New Brevoort Formspring

Well, there’s a little more to it than that. For starters, that Gatherers storyline wasn’t a story so much as a long-running background status quo, so collecting it is difficult. You either need a massive book, or you need to pick and choose and jump around. Or you need to serialize it over multiple releases, and it doesn’t seem like a storyline that enough people are likely to follow through three or four collections. The Crossing, however, is a storyline with a clear beginning and end, and for all that it’s a hot mess, it’s a hot mess that people still remember and talk about–when was the last time you saw a conversation about the Gatherers storyline? So it’s likely to sell better as a collection regardless. Finally, we can’t reprint everything instantly, so we pick and choose at any given moment what of our more classic material we’re going to reprint, based on any number of factors. Eventually, we’ll try to get to it all, so the likelihood that the Gatherers run will be collected at some point is highly likely. It just hasn’t happened yet.