Shouldn't we be getting a new Archives soon?

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker Moisture Farmer Find all posts View Profile Close Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

I'm just glad DC hasn't abandoned the archive line completely. I got my Doom Patrol and All-Star Comics runs completed, now I'd like to see Green Lantern and Flash continue on for a bit. Metal Men would be nice too.

[Mister.Weirdo Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Mister.Weirdo]

My guess is that the Omnibuses sold well enough that they want to do a third, but they figure they can make more money if the sell those comics in Archive format FIRST, then just take all the work they did for those and use it to output the next Omnibus without having to spend any additional money restoring all the issue art.

I'm hoping this IS the case, because if SO it probably means we will get two more Archives after this one without TOO long of a wait.

In general they seem to have abandoned the Archive line, if you look at how FEW Archives have come out in the past few years compared to earlier in the line.

The omnibuses didn't come out until many years after the last archive had come out. It's probably a completely different reason.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

The omnibuses didn't come out until many years after the last archive had come out. It probably a completely different reason.

To my mind that makes my theory MORE plausible, not less. They do no GL Archives for YEARS, but now, coincidentally, when the Omnibuses catch up to the material they already prepared for past Archives, we suddenly get a new Archive? If they make another Omnibus without making more Archives first, they have the costs of processing all that color comics art rolled into the cost of that ONE Omnibus. If they crank out a few Archives first, that cost is spread over three books (which they charge MORE for per issue included than the Omnibuses), and then isn't a factor at ALL when they put out Omnibus 3 for $75 or whatever.

I could very well be wrong about that reasoning, but the large gap after the last Archives, and the short gap after the Omnibuses caught up to the material in the Archives seem suggestive to me.

[Mister.Weirdo Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Mister.Weirdo]

Maybe, or maybe it's just a coincidence.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Maybe, or maybe it's just a coincidence.

Certainly very possible. But since I don't go in for the BIG conspiracy-theory type stuff (faked moon landings, 9-11 done by the gov't, etc.) these are the sort of sad little connections I'm left with drawing.

[Mister.Weirdo Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Mister.Weirdo]

Whatever floats your boat.

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker Moisture Farmer Find all posts View Profile Close Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

No WAY is this a coincidence. DC solicits more archives just as their omnibus counterparts are set to overtake them in umber of issues covered? I think Ed is right. The work is now done in reproducing them. At least now they have a chance to sell some units to customers who were already committed to the archive line. THEN they'll continue with the omnibus line so they don't outright kill one entire line.

The only thing against this idea is that the Flash archives are now continuing, and no omnibus line has been started for the silver age series. Just the chronicle line which is WAY behind.

Reminds me how nice it would be if DC would buckle down and commit to finishing a run in one format before beginning the next. Green Lantern currently has all of these formats for the silver age, volume 2 series:

Archives
Omnibuses
Chronicles
Showcase Presents (B+W)

Not to mention two different lines in softcover to collect the tail end of volume 2!

[Whitey Corpse Trainee Find all posts View Profile Close Whitey]

Aren't the Flash Omnibus 1 and 2 the silver age Flashs? Or do they cover the time after the silver age?

[Lantern2814.20850 Green Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern2814.20850]

Actually the Flash Omnibus' don't cover any archives at all. They are Hardcover collections of Geoff Johns Run on the Flash starring the now-abandoned Wally West as The Flash.

[Deadpool Fight like a man: with your words, not your fists. Find all posts View Profile Close Deadpool]

I brought the batman chronicles vloume 4 about a year ago now, and i've only read the first 2 issues worth so-far.

[Lantern2814.20850 Green Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Lantern2814.20850]

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ok that was good! So when do we get Volume 8?

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

So are the Archives like... dead dead?

[Big Daddy Dave Skywalker Moisture Farmer Find all posts View Profile Close Big Daddy Dave Skywalker]

I'm pretty sure they are. I remember one coming out a few years ago and being shocked to see it but now I can't recall what it was specifically. DC apparently has moved on, which is fine with me. I like the omnibus format much better. I hope one day golden age comics come back into fashion and All-Star Comics 1-57 gets published again as omnibi. I'm glad DC finished them in archives and they look great, but I could be sucked into a double dip with an upgrade like that.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I still have a gap in my GL collection between the last Archive and the beginning of GL/GA. Probably never be filled at this point. I can't afford the issues, the Archives are never going to happen, any new affordable reprint format will start over and never get to that point, and I can't bring myself to pay the pricetag on the Omnibus that covers those issues, given how much overlap it has with what I've already got.