Just bringing this back up for possible discussion. Thoughts?
http://www.amazon.com/Dustcovers-Collected-Sandman-Covers-1989-1996/dp/1563893878If Gaiman and McKean can do it with less than 100 covers, then Billy should be able to do it with well over double that number, and I'd definitely buy it. The covers are one of the main reasons I collect Shi. Truth be told, I'm not really that into most of the storylines - to the point where I've only actually read WotW and the crossovers (sorry Billy! - although I did
love Akai, and it's easily my favorite even though I wasn't expecting it to be). I'd have a hard time just narrowing it to the covers, though. There's excellent art inside the books as well, and so much of it all-told that each two-page spread would have to have some kind of collage of covers and interior art to make it all work. While I think the one-cover-one-page thing worked for the Sandman covers, I don't think that would work here. If I was doing it, I'd do a two or three page spread per "piece", with text about the art, covers, and interior art from the book (for instance, Cyblade/Shi IMO would only need two or three pages, with all 5 (6?) covers collaged on one page, interspersed with interior art as well - or two pages of text with the art interspersed along it) .
I think the hardest part would be collecting all the covers that Billy
didn't do, along with all the random interior cameos that didn't have cover art. But heck yeah I'd buy that book.
