Direct market editions are printed on better stock and at higher quality than newsstand editions, accounting for the cheap-o 7/11 comics.

I likes me the shiny paper. The complete Maus is done on glossy, and it's so much more vibrant (even in black and white) than my individual editions.

Thing is- I can’t spell or type. I spell so badly my spell check doesn’t even know what I was trying to spell. And I have five Eisners HAHAHAHHA!! -Brian Michael Bendis