Hey all!
I noticed that the new DCC horror line has a #2 and a #5. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but there are missing numbers there. Is this some kind of nefarious plot to drive me insane? Because if it is, it's working. I had no idea that DCC horror would make me recoil in terror from the numbering conventions. Please end my sleepless nights on this issue.
What is up with the numbering system for the new DCC Horror?
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Re: What is up with the numbering system for the new DCC Hor
I believe they are factoring the previously published "Halloween" adventures as part of the line, so as they get reprinted, they'll be 8.5x11 instead of digest sized and fall into the numbering for the Horror line.
Like, Sempstress is #2, right? That's the first of the older ones that's getting reprinted. Presumably, Corpse that Love Built will someday be reprinted as #4 in the Horror series, #3 would be Devils Reef, etc... So the line will move forwards AND backwards, sort of.
Like, Sempstress is #2, right? That's the first of the older ones that's getting reprinted. Presumably, Corpse that Love Built will someday be reprinted as #4 in the Horror series, #3 would be Devils Reef, etc... So the line will move forwards AND backwards, sort of.
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Re: What is up with the numbering system for the new DCC Hor
Ok, that makes sense. Weird to not just start with They Served Brandolyn Red. Wonder what the reasoning was. Either way I'm happy as I've loved all their Halloween stuff.
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Re: What is up with the numbering system for the new DCC Hor
Maybe it has to do with stock levels... Perhaps Sempstress was due for a reprint in around the same time as starting a "Horror" strand came about, and so that became the first 'legacy' reprint...?Fantacide wrote:Weird to not just start with They Served Brandolyn Red. Wonder what the reasoning was.
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Re: What is up with the numbering system for the new DCC Hor
Horror is supposed to be disconcerting.GnomeBoy wrote:Maybe it has to do with stock levels... Perhaps Sempstress was due for a reprint in around the same time as starting a "Horror" strand came about, and so that became the first 'legacy' reprint...?Fantacide wrote:Weird to not just start with They Served Brandolyn Red. Wonder what the reasoning was.
The numbering system is part of that.
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Re: What is up with the numbering system for the new DCC Hor
Raven_Crowking wrote:Horror is supposed to be disconcerting.
The numbering system is part of that.
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