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NEW JOE FRIDAY'S, WEEK 10
http://www.newsarama.com/NewJoeFridays/NewJoeFridays10.html
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It's another week of Joe Q answering the hard hitting questions and taking time out of his admittedly busy schedule to talk to fans about bits, and most importantly, sweeten the pot with previews about stuff so we buy more.
I just figured I'd add my own imput to certain statements JQ makes, which is pointless because he'll never read it, but maybe someone in Hypeland will agree with me:
And secondly, I agree that when you have so many chapter tie-in's, this stuff gets harder to manage. Maybe that means having CW be a whopping 70 CHAPTERS, which is the biggest in recent memory, was a bit of a misstep? You can't simultaneously put out a lot of books, in some cases too many, and then complain about the problems that arise. You cut back on the books and retrench, or you admit you're just greedy and shaddup. I think fans would respect that honesty. Or just use it to whine on the 'net more, whatever.
It is also worth noting that while CW, as timely a story as it is, is trying to captilize on the success of DC's IC, note that IC was almost equally long winded and whose chapters only started getting muddled with lateness towards the final 3rd of the story, about the last 3 months or so. CW is barely halfway and the lateness has emerged to suck wind out of it. Comments? What'd DC do right that y'all didn't? And would you be willing to learn from it, or would you just stick your fingers in your ears and go "lalalalalalalala" mentally like you always seem to do, Joey?
"You can't take away lateness and comics. It's been part of the industry since as long as there's been one."
"So's smallpox. Now quit being an idiot."
Besides, you miss the point that you can only find a handful of examples for older stories, whereas in modern times, you can't go 2 months without a delay, and usually a delay that is must frustrating to fans and retailers. As an EIC, or the head of a company, it's your JOB to look at how your company has done things presently and in the past and see how it can be improved and what can be done about it. Shrugging one's shoulders and going, "meh, it's been that way for 45 years, nothing I can do" shows about as much innovation as Homer Simpson. So simply because "that window has been broken a long time ago" means that an EIC should have no strategy to fix it? Gasp, IMPROVE on a flaw that's been going on for almost half a century?
Thank god not everyone isn't like this, otherwise we'd have no computers or Internet because "Morse Code and Radios work damn fine".
I mean, I'm not saying you can't be an executive of a company without being innovative. But if you're not, you shouldn't brag about what hot **** you are and how all of your decisions are best.
So, your answer is, "we don't have foul policies about homosexual characters starring in Marvel comics, and as an example I'll cite a title that has already been announced as cancelled in a few months, that sells poorly, and that we've editorically abandoned and left for dead for at least the past half year, but that we publish because the writer gave us a monster hit with MARVEL ZOMBIES so we sort of own him a few pints." That's about as bad as Dan DiDio's response to have a lesbian heroine be to deliberately point her out and go, "LOOKIE FELLAS, SHE'S A LESBO!", because what lesbian doesn't just love that?
Re:, "We were going to hold off on the knowledge until the last possible second, so we could charge double the cover price for Bagley's last issue and milk fans as much as possible, but now they've gotten a head's up so we'll probably just have to go with our standard money-sucker, the varient cover."
And it attempts to end on a "positive note" by reminding us that in November, Rob Liefield returns to art work. At least it's on reviving a bit of 90's cheese, which is all that Rob HIMSELF is. A living rehash of the 90's that sucked is working on a fictional rehash of the 90's that sucked. The irony drips.
But, hey, got to give Quesada credit for doing these interviews and being willing to stand in the firing line, even if it's not hard to realize he talks out of his butt sometimes.
http://www.newsarama.com/NewJoeFridays/NewJoeFridays10.html
Not sure if this got a topic yet. If so, merge. If not, feel free to read and reply.
It's another week of Joe Q answering the hard hitting questions and taking time out of his admittedly busy schedule to talk to fans about bits, and most importantly, sweeten the pot with previews about stuff so we buy more.
I just figured I'd add my own imput to certain statements JQ makes, which is pointless because he'll never read it, but maybe someone in Hypeland will agree with me:
The fact that your fanbase finds your editorial dept. "indifferent" is not something that happened on it's own and one day it may be worth investigating. Just saying.Joe Q said:
And secondly, I agree that when you have so many chapter tie-in's, this stuff gets harder to manage. Maybe that means having CW be a whopping 70 CHAPTERS, which is the biggest in recent memory, was a bit of a misstep? You can't simultaneously put out a lot of books, in some cases too many, and then complain about the problems that arise. You cut back on the books and retrench, or you admit you're just greedy and shaddup. I think fans would respect that honesty. Or just use it to whine on the 'net more, whatever.
