Before the thread regarding Mike Choi's personal loss and dedication to his work gets to far away from its original intent, I'd like to allow any griping to move to this blog, instead.
That can include:
Shouldn't contracts allow for artists to have some time off during the year?
How hard are publishers trying to spin the late comic book deal as a service to the fan?
What is up with Secret Invasion costing $4 with the only "added value" being a cardstock cover?
And anything else one might want to gripe about...
Monday, May 26, 2008
Of Late Comic Books & General Gripes
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Really though, what is with 4$ regular issues? I'm not going to buy comics at that price unless they have something more to them. Marvel at least used to try and justify it with crappy character bios. Now they just don't care if they gouge you openly.
ReplyDeleteKen B, I completely agree. At least with say, One More Day, they tried to justify the added price by including extras, even if they were junk.
ReplyDeleteInteresting note on SI being $4 for only 22 pages. According to last week's Joe Friday's, Quesada said that that was always the plan and that the fans more or less got a lucky break in that Bendis' script for #1 ran-over. I mind listening to a Word Balloon too that Bendis said he was planning to make each issue double-sized. Wonder what happened to that?
I started to ask in the Marvel.com JF Qus thread under my alias why we got Civil War as cardstocked for $3 but now have the increase for SI. But they took that thread down and you can now only ask questions if you are a MySpace member. And no way and I signing up to that.
Another thing that pisses me off greatly is decompression. It is so infuriating. I think Daniel Way is the biggest culprit but his books are rubbish anyway. It happened though with JMS on Thor, it was a grand story but the pay-offs just weren't happening quickly enough and so it got dropped.
"I started to ask in the Marvel.com JF Qus thread under my alias why we got Civil War as cardstocked for $3 but now have the increase for SI. But they took that thread down and you can now only ask questions if you are a MySpace member. And no way and I signing up to that."
ReplyDeleteMarvel.com's own forums and blog threads take down a surprising amount of questions, even ones that are just asking simple questions and aren't loaded (like "why does OMD suck so much?")
During the whole David Mack tracing thing and general Greg Land rumblings, I remember Brevoort did a post about swiping and homages, and someone politely and legitimately asked if there would be anything done to Mack since it was clearly shown he traced his way through most of New Avengers with non-Marvel owned work. It got taken down relatively quick.
Marvel.com has a very head in the sand philosophy to it's community. Maybe it will go the same way as the Dunder Mifflin Infinity website ? ;)
You see... THIS is a perfect example of why Marvel just pisses me off. I seriously do not get how they continue to be the leader in comic sales because they piss on their readers all of the time.
ReplyDeleteJust to play devil's advocate: I'm sure some would rather pay $1 extra for nothing than be snake-oil-salesmen-ed into believing that Countdown would be the spine of the DC Universe and be a worthy successor to 52. :)
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