I am planning to re-relase our first two volumes to coincide with the December 1st release of volume 3. As I have recently discovered new techniques for cleaning the original colour pages, I shall be updating the images to include them.

It also gives me the opportunity to make a few other alterations. First of all, I shall be removing the 8-page custom strip Assassins and the 8 custom datafiles. No offence to Jamar, but to me they have always been out of place. I shall be replacing them with the 8 missing Datafiles, the 2-page File on the Baron and the 6 "untamed..." adverts.

I shall be adding four new pages per volume, being the unused indyplanet intro pages and a contents page, and at the back I shall be adding contact details for the featured colourists and a list of credits. I will also be adding page numbers to each entire volume.

I have reshuffled the peripheral pages so that the Datafiles are now grouped by squads. I have left the storylines as they are.

Here are the proposed new layouts:



Finally, I plan to change the project title from "The Best Of" to "The Complete Works".

I understand how much this sucks for those who have already bought the books (myself included), which is why I have worked very hard to keep the storyline content the same. But as I plan to release a revised edition anyway this is the best time to do this. Does anybody have any objections?

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I'm just working through these, and it strikes me that it would make more sense to swap volumes 1 and 2. When we released volume 1 we didn't know if there would be any future volumes, but now that we're underway it seems odd to have World Enemy No. 1 before Operation Bloodhound.

Equally it now seems silly to call the second book "World Enemy No. 1", so I'll probably go with "Showdown for the Shadows" instead.

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As I said in a post 'pre-site breakdown', I'm also fine with the changes. If it was an official book company doing it, I'd be mad at being ripped off by them (they could afford to get it 'right' first time!), but the Baron only wants these books to be the best they can. The "Complete Works" moniker is way cooler too (it implies, obviously, that we're getting all the stories eventually!).

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Thanks guys - I think I put it a lot more eloquently in the original lost version LOL.

I shall post some revised progress reports later on tonight. I've just spent hours individually numbering the pages for volume 1, which I shall now use as a template for the others.



That was NOT fun.

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But I bet the end result will be worth it in the end!!

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I don't think a book that reprints comic strips really needs page numbers or an index/contents page, but it'll sure look cool and make it more 'book like' (whatever that means!)

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Well there's two angles to it, one is obviously so that you can thumb through and find certain strips, but the other is for the new colourist page at the back, which will have contact details for each colourist, and a list of their particular pages.

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OK, having just worked through all of the page numbers, I have decided to rearrange the books...

I know I said I wanted to keep the content the same as the existing books, but then I got bitten by the continuity bug! People have said to me to regard this project as a fresh start anyway, and so with that in mind;

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Im happy with this, didnt buy the originals so cant wait for these to be released and ill snap them up.

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