<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">All:<BR><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">As you can see, only the 12 original chapters are included, not the later additional chapters.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A point of order: there are no additional chapters of Lo$. The twelve chapters presented in Gemstone's collected Lo$ are the complete saga as envisioned by Don Rosa. Certainly, Don has done further stories based on the Lo$, but they should be regarded as "Tales from the Lo$", not as chapters of the official saga. (The "chapter" designations for these stories are for continuity reference - in the literary sense they are meaningless.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The virtue of the "Tales" angle is that Don can tell a story based on any particular aspect of the Lo$ that he likes, while not being locked into advancing the overall saga. One can have an awful lot of fun with that sort of thing, and from the number of these stories Don's done I have to suspect he's quite enjoyed it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But these stories must exist in their own milieu. To try to plug them into the official saga as actual chapters would severely damage the very carefully worked out narrative structure and pace Don created for the 12 official chapters. On the other hand, their intimate connection to the official Lo$ makes it imperative to collect them into a companion volume - and I'm as eager as anyone else to have one.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So rest easy; all the previous yammer really only leads to my saying that Gemstone has every intention of collecting the "Tales". The tricky part is that Don isn't done doing these stories, so we can't be sure how complete this companion volume will be. To coin a phrase, stay tuned.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">By the way, as far as I know, a limited hardbound edition is planned for release at a later point.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>No yammer - this, as stated, is true. We do anticipate the hardbound edition having additional and/or revised editorial material, so it won't be a strict duplication of the trade paperback. And as for it being limited - or having a special limited version - that remains to be seen.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>