Top Cow has announced two hardcover collections of complete comic works for Spring 2005 release.  Wanted will collect issues 1-6 and dossier, by Mark Millar and JG Jones, in a 192-page hardcover at $29.99.  This will be the first book collection of the Wanted material.  It's being done in hardcover first and will probably be released in trade paperback later.  According to Top Cow's Annie Pham, this release sequence will be followed on other titles on which comic sales warrant.  The volume will feature newly created cover art.

 

Reflecting a slightly different strategy, Top Cow will release the Rising Stars Deluxe Hardcover in April, a 656-page collection of Rising Stars #1-#24, #0, #12, and the Prelude.  All of the material will have previously been released in trade paperback format (Rising Stars Vol. 3 TPB will be released in March).  Cover price has not yet been determined, but it will reflect the massive page count.  In this case, the series was longer, which justified interim trade paperback releases before collecting the entire oeuvre in hardcover.