In the mid-1990s my comic book reading friends and I often lamented the almost complete lack of classic comic strip reprints being released. If you brought it up back then to publishers, the response you'd most likely get would be that reprints just didn't sell - and that they couldn't afford to put out books collecting comics not enough people (to justify production costs) wanted to read. Ten years later, so much has changed. Now we complain that there isn't enough time to read all the great, high quality, classic reprints that have been coming out. Just this last week we heard word of a complete collection of Noel Sickle's Scorchy Smith coming from IDW and Osamu Tezuka's complete Black Jack to finally be printed in English from Vertical (next fall). Here's the covers of some of the reprint books I'm hoping to find time to read, coming out in the next handful of months (also must buy the new Moomin and Walt & Skeezix from D&Q)...