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BlueBoy675
05/26/24 6:07:27 PM
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Is it just that an omnibus is hardcover while a compendium isnt? I thought that an omnibus typically has more content, but I recently stumbled across a Batman Beyond compendium. It appears to have just as much content as an omnibus, but is paperback

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KhlavicLanguage
05/26/24 6:10:13 PM
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who even reads comics lol
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BlueBoy675
05/26/24 6:16:29 PM
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KhlavicLanguage posted...
who even reads comics lol
Thank you for your contribution

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KhlavicLanguage
05/26/24 6:19:14 PM
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BlueBoy675 posted...
Thank you for your contribution
heh i only give this board what it's been giving me for years
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Zikten
05/26/24 6:20:45 PM
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An omnibus is usually very big. Oversized pages hardcover, and a huge page count. Like around 1,000 pages sometimes. Not sure on what defines a compendium
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Breaker
05/26/24 6:24:45 PM
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A compendium is like an encyclopedia.

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Garioshi
05/26/24 6:29:26 PM
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I've only ever seen "compendium" used by Image Comics, and when it's used like that it's almost always identical to an omnibus. An omnibus is all-encompassing, usually collecting every single story related to whatever comic it's about; for example, the Infinite Crisis trade paperback collects only Infinite Crisis, and the Infinite Crisis omnibus collects all tie-ins and crossovers with the Infinite Crisis branding. I've also seen "Absolute" as branding for something between the two.

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