I grew up reading Captain America, Thor, Spider-Man and so on. I loved the characters and the stories. But when I saw characters like Power Man, Falcon, and Goliath it was always exciting. Why? Because representation matters. When the mentioned the comics stores in Kentucky didn’t continue having the Milestone comics is stock after issue #1 I felt weird about that. I used to collect Milestone and to see black characters as the main people and to have good stories I was excited. I’ll definitely be ordering this book soon. Thanks for the video, Omar.
I love that they're doing this but I'd also love the option to just buy Static separately. That said, I'm looking forward to getting to know these characters for the first time.
If you haven’t read the other comics and plan on skipping them you’re doing yourself an absolute disservice! But tell you what, I was planning to do that very thing, skip all the other stories cuz I wasn’t familiar. But I then I cracked it open and read hardware (what people argue is the weakest out of the bunch) and it ended up being very very good! Before you knew it each story was better than the last and I was hooked! Please check this book out!
People complaining it’s not an Omni but forgetting that as a compendium the price is 1/3 of an Omni meaning it will sell to a different and wider group of people. Also it’s a much easier format to print.
I´m so glad that I bought this one this weekend. Hardware is an awesome story. I loved how he said ' Welcome to the nineties loser' after punching that Indigo guy. So cool.
I'm definitely picking this up. I love the classic Milestone books. I kinda wish they did the titles separately but I'm fine with this. At least we get something. I hope we get a volume 2.
Thanks for the video dude! This has been one of the most *intriguing* books for me since it was announced. I really hope TONS of people try this out and that DC continues with future volumes to cover the entire line. I'm also slightly confused with the compilation mapping. I think most collectors and readers actually familiar with the material would have probably wanted separate books for each title. Though I suppose then you do get to the question of how to handle crossovers like Shadow War, Worlds Collide, and Long Hot Summer. Though since I've been planning years to custom bind my complete set of the original run, I think there's a decent way to do it. You'd double dip all of Shadow War at the beginning of the Shadow Cabinet book. Worlds Collide could have a separate collection, while double dipping the closely connected issues in their respective books. Long Hot Summer is a bit more complicated, but I think you'd possibly need a "Milestone Companion" type book anyway to handle some of the miniseries. But ultimately maybe this compilation approach ensures that more casual or less familiar readers will get to experience some of those lesser known books like Deathwish, Wise Son, and even the bigger Xombi. All that said, I ended up impulse buying the book after seeing some of the posts on social media and watching videos like yours and a great one from BJ Kicks, who is a massive Milestone fan. It's an interesting way to read the line in this order. Plus I want to support it so we get more. Ultimately, I think these comics are some of the most important in the history of the industry, and arguably more important than that, they're just creatively brilliant.
I'm so happy this exists, and the page quality looks decent. This is how to do diversity in a medium without pandering. It's unfortunate DC can't get it's head out of it's ass and push new ongoing milestone series WITH top-tier talent and minus an editorial agenda. Until then, I hope this sells well to warrant continuing or publishing an omnibus version.
You mean to tell me that hiring creators with decades worth of experience and a love of comics who were focused on just writing good stories produced better results than hiring rando activists with little to no experience who see the characters as just a vehicle for their message? Get outta town!
I was hoping you would do an overview of this compendium! I didn't know much about this but once again your incredible knowledge helped. I'll be getting this if I can find it at a good price, I kinda don't want to pay cover for a compendium. Stay minty
Dearest Omar. Thanks for the video. Since Madie did the recommendation and knowing that Milestone was returning (the classic) brought me a lot of memories ti the 90s. Here un Mexico there were not a lot and the first time se ase those characters were un the cross-over with DC. I have been waiting to be realased un AMAZON (Mexico) to get this volume. It is positive ti ser volume 1 and make me hope for a volume 2 (un Mexico they sell a lot of volume 1 and it has been years and the volume 2 never appear, what a shame), well thank You for the explanation. Take care.
DC strikes again with their inconsistencies to give us an omnibus. But, I actually don't mind getting different characters within this book as opposed to just one character in full. It opens the door to read, and get into each of these characters at once.
Would love some Milestone Omnis or OHCs but I'm definitely going to pick this up, just glad the comics are finally back in print and I want to support future collections.
