This is what I don’t get, the new revitalised Humanoids publishing looks like they’ve FINALLY understood how their content should be presented. After years of them publishing it in various format that just don’t do the material justice trying to infiltrate the American market they’ve finally understood something…come closer.

The people buying books like ‘The Metabaron’ and ‘The Incal’ are not your teenager - those are looking at Naruto, Bleach, DeathNote, maybe the Mark Millar stable of books. The people that are interested in Moebius and Jodo are people who have cash, are of a slightly older demographic and appreciate comics as art, no matter how long that damn thing takes to make.

Which is good that they’ve understood that, so they’ve created these absolutely GORGEOUS hardcovers for their material. I am talking IDW level production values, and nice price tag to accompany this. These things look absolutely amazing. Have a look:

So what’s the problem? You can’t buy the bloody books anywhere, that’s what’s the problem. I’ve checked the following places to order the Incal in particular (although I’m hoping that they create a Metabarons version of this as well).

• Amazon
• Borders
• InStockTrades
• DCBService
• Things from another World
• Khepri

None of these guys have it in stock or even in their catalogue. Not one of them. So how the hell are you supposed to buy the damn book? So far I’ve only been able to find one place I can buy the book from, and that’s forbiddenplanet - and even then it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a sure thing. Seriously Humanoids, you’ve tried this several times before and failed. Finally you’ve got your product in the correct format that it will appeal to your demographic and you fuck it up by not getting it out there….sort it out people!!!!