Omnibuses: Where Have You Been All My Life?

Hello, all (well... again, just Pedro). Recently I happened upon the first two Starman omnibuses in my local library, and I have to say, in addition to being a high-quality series (tho unless it picks up later, I can't see myself going completely gaga over it), it has really, really endeared me to the omnibus format. Being able to grab a book and read it for a span of a few hours, as opposed to your standard 30-minute, 6-issue trade, is much more satisfying than I ever imagined it would be. Furthermore, the gutter loss is minimal (although worse in the second, tho it's also because the text seems to have shrunk beween the two), and it's not the heavy-enough-to-be-slightly-uncomfortable you would think a 17-issue hardcover would be.

In short, I love it and I want more.

Browsing around, I see that there are some terrific-looking books out there: the Garth Ennis Punisher omnibus, the Brubaker Daredevil and Iron Fist omnibuses, and the Ultimates omnibus just to name a few. I plan to start buying those over regular trades as soon as I can afford to buy regular trades again, as the dollar to content value seems to be about the same or better, and having it all in one book really makes the reading experience seem more like... well, a book!

Furthermore, there's something that's been brewing in the back of my mind for a long time that my newfound omnilust has really brought back to an obsessive degree. It was spurred on when I found this forum a few months back, which is dedicated to binding comics into hardcovers your own damn self. Check out some of the pictures in the book threads; they make my balls tingle. There's so much I'd love to bind that's either not available as an omnibus (and whose individual issues + binding costs would equal the costs of buying the trades) or which has never been collected:

-A Batman: Cataclysm/Aftershock/Road to No Man's Land omnibus
-A Batman: No Man's Land omnibus (or omnibuses, more likely)
-A Batman: New Gotham/Officer Down omnibus, filled with Rucka/Brubaker stuff
-A Bruce Wanyne: Murderer/Fugitive omnibus
-Christ, everything from the 90s Batbooks from Knightfall on
-An omnibus completely collecting Puckett's Batgirl
-Young Justice omnibuses
-Impulse omnibuses
-A Dan Abnett Legion/Legion Lost omnibus (wouldn't the cover to the first issue be a fantastic dust jacket image?)
-Supergirl omnibuses, the first 3 collecting the first 74+odds and ends of Peter David's run and the last basically containing the last six, Puckett's run on Supergirl, Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, and whatever else really good issues I can find
-A Peter David/Kurt Buseik Aquaman collection
-A Gail Simone Taskmaster/Deadpool/Agent X omnibus
-All 40 issues of Gotham Central + Detective backups
-Other 90's stuff that is awesome and will never be collected
-How about event omnibuses? Civil War, Secret Invasion, and Final Crisis had enough (quality) tie-ins to push the 30-50 issue mark; or even a "main event" omnibus featuring, say, Avengers: Disassembled/House of M/Civil War/World War Hulk/Secret Invasion or Lightning Saga/Superman and the Legion of Superheroes/Legion of 3 Worlds
-Perhaps character omnibuses too; the best of the Batman (Includes Year One, The Cult, vs. Preadator, and Blind Justice no question) or someone like the Riddler or Two Face (dear god those last two would be fantastic).

Okay, see, those are off the top of my head. I get excited about this kind of thing pretty easily. The hard part is actually finding the issues at an affordable price, but with the internet it shouldn't be TOO hard (especially when there are scans for previewing). But then there are a million other questions: What kind of binding? Trim the edges? Create title pages, table of contents, extras sections? The answer to that last one is "yes, obviously"; I'm only doing this if I can go all out, dammit.

Judging by the prices I've seen, buying the issues and getting them bound well costs roughly as much as buying one of those professional omnibuses on ebay, but I think they would be cooler made by my hand.

Well, that's all for now. Goddamit I've gotten myself all worked up again. I need some goddamned money so I can start mining back issues. Which should be half the fun of having a comics hobby, right?