And Greg...GO READ MAGE TODAY. I dig the first series the most of all. It's the comic form at its best!

Chip

Yes. It's supposed to be that way.
In the original run (Comico), the text appeared back then.
Dunno why it doesn't in the Image reprints, tho' with all the advances that reprinting has made in this day and age.

Go figure.

And can't they do a reprint from actual comics if they're in good enough condition? I'm pretty sure Comico sprung for better-quality paper than newsprint.

While we're talking about Wagner reprints, the giant Image reprint of "Mage: The Hero Discovered" also seemed to have a misprint I've never seen acknowledged or corrected. In the scene when Edsel is using the magic ATM card, the Image reprint doesn't show the text she enters, while the original Starblaze oversized TPB reprints did. Is that supposed to be that way?

Also, any one that's a GRENDEL fan should definitely track down the hardcover ART OF GRENDEL that came out a few months back. It's a pricy 40 dollar hardback (mine was an X-Mas gift from my totally awesome mother), but it's absolutely worth it. Beautiful stuff from Wagner and most of his collaborators.

So far issues 23-40 have been reprinted as single issues. I heard God and Devil will be out next year.

Looks like we're getting Batman/Grendel in March, Devils Quest in April and Devils Child in May. Hopefully God and Devil follows in the summer (or a reprint of Devils Tales which collects 16-19). Not sure if we get Devils Reign in TPB form this year but it'd be nice.

I've seen them around in stores in NYC. I'd keep looking. I'm sure Wagner will eventually get to Mage III and they will reprint those books as well.

Grendel may be more interesting as its complexity is more machiavialian than Mage.

As for Mage, the second series is way better than the first, and I'd love to own a trade of both, but when those came out, I wasn't interested in reading it, and now I am and the collections are nowhere to be found.

Dark Horse can only reprint what they have film or original art for. So Silverback looks unlikely as well.

As for Mage Image has two giant trades and hardcovers collecting Hero Discovered and Hero Defined in their entirety.

Holy Mary Mother of God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can you read GRENDEL and not read MAGE?!?!?!?

They're practically not only mirror-counter parts, but what put Matt Wagner on the map as an established writer/artist.

Get the collected tpbs that collects the 1st and 2nd Interludes, the collected editions (first or second series) doesn't include the interludes.

Anyway, Dark Horse has been pretty good at collecting all of Comico run, except for Silverback (the origin of Argent) # 1-3.

It's nice to know that Dark Horse reprinted (or will reprint) the latter part of the Comico run. I didn't see them on the Trade Paperback List I use or at Amazon, but it's good to know that they exist!

I just found them at my local comic shop during a 40% off sale a month or two back; they had all of the latter half of the run, and much of the former, but I only got the ones for which there will be no trade.

I thought the stylized dialogue worked really well in a weird way. It had a very similar effect, to me, to the 'Devil by the Deed' story. The dialogue was so minimal that it might as well be as non-existent as dialogue in 'Devil by the Deed', which makes the whole thing seem bigger because it gives you gaps to fill in from yourself.

To fill in what you don't have:

Try e-bay.

or try this place:

http://www.dougcomicworld.com/