Yeah, but all those books are selling pretty poorly too. Invincible Iron Man is down there with Aquaman hovering around #50 in the sales charts, and both Black Widow and Ultimates are near cancellation levels.
Yeah, but all those books are selling pretty poorly too. Invincible Iron Man is down there with Aquaman hovering around #50 in the sales charts, and both Black Widow and Ultimates are near cancellation levels.
It was Levitz.
I'm just looking at it from the company's standpoint. It's a bad deal to do anything but push the characters. Creating cults of personalities are great for the creators, but that sort of thing comes and goes, Wonder Woman has been around for 75 years (happy birthday!).
Yeah, I think that first arc struggled because it had to set up both the Gotham Girl character AND the threads that would culminate in that Night of the Monster Men crossover. It was a weird stretch of issues.
Quesada insulted Paul Levitz, or the company itself I can't remember, at one point just ahead of a Daredevil/Batman crossover I think, and Levitz decided he didn't want to work him anymore.
I think IDW is trying real hard to become the fourth big comics publisher and to have some play with the big guys. Crossovers like that tend to help since there's house ads and such.
That X-Men line needs a serious revitalization. I never thought I'd see the day that an X-Men title wouldn't crack the Top 50, but here we are. They squandered the most loyal audience in comics.
I've said it before, but I think Marvel put themselves in a bad long-term situation with the first Marvel Now!. They engendered a situation where fans were more loyal to the creators than the characters, and once those creators left…the fans kinda went with them. In the Big Two, I think you've gotta prop up the IP…
Last night, against my total disdain for Max Landis' persona, I picked up Superman: American Alien. One chapter in so far, and it's pretty great. Dragotta's art was lovely, and I like that Landis has a very "slice of life approach" that isn't all about BIG DRAMATIC MOMENTS. I kinda scoff at "relatable Superman", but…
Man, when is Marvel gonna get good again? I appreciate what they're trying to do with diversifying their character line-up and make it more open and appealing to all audiences…totally great…but I'm not sure they have the creators to really support that direction. (And I also wonder if it's too much all at once).
I generally dislike X-Men movies, but I had a fun time with The Wolverine…a film that actually focuses on character and not plot above all else. It was flawed (bad villain, cartoonish depiction of Japan) but it felt like a real movie and less like a franchise exercise. I'm very into this. It's probably the best…
I think Young Animal has knocked it out of the park thus far…I'm a little on the fence about Mother Panic, which I need to be sold on a bit more (how does this differ from Batwoman's origins exactly?), but the rest have been top-notch…Doom Patrol especially. I'm very glad DC is taking chances in a more controlled…
Writers that have a sense of how a comic should be written would be a great start, not even counting the need for someone that high profile.
Again, I read all of DC, my assorted thoughts:
Probably the wisest move really, but since it was all on sale, I thought "what the hell?". It does improve after Ridgway leaves and Delano sorta gets past that Newcastle/Nergal thing.
As for what I'm reading, I'm still working my way through the second Hellblazer trade (Delano finally cracks the character here I think) and the second Shade collection (also a big improvement from the American Scream stuff), Milligan excels once he digs into the personal between Shade and Kathy.
Yes, lord, Flies on the Ceiling…one of the high points of the entire series. Honestly though, it never wavers after the Death of Speedy. Once Jaime figured out how to tell a story effectively, he entered "god-mode" right away.
It's Flintstones for sure, a book that at least once an issue causes me to laugh out loud.
I doubt it, since Ennis apparently pitched this one to DC, it's probably a total about-face. But we'll find out more…someday…
Yeah, I think this just barely edges the first season of DAREDEVIL as my favorite of the Netflix-Marvel stuff. That season of DD dragged on a tad too long with Foggy and Karen's investigation, but neither did the full face-plant that was final third of JESSICA JONES (other than the real good finale)….so, LUKE > DDS1 >…