Comments on: American Elf Volume Four cover http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/04/american-elf-volume-four-cover/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Collected Edition Blog browsing on Tuesday afternoon | Collected Comics Library http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/04/american-elf-volume-four-cover/#comment-481 Collected Edition Blog browsing on Tuesday afternoon | Collected Comics Library Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:10:52 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/04/american-elf-volume-four-cover/#comment-481 [...] Heidi MacDonald, over at the Beat 3.0, has the cover to American Elf Volume Four [...] [...] Heidi MacDonald, over at the Beat 3.0, has the cover to American Elf Volume Four [...]

]]> By: James Kochalka http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/04/american-elf-volume-four-cover/#comment-216 James Kochalka Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:11:32 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/04/american-elf-volume-four-cover/#comment-216 That's a good point. I will ask Top Shelf and see what they want to do. That’s a good point. I will ask Top Shelf and see what they want to do.

]]> By: Cole Moore Odell http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/04/american-elf-volume-four-cover/#comment-150 Cole Moore Odell Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:03:33 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/04/american-elf-volume-four-cover/#comment-150 This is fantastic--I didn't know the 4th volume was on the way. Is there a date? I'm glad to see the whole family on the cover this time out; it's a perfect encapsulation of the content of the strip over the years covered. I do wonder if the giant "Book Four" might be a roadblock to new readers, though. After a while, those numbers start to scream "Don't pick me up until you've made a much bigger investment of time and money in previous work." With the Complete Peanuts, by comparison, there's no big "Volume 12" to intimidate people who might want to casually pick up 1973-1974. Couldn't this simply be American Elf 2008-2009? This is fantastic–I didn’t know the 4th volume was on the way. Is there a date?

I’m glad to see the whole family on the cover this time out; it’s a perfect encapsulation of the content of the strip over the years covered.

I do wonder if the giant “Book Four” might be a roadblock to new readers, though. After a while, those numbers start to scream “Don’t pick me up until you’ve made a much bigger investment of time and money in previous work.” With the Complete Peanuts, by comparison, there’s no big “Volume 12″ to intimidate people who might want to casually pick up 1973-1974. Couldn’t this simply be American Elf 2008-2009?

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