For all those who either didn't learn about the limited series until it was too late, or were waiting for the collection – here it is:  the Maple Terrace hardcover collection!  Featuring over 100 pages of full color comics starring that cute comics drawing imp. L'il Noah™, Maple Terrace delivers a psychologically astute – and very funny (in a dark sort of way) – portrait of the comics artist as a young boy.

As you would expect, it contains the entirety of the series, including all four covers, but, there is a twist:  Here in the collection, each issue opens with a spread – meaning that the splash page occupies the left half of a spread rather than a stand alone page.  This further means that, as a result, every single spread in the collection is different from those in the comics.  Most readers won't even notice, but those who follow Frank Santoro's School of the Spread™ – where the spread is the fundamental basis of the comics reading experience – and already have the individual comics issues, will be able to compare the two versions and see what they think about the respective reading experiences.  For what it's worth, we think the spreads work better in the book version.  Accident, or design?  Only Noah knows for sure...