It is also worth noting that while CW, as timely a story as it is, is trying to captilize on the success of DC's IC, note that IC was almost equally long winded and whose chapters only started getting muddled with lateness towards the final 3rd of the story, about the last 3 months or so. CW is barely halfway and the lateness has emerged to suck wind out of it. Comments? What'd DC do right that y'all didn't? And would you be willing to learn from it, or would you just stick your fingers in your ears and go "lalalalalalalala" mentally like you always seem to do, Joey?
So, let me summarize. Your answer to the growing epidemic of comic book lateness is, "That's the way it's always been for 45+ years, so complaining about it or expecting a 21st century EIC to do anything in his power to change it is irrational?" Hmm. I'll paraphrase from an exchange from CIVIL WAR #1, as written by Mark Millar:Joe Q said:
"You can't take away lateness and comics. It's been part of the industry since as long as there's been one."
"So's smallpox. Now quit being an idiot."
Besides, you miss the point that you can only find a handful of examples for older stories, whereas in modern times, you can't go 2 months without a delay, and usually a delay that is must frustrating to fans and retailers. As an EIC, or the head of a company, it's your JOB to look at how your company has done things presently and in the past and see how it can be improved and what can be done about it. Shrugging one's shoulders and going, "meh, it's been that way for 45 years, nothing I can do" shows about as much innovation as Homer Simpson. So simply because "that window has been broken a long time ago" means that an EIC should have no strategy to fix it? Gasp, IMPROVE on a flaw that's been going on for almost half a century?
Thank god not everyone isn't like this, otherwise we'd have no computers or Internet because "Morse Code and Radios work damn fine".
I mean, I'm not saying you can't be an executive of a company without being innovative. But if you're not, you shouldn't brag about what hot **** you are and how all of your decisions are best.
Now that's a cheap shot, because MTU hasn't had any fanfare for years. It is one of Marvel's poorest selling titles that is dead in about 3 months. To cite it as an example is really reaching. In fact, why NOT create some fanfare about a gay hero starring in a Marvel title? Some could call it "ethnic pandering", but it's not like Marvel, under Joe Q, didn't do that before. ARANA was launched solely on the premise of her being a "Latina superhero" regardless of whether she had anything original to her, simply to pander to Hispanic readers. The marriage of Black Panther and Storm has been done almost exclusively to pander to black readers, so much so that BET has been involved as Hudlin works on both that and BLACK PANTHER. And a few years ago, Marvel made a big stink about making RAWHIDE KID gay and on MK, to get newspaper attention. That also tanked.Joe Q said:
So, your answer is, "we don't have foul policies about homosexual characters starring in Marvel comics, and as an example I'll cite a title that has already been announced as cancelled in a few months, that sells poorly, and that we've editorically abandoned and left for dead for at least the past half year, but that we publish because the writer gave us a monster hit with MARVEL ZOMBIES so we sort of own him a few pints." That's about as bad as Dan DiDio's response to have a lesbian heroine be to deliberately point her out and go, "LOOKIE FELLAS, SHE'S A LESBO!", because what lesbian doesn't just love that?
Ah, RAWHIDE KID, made as a bit of shock-value stuff to catch the media's attention back during those big, bold days when being an EIC was new. I'll admit making "first day" errors is human, but don't turn around and call it some triumph when really at it ended up as was "a lot of sound and thunder, signifying nothing", or however that goes.Joe Q said:
Joe Q said:
Re:, "We were going to hold off on the knowledge until the last possible second, so we could charge double the cover price for Bagley's last issue and milk fans as much as possible, but now they've gotten a head's up so we'll probably just have to go with our standard money-sucker, the varient cover."
And it attempts to end on a "positive note" by reminding us that in November, Rob Liefield returns to art work. At least it's on reviving a bit of 90's cheese, which is all that Rob HIMSELF is. A living rehash of the 90's that sucked is working on a fictional rehash of the 90's that sucked. The irony drips.
But, hey, got to give Quesada credit for doing these interviews and being willing to stand in the firing line, even if it's not hard to realize he talks out of his butt sometimes.
