Donniewahlberg
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I figured as much haha. At least we both love Rumble, we'll always have that.
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I figured as much haha. At least we both love Rumble, we'll always have that.
Freezasaurus
Member
I've never read any XO before in my life and I'm enjoying it just fine. The art really is something special.
ASM and Rebirth, guess why.
echoshifting
Banned
People asking for her book are a vocal minority. Whenever the twitter / tumblr crowd get a book they want they don't show up for it. It's happened time and time again. Lost track of the amount of pirate scans I've seen posted on tumblr though. That'll save the book. That and their image edits.
echoshifting
Banned
Yep. So true.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
And Shutter!
Do any of them even know how the books sales are judged? Does Marvel even speak about preordering them first?
Digital sales help but Marvel has got the habit to pretty much pretend NOW 2.0 never happened and is quickly ending every book that launched with it unless the sales are stable.
MHWilliams
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Looking at last month we have numbers for?
February 2017's ongoing books in the Top 50 were: Darth Maul, Batman, Walking Dead, All-Star Batman, Star Wars, Justice League, Detective Comics, Amazing Spider-Man, Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn, Action Comics, Nightwing, Trinity, Mighty Thor, Teen Titans, Old Man Logan, Deadpool, Venom, Green Lanterns.
The number one books on the top of the list was Justice League of America, Super-Sons, Batwoman Rebirth, Wild Storm, Elektra.
Basically, Star Wars, Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Justice League, Harley Quinn, Wolverine, Deadpool. Everything else is a crapshoot.
EDIT: Jumping back to December 2014 to give you a feel of what it's like elsewhere.
February 2017's ongoing books in the Top 50 were: Batman, Amazing Spider-Man, Thor, Justice League, Harley Quinn, Walking Dead, All-New X-Men, Detective Comics, Batman & Robin, Uncanny X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, Super-Man, Avengers, Batgirl, Batman-Superman, Green Lanterns, Deadpool, Grayson, Superman-Wonder Woman, Rocket Raccoon (??!), New Avengers, Action Comics.
A lot of the same books, but you can see the mishandling of certain lines by Marvel, notably in the loss of X-Men and Avengers.
whatsinaname
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I was googling for Wildstorm #3 easter eggs online this weekend and I was surprised how easy it was to find scans of the full issue online! I mean, not even a torrent or a file hosting site or something. Just forum threads/tumblrs with the whole issues.
echoshifting
Banned
That happens to every book, sadly
Major publishers, anyway. I'm not sure there's anyone out there posting like. Death be Damned or Eleanor and the Egret. Maybe, I dunno, I don't really go looking
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I can't speak for everyone but I just wasn't crazy about the writing on it. I dropped it after two issues and I love the Kate issues in Fraction's run. Maybe I'll give it another shot on sale or something.
echoshifting
Banned
I will say I am enjoying it well enough. But yeah I kinda agree and I don't think it has gotten better.
The most recent issue with Jessica was fun and seems to be operating at a higher tier of quality, but I'm not sure they can maintain that once the cameo is over
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Not really. I think they're going for a vigilante who is a little more unsure of himself so we can have that journey of him becoming proficient, but I don't find any of it terribly interesting. Almost all of it is developed in the backup stories.
Everyone book. Even action lab.
I do think Thompson is a good writer but her Marvel work has been kinda ranging decent to meh.
echoshifting
Banned
It shouldn't surprise me but fuck that is sad
Literally the first google page when you look up where to get some comics. It's fucking sad.
Google "Saga free". Illegal scans litter the first page. Two of them even listed before comixology.
Depressing
Freezasaurus
Member
Speaking of Saga, gotta pick up dat Year Two HC from IST tomorrow. Thinking of what else I should get.
Motor Girl vol 1
echoshifting
Banned
I thought Mayday was terrific, but read a sample and the synopsis
Freezasaurus
Member
Messi pls. I already have that in digital.
Never heard of it. I'll take a look. I really need to pick up the latest Atomic Robo tpb, and maybe the Time Runs Out HC that I've been meaning to get forever.
I buy trades of stuff I enjoyed digitally all the time.
They've been getting better in that regard with books like Strange, Uncanny Avengers, and OML keeping their numbering despite new creative teams.
Marvel could've gone launched Fury with some big campaign in a different month and it still would've flopped.Marvel:
We gave Kate a shot, below 20K, GOTTA BRING BACK CLINT!
And what a shock, Fury bomba. Same week as Secret Empire took over the attention.
This book should have bee around Marvel Now 1/AN Now.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Spencer & Locke #1 if you can find it.
Freezasaurus
Member
I hear you. I would definitely buy a Motorgirl omnibus or something, but not single arc paperbacks of stuff I've already read. I used to do that and it boggles the mind how much money I've saved since I stopped.
But then you have to take into consideration the other writers using him and Robinson working on other stuff. That probably would've been a better time to try something like that though.
Fairly sure Motor Girl is only meant to be like 12 issues. If that's the case there won't be an omnibus. I think I read him saying that plus you know... SiP in 2018.
Freezasaurus
Member
Still not buying it. If a single book comes out at some point with the whole series in it, I'd buy that for sure.
So what's the deal with the new SiP? I don't know anything about it other than that it's happening.
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NotTheGuyYouKill
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I've not read any comics for like a year lol.
Just read the first TPB for Becky Cloonan's Punisher.
I like it. Way better than Edmondson.
Just read the first TPB for Becky Cloonan's Punisher.
I like it. Way better than Edmondson.
That's all anyone knows
12 issues?
Worth it for SiP I guess
He's sick of watching his books slowly die. Mini series to tell the stories he wants to tell and get out. He dragged Rachel Rising on for way longer than was profitable.
He teased something for Dark Days with Duke in the ASB #9 Backup. Nothing else though
Is it confirmed?
Tragicomedy
Member
Started the Hickman FF run. Loving this.
I know what you mean. Comics are completely off my radar now.
My regular comic buddy bought a whole bunch of Civil War II and says I should read it. Should I GAF?
Little bit of SiP and Motor Girl stuffs
God no. He's just trying to share the misery.
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God no. He's just trying to share the misery.
Freezasaurus
Member
If you mistakenly buy it, just make sure to burn it before reading. It's the only way.
echoshifting
Banned
Bon appetit. Good shit, man
One of those rare runs where almost every arc is better than the last.
echoshifting
Banned
The main book is dumb but occasionally fun and very pretty
Skip the tie-ins. And the minis. Some of it is okay but little of it is good. None of it is worthwhile
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
There are much better ways to spend your time like reading Manifest Destiny.
You're in for a ride.
I keep forgetting Elektra is a thing. Her run will last this year purely because of the Netflix show
Already canned
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