I'm expecting quite a few books to end or be replaced in the coming months.I dont know why I bother reading this shit. How can you call Royals #9 a jumping on point when it ends four months later.
what propaganda comicSaladin Ahmed, GWW, Duggan and Hannah Blumenreich were like the only writers who worked for Marvel who spoke against the propaganda comic. GWW started preparing to quit and Blumenreich cut all ties to the company and won't do any work for them again.
what propaganda comic
Aaaah I see. Makes more sense.It was both. The Future's End issue basically was about Batman stealing a solution to help perfect his clones.
The Detective Comics issue took place YEARS later, and basically it explains how Bruce made it so every certain amount of years later, a Clone will be made to take up the mantle of Batman.
You want to elevate the X-books? Put Ewing and Rosenberg on them. Bunn's doing fine, but Pak, Guggenheim, and whomever the fuck is writing Gen X can go fly off a bridge with the amateur hour shit they've been pulling. "Look guys, surely these books have mutants and are X-books!"I want Rosenberg on an X-Men team.
It'd be a shame for Marvel to cancel their best book.
Whatever happened to that Dan Slott creator owned book?
Squirrel Girl is going to have something animated related. Announcement will happen later this year.
Jessica Jones is going strong thoughIt'd be a shame for Marvel to cancel their best book.
Jessica Jones is going strong though
Bah, it'll help build muscle.
Doesn't that come out this week? Did they also have the Hellboy in Hell Library Edition for sale?
Missed that there was an Oni sale going on. Gonna grab:
Lost at Sea
Lucky Penny
Whiteout
Off the Image and Dark Horse sales I already bought:
Extremity 1-6 - Saw some of you guys were really into this
Blacksad - Always meant to read this
Dead Inside 2-5 - Never read the first issue but I'm going to assume it's solid based off of Arcudi writing
Jessica Jones
Oh god the last panel made me feel something in my Spine
I don't know what happened to Marvel in the last few years, it feels like they are sinking further and further down this pit.NYCC
DC:
Brings back Jeff Lemire offically, announces Protector, shows off Doomsday Clock, new Metal info, the first pages of the next arc of Batman, a new Bat mini, New Age of DC, New Terrifics info
Marvel:
Almost loses G Willow Wilson and Saladin Ahmed, loses Hannah Blumenreich, all that stems from a comic about a Aerospace Company connected to Army Drones, annouces a Weapon H book and gets no response, announces a Weeknd book, tries to calm down retailers and it goes to hell after bigoted nerds speak up.
It seems like I'm harping on Mahvoo but fuck me, this was a trainwreck
NYCC
DC:
Brings back Jeff Lemire offically, announces Protector, shows off Doomsday Clock, new Metal info, the first pages of the next arc of Batman, a new Bat mini, New Age of DC, New Terrifics info
Marvel:
Almost loses G Willow Wilson and Saladin Ahmed, loses Hannah Blumenreich, all that stems from a comic about a Aerospace Company connected to Army Drones, annouces a Weapon H book and gets no response, announces a Weeknd book, tries to calm down retailers and it goes to hell after bigoted nerds speak up.
It seems like I'm harping on Mahvoo but fuck me, this was a trainwreck
I don't know what happened to Marvel in the last few years, it feels like they are sinking further and further down this pit.
Everything they do is bizarre or ill advised. Or directly contrary to what everyone wants.
Ian Flynn will still write Sonic comics for IDW. First 4 issues are out in April and then the book goes monthly.
Archie really messed up
Anyone on this? Want to get some use out of that Comixology sale before expires, but I want to do it right.Okay, someone help me out with this:
The Goon on Comixology.
Thinking of grabbing this series finally via the linewide sale for Dark Horse. I'm noticing that it seems like it'd be noticeably cheaper to grab all the single issues versus the collections. Would that get me everything, or would I be missing significant content?
Also again want to repeat the question: Have any particularly standout new Image series started in the last year that I should look into?
Absolutely chilling.Jessica Jones
Oh god the last panel made me feel something in my Spine
Bendis has shown he absolutely knows what he's doing. All the way back to that scene where Jess walks into a liquor store, browses, wonders what the hell she's doing, and then leaves.Normally I'd be leery of them revisiting an old story arc like this, but it seems like they know what they're doing.
Mostly true, but I dislike how you're framing The Weeknd comicNYCC
DC:
Brings back Jeff Lemire offically, announces Protector, shows off Doomsday Clock, new Metal info, the first pages of the next arc of Batman, a new Bat mini, New Age of DC, New Terrifics info
Marvel:
Almost loses G Willow Wilson and Saladin Ahmed, loses Hannah Blumenreich, all that stems from a comic about a Aerospace Company connected to Army Drones, annouces a Weapon H book and gets no response, announces a Weeknd book, tries to calm down retailers and it goes to hell after bigoted nerds speak up.
