Honestly, it'd be easy to look past Slott being a bad person if his work spoke for itself.
So you haven't read his Silver Surfer run?
Honestly, it'd be easy to look past Slott being a bad person if his work spoke for itself.
By the time that the Trade comes out, the comic could already be dead. Comics live and die by their pre-orders which start ~3 months before the individual issues even make it to shelves. So you have a an announced artist/writer/colorist and a short 1-2 sentence description of the comic, then you have to pre-order based on that months in advance.
If new comics with different names (meaning they can't piggyback off of older subscriptions.
e.g. being subscribed to "Black Panther" will not carry over to the new "Black Panther and the Crew") don't do well before the first issue has even made it to store shelves then the entire new comic run is already doomed.
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.
If they want to boost sales, put the fucking things in supermarkets and target them to 8 year olds. It is fine to have adult comics, but the superhero stuff should not be that.
It's all odd because, by all accounts, his Sam Wilson run was really well done and appeared to be cognizant of race dynamics and the effects of prejudice intersecting with varying degrees of societal power.
So you haven't read his Silver Surfer run?
It's all odd because, by all accounts, his Sam Wilson run was really well done and appeared to be cognizant of race dynamics and the effects of prejudice intersecting with varying degrees of societal power.
Oh man, the stories I could tell you about Spencer. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah pretty much this, also it seems like a lot of Marvel's decisions are to appease to the "Tumblr" crowd, who don't buy comics anyway.
Its also definitely a cost issue. Doesn't DC pretty much charge $2.99 across the board?
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.
85% of the reason comic sales are what they are is they stopped doing that 20 years ago.
Valtýr;237910272 said:comparing a novel to a comic is literally apples to oranges. they require completely different skills and effort to produce. not saying one is harder or easier than the other but the cost is what it is because of the money put into it. they don't just arbitrarily pick a number.
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.
I noped out when he became a werewolf, but I certainly heard good things about it.
You mean his Dr Who run?
THE BUBBLE WILL BURST.Maybe folks are just getting fatigued of all superhero stuff in general comics, movies etc.
Honestly, it'd be easy to look past Slott being a bad person if his work spoke for itself.
There's lots of things comics used to do that made it easier to 'onboard' new readers and establish continuity - like editor notes to prior events when referenced, or calling out character names and abilities, and its pretty easy to gloss over that stuff as a longterm reader, but indispensable to a newby
Maybe folks are just getting fatigued of all superhero stuff in general comics, movies etc.
Who? Were those the Dr Doom side characters?I miss when the Fantastic Four had a book
I miss when the Fantastic Four had a book
I miss 4, it was a miniseries where the government came in and got Reed for tax evision. The FF was broke and had to live off Ben Grimm(he's rich) money. Human Torch got an right real quick.
I miss when the Fantastic Four had a book
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).
Wasn't that the book they wanted to replace Waid's run with? What a shitstorm that was.
I feel like I'm gonna lose my mind getting invested into another series that only lasts 9 goddamn issues.
Also, Marvel, stop your fuckery with the X-Men. I get you're trying to devalue the property so that it's worthless and Fox have to hand the film rights back but let's understand a few things here;
Millions of people watch the X-Men movies
Thousands of people read comics
No matter how much you try to make the X-Men unbearable, it isn't going to have any effect on the cinema audience. Moviegoers don't care about what's going on in your comics. It's invisible to them. The only thing you hurt by releasing shitty comics is the sales of your own comics. The only thing you hurt by not licensing X-Men merchandise is your own revenue stream.
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.
However, I'm not fully away of the whole situation. Like that whole writer threatened to punch a critic situation. Sounds extreme.
If this is the problem (which basically means that the audience doesn't want all that diversity) then what is the solution? keep wasting money for years (maybe decades) until there is one or two new "whales" that they can rely on besides the "nerds"? That assuming the investment will work in the long run.
Honestly i don't believe comic books have the potential to become a mainstream medium anymore. They may be a good source material for other mainstream mediums like movies and games but as an medium it's forever locked in a niche surviving thanks to other mediums.
I recommend giving DC a look tbh. I've favored Marvel for most of my capes comics reading but DC has a lot of solid titles right now.Yeah the way DC and Marvel run their superhero lines are awful. I love superhero movies, cartoon and live action show but I don't read a single DC or Marvel superhero book. They have way too many superhero comics with too many crossovers and ongoing stories I don't want to start after hundreds of issues. I was excited for DC restarting everything at #1 a couple of years ago but it was just a number reboot not a story reboot. I'm sure the move to only selling to direct retailers influenced a lot of the way they handle these books.
I do love reading stuff like Saga and Walking Dead.
I can't speak on any specific instances, and I'm not saying the writers aren't at fault. But fanboys can be absolute jerks on social media like twitter. I don't think it's fair to expect writers to be acting professional 24/7 while people are free to attack them.
However, I'm not fully away of the whole situation. Like that whole writer threatened to punch a critic situation. Sounds extreme.
So you haven't read his Silver Surfer run?