There was a brief Brave and the Bold revival of these characters that matched them with mainstream DCU characters. Just took a look online and there are plenty of cheap copies available of that tpb, if any of you Minties are interested
I'm looking forward to this one. I missed out on these titles when they were on the stands and have only read the Hardware trade that came out some years back. I actually like these compendiums due to comfort of reading them (not as heavy as Omnis) and the price point. Also, they are much better quality lately. The Starman Compendium is so well put together, for example. Looking forward to this one!!
I've been waiting for collection like this for the milestone comics. I've been reading them on DC infinite for a while now. And seeing it get a huge compendium is getting me real hyped. Can't wait to buy it.
Thanks for doing this overview! Think we'll get an omni in the future? I've been eyeing this at my LCS but I worry about the durability of this format. Plus, I just love the hc look on my shelf. Jaja
I honestly can't wait to for my copy to show up it looks like a great time reading the Compendium format is pretty badass i want more DC in Compendium format Sandman being one that is more likely to get lolol
Loveeeee your channel. Wish you'd do a dedicated Gen 13 video for their new hardcover release. J.Scott Campbell is sooo TALENTED. He's neck and neck with Jim Lee for my favorite artist of all time.
Thank so much for the video, was very much looking forward to see it. I am conflicted about getting the compendium, while I love ICON specially with MD Bright´s art I find the collection lacking in the extras department. I am not asking for an omnibus but a nice hardcover similar to the Booster Gold HC which had a lot of extras. I want those types of thing with milestone, just starting with the series bible, the memos, the original designs, etc., there is so much history in milestone that I wish was included. I am glad they are collecting them but I do not see the difference of getting the in digital form.
I would love for Milestone to make an Earth-M Encyclopedia that would take everything we know and then many new facts about the world and its characters!!! i think many more people would be interested in reading the universe when they know the world surrounding the characters. I don't know if they have put their minds to this but I think if they did/do put their minds to it a bunch of new ideas that could bring in many new readers of the same and different demigraphics could be created.
My first encoynters with milestone were in the Static Shock animation and in a comic of Superboy (in Brazil the comics are bigger because they mix stories of different comics of US, it is the so called "formatinho" ) that had the arc of "Worlds Collide". For sure I will buy this in the future
I actually like the DC compendiums. The build and print quality is top notch, at least it is in the starman and fables compendiums, and the lower price point makes em attractive as well. I wish there'd be more of them. Omnibus prices are hilarious atm unfortunately.
Seems interesting and I love the art. How does the reading experience compare to mainstream DC at the time? I’ve been reading the Underworld Unleashed event lately, which came out around the time of these, and I’ve been finding it nearly unreadable, but I love all the Vertigo books that were coming out around this time.
Milestone is kiiinda in between regular mainstream DC a the time and Vertigo. The issues in this book are circa 1993-1994 mostly (Xombi goes further due to their mapping by arcs). Many of the creators involved with Milestone were veterans of the industry with work going back to the mid-80s or even earlier. McDuffie and Cowan were coming off of a similarly smart run on Deathlok for Marvel. Cowan also had his Question work with O'Neil. Mark Bright and Christopher Priest (not actually contributing, but involved in development) did the final run on Power Man & Iron Fist. While some artists like Arvell Jones and Rich Buckler are kind of "house style" type guys of late 70s and 80s Marvel. The younger artists like John Paul Leon, ChrisCross, and Humberto Ramos were essentially being guided by these folks, so they didn't trend toward the "NINETIES" trends of contemporary Image, Marvel, and even some DC. McDuffie, who handles the bulk of the writing in this first volume, is incredible and had a great sense for characterization. If you're familiar with his work on the DCAU shows, it's not super far removed from his Milestone writing. Granted, Underworld Unleashed is Mark Waid, a legend in his own right, especially his contemporary Flash run. But I think crossover events are inherently more likely to be garbage. It depends on what you found unlikeable about UU. Did it feel dated or just bad? Milestone is like a nice mix of qualities of 80s and 90s comics. Contemporary to their era, but without a lot of the flash and lack of substance of some others.
