Each of these omnibus books has bright, incisive passages interspersed with abundant filler.
With "The Sandman Omnibus," each book is shrewdly designed by Louis Prandi to look like an ancient mystic tome.
He did start his series, though, and after the first three books were collected into an omnibus volume, "Berlin Noir," Kerr was selected as one of Granta magazine's best young British novelists in 1993.
Barry Gewen's omnibus review of 12 books on American history ("Forget the Founding Fathers," June 5) treated 11 of them respectfully and caricatured the 12th, Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States," which has sold over a million copies.
Raising nearly £30,000 – over four times the original target – and using the day job's skills and reach, Gipps brought us an Uncle omnibus containing all six books, every scrap of original illustration and new introductory material by such high-profile fans as Garth Nix and Neil Gaiman.
His book, the Wool Omnibus, started as a novella on the Amazon Kindle Store and suddenly blossomed into a massive, multi-volume opus that is a #1 Bestseller on Amazon and the winner of Kindle Book Review's Best Indie Book of 2012 Award.
He's holding up three copies of Rick Altergott's perfect book, The Doofus Omnibus.
The word "children" in the title of this omnibus (it incorporates eight earlier books) is unfortunate.
With "Iron Man 3," starring Robert Downey Jr., out on May 3, the arrival of the "Iron Man Omnibus" to our hardcover graphic books best-seller list couldn't be better timed.
Once the tale was complete, I collected the five books into an Omnibus, which was when it began to really take off.
