Comics Official Fans of Reilly Thread

[spidey-dude]

got this back from him

"My pleasure. I believe it was actually Spidey editor Steve Wacker who first suggested it, so he deserves your thanks too! I hope you enjoy the book and thanks for the kind words!

Best,

CNG"

keep bombarding him with emails in hope that he mentions what a positive reaction he got.

In the meantime im gonna go look for whackers email

 

[RAMORE]

http://web.mac.com/christosgage/iWeb/christosgage.com/Welcome.html

email him, 2nd link down thanking him!!!!!!! EVERYONE DO IT!!!!!!

Done he's going to get tired of all these messages

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Letters are great, but we need to back them up with sales. What's the expected sales for this book, somewhere between 50,000 to 70,000 I'd guess? There is surely more than a few thousand fanatical Reilly fans out there who would buy this book just because he's in it. If they all bought two copies, or even if they were just lured back and got one copy, the sales for the third issue might exceed the first one. That's on top of the X-Men fans, the people curious about boney-Wolverine and those Webheads who will buy anything Spider-Man related. If sales are greater for the third issue than the first, we will see more untold Reilly stories. Let's make it happen!

 

[AndrewGol]

Letters are great, but we need to back them up with sales. What's the expected sales for this book, somewhere between 50,000 to 70,000 I'd guess? There is surely more than a few thousand fanatical Reilly fans out there who would buy this book just because he's in it. If they all bought two copies, or even if they were just lured back and got one copy, the sales for the third issue might exceed the first one. That's on top of the X-Men fans, the people curious about boney-Wolverine and those Webheads who will buy anything Spider-Man related. If sales are greater for the third issue than the first, we will see more untold Reilly stories. Let's make it happen!

That's the key. Most minis (and ongoings) have a typically drop off after the first issue, then the second, etc. So if people can PRE-ORDER the 3rd issue of this mini there's a chance a big enough push can be made where even if issue 3 doesn't outsell 1 or 2 that it can avoid the typical decline.

Gage is a fantastic writer and I have a lot of faith in him to handle the character well. So I am going to buy the series regardless. But instead of just picking em up off the shelves, I'm going to specifically pre-order #3 with my shop. If enough people do that it can work.

 

[AndrewGol]

Done.

BTW, any news on the Life of Reilly book?

Hi Demo. Here's a quick update. With the summer season in full swing, a lot of creators were either dealing with all of the cons, having their summer vacations or both so the new interviews and commentary part of the book stopped for awhile.

I was doing a lot of work on the editing and remixing of the old stuff so that it would flow better in the finished product. Boring for me to talk about (and for you to read about) but it's the hardest part of making the book and I was happy to get a lot of it done.

I hope to have all the interviews and commentary finished by the end of September, pass it off to Glenn and Danny by the middle of October for their revisions and have it in an editor's hands by mid-December. I want the book to be print ready by the NY Comic Con and it looks like we're still on track for that.

I did end up doing some work over the summer, too. I was working on the new Star Wars Encyclopedia for Random House. Basically my job was select the art for the entries. A lot of art. It's a 3 book set containing over 1200 pages and thousands of entries spanning the entire Star Wars timeline including movies, comics and games. I also started doing some freelance for DC/Eaglemoss' DC Superhero Collection figurines. My first assignment was a Deadshot history for an upcoming issue. It's a pretty cool set. You get the magazine containing the history of a character along with a beautiful little figure handcrafted and painted. I can't wait to see it in print (next year, I believe)

Also I've been working on a website for my son. He's 7 and wanted to do comic reviews, too so I set up a site for him. He picks and reads the books then gives me the review and I type it in for him. I encourage everyone to check it out. It's been getting a lot of attention and he loves getting feedback.

http://kidscomicbooks.blogspot.com/


More Life of Reilly goodness as it develops!


http://grayhavenzine.blogspot.com/

 

[AndrewGol]

http://web.mac.com/christosgage/iWeb/christosgage.com/Welcome.html

email him, 2nd link down thanking him!!!!!!! EVERYONE DO IT!!!!!!

Other than having the Mackie or the 3 Ds write him I think Gage is a perfect choice. I was researching Deadshot stories for a project I had and came across a brilliant issue by him (Legends of the Dark Knight 214). Gage had a Deadshot mini a few years ago, but in the Batman book he really has a chance to show all of the psychological layers to the character and he did all of this while keeping the tone the same as Ostrander.

He seems like a writer who's not only capable of teling a great story, but one who's able to do so while respecting what has gone before. Even sight unseen, I can almost be positive that he's going to know this Reilly story out of the park.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Good to hear, Andrew. I'll keep an eye out fer it when I'm at the con fer what I'm sure will be open to close all three days again (I must be a masochist...)

