Two years after the April 2019 cover date of the last regular issue of Cinema Purgatorio, Avatar Press today announced that their trade paperback collection of the Moore/O’Neill Purgatorio stories is available.
The collection is titled “This is Sinerama” – a play on the 1952 film This Is Cinerama.
Gosh Comics, of London, is now selling a limited bookplate edition for Cinema Purgatorio. It features a Gosh-exclusive plate signed by Kevin O’Neill, limited to an edition of 200.
Order yours while supplies last – via the Gosh Comics website.
The trade paperback edition of Cinema Purgatorio is now available via an Avatar Press Providence Compendium Kickstarter campaign. Kickstarter backer levels range from $20 to $699. The Purgatorio add-on costs $19.
Purgatorio is not listed on the main campaign screen, but after clicking on any of the rewards, the Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Purgatorio collection shows in an add-on menu. Continue reading
Bleeding Cool is reporting that that Cinema Purgatorio box set that was supposed to be due in stores in November 2019 is now due October 7, 2020. The $39.99 box set includes all 18 individual issues of Purgatorio, though features random covers. Continue reading
Amazon has new Kevin O’Neill cover art for the new “The Complete Collection” paperback edition of Cinema Purgatorio. currently due out May 12, 2020. The trade contains just the Moore and O’Neill Purgatorio stories and has a new title “This is Sinerama.” Continue reading
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The eighteenth and, at least for now, final issue of Cinema Purgatorio came out last May. The logical next step should be a collected edition.
For whatever reason there’s no collection available as of mid-November 2019. There are a couple of collections in the works, though.
In early October, a listing for a $19.99 Cinema Purgatorio Collection Paperback (due out April 28, 2020) appeared at Amazon. Soon thereafter Bleeding Cool ran a brief story about it, with essentially no additional information. Based on the cover art shown at Amazon, the collection appears to include just the Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s Purgatorio stories.
This month, Previews World website announced a $39.99 Cinema Purgatorio Complete Story Box Set due in comics shops next week: November 27, 2019. Continue reading
That’s all folks. AFAWK.
Cinema Purgatorio has come to an end. The initial eighteen-issue run has concluded.
Your hard-working annotations team have posted our once-through for all of the stories in issue 18. Access all the annotations via the index page. Let us know what we missed or got wrong. Continue reading
We’ve got basic annotations posted for all the stories in Cinema Purgatorio #17 – the second to last issue of the series. Find the entire series’ annotations via our handy annotations index page.
Read through and then use the comments section to let us know what we missed.
We’ve published basic annotations for all the stories in Cinema Purgatorio #16. There are now only two more issues to go – so some of these plots are showing signs of nearing their conclusions. There’s a lot interesting stuff in this issue, from Superman to The Thing to Bubble Bobble to Admiral Farragut to a Kaiju named Baby. Find all the exciting pages via the annotations index page.
We hope you’re enjoying these annotations. Help us round them out by adding comments on what we missed or got wrong.
There’s still work to be done, but we’ve got basic annotations up for all the stories in Cinema Purgatorio #15. Find all the exciting pages via our annotations index. Add comments to let us know what we missed or got wrong.
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