February 2010 Solicits

[Colossal Spoons]

I know nothing about that book. I hopped off as soon as it wasn't about Skaar anymore.

 

[Silver Knight]

As most people did.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It reads more like a cosmic book to me, which is why I'm willing to give the art a chance to grow on me... it won't... but I'm giving it a fair shot. Honestly, I can deal with bad art if the story is good enough, and unlike Dread... Beast is enough to pull me through the bad art... even if he looks like a billygoat.

And I think a good analogy for what Dread said earlier, Corp... would you still read a book if the Black Knight was suddenly drawn as a big breasted black woman, though he's not and is still the old Black Knight now hooked up with faisa or however you spell her name, but he just LOOKS like a big breasted black woman... deal breaker? Cat Beast and Billy goat Beast, I think, are THAT differant.

They're really not, so the analogy doesn't make any sense. But regardless, if the story's good, I'd read it. Writing trumps art for me every time. I was already intent on reading SWORD from the get-go, so the art was never going to sway me. It's only if the concept already sounds pretty weak and I'm already considering dropping the comic that bad art will make me consider not reading a comic at all.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Can you tell that 2010 is the year IRON MAN 2 is coming out? Y'know, because there are suddenly 5 or so Iron Man books again? Ah, poor, pathetic, predictable, greed-afflicted, wise-as-sack-of-cow-dung Marvel editorial...never change. Their senior sales VP admitted that they have overexposed some characters during "events", yet Marvel continues. They haven't noticed INVINCIBLE IRON MAN starting to slip back to normal levels of sales. They won't be happy until there are as many anti-Iron Man fans as there are anti-Wolverine fans. Part of why Marvel probably doesn't run any "editor for a day" style contests for fans like DC once did in the 90's is because the winning schmoe might do too good a job. I truly wish I could be able to be oblivious to any sort of reality as many big two editors seem to be.

To be fair, it's not like there's 5 Iron Man ongoings running monthly or anything like that. We only have 1 ongoing, and the rest are mini-series', oneshots or kid-oriented magazines with pullout posters and the like. And when it's just a couple of months before the movie's release, I think it's reasonable to expect a bump in such product.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Spider-Man Previews

Can't wait to see Mysterio's comeback.