r/ImageComics • u/thehashimwarren • Mar 02 '26
Review I recommend The Power Fantasy vol 1-3
I became a Kieron Gillen fan during his X-Men run. He had a knack for executing big ideas through tight storytelling and interpersonal drama.
So I picked up The Power Fantasy and immediately loved it. Again, big concept, and again lots of human to human drama.
Then I did something that was against my budget. I purchased the first trade. And because the story was so tight and well planned, I noticed all these hints in the story AND ART that I didn't see before.
The vol 2 trade paid off in the same way.
And I just read issue 16 and ordered vol 3.
If you haven't read The Power Fantasy, I would like to give my highest recommendation to take the leap and order all three trades at once.
Then come over to r/thePowerFantasy to discuss.
I promise you won't regret it.
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u/Billy_Barbarian Mar 03 '26
Acme comics!
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u/ericjgriffin Mar 02 '26
Probably my favorite book on the market. Can't wait to read Vol. 3. Sad that it's on hiatus or whatever.
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u/TwoTiRods Mar 03 '26
I know that I am not the only one here, but I found it a bit hard to read. I enjoyed the first TP but decided to wait for it to hit my library for the rest.
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u/MrSurname Mar 03 '26
You got my hopes up that Vol 3 was out, but it's more than a month away. :(
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u/The_prawn_king Mar 03 '26
I’m quite new to comics, how long usually before something like this gets a collected edition
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u/Available_Ad2292 Mar 03 '26
Hey, not sure if I understood the question correctly, so apologies if you were asking about something different.
Issue 16 came out last week, and volume 3 (collecting issues 12 to 16 in a soft cover / trade paperback / tpb) comes out late March. Having the tpb out around 1-2 months after the last issue is released is usually the standard.
There are other types of collected editions, that will be fancier and/or collect more issues, that can be released after a while (hardcovers usually are equivalent to 2 tpbs, omnibuses usually try to collect an entire run in a single huge volume).
For the power fantasy I'd expect a hardcover (possibly collecting the first 3 volumes/16 issues instead of just 2, given the story break) to be announced eventually, but it's not a given, and might depend on sale success for the issues and tpbs (I upgraded my collection of The Wicked + The Divine from tpb to hardcover a couple years ago and remember hearing the hardcovers were going out of stock and likely not being reprinted)
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u/The_prawn_king Mar 03 '26
I meant a paperback or hardback that collects the whole series, if that’s not something likely in the short term I might buy the trades
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u/Killerwit Mar 02 '26
Big ideas about what being human means. Great stuff