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Old 04-29-2015, 11:07 AM   #37 (permalink)
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I'm gonna have to read this entry in a bit, as it's long as ****, but I just wanted to say...



That's the difference between a graphic novel and a trade paperback. A TPB is a collection of issues from an ongoing monthly title, whereas a graphic novel can be a collection, but the issues were still a self-contained story, not part of a larger series (The Dark Knight Returns may have been Batman, but it still had nothing to do with the actual ongoing Batman monthly series).
Oh okay thanks, that's cool. I did not know that. So Watchmen, as it only ran over a specified number of issues and then stopped, is a true Graphic Novel once collected, whereas, say, Inferno Earth for Spiderman would be a Trade Paperback? Good to know.
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