Comic Book lingo - Help me (lemmy.world)

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Hey, I've just been getting into a couple graphic novels and I've really enjoyed Invincible the show so I got the first book/comic.

I checked Wikipedia for clarification, there are 25 issues in the run but then there are compendiums and complete libraries...both of which cover different things?

The compedemdium Vol 1 says it covers #1 to #47 and that's 22 more issues than I thought there was so could you help me out with the lingo used in the space?

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[-] statler_waldorf@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Comics will usually be published as individual issues. In the case of Invincible, it was 144 issues.

Then issues will be rolled up into trade paperbacks (sometimes called TPBs or trades). They usually follow a short story arc. Under the "collected editions" section of the Invincible wiki you can see it list which issues are in each of the 25 TPBs. Depending on which printing, it's possible to get TPBs that group issues differently.

Then you'll get Omnibuses or Omnis that bundle TPBs into a few giant books.

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