2. The obscure early one no one bought at the time: Facets, which was my second Alias (the tv show, not the comic) story and an Arvin Sloane character portrait, for a given value of "no one" - all four of us who were really into Sloane liked it. :)

I read the first half of this and was all ready to respond with 'hey, I loved that one!!!' but you are quite right. Sloane-loving hipsters have refined tastes. (I know because the same four people loved my own Edge of Darkness.)