Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 16, 2023, 08:09:56 PMMy local has a copy in but wasn't sure I wanted this one as I've got all the trades for the modern stuff. Any interesting extras in this volume?
I don't know yet. But maybe... less likely for the new stuff but we'll see.
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Mar 16, 2023, 11:09:36 PMQuote from: Engineer on Mar 16, 2023, 07:35:37 PMMy copy of #4 is "processing"
Which cover did you go for? I was really torn on this one. I love Stokoe's artwork but I went for the variant because I grabbed the variant for all the others and decided to stay consistent...
Can you show this visually plz?
It's the same art as one of the dust to dust variants, so it should be familiar. See link below.
https://www.atomicempire.com/Item/321065?utm_source=google&utm_campaign=pla_books&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2-WE0N7h_QIVsRR9Ch0XowJFEAQYAiABEgIJ2_D_BwE
I think they got lazy with volume 4 though. Because they didn't bother coming up with a new cover (whether plagiarized or not) for the standard version. They just reused Stokoe's dead orbit issue 1 cover, which is honestly my favorite cover art of all time!
https://www.atomicempire.com/Item/321064?utm_source=google&utm_campaign=pla_books&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo9WPm9_h_QIV5xWtBh3YAQa-EAQYASABEgJYUfD_BwE
So, I think the biggest benefit of volume 4 is going to be for the completionists who never got their hands on the defiance library edition, the dead orbit deluxe hardcover, the ACM prequel they gave out a at SDCC and/or the isolation prequel they gave out at SDCC.
The ACM and isolation prequels have had digital copies floating around, but there is a pinup gallery of artwork at the end of the ACM comic that's missing from the digital copy. I bet you'll get that full pinup gallery here in volume 4.
I think the defiance library edition had some concept art at the end that wasn't available anywhere else... but I can't remember for sure now. It might have been in the standard 2 Vol. Graphic novels too.
There was definitely new content in the dead orbit deluxe hardcover though, plus a new cover art for it. Im sure that content will be in this volume 4 release too.
Beyond that, there MIGHT be two other pieces of content that I know of that could find their way into marvel's volume 4. One was an image of concept art of a queen by James Stokoe that was never included in any dark horse books; I stumbled across it in that book "Grunt" which is full of unreleased/incomplete work by Stokoe. Then I know Tristan jones had an alternate version of that free-comic-Book-day issue of defiance where that praetorian creature was more like the big chap; at the time fox thought it was too similar to something ridley Scott was doing in Covenant so they sent it back and asked Tristan to change it. The change is what you'll find in every digital copy of that comic and every reprint of it, but a few hard copies had already gone to print before they could make the change so there's a few of those issues out in the wild with the original big chap art. Maybe that alternate version will appear in here too. We'll see...
Here's the Stokoe image I was talking about
https://twitter.com/engineer_lv426/status/1576407357416173569?s=46&t=7Hw57af4Vx-8BX46Zoeo0g
And here's a thread with several images comparing the original big-chap version of the defiance comic I was talking about, with the version they changed it to with the praetorian thing instead:
https://twitter.com/engineer_lv426/status/1404676474951507968?s=46&t=7Hw57af4Vx-8BX46Zoeo0g