I don't recall which one has it (vol. 2?) it is in there.
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 1 June 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)