Mulitple books for one character/team

[hippy fascist]

At the moment we have umpteen spidey titles, an endless slew of
x-books and now they're planning on doing 2 seperate avengers books with the same writer. So my question is this, does marvel need to streamline.

 

[The Question]

Hell yes. One Spider Man solo series, one Wolverine solo series, one series about the core X-Men team, and so on. Same for DC. One Superman solo book, one Batman solo book, and turn Action and Detective back to what they origionally were. Anthology series.

 

[hippy fascist]

how did you manage to reply before I'd finished posting this thread?

 

[KingOfDreams]

I don't mind multiple books if they're all good. Unfortunately, that rarely ever the case.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think solo characters should have, at most, two books. They generally portray different sides of a character, like Detective focusing on mysteries and Batman focusing on over-the-top superheroics right now.

Teams should only have one. If you have a team that's big enough to require more than one book, it's not a team, it's a mob.

 

[The Question]

how did you manage to reply before I'd finished posting this thread?

I didn't. It just loaded slowly for you.

 

[Narynan]

I think there a lot of crap multi title comics that are out there though that people will buy, and thats 50 50 for me. As long as they are making a profit and enough of one for marvel to fund other books like Moon knight and stuff that havent seen the light of day for years... then fine. But when they try to file more comics under C, for crap, just because it has X-men and spidey, then thatsan issue. Im ok for 10 on going Namor books, SO TO SPEAK, if they were all good books.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

The day Namor gets 10 books is the day we all die.

I don't mind the multiple X Books, cause they are so many X-Men, that there is a enough for so many books to focus on different stories and characters.

In the long run, multiple books really don't bother me, they just leave the question in me. ''How does Captian America, Cyclops, Wolvie do all these different things?"

 

[hippie_hunter]

Marvel really needs to cut down on the X, Spider-Man, and Avengers line-ups.

There should only be one Spider-Man book: the Amazing Spider-Man.

There should only be a few X-Men books: Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, Wolverine, Deadpool, and other solo characters that are not Wolverine.

There should only be two Avengers books: Avengers and Young Avengers

 

[Narynan]

.... so there should only be one Spiderman book, but X-Men get more than one? I think that if ANY group would get more than one, there should be no solo books from anyone from that group. Remember that spidey is the most well known marvel properity. If anyone, reguardless of rules, would get more than one, it would be him.

 

[hippie_hunter]

.... so there should only be one Spiderman book, but X-Men get more than one? I think that if ANY group would get more than one, there should be no solo books from anyone from that group. Remember that spidey is the most well known marvel properity. If anyone, reguardless of rules, would get more than one, it would be him.

But the X-Men contain multiple characters. There are too many X-Men to put on one team that's why you have Astonishing X-Men (Cyclops, Emma Frost, Shadowcat, Colossus, Beast, and Wolverine) and Uncanny X-Men (Nightcrawler, Warpath, Marvel Girl, Havok, and Polaris). Take Iceman, Angel, Bishop, Gambit, Psylocke, Storm, and Rogue and divy them up between those books. X-Factor represents mutants that aren't part of the X-Men. And there are characters such as Wolverine that deserve their own solo titles.

Spider-Man is just one character.

 

[Narynan]

Cant argue that, but if were flying a one book rule on this thread... then its one book. streamlineing does not consist of leaving all the fat and titles around the X books and cutting characters that might have a few to many, to less than can be supported. You cant say, 3 spiderbook are to many but we can have 3 x titles, then x solo titles too. If that was the case, one loop hole would be to write an Aunt May book and have her cooking wheatcakes for Peter when he tells her an adventure each issue. And the only time she would be in the book would be page 1 and page 22. Most solo X books are "IMO" so bad that I cant pickup the core titles. (this comes from years of reading bad wolverine stories, I know this isnt a rule, just my experience)

 

[Narynan]

reminds me of the issue of Amazing Fantasy 15 i saw for sale at a comic shop is spokane, wa when I was 9. I was barely getting into collecting. It was probally a 3.0 and it was 600 bucks. '90 and it was 600 dollars.