@@fausty616 UU was probably both dated and bad. Im talking about the whole event not just the mini, which is probably ok but not great. Most of the tie-ins are of characters that never took off or don’t really exist anymore. Off the top of my head only the Starman issues that tied into the event were really entertaining at all. I’ve not read Starman before so it made me want to read the series. Anyway, the design work was atrocious on almost every character involved in UU. I feel like they were chasing the Image boys, trying to be cool, but just showed how truly nerdy they were. I feel like early Image was so bad its good but the UU designs were so bad they’re terrible.
@@essaywhu Honestly? The 90's Starman run from James Robinson was epic...speaking of which I should take my own advice as I only got about 40% of the way through...for some reason...
I just feel like they could’ve put this book in a better form , like how marvel does their omnibus , it just looks cheap to me 😒. Put some effort into the reprints DC !
Is this release on high end paper or newspaper paper? DC has been pissing me off by using newspaper paper on their hardcover releases like Joker War saga by Jorge Jimenez. I was beyond LIVID!!!! I pay good money expecting high end goods and NOT newspaper paper.
I grew up reading Captain America, Thor, Spider-Man and so on. I loved the characters and the stories. But when I saw characters like Power Man, Falcon, and Goliath it was always exciting. Why? Because representation matters. When the mentioned the comics stores in Kentucky didn’t continue having the Milestone comics is stock after issue #1 I felt weird about that. I used to collect Milestone and to see black characters as the main people and to have good stories I was excited. I’ll definitely be ordering this book soon. Thanks for the video, Omar.
I love that they're doing this but I'd also love the option to just buy Static separately. That said, I'm looking forward to getting to know these characters for the first time.
If you haven’t read the other comics and plan on skipping them you’re doing yourself an absolute disservice!
But tell you what, I was planning to do that very thing, skip all the other stories cuz I wasn’t familiar. But I then I cracked it open and read hardware (what people argue is the weakest out of the bunch) and it ended up being very very good! Before you knew it each story was better than the last and I was hooked! Please check this book out!
MILESTONE COMICS AND THE GREAT DWAYNE MCDUFFIE ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME FOREVER ♾️
awesome overview! So glad these stories are being collected so people don't have to rack up massive eBay bills like I did lol
thank u to the homie funk master b
Milestone was the perfect example of a light that burned twice as bright but half as long. Fantastic comics across the board.
People complaining it’s not an Omni but forgetting that as a compendium the price is 1/3 of an Omni meaning it will sell to a different and wider group of people. Also it’s a much easier format to print.
I’m one of the few people that prefer softcovers over hardcovers.
This is true, but will it hold up over time?
@@forsakenV12 Will you?
@@theovlach guess not lol
I´m so glad that I bought this one this weekend. Hardware is an awesome story. I loved how he said ' Welcome to the nineties loser' after punching that Indigo guy. So cool.
I'm definitely picking this up. I love the classic Milestone books. I kinda wish they did the titles separately but I'm fine with this. At least we get something. I hope we get a volume 2.
Thanks for the video dude! This has been one of the most *intriguing* books for me since it was announced. I really hope TONS of people try this out and that DC continues with future volumes to cover the entire line.
I'm also slightly confused with the compilation mapping. I think most collectors and readers actually familiar with the material would have probably wanted separate books for each title. Though I suppose then you do get to the question of how to handle crossovers like Shadow War, Worlds Collide, and Long Hot Summer. Though since I've been planning years to custom bind my complete set of the original run, I think there's a decent way to do it. You'd double dip all of Shadow War at the beginning of the Shadow Cabinet book. Worlds Collide could have a separate collection, while double dipping the closely connected issues in their respective books. Long Hot Summer is a bit more complicated, but I think you'd possibly need a "Milestone Companion" type book anyway to handle some of the miniseries. But ultimately maybe this compilation approach ensures that more casual or less familiar readers will get to experience some of those lesser known books like Deathwish, Wise Son, and even the bigger Xombi.
All that said, I ended up impulse buying the book after seeing some of the posts on social media and watching videos like yours and a great one from BJ Kicks, who is a massive Milestone fan. It's an interesting way to read the line in this order. Plus I want to support it so we get more. Ultimately, I think these comics are some of the most important in the history of the industry, and arguably more important than that, they're just creatively brilliant.
I'm so happy this exists, and the page quality looks decent. This is how to do diversity in a medium without pandering. It's unfortunate DC can't get it's head out of it's ass and push new ongoing milestone series WITH top-tier talent and minus an editorial agenda. Until then, I hope this sells well to warrant continuing or publishing an omnibus version.
