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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 6, 2022 10:23:18 GMT -5
Midnight God was a decent mini from Dark Horse. I've not read Phantoms. It starts pretty decent, but the end suffers from over-continuity syndrome. It unnecessarily ties the Tigress's final voyage to other stuff, and resolves a major plot line left dangling by Kurt Busiek in a, shall we say, unsatisfying manner. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2022 12:06:08 GMT -5
Stan Sakia just announced he is going back to Dark Horse with Usagi and creating a new imprint there. Full statement from Stan's FB posted here-M |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 7, 2022 17:38:13 GMT -5
Right after I broke down and bought the first two IDW trades! AUGH!!!
But I'm actually delighted. I want the Saga Phonebooks back!
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 15, 2022 12:44:14 GMT -5
So for what would have been Stan's 100th birthday, DC is bringing back his "Just Imagine" universe for one-shot anthology
Considering how bad Just Imagine flopped, I think it would be a far better idea to do a joint anniversary between Marvel & DC and relaunch Amalgam for a year
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 15, 2022 22:44:14 GMT -5
Mark Evanier has announced his next Dark Horse Groo Mini-Series will debut in December. 4 issues of Groo: Gods Against Groo and the final issue will be Groo's 200th book
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2022 17:29:27 GMT -5
Coming in January Paul Levitz and Alan Davis on an Avengers series...  looks like a book that appeals to the classic demographic... -M |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 17, 2022 4:48:55 GMT -5
Coming in January Paul Levitz and Alan Davis on an Avengers series... ... looks like a book that appeals to the classic demographic... -M Yeah, just saw the announcement for this at 13th Dimension. Sounds awesome. I think Levitz will do a good job, and Davis has never disappointed me. I'm just annoyed that it has to go through the single-issue route first (instead of 'straight to tpb') so I'll have to wait until next summer at least until I can actually get the book in my hands - and avoid online spoilers. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 18, 2022 10:10:03 GMT -5
Coming in January Paul Levitz and Alan Davis on an Avengers series... looks like a book that appeals to the classic demographic... -M Marvel sure has been doing a lot of throw-back books lately (particularly 90's style ones), have been trying to figure out why |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2022 10:26:39 GMT -5
Coming in January Paul Levitz and Alan Davis on an Avengers series... looks like a book that appeals to the classic demographic... -M Marvel sure has been doing a lot of throw-back books lately (particularly 90's style ones), have been trying to figure out why They've embraced the direct market as a niche market, and with multiverse/flashback titles, they can court a wider range of niche customers who might not be interested in their main line of books, but will still buy Marvel products the tickle their niche interests. If you cannot grow sales by selling more of each title, you increase it by selling more titles. Margins a re less per book, but there isn't really a way to sell more of each title in the direct market anymore, as the periodical format has a limited appeal, so you try to catch more of the different customers who do want to buy periodicals. The danger is diluting the brand and overwhelming your retail partners ability to stock your products, but the hope is that when push comes to shove, retailers will stock Marvel over other publishers, and the other issue is increased production costs for producing more books at less return on each book is not viable in the long term, the upside is most artists cannot produce more than 1 book a month, so if they are producing Marvel books they are not available to work for other publishers or for creator-owned work to challenge Marvel's market share. -M |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 18, 2022 10:29:04 GMT -5
Why does every book have to be about time travel... if they want to do a classic story, great, I'm in. (They did a couple Iron Man minis like that which were good) I HATE time travel.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2022 10:44:13 GMT -5
Why does every book have to be about time travel... if they want to do a classic story, great, I'm in. (They did a couple Iron Man minis like that which were good) I HATE time travel. It picks up where Avengers #11 leaves off, so it features Kang and Kang is the poster child villain of the current MCU phase, so along with the popularity of the first season of Loki, multiverse and time travel are the buzzworthy topics for books, and a way to exploit several eras of Marvel history and several different demographics of fans. -M |
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Post by majestic on Oct 10, 2022 10:00:50 GMT -5
2023 has a reshuffling of the Superman titles. 1. Superman. Solo book starring Clark. 2. Adventures of Superman. Solo book starring Jon. 6 issue mini series. 3. Action Comics. Anthology with Clark as main story plus 2 back ups. The back ups will feature other members of the Super family. First 2 will be Lois. And Power Girl.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 27, 2022 19:00:08 GMT -5
2023 has a reshuffling of the Superman titles. 1. Superman. Solo book starring Clark. 2. Adventures of Superman. Solo book starring Jon. 6 issue mini series. 3. Action Comics. Anthology with Clark as main story plus 2 back ups. The back ups will feature other members of the Super family. First 2 will be Lois. And Power Girl. I bit odd Jon's book is a mini.. was he not selling well? Doesn't bode well... though if they could re-de-age him, perhaps I'd be happy. Action has had backups for a while now.. Midnighter's story from Future State went there... then there was a (completely unrelated) Martian Manhunter back up.. and recently that had Steel and Lois' adventures on Earth as the back up to the main story on Warworld. On the one hand, the variety is nice when the back ups are good, but on the other it made the main story really drag. I wouldn't mind that carrying over to Detective though.... maybe it would get us another Maps story! |
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Post by majestic on Oct 27, 2022 19:33:03 GMT -5
2023 has a reshuffling of the Superman titles. 1. Superman. Solo book starring Clark. 2. Adventures of Superman. Solo book starring Jon. 6 issue mini series. 3. Action Comics. Anthology with Clark as main story plus 2 back ups. The back ups will feature other members of the Super family. First 2 will be Lois. And Power Girl. I bit odd Jon's book is a mini.. was he not selling well? Doesn't bode well... though if they could re-de-age him, perhaps I'd be happy. Action has had backups for a while now.. Midnighter's story from Future State went there... then there was a (completely unrelated) Martian Manhunter back up.. and recently that had Steel and Lois' adventures on Earth as the back up to the main story on Warworld. On the one hand, the variety is nice when the back ups are good, but on the other it made the main story really drag. I wouldn't mind that carrying over to Detective though.... maybe it would get us another Maps story! Jon's book started off great but sort of derailed about a year in. I agree deaging is maybe what readers want? As far as Action it will have 2 back ups instead of one. And one of the stories with Lois features Jon at a younger age. It looks like added page count without a price increase. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 27, 2022 19:39:14 GMT -5
oohhhh. that sounds good. I didn't really like the direct of Jon's book myself, I really just got it for the Nightwing interactions (which were great) but the story didn't grab me outside that.
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