Are there any thoughts of doing a second edition of the hard cover?
SMITH: No, that was a collector’s edition. And out of respect for the people who bought it, that’s it. That’s for them. KP: Or maybe not gilded or deluxe to the extent that that edition was, but another hardcover edition of the collection? SMITH: No. Maybe when we finish the color, we may try to do some kind of a color collection. But of the black & white one volume edition, that’s the baby. KP: I’ll keep hoping for eBay. It must be nice to have that hefty a volume in existence, knowing you created that… SMITH: Yeah. Well, that’s what I wanted in the first place. I honestly believed, from the time I was a kid, that comics could support that kind of a long, epic story. When I was a kid, I used to like pulpy adventure things like Conan and Doc Savage and Tarzan or Sherlock Holmes, or whatever, but still – compared to comic book stories, those were pretty long stories. And then as I got a little older, I got into bigger books like The Odyssey and King Arthur and even Lord of the Rings. An