You mean to tell me that hiring creators with decades worth of experience and a love of comics who were focused on just writing good stories produced better results than hiring rando activists with little to no experience who see the characters as just a vehicle for their message? Get outta town!
Can’t wait for mine to come in. I Hope the support to this results into an omnibus
I was hoping you would do an overview of this compendium! I didn't know much about this but once again your incredible knowledge helped. I'll be getting this if I can find it at a good price, I kinda don't want to pay cover for a compendium. Stay minty
Dearest Omar. Thanks for the video. Since Madie did the recommendation and knowing that Milestone was returning (the classic) brought me a lot of memories ti the 90s. Here un Mexico there were not a lot and the first time se ase those characters were un the cross-over with DC. I have been waiting to be realased un AMAZON (Mexico) to get this volume. It is positive ti ser volume 1 and make me hope for a volume 2 (un Mexico they sell a lot of volume 1 and it has been years and the volume 2 never appear, what a shame), well thank You for the explanation. Take care.
DC strikes again with their inconsistencies to give us an omnibus. But, I actually don't mind getting different characters within this book as opposed to just one character in full. It opens the door to read, and get into each of these characters at once.
I haven't got it yet but I definitely will be I just don't understand why they didn't do a compendium for each series
Would love some Milestone Omnis or OHCs but I'm definitely going to pick this up, just glad the comics are finally back in print and I want to support future collections.
There was a brief Brave and the Bold revival of these characters that matched them with mainstream DCU characters. Just took a look online and there are plenty of cheap copies available of that tpb, if any of you Minties are interested
Could they make an omnibus
Dunno why I get excited about thick books. Lol!
🙏🏻 best wishes to you Omar
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I'm looking forward to this one. I missed out on these titles when they were on the stands and have only read the Hardware trade that came out some years back. I actually like these compendiums due to comfort of reading them (not as heavy as Omnis) and the price point. Also, they are much better quality lately. The Starman Compendium is so well put together, for example. Looking forward to this one!!
I still have some these issues in the original polybags
I've been waiting for collection like this for the milestone comics. I've been reading them on DC infinite for a while now. And seeing it get a huge compendium is getting me real hyped. Can't wait to buy it.
Here after Wonder Maddie recommended this!
Thanks for doing this overview! Think we'll get an omni in the future? I've been eyeing this at my LCS but I worry about the durability of this format. Plus, I just love the hc look on my shelf. Jaja
Waiting for mine to come in! Can't wait to crack this one open.
I honestly can't wait to for my copy to show up it looks like a great time reading the Compendium format is pretty badass i want more DC in Compendium format Sandman being one that is more likely to get lolol
Can you please do a review on infinity comics, all six of them? By Jonathan Hickman?? Pleasee
Loveeeee your channel. Wish you'd do a dedicated Gen 13 video for their new hardcover release. J.Scott Campbell is sooo TALENTED. He's neck and neck with Jim Lee for my favorite artist of all time.
I have that on the way, I'm excited to read those again, it's been decades. Wish they'd reprint the Absolute Wildcats book, I slept on that.
Thank so much for the video, was very much looking forward to see it. I am conflicted about getting the compendium, while I love ICON specially with MD Bright´s art I find the collection lacking in the extras department. I am not asking for an omnibus but a nice hardcover similar to the Booster Gold HC which had a lot of extras. I want those types of thing with milestone, just starting with the series bible, the memos, the original designs, etc., there is so much history in milestone that I wish was included. I am glad they are collecting them but I do not see the difference of getting the in digital form.
I would love for Milestone to make an Earth-M Encyclopedia that would take everything we know and then many new facts about the world and its characters!!! i think many more people would be interested in reading the universe when they know the world surrounding the characters. I don't know if they have put their minds to this but I think if they did/do put their minds to it a bunch of new ideas that could bring in many new readers of the same and different demigraphics could be created.
How hasn't Icon made it big?
Hahaha! Buy one copy to read and another copy for the safety deposit box. Someday, I will be a hundred-thousand-aire!
...someday...