 

[kguillou]

Man, would it kill marvel to do a Ben reilly mini series that gives us some "Untold Tales"?

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

got this back from him

"My pleasure. I believe it was actually Spidey editor Steve Wacker who first suggested it, so he deserves your thanks too! I hope you enjoy the book and thanks for the kind words!

That's exactly waht he said to me.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks for the update Andrew.

 

[spidey-dude]

man i cant wait to see a preview cover for this ish.....any idea when its out??

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

man i cant wait to see a preview cover for this ish.....any idea when its out??

I second that, spidey-dude.

 

[Rodrigo Shin]

Alright fellow Reillysts (I like the sound of that), I don't mean to ruin the fantastic mood out of having a new Ben story in a decade, but I have a question that's bugging me the back side of my head. Does anybody here still have a link, or rememeber, for that matter, when people at Marvel said they had planned for Scarlet Spider to make a comeback with House of M but ultimately decided not to do it?

I remember reading about it, on perhaps a Joe Friday's at Newsarama, but I can't find anything about it searching anymore. I even tried searching this thread to no avail (if you try searching "House of M", under quotes, it'll search JUST House throughout the entire thread. Lame). Some people are doubting Marvel ever said that, and I want to rub some evidence in their faces to shut their mouths. I DO remember reading that, any rate. Don't tell me Mephisto approached the page with that interview and said "I want this entry... I want this URL." and the site it was on agreed to save it's... I don't know, dying FTP server!

Anyhow, any help appreciated (even if it's just to say "I read that too". I don't want to feel like I'm in the middle of a massive retcon that only spared me. It feels Lovecraftian. And I don't want Cthulhu to come crawling at my bed in the middle of the night!). Thanks in advance.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I never heard that. And I keep tabs on almost everything Reilly related. But who knows... maybe.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. That was three years ago. By now he would have been killed a second (or I guess third) time.

 

[spidey-dude]

alright guys i think we shuld do a lil guerilla advertising as soon as we get the date for ish 3

sigs, avatars, posters to put in lcs, etc....

if we can get this issue sold out it would really send a message to marvel, and hey we might get a 2nd printing with a new cover

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

alright guys i think we shuld do a lil guerilla advertising as soon as we get the date for ish 3

sigs, avatars, posters to put in lcs, etc....

if we can get this issue sold out it would really send a message to marvel, and hey we might get a 2nd printing with a new cover

Very cool idea.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Good idea ^

I think we should start e-mailing Wacker too, per Gage's suggestion.

If this series starts in November, then the third issue should hit in January 2009. We get the fifth season of Lost, we get a new Ben Reilly story and we finally get rid of Bush. Hard to think of a more kickass way to begin the year. I already can't wait to ring it in.

 

[RAMORE]

Letters are great, but we need to back them up with sales. What's the expected sales for this book, somewhere between 50,000 to 70,000 I'd guess? There is surely more than a few thousand fanatical Reilly fans out there who would buy this book just because he's in it. If they all bought two copies, or even if they were just lured back and got one copy, the sales for the third issue might exceed the first one. That's on top of the X-Men fans, the people curious about boney-Wolverine and those Webheads who will buy anything Spider-Man related. If sales are greater for the third issue than the first, we will see more untold Reilly stories. Let's make it happen!

Completely agree with this we can make it happen.

By the way I wrote Gage and he responded saying he's glad i'm excited and hope I like it

 

[RAMORE]

Hi Demo. Here's a quick update. With the summer season in full swing, a lot of creators were either dealing with all of the cons, having their summer vacations or both so the new interviews and commentary part of the book stopped for awhile.

I was doing a lot of work on the editing and remixing of the old stuff so that it would flow better in the finished product. Boring for me to talk about (and for you to read about) but it's the hardest part of making the book and I was happy to get a lot of it done.

I hope to have all the interviews and commentary finished by the end of September, pass it off to Glenn and Danny by the middle of October for their revisions and have it in an editor's hands by mid-December. I want the book to be print ready by the NY Comic Con and it looks like we're still on track for that.

Whoah did you actually write the like 25 chapter life of reilly blog online!! I loved that thing and now your collecting it in an actual book sign me up!

 

[AndrewGol]

Whoah did you actually write the like 25 chapter life of reilly blog online!! I loved that thing and now your collecting it in an actual book sign me up!

Hey Ramore. Yeap, that was me (and Glenn). For a little over a year now I've been going back and getting new interviews and new commentary to include a lot of people that didn't have a voice the last time out like Marc DeMatteis, Howard Mackie and Bob Harras to name only a few.

