Bought/Thought - 9/19/12

[Themanofbat]

TheCrapulent1 ... heh heh...

 

[runawayboulder]

TheCrapulent1 ... heh heh...

LMAO, did JH do that? That's a good one....LMFAOOOOOOO!

 

[Dread]

Yup and the reward to Gage for such an accomplishment is to see his creations get massacred by each other in a sh***y Marvel NOW book.

I know. That was why I was so furious when I read about it. And why I understand why so many creators lately have been throwing up their hands with the big two. Which means a potential lack of creativity and new blood, at least in the big two. Remember, DC is suddenly too dysfunctional a place for ROB LIEFELD. If anything signals an intervention, it's a time like that. Part of me wonders if Marvel keeps ICON around so that they don't have such public spats with creators like Mark Millar when they decide to go solo.

I mean, "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" will be utilizing a lot of innovations with certain characters that just didn't exist before DnA started working on the space books in 2006. Yet will they even see a bonus penny from whatever that film gets? No. So it's become more profitable and frankly fair to just abandon the "big two" stuff unless one is uber-passionate and just work on creator owned stuff. I mean, the dude who created SCOTT PILGRIM saw more money from that than any Marvel creator will see from the Marvel Studios films, and that film BOMBED.

 

[runawayboulder]

I know. That was why I was so furious when I read about it. And why I understand why so many creators lately have been throwing up their hands with the big two. Which means a potential lack of creativity and new blood, at least in the big two. Remember, DC is suddenly too dysfunctional a place for ROB LIEFELD. If anything signals an intervention, it's a time like that. Part of me wonders if Marvel keeps ICON around so that they don't have such public spats with creators like Mark Millar when they decide to go solo.

I mean, "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" will be utilizing a lot of innovations with certain characters that just didn't exist before DnA started working on the space books in 2006. Yet will they even see a bonus penny from whatever that film gets? No. So it's become more profitable and frankly fair to just abandon the "big two" stuff unless one is uber-passionate and just work on creator owned stuff. I mean, the dude who created SCOTT PILGRIM saw more money from that than any Marvel creator will see from the Marvel Studios films, and that film BOMBED.

Things seem to work in cycles and comics are no different. Back in the early 90's all the big name creators got so fed up, the industry ended up with Image Comics. By the end of the decade, the big 2 were trying to lure a lot of those independent guys back into the fold. Now we are possibly heading back to square one it seems....

 

[Dread]

Things seem to work in cycles and comics are no different. Back in the early 90's all the big name creators got so fed up, the industry ended up with Image Comics. By the end of the decade, the big 2 were trying to lure a lot of those independent guys back into the fold. Now we are possibly heading back to square one it seems....

The major difference is that Image Comics and indie companies were a bigger slice of the direct market than they are now. In the 90's Image was roughly 13% of the market. Now it's usually 5% on a good month. And usually no comic company that's neither Marvel or DC controls more than 5% of the market. Marvel and DC each control roughly 75% of the market combined.

If everything ran in cycles, then every few decades everyone would ditch their cars and go back to riding horses. Everyone would throw out their PC's and start typing with typewriters again and counting with pen and paper or beads on strings. This whole "plumbing" thing would become so passe' and we'd go back to wells or collecting rain water. No, sometimes progress actually sticks. It is a shame that sometimes big two comics seem to be adverse to that.

Sometimes you see the true core of things when times get desperate. It is a shame with the economy contracting and with the print medium under duress, the big two have doubled down on a lot of disheartening trends from their past.

 

[JewishHobbit]

TheCrapulent1 ... heh heh...

You know what's priceless? I've been doing that off and on for about 5 years and you're the first person to catch it

 

[Phaedrus45]

Big recommendation for a book I'm reading by Paul Tobin: Prepare To Die.

I purchased this book a couple months ago, as his (wife?) Colleen Coover mentioned it to me at the Emerald City Comic Con, saying it would be released sometime in July. It sat on my shelf, as there are so many other books I had before it I wanted to get to. Well, this week, Tobin and Coover were at the Jet City Comic Show, and I wanted to at least get a feel for his book before I had him sign it. WOW. It's really been a great read. I'm over 100 pages into it (292 pages in total), and I'm very impressed. It's all about superheroes; and, after reading the first chapter, I'm sure most of you will be hooked. I don't want to give too much away, not even the meaning of the title. (That comes at the end of Chapter Two.)

If you are skeptical, drop into your local bookstore and read the first chapter. (I got mine at Barnes and Noble; so, it should be readily available for most of you.)

 

[Themanofbat]

You know what's priceless? I've been doing that off and on for about 5 years and you're the first person to catch it t:

That's probably because most of us just see that name naturally... which would explain why we've never noticed...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

You guys are so mean to me and I'm like the nicest person ever.