by Meliden » Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:37 pm
Got a hard copy of the Worlds Collide collection. For some reason, mine got the variant instead of regular. I prefer the regular. :<
-There's some weird cropping on the Mega Man runthrough page, but I wonder if that was in the original recap.
-As Panda has said, the Mega Man prologue is just the FCBD prelude, the Sonic one is the last two pages of SU#50 then three photoshop pages. And it's not for post-reboot alignment because the recap still talks about pre-reboot events, designs and dynamics between characters.
-Everything in the actual story seems as it should be. No cuts or anything.
-The epilogues are the first two pages of the following issues in their respective series.
-All the covers are present in one way or another.
-There are script and pencil selections for pages 26-29.
-There are pencil breakdown and finished pencil selections of pages 269-272.
-There are pencil selections of pages 184 and 185.
-Most of the rest of the art are title concepts and final pencils, with words from Spaziente (one cover was originally going to be a Mega Man Soccer homages).
-The character concepts are finished pencil sketches of Silver Man, Blaze Woman and Charmy Man, a line sketch of Shadow Man (Sonic's Shadow), and there's one of the initial Chaos Devil design which is pretty cool to look at.
-At the back, the checklist is interesting. Dunno if it's a by-product of being delayed so much, but it still lists Sonic Saga #9, Sonic Universe volumes 9-11, Sonic Boom volume 1 and Worlds Unite volume 1. Nothing about the Archives whatsoever, but would they even be included in these sections when there's so many?
-The paper isn't glossy, but it's not Digest-quality either. It's like a matte-gloss thing.
-Oh yeah, and the pencil sketch for Mega Man #25 seems to be missing Espio entirely. Good thing they remembered to put him in later.