That makes plausible sense.
I wish in all these trades and hardcovers (at bothMarvel and DC) on the two-page spread, the cover would always appear on the right page, giving the effect of a stack of comics bound in a hardcover.
It really bugs me when the cover appears on the left side of a 2-page spread. It makes the book look carelessly slapped together.
And I've thought of taking comics of some of my favorite series to a book-binder and having them actually bind collected volumes of comics in this way.
NEW GODS and the rest of the Fourth World series in particular, ones that they've screwed up repeatedly in collected editions. I'd like to see an EC Library-like boxed set of volumes of Kirby's FOREVER PEOPLE, NEW GODS, MISTER MIRACLE and JIMMY OLSEN, each in a separate volume.
(HUNGER DOGS for me is apocryphal, but they could either have it as a similarly formatted hardcover, or as a thin separate hardcover in the set. )
But I think DC considers the 4-volume KIRBY'S FOURTH WORLD hardcovers the definitive version of the series. But needless to say, I disagree.
Someday, I'll get around to making my own homegrown definitive Fourth World hardcover set.
I've periodically seen others who have had custom-bound hardcovers of their favorite series, such as the Barry Smith CONAN THE BARBARIAN series, that they eventually sold on e-bay.
I have the issues --extra copies even. It's just a matter of finding a book binder I'd trust with my babies.
