The Definitive New Gods?
From Newsarama, where there's also news about Showcase Presents Who's Who and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier:
[The forthcoming] New Gods Omnibus should be, the editor feels, the definitive collection of Jack Kirby�s Fourth World saga, from start to finish.
�We�re still trying to determine the final contents, but essentially, it�s going to be a hardcover collection of the full New Gods saga,� Brewer said. �Right now, and this is subject to change, my bias would be to collect the stories across titles, as they were released chronologically, so it gives you a sense of how the concepts evolved, so that way you�re not stuck with a full Mr. Miracle collection or a full Forever People, but rather, build the larger story as the issues and pieces were released chronologically.�
The Omnibus will include the full run of New Gods and The Hunger Dogs, but will also include, as Brewer said, assorted other issues which contain pieces of the larger whole, such as the debut of the characters in Kirby�s issues of Jimmy Olsen and others. �Those are some of the details we�re still working out, but it�s looking like it will be four collections of 200-plus pages each,� Brewer said. �They�ll be color hard covers � a nice, definitive collection. I think that�s something that the core Kirby fans have wanted to see for a long time.�
As for the coloring, Brewer isn�t certain if the pages will be fully recolored or touched up fro the originals.
�We rescanned a lot of the black and white line art for the toned books we did a few years ago, and the question now is whether or not we have that art reproduced well enough so we can go back and color it, or we have to get the art again�or what we have to do. The intent is to make this the definitive, good-looking version of this classic story.�
Additionally, Brewer said that DC is in talks with a handful of people in regards to introductions and text pieces that add context to the larger picture Kirby was drawing, as well as other materials from the era, such as the mock up to a cover of an issue of Showcase where the New Gods were originally slated to debut.
�We�re digging through all of that material to see what will fit in,� Brewer said. �A lot of it has been out in the world through The Kirby Collector and other places, but we�re going to see what we can do to make it special.�
