![]() The only thing I could think of, was that most of the original pages have appeared before in the IDW's Wrightson Artifact Edition a few years back, so maybe the designer decided it was too much duplication? The whole point of printing original artwork is to allow fans to appreciate Wrightson's rendering skills, so reducing the art to place 4 pages per page seemed counter-intuitive. ![]() Negative- shrinking the original art at the back to four pages of original art per one page of the Absolute, and the wraparound covers of some of the reprint comics to a half page - Why? What’s the point if it’s too small to appreciate? Especially if they’re only using the saved space for a bunch of photos of Len Wein at conventions in the final pages Has this also been added to the original art at the back of the book? Negative - adding an imprint of a weathered, foxing blank page to every page in the book, especially to the covers, is not great. ![]() Positive- the line work and image size of the Absolute Positive- the moodiness of the original colour scheme with a brownish Swampy rather than bright green grew on me also the colour choices generally in the Omni/Roots are radically changed from the original, so the Absolute gets away from that ![]() Positive- the Absolute restores the “Next issue “ blurbs that are missing in the Omni (presumably because the Omni uses the same files from the 80s “Roots of the Swamp Thing” reprints for the first 10 issues) After reading the Absolute, I sat down and carefully compared it to the Bronze Age Omnibus. ![]()
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