It seems like I'm harping on Mahvoo but fuck me, this was a trainwreck
I wouldn't really call any of the stuff we see "random" good or bad. The thing is Marvel puts a lot of focus on what will make them the most money in the short term while ignoring the long term and it's the cause of a lot of the complaints people have with them. Retailers are getting fed up and we're seeing stuff like Marvel bringing back their biggest heroes, so 2018 will be an interesting year for Marvel good or bad.We talked about this a bit on today's Bull Moose episode, but the long and shot of it is that Marvel editorial just has no idea what they're doing. What you get as a result is pure random noise; some of it's good (Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur, Gwenpool), some of it's resoundingly mediocre like the X-Men line, and a lot of it's catastrophically awful like the Northrup Grumman thing. When you're a business, with inertia and capital investments to make before you do anything, "random chance" is gonna get you considerably worse results than the term would indicate.
It also requires a degree of willful blindness. They're definitely not talking to their creative teams before they decide this stuff. Do you really see a Weapon H series getting pitched unprompted? The constant fighting with retailers points to that too.
Mostly true, but I dislike how you're framing The Weeknd comicas a bad thing!lack of creative team aside
I wouldn't really call any of the stuff we see "random" good or bad. The thing is Marvel puts a lot of focus on what will make them the most money in the short term while ignoring the long term and it's the cause of a lot of the complaints people have with them. Retailers are getting fed up and we're seeing stuff like Marvel bringing back their biggest heroes, so 2018 will be an interesting year for Marvel good or bad.
Did anyone read the Black Eyed Peas comic?
It's pretty stupid to be a Marvel exclusive comic retail in 2017.
Did anyone read the Black Eyed Peas comic?
It's pretty stupid to be a Marvel exclusive comic retail in 2017.
I don't understand the logic in having a publisher exclusive store in general.
I heard the SoCal region has a lot of comic stores that are heavily Marvel focused. I imagine the ones that are so vocal in their racism and homophobia are the ones running those comic shops.
Mostly true, but I dislike how you're framing The Weeknd comicas a bad thing!lack of creative team aside
Adjectiveless Spider-Man
So, just for fun, I looked at how many titles in Rebirth had one or more members of their creative team stayed on a book they did the previous volume of. This is my tally. It could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's not.
- Aquaman
- Green Lantern Corps
- Green Arrow
- Harley Quinn
- Red Hood
- Batman Beyond
I ran a similar tally for Legacy, EXCEPT, I only counted books where one member of the creative team had done at least 15 issues -about the standard Marvel tenure- in the previous volume. (I didn't count Alias for Jessica Jones, however, because of the length of time between the two volumes, which meant I only counted the previous 12 issues)
This is the tally I arrived at:
- All-New Wolverine
- Amazing Spider-Man
- Avengers
- Black Panther
- Champions
- Daredevil
- Deadpool
- Iron Man
- Thor
- Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
- Ms. Marvel
- Spider-Gwen
- Gwenpool
- Adjectiveless Spider-Man
- Squirrel Girl
We talked about this a bit on today's Bull Moose episode, but the long and shot of it is that Marvel editorial just has no idea what they're doing. What you get as a result is pure random noise; some of it's good (Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur, Gwenpool), some of it's resoundingly mediocre like the X-Men line, and a lot of it's catastrophically awful like the Northrup Grumman thing. When you're a business, with inertia and capital investments to make before you do anything, "random chance" is gonna get you considerably worse results than the term would indicate.
It also requires a degree of willful blindness. They're definitely not talking to their creative teams before they decide this stuff. Do you really see a Weapon H series getting pitched unprompted? The constant fighting with retailers points to that too.
I heard the SoCal region has a lot of comic stores that are heavily Marvel focused. I imagine the ones that are so vocal in their racism and homophobia are the ones running those comic shops.
My friend runs a shop in SoCal, what exactly is the point of casting this kind of gross-ass aspersion?
What else have you heard?
It's all of that, but I'll bring up a third thing: the constant events and relaunches that mean you constantly have to reinvent the wheel and thus struggle to redefine what a character, a book or a whole line is supposed to be. It's the story of the X-Men line. It's the story of every volume of Captain Marvel after Kelly Sue's. It's what leads to "I dunno, Steve Rogers is a nazi now?".It's bound to happen to Old Man Logan too, now. If Marvel doesn't know what the book is supposed to be, how the fuck could we?
Slow down this isn't a personal attack against your friend.
Well I dont know man you heard all this stuff and if Im driving through So Cal thirsty for some dank James A. Owen comics, shit, any one of them could be run by one of these intolerant types.