Astro Boy Omnibus

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Postby Dragonrider1227 » 9 years ago

yeah, I have most of the old ones but I'm starting to think the same. Especially if volume one alone has so many pages. Makes me wonder what's there. Plus, I'm itching to support it when Astro Boy gets sold in America and they actually do it RIGHT!

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Postby Little Brown Fox » 9 years ago

I never had tangible copies of most of the old ones, lol. Just that one combo volume of the first two books. So yeah, this was kind of high in my list of priorities.
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Postby Shiyonasan » 9 years ago

Alright, so it looks like Volume #1 of the omnibus will be coming out October 13, despite what Dark Horse is saying. Other than their official website, every retailer I've seen lists the release date as October 13. Dark Horse published an article about it yesterday, September 21, on their official website with a release date of September 23:

http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/2141/manga-monday-astro-boy-omnibus-volume-1

As you can also read in there that there will be 8 omnibus volumes of the entire series that will be released. Volumes #2 and #3 are already available for pre-order. It looks like a new volume is planned to be released every 3 months.

Here's Volume #1 for pre-order/purchase...

Penguin Random House (October 13)
Amazon (October 13)
Barnes & Noble (October 13)
Target (October 13)
Walmart (October 13)

Here's Volume #2 for pre-order...

TFAW Comics (December 23)
Penguin Random House (January 12)
Amazon (January 12)
Barnes & Noble (January 12)

Here's Volume #3 for pre-order...

Penguin Random House (April 12)
Amazon (April 12)
Barnes & Noble (April 12)

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Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 9 years ago

Any word on what the contents of the next two will be?
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Postby Shiyonasan » 9 years ago

"Tetsuwan Penguin" wrote:Any word on what the contents of the next two will be?


Each volume looks to be just under 700 pages, so perhaps two to three story arcs in each volume?

In the descriptions listed on Penguin Random House's websites, they say for Volume #2 "Who will stand against invaders from space, robot slave masters, and a dictator producing human clones?", and for Volume #3 "Stranded in the 20th century, Astro Boy must save Earth from a voracious Martian fungus–and save the intelligent organism from the hydrogen bomb! Can Astro succeed while also beginning the fight for robot rights and keeping robots from fighting each other?". Sadly, I'm not familiar enough with the manga to say which story arcs those are exactly, but you might be able to figure out which ones they are from those descriptions.

Also, whoops, I forgot to share this tweet from Dark Horse, which shows one of the employees holding a physical copy in her hands. Now we can see how big the omnibus is and what it looks like from the side.

[url]https://twitter.com/DarkHorseComics/status/646066443243487232?lang=en[/url]

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Postby Little Brown Fox » 9 years ago

Literal brick. It's neat, though. I want one... I wonder how long they're planning to keep these things in print...
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Postby -Nick- » 9 years ago

Looks pretty good, I'll be buying these. How many volumes will there be all up?

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Postby Shiyonasan » 9 years ago

"-Nick-" wrote:How many volumes will there be all up?


There will be 8 omnibus volumes in all.

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Postby Dragonrider1227 » 9 years ago

"Shiyonasan" wrote:[QUOTE=Tetsuwan Penguin;235743]Any word on what the contents of the next two will be?


Each volume looks to be just under 700 pages, so perhaps two to three story arcs in each volume?

In the descriptions listed on Penguin Random House's websites, they say for Volume #2 "Who will stand against invaders from space, robot slave masters, and a dictator producing human clones?", and for Volume #3 "Stranded in the 20th century, Astro Boy must save Earth from a voracious Martian fungus–and save the intelligent organism from the hydrogen bomb! Can Astro succeed while also beginning the fight for robot rights and keeping robots from fighting each other?". Sadly, I'm not familiar enough with the manga to say which story arcs those are exactly, but you might be able to figure out which ones they are from those descriptions.

Also, whoops, I forgot to share this tweet from Dark Horse, which shows one of the employees holding a physical copy in her hands. Now we can see how big the omnibus is and what it looks like from the side.

https://twitter.com/DarkHorseComics/status/646066443243487232?lang=en

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That is COOL! But I thought they said it would be right to left. That photo looks like it's still left to right to me :confused:

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Postby Shiyonasan » 9 years ago

"Dragonrider1227" wrote:[QUOTE=Shiyonasan;235746][QUOTE=Tetsuwan Penguin;235743]Any word on what the contents of the next two will be?


Each volume looks to be just under 700 pages, so perhaps two to three story arcs in each volume?

In the descriptions listed on Penguin Random House's websites, they say for Volume #2 "Who will stand against invaders from space, robot slave masters, and a dictator producing human clones?", and for Volume #3 "Stranded in the 20th century, Astro Boy must save Earth from a voracious Martian fungus–and save the intelligent organism from the hydrogen bomb! Can Astro succeed while also beginning the fight for robot rights and keeping robots from fighting each other?". Sadly, I'm not familiar enough with the manga to say which story arcs those are exactly, but you might be able to figure out which ones they are from those descriptions.

Also, whoops, I forgot to share this tweet from Dark Horse, which shows one of the employees holding a physical copy in her hands. Now we can see how big the omnibus is and what it looks like from the side.

https://twitter.com/DarkHorseComics/status/646066443243487232?lang=en

[attachment=]4307[/attachment][/QUOTE]

That is COOL! But I thought they said it would be right to left. That photo looks like it's still left to right to me :confused: [/QUOTE]

It looks like it's left to right based on the preview on Dark Horse's website:

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/Previews/25-825?page=1


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