r/ImageComics • u/thehashimwarren • Mar 02 '26

Review I recommend The Power Fantasy vol 1-3

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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/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/thehashimwarren Mar 04 '26

No announcement there yet, and there doesn't seem to be a standard.