Battle Angel Alita: Rusty Angel (Battle Angel Alita (Graphic Novels) (Adult)) [Library Binding]

Yukito Kishiro (Author)

Product Details

• Library Binding: 240 pages
• Publisher: Paw Prints 2008-03-01 (March 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1435231244
• ISBN-13: 978-1435231245
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,693,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not the story, just the binding quality, March 11, 2009

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T. Paukune "sparklyblitz" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Battle Angel Alita: Rusty Angel (Battle Angel Alita (Graphic Novels) (Adult)) (Library Binding)

To clarify this, I just want to let everyone know this is not about the story, art, etc, just the binding/printing.

The book is the same size as the trade paperbacks are. It is in hardcover, but the pages were trimmed without the actual art being trimmed; which means some of the art gets cut off at the edges. The artwork/words also seem to sink into the middle of the book's spine (the bleed) if they get to close.

As to the cover, the black of Alita's hair is screwy, and the spine of the book is mising the "action" logo at the top, it's just black, while others in the series are not. The cover quality is less crisp that the paperbacks (this becomes a REAL problem with the Last Order series), the colors are less bright and the image less sharp.

This is definitely a collectors item, but is it worth collecting? If you want Alita to last forever (which I do), then sort of. The print quality is great, like the paperbacks, but without the covers being uniform, it's almost pointless to collect them.