From the rough draft it looks like more than half of the book will be all new material and the old columns are being 'remastered' to make it read like a book more than an online diary. If I isolated the DeMatteis interview alone it would be over 20 pages.

There's a lot of great content coming up that will make our online column pale by comparison.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Hey Andrew, have you talked to Todd Dezago? He was on Sensational towards the end with 'Ringo. He really loves Reilly and he's a really open guy with fans. You can't find a more down-to-earth guy. He's got his own myspace kicking around and whenever I've asked him a question on that, I've always gotten a cool, long and prompt answer.

 

[RAMORE]

Hey Ramore. Yeap, that was me (and Glenn). For a little over a year now I've been going back and getting new interviews and new commentary to include a lot of people that didn't have a voice the last time out like Marc DeMatteis, Howard Mackie and Bob Harras to name only a few.

From the rough draft it looks like more than half of the book will be all new material and the old columns are being 'remastered' to make it read like a book more than an online diary. If I isolated the DeMatteis interview alone it would be over 20 pages.

There's a lot of great content coming up that will make our online column pale by comparison.

Wow double in size crazy, I thought there was some noticeable name missing before but I just figured they wouldn't comment you know. Anybody who has not read this needs to. It's the only way you can understand how one of the best selling crossovers in history went so wrong near the end to point people ignore it now. I can't wait please PM when you get it done.

 

[RAMORE]

By the way in another thread someone wrote this to someone:

Oh, and to JewishHobbit; Ben Reilly is dead. His corpse turned to DUST immediately after he was killed by Norman Osborn. That entire storyline and all allusions from it is considered "ixnay" by the Marvel Establishment except to crack a joke, even when they might have made sense, like discussing a miscarried baby or having Doc Ock visit Stunner's comatose form or something. Much like no one at Marvel mentions the "Skrull Marriage" story in FF in exchange for making Johnny an immature ladies man (even though he remained faithful to "Alicia" for as long as they were married). I am curious how SECRET INVASION will go along without any writer having the cajones to mention THAT story. Because that would mean admitting Johnny Storm could commit to a serious relationship, and then they couldn't use his ladies man schtick the same. GASP!!

The Clone Saga is dead, no one liked it, and even if some did, Marvel isn't nuts enough to invite their most embarassing Marvel storyline ever back into the fold. Hell, they've just gotten over the demonic annulment saga. Move on. Uncle Ben will come back, and HAS (if you count alternate reality versions) before Scarlet Spider. The Internet is full of rare Clone fans who want a bone, but Marvel is 1 billion percent interested in never evoking that storyline or any detail from it again. I say this an intervention.

And I responded with this:

Um I liked the clone saga they just drug it out forever and made some really dumb choices. "hey i know lets say he's really the real spiderman and the one we have was the fake!" As for never bringing it up they are going to put out a couple of spiderman xmen crossovers from the past supposedly in continuity one of wich is a Ben FREAKING REILLY STORY!!!!

I had to tell him what's up that it's not some random freaks who like Reilly there are a bunch of us

 

[AndrewGol]

Hey Andrew, have you talked to Todd Dezago? He was on Sensational towards the end with 'Ringo. He really loves Reilly and he's a really open guy with fans. You can't find a more down-to-earth guy. He's got his own myspace kicking around and whenever I've asked him a question on that, I've always gotten a cool, long and prompt answer.

Yeap. I did a little bit with Todd before and have been going back and forth (he's got a hectic schedule) for new stuff for this installment. You're right, he's a great guy and his information for the book is pretty awesome.

 

[AndrewGol]

Wow double in size crazy, I thought there was some noticeable name missing before but I just figured they wouldn't comment you know. Anybody who has not read this needs to. It's the only way you can understand how one of the best selling crossovers in history went so wrong near the end to point people ignore it now. I can't wait please PM when you get it done.

Well when Glenn and I first decided to do it, a lot of people thought we were crazy to spend any amount of time (let alone 35 chapters) on the Clone Saga. As we started getting more into the series people really liked how we were taking this in-depth look at that story. I think people enjoyed it just as much for a peek behind the curtain at how a major comic story is done as they did because it was for the Clone Saga.

And at the time we were doing this we got some help with interviews and commentary from some people that we talked to before and that Glenn knew like Todd, Tom and Mark. We didn't have enough time to go through to track everyone done or wait for them to be free to comment since we were on a week to week schedule.

Now I've had over a year to do research and work around the creator's schedules and I think it's going to pay off.

Actually the only creator left that I'd really like to talk to about their time on the Clone Saga is John Romita Jr. I can't seem to find any contact info for him. So if anyone knows it, PM me or tell John to.