Probably a lot of readers feel that way, but I prefer hardcovers over the paperbacks when I'm ordering them for the library's Young Adult collection. They last longer and can circulate much more often.
One of the other libraries in my system had
Incredible Hercules: Against the World, but when I stopped by to look at it, their copy had disappeared. Someone had apparently stolen it. (Not unusual for graphic novels, I'm sorry to say.) I added a copy to my library's collection and when I checked it back in after reading it, it immediately went out for an interlibrary loan. So someone is reading this stuff besides me. Despite the fact that it feature characters with whom I'm unfamiliar, it's pretty accessible. (I did have to read
Planet Hulk and
World War Hulk first, but I had planned to do that anyway.)
Picked up the first two trades recently.
This series is great, and the Secret Invasion tie-in was easily the best part of Secret Invasion. (That's a better compliment then it sounds like.)
I have to admit, I liked the Secret Invasion trade better, although the first chapter seems to require that you read at least one of the other tie-in titles in order to understand it. Once past that point, however, there's enough information given in the IH issues that you can follow the story without reading any of the rest of the tie-ins.
I was pleasantly surprised by this series. Probably part of the reason I liked the SI volume was the use of gods from different mythologies. I'll have to get my hands on a copy of
Love and War in the near future.