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A recent push for diversity has been blamed for weak print sales, but the companys decades-old business practices are the true culprit.
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A recent push for diversity has been blamed for weak print sales, but the companys decades-old business practices are the true culprit.
But even if it were, the publisher's word of mouth lately has been abysmal. The past decade has been a parade of singularly embarrassing behavior by Marvel writers and editors in public. The editor Steve Wacker has a reputation for picking fights with fans; so does the Spider-Man writer Dan Slott. The writer Peter David went on a bizarre anti-Romani rant at convention (he later apologized); the writer Mark Waid recently mused about punching a critic in the face before abandoning Twitter. The writer of Secret Empire, Nick Spencer, has managed to become a swirl of social media sturm all by himself, partially for his fascist Captain America storyline and partially for his tone-deaf handling of race and general unwillingness to deal with criticism.
A recent push for diversity has been blamed for weak print sales
A recent push for diversity has been blamed for weak print sales
...by who?
It's about Hydra Cap.Doesn't Nick Spencer write Captain America: Sam Wilson?
Are they talking about his handling of Jewish concerns with Hydra Cap?
In 2013, for example, the writer Al Ewing began working on Mighty Avengers, focusing on a team of community-oriented superheroes led by Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Fourteen issues later, Marvel relaunched it with a new #1 as Captain America and the Mighty Avengers, then canceled it nine issues in. In 2015, Ewing began writing both New Avengers and Ultimates, which followed characters from Mighty Avengers. Marvel relaunched both a year lateragain with new #1sas Ultimates 2 and USAvengers. Sound complicated? It gets worse: The 2013 Mighty Avengers was the third series to use the title; the 2015 Ultimates was the seventh. Both are unrelated to previous series. Such a publishing scheme is convoluted even for a committed fan; for a new reader, its nearly impenetrable.
By the Breitbart of comics, Bleedingcool
It's about Hydra Cap.
The problem is hardcore comics collectors are the "whales" and are really vocally against doing most of the things that comics really should be doing to not be entirely dependent upon those self-same "whales" (who are a shrinking audience anyway).
I'm glad they touched on this shit. Try to act like fucking professionals every once in awhile.
Comics literally started from personal poltics. New York jews wanting a powerful figure against nazism, and a guy that invented the lie detactor wanting a sybol of feminsim, etcThe comics are too expensive, all the different events are annoying to keep up with, and the story and dialogs are terrible to cringeworthy especially when personal politics are forced in.
I mean, didn't one of the Marvel editors actually pretty much say this, too, though?
The problem is hardcore comics collectors are the "whales" and are really vocally against doing most of the things that comics really should be doing to not be entirely dependent upon those self-same "whales" (who are a shrinking audience anyway).
I mean, didn't one of the Marvel editors actually pretty much say this, too, though?
...by who?
I'm glad they touched on this shit. Try to act like fucking professionals every once in awhile.
I mean, didn't one of the Marvel editors actually pretty much say this, too, though?
I feel like I'm gonna lose my mind getting invested into another series that only lasts 9 goddamn issues.
Personally, I don't read comics because I hate the way that they are released. A single comic is barely any content. You read it in a few mins and then wait a whole month or more for your next scrap of story.
Either release them more often or realease then 6 monthly with much more content so that each is a mini novel.
Doesn't Nick Spencer write Captain America: Sam Wilson?
Are they talking about his handling of Jewish concerns with Hydra Cap?
Especially those who go LOOKING for fights
They have that. They are called trades. They combine a few issues together. It's how I read a lot of my stuff. I rarely get single issues anymore.
Probably has more to do with his response to Spencer being punched, where he complained that one shouldn't punch Nazis.
In addition, he appears to have run for City Council as a Republican, focused on "broken window" policing, which is often seen as racially focused.
There's some other stuff if you want to go digging, but it's largely focused on his 2003-2005 period when he was railing about "thugs" in his Cleveland town.
Oh man, the stories I could tell you about Spencer. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Oh man, the stories I could tell you about Spencer. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
A trade costs 20-25 (25 for Marvel now really) and takes 30 minutes to an hour to read. You can look right across the aisle at the Sci-Fi/Fantasy book section and find tons of books that cost 8 bucks and take days/weeks to read. It's definitely a problem.
Yeah, Slott for example actively punches in his own name on Twitter and attacks people who criticize him. It's some childish shit.
Funny thing is I'm mostly a trades person too and yet apparently the industry is just that badly designed that even buying trades does little if anything for the creative teams.
They have that. They are called trades. They combine a few issues together. It's how I read a lot of my stuff. I rarely get single issues anymore.