Here is a snippet of talk about Absolute Sandman:

the last thing I heard that they are definitely doing is an Absolute Sandman. Because frankly, the first twenty odd issues of Sandman (in particular, but there’s more running through) were colored for a process that hasn’t been used for twenty years on that old paper stock. And now the paper stock is amazing, the print process is amazing and we’re still using the colors which look worse and worse with every printing. That’s not satisfactory. We’ve always known we needed to recolor the first two graphic novels and maybe the first couple issues of Dream Country.

Old colouring--which is pretty much in line with what I remember on paper, and new colouring which makes me feel so much better about the pencil and inks job--I'd felt that the narrative was underserved by the art, but maybe it was technology, and the limitations on the inker's flair coming through.

And, also, me being spoiled.

eta: Damn! Too slow!

ita, thanks for the link to the coloring sample, I didn't know there were any out there yet. I am very much looking forward to the new versions of the books.

Is that old coloring the same as the orignal comics and the THD/TPDs or just the THD/TPDs? Cause DAMN. I've got the first 20-30 or so issues of Sandman (I can't remember exactly when I stopped buying it - not because I wasn't enjoying it, but because I wasn't keeping up with reading my purchases; I gave up buying all comics around then, but have occasionally dipped a toe back in here and there).

Same as the originals. The problem with the old coloring is that it hasn't been updated since the comics were first released, and its flaws have become magnified over the years as printing has improved and the standard for comic coloring has gone through the stratosphere.

Justice League Season 2 = Best TV cartoon ever.

Justice League Season 2 = Best TV cartoon ever.

Don't make me go BIG BLUE JUSTICE upside your head!

I'm in Scola's corner on this one. I think The Tick is a lot of fun, but Justice League really hit its stride in Season 2.

I need to re-iterate how dumb I think the whole Storm/Panther thing is. And, in the XMen annual, they've retconned her eyebrows into being white.

It looks like much crap, and I did very much like her black dash eyebrows and double dashes from the corners of her eyes.

Have they retconned her into spinning like a top when she fights, yet?

Alan Moore might run into some problems with the holder of the rights to Peter Pan over the publication of The Lost Girls.

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