Now I should note that, at first, I was instantly irritated with the news of this release.  My irritation mostly was centered around the fact that this will be a 450 page book, collecting about 14 issues, for $100, which is completely overpriced.  I’ve been having some fun buying up the Marvel Omnibi as they come out, I have both Daredevil books, both Fantastic Four books, Amazing Spider-Man 1, Uncanny X-Men 1, Howard the Duck, Captain America, Amazing  Fantasy and the newly released Hulk.  I intend to eventually buy the Iron man book and, if they weren’t out of print and outrageously expensive on Amazon, I’d get the New X-Men, Silver Surfer and Eternals books.  The upcoming Punisher omnibus is also $100, as are most of the omnibi, but it is almost 1,200 pages long.  My problem was cost vs content but I know that I’ll be buying this book through amazon, so I won’t be paying $100, but $63 and getting free shipping, and for $63 that’s not a horrible price.  Add in a new cover by Alex Ross(a huge bonus) and the fact that it’s pretty collectible and you have the whole big story that gave Spider-Man the symbiotic costume and I’m pretty much on board.  I’ve read a lot of nerds bitching about how there are better stories to be bounding into an omnibus, which is probably true, but I missed this story and it’s not really available in a decent trade, so I’ll be buying it up.  I just hope Marvel keeps commissioning Ross to do the covers on these.  So far he’s done about four or five of them, I’d like to see him do a variant cover for Secret Wars 2, which is scheduled for an Omnibus printing sometime before Christmas.