the society for the protection of endangered comic books

[hippy fascist]

Ok, so I never read Thing's book up until the latest issue but I heard everyone on hear going on a bout it so I thought I'd give it a go. ****ing brilliant. Really relatable writing, great art and very very funny Sadly it's now gone and I only made it along for the swan song

So, to the point:

Now I find that ultimate marvel team up is being cancelled as well and then there's spidergirl, but rumours are that that's coming back due to fan support. This kind of reminded me of my favourite tv show firefly that died a death due to a lack of publicity yet was loved by a small but core audience, who psread the word, got enough dvd box-sets sold and got a movie about it.

So i was thinking...

What if there was a thread were people could suggest titles to other readers, but a very specific kind of title. The kind of books that are so good that you just know they're gonna get cancelled because that's the way the world is. The idea is that if a new book comes out that you think is great but is massively underpromoted and doesn't look like having a long shelf-life you can come to this thread and recomend it, there has to be at least a few hundred people on these boards, and they can tell two friends, and they cna tell two friends, and they can tell two friends...

I shall call it "the society for the protection of endangered comic books"

Honest opinions people? If you have a favourite title thaqt never got off the ground (spidergirl ) and you don't want to see it happen again make use of this thread, it's gonna be a lot more effective than people picking up the occasional bit of information in passing from other threads.

The way I wanna do it is

Title:
Writer(s):
Artist(s):
(include all writers/artists that have worked on it so far

Similar to: 1.
2.
3.

From the writers/artists who brought you 1.
2.
3.

and quick capsule review, possibly a piece of cover art if you have one, if not it's not essential.

Now don't go trying to be funny and list the amazing spiderman or wolverine origins, this is strictly for boooks that are genuinely struggling despite merit or being criminaly under-publicised but if this takes off it could bring about a new golden age of comics, or more likely just save the occasional classic Either way I think it'll be worth the effort!

oh, p.s. bring back

 

[Darthphere]

Oh god.

 

[hippy fascist]

why oh god , tell me there isn't any books that got cancelled that you wished didn't

 

[Darthphere]

While your cause is noble, its fairly naive. Books like The Thing were already recommended as much as anybody could on these boards and it still got cancelled. While this thread may get some upwards to maybe a hundred more readers with your system of telling two friends it still wont be enough to save a book from cancellation. The best way is to do what Spider-Girl fans did the 111 times they were going to cancel the book and write in to Marvel directly. While I dont believe this thread will really ever deter books from being cancelled, I wish you best of luck in your quest.

 

[SLVRSR4]

You got heart! I know Eliyja helped tell me about the runaways! i'm glad he told me best title by marvel

 

[Elijya]

noble intentions, Hippy, but Darthphere's right for the most part. If you want to spread the word about a good title, you've got to go out there and tell people about it, a centralized thread for it doesn't do much good since people won't come of there own free will. I've set up my rec thread as a resource I can endless link people to. I can quiz people that I'm talking to about what sort of stuff they're into, think of a book for them and link them right to the rec for it