A Big UnCONventional Book Announcement (and Super Awesome Action Heroes News)

Big Trae Dorn book news today (and yes, part of that was a pun).

Trae’s comic UnCONventional has been in print for a long time – as the first print collection came out way back in 2010. The first four volumes of the book came out in 6″ x 9″ editions, while the rest of the series came out as larger 7″ x 10″ editions. The first volume was also pretty light on bonus features.

This always bothered us, so we decided to do something about it.

As of today, the original four volumes of UnCONventional have been removed from the market, and replaced with a single collected volume. It’s 7″ x 10″ like the rest of the series, has new additional commentary (along with the existing commentary and bonus materials updated for 2024), and it’s just nicer. Also, where it would have cost $75 to buy books one through four the old way, this collected volume is cheaper at $60 US.

Now if you just want the commentary and other bonus features and don’t care about having the book in print (or if you already have these comics in the original print version and just want the new stuff), there is a PDF version of the volume for sale in Trae’s Patreon shop for only $12 too.

So yeah, same comics as before, just a new print edition, and its available today. Not super exciting though. Not like the next bit.

(Was that a good transition?)

Super Awesome Action Heroes has been around in one form or another since 2006. The Second Edition went into print back in 2020, and we’ve been running Stormwood & Associates and The Meatgrinder on it pretty successfully for years. But we found a few flaws in the book that needed improving, and Trae rolled out an online appendix to correct those flaws. Well, earlier this year Trae decided they needed to update the print version to reflect those rule updates too.

So yeah, on September 17th Super Awesome Action Heroes Second Edition Revised comes out. The print edition will still cost $7 the way the old one did, and honestly if you already own the book? Just download the free expansion. It’s like 99% the same rule book, just with the information on that page sprinkled in.

But if you don’t own the book and want it? This is the version to get. That’s going to be the only version available from now on.

That’s the big news for today, and we hope you’re as excited as we are.