My first encoynters with milestone were in the Static Shock animation and in a comic of Superboy (in Brazil the comics are bigger because they mix stories of different comics of US, it is the so called "formatinho" ) that had the arc of "Worlds Collide". For sure I will buy this in the future
I actually like the DC compendiums. The build and print quality is top notch, at least it is in the starman and fables compendiums, and the lower price point makes em attractive as well. I wish there'd be more of them. Omnibus prices are hilarious atm unfortunately.
Would've been better as a hardcover but, it's still great and has so much content.
I thought that the 52 omni at 175$ was a joke. I can’t believe DC is going there.
honestly, we shouldn't buy it just to let em know they can't get away with it, otherwise where will it end? $200? Fuck that.
It will likely release at 150. At 175 it is dead in the water
Reginald Hudlin was part of that creator group.
LIT !!! Great overview OMAR ! Definitely gotta kick this up !
Keep it 💯✊🏿
Picking this one up
Seems interesting and I love the art. How does the reading experience compare to mainstream DC at the time? I’ve been reading the Underworld Unleashed event lately, which came out around the time of these, and I’ve been finding it nearly unreadable, but I love all the Vertigo books that were coming out around this time.
Milestone is kiiinda in between regular mainstream DC a the time and Vertigo. The issues in this book are circa 1993-1994 mostly (Xombi goes further due to their mapping by arcs).
Many of the creators involved with Milestone were veterans of the industry with work going back to the mid-80s or even earlier. McDuffie and Cowan were coming off of a similarly smart run on Deathlok for Marvel. Cowan also had his Question work with O'Neil. Mark Bright and Christopher Priest (not actually contributing, but involved in development) did the final run on Power Man & Iron Fist. While some artists like Arvell Jones and Rich Buckler are kind of "house style" type guys of late 70s and 80s Marvel. The younger artists like John Paul Leon, ChrisCross, and Humberto Ramos were essentially being guided by these folks, so they didn't trend toward the "NINETIES" trends of contemporary Image, Marvel, and even some DC. McDuffie, who handles the bulk of the writing in this first volume, is incredible and had a great sense for characterization. If you're familiar with his work on the DCAU shows, it's not super far removed from his Milestone writing. Granted, Underworld Unleashed is Mark Waid, a legend in his own right, especially his contemporary Flash run. But I think crossover events are inherently more likely to be garbage. It depends on what you found unlikeable about UU. Did it feel dated or just bad? Milestone is like a nice mix of qualities of 80s and 90s comics. Contemporary to their era, but without a lot of the flash and lack of substance of some others.
@@fausty616 UU was probably both dated and bad. Im talking about the whole event not just the mini, which is probably ok but not great. Most of the tie-ins are of characters that never took off or don’t really exist anymore. Off the top of my head only the Starman issues that tied into the event were really entertaining at all. I’ve not read Starman before so it made me want to read the series. Anyway, the design work was atrocious on almost every character involved in UU. I feel like they were chasing the Image boys, trying to be cool, but just showed how truly nerdy they were. I feel like early Image was so bad its good but the UU designs were so bad they’re terrible.
@@essaywhu Honestly? The 90's Starman run from James Robinson was epic...speaking of which I should take my own advice as I only got about 40% of the way through...for some reason...
Maybe you can order or buy Batman dark victory deluxe edition book
175, that is way to much for me. I will have to stop buying the big ones😢
Yeah I'ma pick this up this weekend
how many volumes in total? really want do get into it.
I kinda wish all the covers on the back spelled out a '1' instead of a '2' since this is volume 1.
My Irredeemable omnibus has a crease(
Split it in two and custom bind it. You'll be twice as happy.
52 Omni at $175?!?!?! Why in the hell?!
I just feel like they could’ve put this book in a better form , like how marvel does their omnibus , it just looks cheap to me 😒. Put some effort into the reprints DC !
Uncanny Omar, talk pretty one day. Someday. Maybe.
This should been an omnibus
So they couldn't just do an actual hardcover omnibus for each of the Milestone characters? DC is so damn lame.
Is this release on high end paper or newspaper paper? DC has been pissing me off by using newspaper paper on their hardcover releases like Joker War saga by Jorge Jimenez. I was beyond LIVID!!!! I pay good money expecting high end goods and NOT newspaper paper.
Thin glossy paper.
Always disappointed to see the compendium format
meh