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thundershot · Private Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 4

I was completely shocked to see Headmasters #1-4 omitted from this book... VERY jarring for new readers (I'm not one of them, but still) to go from #37 to 38 and suddenly you have all these new characters with a history and no back story... You could have left out Man of Iron (which is in UK v1) to get some more space...

With no release date for v4 yet, people are going to be denied Headmasters for a while...

So what happened??

DoctorHeadacheRushing · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:01 am Post subject:

Good question, I thought the very same thing when it arrived this morning. Hopefully it will be reprinted in vol. 4 but chronologically it would have made more sense in this book.
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temple · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:35 am Post subject:

Volume 4 or maybe the last volume as a kind of appendix, with the Movie adaptation perhaps?
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RackNRuin · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject:

Though I was also hoping for its inclusion, the OP shouldn't be that surprised. In its previous release of "Classics" volumes, IDW held Headmasters back until the FINAL volume (v6) and as somebody suggested above, it was included as an 'appendix' alongside the movie adaptation after the regular 80-issue series concluded.

IDW has taken the decision to publish the 80-issue series in its publication-order entirety; it will undoubtedly then include Headmasters and the Movie adaptation again and - hopefully - the Universe mini-series for the sake of completeness (I'd also hope for the GI Joe vs. mini-series too, but this is unlikely given its going to be released alongside the G2-tie-in GI Joe stuff later this year as its own volume).

Incidentally, Titan Books (who reprinted the comic series from 2001-2005) DID do exactly as you suggested - "Headmasters" was included in its chronological place before #38 (in the "Trial By Fire" release) and "Man of Iron" (#33-34) and "Big Broadcast of 2006" (#43) were omitted because they were not a part of the "main" story.
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Sprite · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:41 am Post subject:

I think those two stories were left out because they were originally created for the UK comics. Oddly enough, though, Titan didn't include them in the UK reprints either.
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Urzu Six · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:23 am Post subject:

Big Broadcast... was a US story, only the framing pages were UK done, to tie it into Space Pirates.

It was summarised in the Titan UK collected book, I think.
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Sprite · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:56 am Post subject:

...really? Geez, I always thought it was UK... Confused

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RackNRuin · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:16 pm Post subject:

Nope, it was US #43. A "filler" issue to allow Uncle Bob to catch up (one of the Titan collections contains Bob's sketch of issue #45's cover... it is labelled issue #44, suggesting Big Broadcast was slot in to help him cope with deadlines).

"Man Of Iron" WAS a UK story, but was also reprinted in the US series.
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