Pittsburgh Comicon: Spider-girl Panel

[Doc Destruction]

HOLY CRAP. Good, now I'll actually have a Spider book I can read without throwing up.

 

[iloveclones]

http://www.ninthart.com/display.php?article=1187

Some Paul O'Brien guy...no clue who he is, but he said what I would've ****ed up sayin'.

And th' damn book was cancelled several times! That only shows you are CLUELESS. Two issues you can CLEARLY see were final issues before th' run was extended and Defalco hadda slap together more scripts to pick up where it woulda left off.

And no, I don't know a book saved by advertisin' 'cause I didn't follow this **** constantly like I do now. But what I do know is marketing, and if you don't market somethin' you can't expect it to sell. THAT'S basic economics. You look at any other company, they make an effort to push new things, or things sellin' badly to try an' boost sales. Advertisin' is an INVESTMENT to get yer product to sell. If you don't put it out there and give people a reason to buy it, PEOPLE WON'T BUY IT!

You need to tell people why they should get Brand X over Brand Y. Why their money should go towards this thing instead of that. Joe Q's admitted marketin' strategy is to push only books that already sell. That's bass-ackwards thinkin'. If you've got guaranteed sales on titles, they don't need th' extra boost.

So let me ask you this, Mr. Smart Guy, if a garbage man takes yer regular trash but constantly leaves behind yer gardening refuse week after week, and eventually only gets around to takin' it, you gonna thank him or reem him a new *******? Or if someone comes up to you and slaps you in th' face hard every day, you gonna thank them when they finally stop?

Marvel management these days haven't given me much reason to appreciate them, so excuse me if I'm not gonna give them head everytime they do somethin' right. I hold them to achieve th' same standards of quality that got me into comics, no more no less.

You want to have a conversation without the insults, I'll answer you.

I recognize the name, Paul O'Brien, by the way. He's where I get the analysis for sales numbers. So if that's his analysis, I put some stock in it. I still disagree, but it gives me something to think about.

And for someone who thinks Marvel "hasn't given me much reason to appreciate them", you sure give them a lot of your money.

So how about it, bub? Ready to have a conversation like an adult, or do you just want to throw a temper tantrum?

BOUGHT:
American Virgin 2
Annihilation Nova 1
Annihilation Super Skrull 1
Avengers & Power Pack Assemble 1
Batman Legends of the Dark Knight 203
Birds of Prey 93
Bite Club Vampire Crime Unit 1
Cable Deadpool 27
Captain America 17
Crisis Aftermath: Battle for Bludhaven 1
Daredevil 84
DMZ 6
Exiles 79
Fantastic Four First Family 2
Fury Peacemaker 3
Iron Man 7
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four 11
Marvel Spotlight Daniel Way/Olivier Copiel
Marvel Romance Redux Restraining Orders
Ms Marvel 2
New Avengers 18
New Mangaverse 4
New X-Men 25
Nextwave Agents of H.A.T.E. 4
Red Sonja 9
Sable & Fortune 4
Sensational Spider-Man 25
Sentinel Squad One 4
Son of M 5
Spider-Woman Origin 5
Squadron Supreme 2
Superman 651 (2nd Print)
Thunderbolts 101
Ultimate Extinction 4
Ultimate Spider-Man 93
Uncanny X-Men 472
Wolverine Origins 1
X-Men 185
X-Men The 198 #4
X-Statix Presents Dead girl 4

And hey, I'll never be one to tell people how they should or shouldn't spend their money. But why you'd pay someone to dump garbage on your lawn or slap you in the face, I have no idea.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

No temper tantrum, bunky. That's how I talk. Don't like it, not much I can do about it.

And I buy that much Marvel fer 2 reasons.

1, loyalty.
2, that's where I wanna end up so I gotta keep current.
& secret #3, readin' their crap keeps my work in th' quality zone.

Gotta see if I can write them off one day as research material...

Besides, if I was tryin' to insult you I could do MUCH better than Mr. Smart Guy. Okay, maybe th' clueless bit was a bit overkill, probably coulda gone with mistaken or somethin'...

 

[iloveclones]

Good enough for me, bunky.

I still respectfully disagree, though.....

 

[rubio]

Once again, Marvel allows a title that woefully underperforms, to live. And what's the fan reaction? Happiness, Celebration, Gratitude? Nope, just another opportunity to bash Marvel.

I put this out there before, and I'll say it again. Name me the comic and publisher that bumped sales through marketing alone. No creative team change, no "shocking development", no new #1. Because you guys seem to think that advertising is some kind of a magic bullet to revive any project. It isn't. So I'll put it out here again: Name me the comic that was revived solely due to advertising. Good Luck.

The only sensible post in this thred.