What the **** is going on with Dev issue 4?

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:58 pm

Wait... is the sourcebook supposed to be 4 issues? I thought it was only 3?

And has issue #3 been published yet?

EDIT: Apparently issue #3 is already out. I had no idea..

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:41 pm

Is the Essentials book only Marvel US? Would be great if the UK and US stuff were released chronoligally in the same book(s) one day.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:07 pm

Brendocon wrote:
In other news, Denyer's a corporate sell-out now.

ah, he's been trying to be one for ages, nice to see someone has finally taken notice.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:25 pm

I'm still unclear as to what Stu actually did.

Whatever it is, congrats to him. He deserves to be on the front lines, given his insane capacity to recall even the most trivial of TF facts. The Walking TF Encyclopedia, I call him.

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:19 am

Half a dozen pages of notes / summary / panel selections per volume, in lieu of material that's off-limits because Marvel are overly protective. How much of that's been used and what edits may have been done, dunno. The annotations for the first book include more asides about the series in general, on t' basis I was aiming for stuff that could be cut to space if needed and fewer panels were usable.

No startling revelations in there for old lags, nor screeds about Marvel or the colouring... between the two volumes, it's just a way of cheaply picking up most of the first half of the US run. I don't know whether there are plans to do the rest, though #75 did get reprinted in the Best of Furman hardcover, so there's some possibility.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:37 am

so essentially no need to pick up if you still have quite a weigty box with the original run on your wardrobe?

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:19 pm

No need to pick up the Titan volumes if you've got the original run, unless you want something less fragile to leaf through. The type of person who collects full sets of original issues or has thirty existing reprint volumes probably isn't the market so much...

If I managed to convey that early US stories fit into a broader picture of overseas / later material and some people get curious enough to read further and see how it slots together, mission accomplished.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:37 pm

Yaya wrote:insane capacity to recall even the most trivial of TF facts.

Not really a difficult talent given that we live in the intarwebz.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:50 pm

Oi, I can do that too! Test me, test me!

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:36 pm

Brendocon wrote:Not really a difficult talent given that we live in the intarwebz.

Oh sure, tell him Santa isn't real as well...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:28 pm

Santa isn't real. It was Prime in a big red cape.

And as for Soundwave's claws... they've all got them! How else would they be able to leaf through Donny Finkleberg's wallet?

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:44 pm

Brendocon wrote:
Yaya wrote:insane capacity to recall even the most trivial of TF facts.
Not really a difficult talent given that we live in the intarwebz.

yeah, the real effort comes with being bothered to type it in so the plebs can read it and then go back to beating off about fembots.