Sweet god I wish I had the chance to buy that.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Cant argue that, but if were flying a one book rule on this thread... then its one book. streamlineing does not consist of leaving all the fat and titles around the X books and cutting characters that might have a few to many, to less than can be supported. You cant say, 3 spiderbook are to many but we can have 3 x titles, then x solo titles too. If that was the case, one loop hole would be to write an Aunt May book and have her cooking wheatcakes for Peter when he tells her an adventure each issue. And the only time she would be in the book would be page 1 and page 22. Most solo X books are "IMO" so bad that I cant pickup the core titles. (this comes from years of reading bad wolverine stories, I know this isnt a rule, just my experience)

Yes, indeed cut the fat of both franchises. New Excalibur, Wolverine: Origns, and X-Men need to go. But there are far too many characters to just have them in one book. Far, far too many. And there are characters such as Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Deadpool, etc. who do indeed deserve their own titles.

Spider-Man has basically been reduced to having just Iron Man, Aunt May, himself, and Mary Jane as the characters. And none of them deserve their own title (well, except for Iron Man of course)

 

[Iceman]

For solo characters I don't like them to have too many books. I prefer one definitive title published as regularly as possible. For team books (X-Men in particular), multiple titles are necessary to allow sufficient focus on each of the team members. I don't mind even 3 or 4 titles if nearly all the team members within each book can be considered 'core' characters. Also I'm not the biggest fan of spin off books.

 

[Dwarf lord]

If you don't have multiple x-titles, characters get lost in the shuffle. That's all there is to it.

 

[supermarvelman]

I think X-Men need the 3 - 4 books they have right now. Theres so many X-men, it's not like all 3 X-Men titles focus the team in Astonishing. It would be lame if all 3 books focused on the same group, like if Fantasic Four had 3 books, it would be to much of ths same characters. I do think Spider-Man needs atleast 2 books though, he's like the center of the Marvel Universe, he's probably the only solo character that REALLY deserves multiple books. Avengers, also deserve 2 - 3 books, theres so many Avengers.

 

[Corporal]

I think solo books are great, because focus on one person can be really refreshing and a great variation to teams. For me, I love multiple books that give different takes on the character / team, but not if its just the same story without different perspective or character styles, otherwise your paying for the same book twice, and that makes hulk angry.

 

[MyPokerShirt]

2 spider-man books max. 2 books with wolverine in them. he should be in ONE team, also. streamline, yes. one book per character? no. that's unrealistic expectations.

 

[Lady Stormcrow]

I would also prefer if they had one book for each team. It was very confusing, when I jumped onto the comicbook bandwagon, to know what I was looking for.
Instead of about 3 or 4 Mutant-centric books, I'd prefer a wider variety of original ideas.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

Spider-Man was the first i belive to have more than one book,but in the late 1980`s early 1990`s the Uncanny X-Men also had more books,which was alright.But now,i dont think they are needed.Its just a splotch effert by Marvel,there isnt good stories,so why have more than one book to say it?

 

[Havok83]

Charaters should only have one solo title and at most two. Im not opposed to having multiple titles for teams. Can you imagine the X-men only having one book? There are too many characters and its good that there is more than one title as they focus on a different team with different characters.

 

[hippie_hunter]

2 spider-man books max. 2 books with wolverine in them. he should be in ONE team, also. streamline, yes. one book per character? no. that's unrealistic expectations.

1 book for Wolverine. He's getting ****ed out far too much and he doesn't even deserve 2 books. Also, Wolverine Origins sucks.

 

[supermarvelman]

Charaters should only have one solo title and at most two. Im not opposed to having multiple titles for teams. Can you imagine the X-men only having one book? There are too many characters and its good that there is more than one title as they focus on a different team with different characters.

Yea what if Astonishing was the only X-Men book? We'd rarely see characters like Rogue, Havok, Iceman, Nightcrawler, etc.... same goes for the Avengers.

 

[The Fonz]

I think solo characters should have, at most, two books. They generally portray different sides of a character, like Detective focusing on mysteries and Batman focusing on over-the-top superheroics right now.

Teams should only have one. If you have a team that's big enough to require more than one book, it's not a team, it's a mob.

I totally agree. There is such a thing as too many characters. X-Men definitely has too many characters and stories. Some people need to die and stay dead. Like Banshee.