

I started collecting Witchblade via trade when they reprinted #80-85 as volume 1 and sold it for $5. However, I soon learned from that and the next few volumes that the binding of those trades was absolute crap. Since the books fell apart anyway, I bound them together.
Witchblade: Origins
(Witchblade: Origins trades 1-3)
-Witchblade 1-18
-Darkness 9-10
-Witchblade 19-25
Volume 1: Witch Hunt
(trades 1-3)
-Witchblade 80-100
Volume 2: First Born
(trades 4-5)
-Witchblade 101-109
-First Born 1
-Witchblade 110
-First Born 2
-Witchblade 111
-First Born 3
-Witchblade 112-105
Volume 3: Broken Trinity
(trades 6-8, plus Broken Trinity trade 1)
-Witchblade 116-120
-Broken Trinity FCBD prelude
-Broken Trinity 1
-Broken Trinity: Darkness
-Broken Trinity 2
-Broken Trinity: Angelus
-Broken Trinity 3
-Broken Trinity: Witchblade
-Broken Trinity: Aftermath
-Witchblade 121-130
Volume 4: Redemption
(Redemption trades 1-4)
-Witchblade 131-150
So far, what I have read of Redemption and Artifacts shows me that the stories don’t play nice with each other. I don’t see any breaks in Artifacts that can accomodate an issue of Witchblade, much less 12. I’m thinking Volume 4: Redemption will be WB #131-137, 140-150, with Artifacts incorporating WB #138-139 coming after that.
I moved all of the cover galleries and extra material to the rear of each book. I also left out the “Augury” and Annual 1 stories from trade 7, since they weren’t written by Marz, and I wasn’t sure exactly where they fit. Plus, that book included 4 trades already.
LOL, glad to see my $5 Witchblade trade wasn’t the only on that fell apart…thought I was cursed.