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Yep, the recent trend to "write for TPBs" can be bothersome at times. JSA (a book I love) is guilty of it as is JLA. Oddly, my MARVEL faves like EXILES and X-STATIX -don't- seem to be writing in TPB arcs. Instead, "x" amount of issues (no pun intended) is collected in each TPB. I'm sure story-length is considered when determining how many issues are collected in each TPB, but I can see no definite trend to pad stories on these titles.
And DREAM CRIME *has* been tapped for the strong possibility of the TPB treatment.
Which could explain the possibility of padding here. I just don't wanna call it DEFINITE padding until I have read the whole thing.