Marvel Comics blabbery

children are the worst man

I generally haven't bought floppies in years - not worth the time/space/effort - and with rare exceptions all I buy now are trades or graphic novels. I still have like 1 1/2 longboxes full of stuff I bought when I was younger and don't want to part with.

now, my daughter otoh - I buy her floppies of stuff she wants pretty regularly, maybe a couple a month. soon she will need a longbox of her own lol

a father's proudest moment

reading comics w kids is awesome I highly recommend it btw

right now all her comics are jammed into the coffee table

I buy floppies occasionally but half of them have coffee stains on them and once I am done with them I throw them in the recycling bin

I only buy my kid trades. We don't really have the room for individual issues. Actually, at the moment, about two years into our mutual comic store trips period, we're even pushing our limit on trades. I'll have to rearrange the bookshelves soon.

I only buy trades/GNs now in physical form. Ran out of space for floppies years ago, and have found that the art genuinely seems to look better on an ipad's backlit screen.

Really looking forward to my daughter being old enough for comics. Got some Moomin and other stuff already for when she can read.

Straight scans of actual 60s and 70s marvel floppies look SO GOOD on a lit hd tablet screen.

Ah - I need directing to some better ones then! I had to delete my Gerber Defenders scans, they were kind of unreadable.

there are definitely bad scans out there. most of the ones I've gotten from torrents have been pretty careful-looking. Haven't read my old defenders files yet-- I was most of the way through the gerber run in Marvel Essentials but I'm gonna start it over in color cbz.

for whatever reason, black and white comics don't seem right on a screen for me, even a really nice screen...

Our Marvel All-Ages series are now changing names, but the stories remain the same! Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man is now known as Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man Web Warriors. That's not all! Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble will now be called Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Season 2.

Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man Beach Boys BBQ Blowout Bash Blast

in other news, squirrel girl

heh Ryan North gettin' work!

Our Marvel All-Ages series are now changing names, but the stories remain the same! Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man is now known as Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man Web Warriors. That's not all! Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble will now be called Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Season 2.

what the everloving fuck with these guys
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, October 6, 2014 1:36 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm so glad I got out of comics, this is insanity atop insanity

TBF, these are just marginal, 'based on the animated series!' comics, and the stupid titles are probably just edicts from some low-level Disney marketing exec. Not really reflective of the main line.

yeah, sorry tbf those are actually comix made for kids.
but the constant rebooting!

the titling of comics for kids should be WAY LESS confusing than for 40-yo babymen

like in the mid-00s the all-ages Marvel books were all "something Adventures" and collected in $5 digests, not full-size TPBs - easy branding

I'm presuming they're trying to match the cartoon titles exactly

it's actually kind of a savvy (though also obnoxious) move to title a second year of books "season 2" to match the TV series
web warriors is a good idea considering there's going to be a separate canon Miles Morales series that will follow Axis (if i understand correctly)

So is Axis going to be really bad or what?

Kinda old at this point but I don't remember seeing this piece on Ike Perlmutter posted anywhere around these parts. Pretty eye-opening. Among the alleged revelations: in order to punish the studios who are thwarting Marvel's desire to have all of their properties under one cinematic roof, there will be no new characters in the X-books and FF is being cancelled outright.

Interesting, not aware of that guy. I didn't see anything about hobbling the X-Books and FF though, which sounds a little farfetched

That is more recent allegations. Can't remember who said there is a mandate not to create new x-characters, but it was someone with inside information. And it really seems as if FF will be canceled next year.

Well, I imagine that sales of the FF comic are pretty marginal, and probably have been for years (it's sort've the same situation as with Superman - a foundational comic that doesn't actually sell that well.) But if only to protect the copyright, I'm sure the characters will continue to appear in Marvel Universe Comics, even if not in their own title.

Oh, that stuff might've been in the io9 article I read last night that linked to the Perlmutter article. Sorry 'bout that.

There's been an excess of X-characters since.. what, 1982? So that's not a totally bad idea to ease up on introducing new mutants. I say this just having read that years-long Messiah Complex-Messiah War run from ~2008-2010.

FF - yeah, I wonder when the last time FF was really a top Marvel book, maybe the 80s? How successful was that Waid run from the early 2000s in sales?

In a way, the Hickman run was pretty crucial, just in the way it showed what Hickman could do. He moved from there to Avengers. It also sold really, really well when one of them died. The Fraction FF with Shehulk, Medusa, Ant-man and, um, She-thing?, was pretty fun as well, and had good art by Allred.

the last super hot FF run i remember was these:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/04/23/comics-you-should-own-fantastic-four-347-349/

ha, EXACTLY what I was thinking of! that Arthur Adams art was awesome

Can't remember who said there is a mandate not to create new x-characters, but it was someone with inside information

Claremont.

guhhhhh

http://comicsbeat.com/marvel-relaunching-secret-wars-in-2015-in-a-synergistic-fashion-across-the-marvel-brand

fucks sake

i guess Miles Morales is gonna keep showing up in the 616 then...

Those FFs are fun - checked them on MU. Thanks for that. And also this line in the CBR piece:

"Art Adams' women are gorgeous without being skanky."

The original Secret Wars was exactly what company-wide events should be: the crossover part of the plot was limited to one maxi-series, and only the after-effects were shown in individual titles, so you didn't have to read any of the tie-in issues to get what's going on. It's sad that Marvel seems to have forgotten this, the crossovers of the 00s and 10s have become increasingly incoherent messes, with different writers adding their own bits that often don't jibe with each other. Seems like the new SW will be like this too.

But I guess back in the 80s they had to consider the fact that most of their readers were kids who couldn't afford to buy every tie-in issue, not middle-aged geezers who can.

CBR is an appallingly written website. I have a bizarre compulsion to read their 'Comics Legends Explained' series every saturday morning, but I come for the trivia, not the prose, which is eye-wateringly clumsy and amateur.

Not all of their writers are bad, though... Personally I like Greg Burgas, who currently has a nice article series running where he analyzes the stylish developments of various comic book artists. It's true that Brian Cronin, the guy who writes (among others) the Comic Book Legends series, has a weirdly amateurish writing style, even though he's done it for years and has even published a book on the those comic book legends.

was that book self-published? it's a good feature/book idea, but so badly written.

Nope, it appears to have been published by a subsidiary of Penguin. And judging by that first Amazon review, it suffers from the same problems as his columns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00LIsgWrKPs

that's a pretty good stan lee voice

The original Secret Wars was exactly what company-wide events should be

a legal dodge to safeguard against potential lawsuits from creators that the company screwed over? sounds about right

??

I thought it was to sell toys.

dying at K&P sketch

I thought it was to sell toys.

persistent rumor that makes a lot of sense (c+p'd from another forum): The reason for the Secret Wars was back in 1982/83, Jack Kirby was in a lawsuit against Marvel over the rights of the characters he created and to get his original art back. The rumor is that Jim Shooter wrote Secret Wars in order to subtly change some of the characters in case Marvel lost (Spidey in the Black suit, She-Hulk joining FF, various characters in costume/personality changes etc). Marvel were afraid that if Jack won, then other artists (ie-Steve Ditko), would file their own suit. Hence, the mass-scale change. After Kirby and Marvel settled the characters that were changed reverted back to their original conception.

I have no evidence to support this apart from the timeline lining up and my enduring confidence in the bottomless pit of Marvel's cynicism

Kirby was not involved in a lawsuit with Marvel.