New series from Dan Slott!

[deemar325]

Weapon Brown? Where can I find this book?

 

[Elijya]

it's independently published, lemme take a look

 

[Elijya]

mmm, can't find it.

Ask at your LCS, I'm pretty sure mine was able to get ahold of it. It's a back up feature in a book called Deep Fried, which is also very funny

 

[slipalong]

New Warriors?

 

[deemar325]

mmm, can't find it.

Ask at your LCS, I'm pretty sure mine was able to get ahole of it. It's a back up feature in a book called Deep Fried, which is also very funny

I'll see if it's available.

Sounds pretty funny.

 

[THANOSRULES]

I'm still wondering what the series will be.

Joe Q says you may be able to figure it out becuase they hadnt planned on using them after civil war?

I dont see how that would be champions...


I'd say New Warriors would be my first and foremost guess...


But thats just me.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Whoa... I would SO be all over a new New Warriors series!

 

[deemar325]

I hope it's new Warriors.

 

[Roughneck]

I hope it's.....Champions....Or something with Angel.

 

[Darthphere]

Its Alpha Flight.

 

[deemar325]

Cant be.

 

[roach]

he's doing a Rom the Space Knight book

 

[Darthphere]

he's doing a Rom the Space Knight book

That be so awesome.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Marvel better give the book more than 4 goddamn issues before they start talkin' cancellation. Sick of good writers' books gettin' crapped on while bull**** dominates the racks.

 

[Dread]

Marvel better give the book more than 4 goddamn issues before they start talkin' cancellation. Sick of good writers' books gettin' crapped on while bull**** dominates the racks.

Marvel needs to do that. They need to actively promote it. And NO, the "obligatory first issue internet interview" B.S. doesn't count, because EVERY GOD DAMNED NEW SERIES GETS THAT, and they all gell. Marvel needs to realize that in a given month, over 200 comics ship. They put out maybe 70 or so comics a month themselves. So not only is a new book competing with DC, Image, Dark Horse, etc, but is also competing with all of Marvel's books (Spider-books, X-books, "event" books, Ultimate, Avengers books, etc). The average reader needs to know that a new series exists, and why they should buy it.

Marvel knew this and did an aggressive campaign for HOWLING COMMANDOES, a selection that was utterly ******ed considering that THE THING was also a new book and was aces better. But Marvel one minute pretends to be a "captain of the industry" when talking about titles in the Top 10, yet adopts a "what, me worry" helpless shrug when yet another relaunch duds out in about half a year, acting oblivious to the market realities of thier own medium. One minute they act like business-savvy "masterminds" when talking about movie deals, the next they refuse, REFUSE to flex with the demands of the comic market (of which about a quarter of their sales remain). Marvel needs to realize that, YES, books do fail regardless of how well you amp them, but they also need to realize WHY books fail and then do something to adjust to that.

An easy, rational suggestion would be to limit the amount of new books they launch every year/month, and handle those launches vigorously. If they're not willing to invest money in advertising them, then it makes no sense to invest money to publish them if they're all but guarenteed to fail.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Let me break this down for you since you seem to think you can read my mind. Dan Slott is and will always be one of the few writers at Marvel that I will forever respect and enjoy, he has a energy and honesty about him that is admirable.

So I will support anything he chooses to do. Now that said, it is so obvisous to me that Slott has come to the realization that, he has to get with the 'Bendis/Joey Q' program. Which means fore going his more pure style of writting and go back to his Arkham style, which is fine he may finally get his break out hit!

Now my thing is why should he have to feel that he must let go of his traditional style in favor of the 'Bendis' style? Why? Because Marvel is now in Bendis' creative hands there is no falsity in this statement.

I accept Bendis' power it's not gonna change anytime soon, but when it means other writers must katow to his influence or risk being marginalized it's a problem to me.

Dude, you really hate Bendis.

Since Dan said what he's doing is not going to be what he usually does means that he's doing things "Bendis-style"?

I didn't know that anybody who did something darker was doing it "Bendis-style". I highly doubt that Dan Slott is going to write a comic book like Brian Bendis to further his career. It just sounds like Dan put an idea on the table and people got behind it, probably because they're finally recognizing that Dan Slott is the complete and total cat's pajama's...

As I said, you can keep thinking what you want. But it just sounds to me that you're really making something out of nothing.

 

[gildea]

That post has to be the most insulting thing to mr slott i've read on these boards.

 

[SpideyInATree]

That post has to be the most insulting thing to mr slott i've read on these boards.

My post?

Where did I insult Dan Slott????

 

[gildea]

My post?

Where did I insult Dan Slott????

no not you sir, the one you were quoting.

You I agree with completely

 

[SpideyInATree]

no not you sir, the one you were quoting.

You I agree with completely

You had me really confused there. deemar wasn't really that insulting. You should see what another poster said, Sin Eater I think...basically it was along the same lines except it was even worse.

I mean, the guy mentions the name BENDIS in his post and suddenly every Bendis hater is thinking that Dan Slott is bowing down to Bendis and going to write the way that he writes, when all he said was that it wasn't going to be like his past Marvel work, heh. And people got behind it, probably because Dan is a really good writer...and not kissing ass.

 

[Darthphere]

I thought Arkham was the book that gave Dan Slott his big break? And that book is awesome, why wouldnt he want to try that style again?

 

[Roughneck]

Its Alpha Flight.

I wish. But since no one else mentioned this I will tell you that Mark millar is doing an Alpha Flight post Civil War.

 

[Kurosawa]

Not light, not fun, not retro, not interested.

In all likelihood anyway.

 

[deemar325]

Oogey Boogey!!!

 

[deemar325]

You had me really confused there. deemar wasn't really that insulting. You should see what another poster said, Sin Eater I think...basically it was along the same lines except it was even worse.

I mean, the guy mentions the name BENDIS in his post and suddenly every Bendis hater is thinking that Dan Slott is bowing down to Bendis and going to write the way that he writes, when all he said was that it wasn't going to be like his past Marvel work, heh. And people got behind it, probably because Dan is a really good writer...and not kissing ass.

My power is absolute.