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DC was beating out Marvel in the first months of the New 52 as well, things will normalize come Christmas.
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Lurdiak posted:DC was beating out Marvel in the first months of the New 52 as well, things will normalize come Christmas. The difference now is that double shipping will inflate things. Two Batman issues will sell much more than a Batman and a Batwing for instance. Two Supermans will sell much more than a Superman and a Superboy. Two Harley Quinns will sell more than a Harley Quinn and a Lobo. And anything will sell better than stuff like Men of War, OMAC, Stormwatch, Grifter, or Blackhawks.
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Sep 29, 2016 23:25
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I actually liked Blackhawks, but it was also really obviously them trying to do an off-brand GI Joe book.
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Sep 29, 2016 23:26
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Lurdiak posted:, things will normalize come Christmas. I'm more worried about the next slate than CW2. https://twitter.com/TheBigBang_/status/780523297377320961 Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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Sep 29, 2016 23:27
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Teenage Fansub posted:I'm more worried about the next slate than CW2. So did marvel finally break the market?
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Sep 29, 2016 23:31
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Honestly, I'm less excited by the Now #1s just because it's such a common thing for Marvel and half of them don't even have solicits yet. I'm getting Champions and Jessica Jones, but I honestly didn't know they were out next week until I got the weekly 'your books for next week' email from Comixology.
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Sep 29, 2016 23:34
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Yea, only really Champions excites me, everything else is just a continuation of what we already have (New Avengers becoming US Avengers for example). I'm probably going to use it to cut down on my books actually. I say that now but Squirrel Girl or Hellcat will be in something else and I'll have to buy it.
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Sep 29, 2016 23:43
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The concept of preordering a comic is p alien to me Like I stopped doing that for games 10 years ago why would I do that for a comic when I can get it online immediately
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Sep 29, 2016 23:51
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I know my local store likes to know who is going to add something to their list so they know how many to order. They don't want to get stuck with 40 copies of one book and sell 5, or ordering 10 and selling out an hour after opening.
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Sep 29, 2016 23:55
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site posted:The concept of preordering a comic is p alien to me in case you want to collect it, like physical stuff, or hope it sells for a lot 10 years from now tho I don't think I'd ever preorder a comic personally
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Sep 30, 2016 00:00
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twistedmentat posted:I know my local store likes to know who is going to add something to their list so they know how many to order. They don't want to get stuck with 40 copies of one book and sell 5, or ordering 10 and selling out an hour after opening. Hmmm i suppose that's a good point esp since they're dealing with such small margins
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Sep 30, 2016 00:23
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I'm looking forward to Champions and Cage! out of Marvel Now so far. Gonna pick up Death of X since I like Jeff Lemire, I'll give Thanos and Kingpin a shot, and then Star Wars: Classified in December, but other than that, there's not much I'm going to buy physically.
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Sep 30, 2016 01:16
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Yea if Lemire wasn't writing it I would be iffy about Death of X, but with him on it I'm actually looking forward to it. I'm worried about the rumored 14 new X-books though. There will probably be at least 2 team books that I'm going to get, but i'm hoping the Solos aren't going to hit all my buttons. Like a Rogue or Magik, I'd have to get those. I could also see myself getting a Nightcrawler book too.
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Sep 30, 2016 02:34
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Mother of God I keep poking my head into Civil War II and it just keeps getting worse and worse. I'm having to subsist on a slow trickle of unaffiliated X-books and that's already a fairly tainted well to draw on.
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Sep 30, 2016 02:40
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Different stores have different markets. I went to a store in the mid 1990s where Chuck Dixon's Robin and Stray Bullets were consistently the top seller the week they came out, because ______________. If you look at actual nationwide Diamond orders, Civil War II #3 had 176,876 orders. Batman's relaunch has had the following pre-orders: code:Or possibly Bendis is loving us all again? Anything can happen in this modern world. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Sep 30, 2016 02:45
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twistedmentat posted:Yea if Lemire wasn't writing it I would be iffy about Death of X, but with him on it I'm actually looking forward to it. The Death of X previews are heavily hinting that Jamie Madrox and/or Layla Miller get killed off. So gently caress that.
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Codependent Poster posted:The Death of X previews are heavily hinting that Jamie Madrox and/or Layla Miller get killed off. I got the feeling Emma got herself killed as well from the Previews abstract.
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Sep 30, 2016 02:57
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site posted:The concept of preordering a comic is p alien to me *The short version is that since comics are largely solid on a non-returnable basis, stores have to be fairly conservative ordering new comics. They generally use preorders to determine how many rack copies they order (I've heard 10-20% of preorders, but I'm sure it varies by store), so a comic with limited readership might only have one or two copies on the rack, meaning you aren't guaranteed a copy unless you preorder.
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Sep 30, 2016 02:58
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twistedmentat posted:I got the feeling Emma got herself killed as well from the Previews abstract. I'm just mad at the whole fact that Peter David wrote Jamie and Layla out with an actual happy ending, and now it seems like they're being pulled out of that just to be killed for no loving reason.
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Sep 30, 2016 03:01
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Edge & Christian posted:Or possibly Bendis is loving us all again? Anything can happen in this modern world. If only we could make this an automated BSS response. 
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Edge & Christian posted:Or possibly Bendis is loving us all again? Anything can happen in this modern world. Anything's possible with Bush in the white house.
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Edge & Christian posted:
I have an inside source that says he's trying to kill Captain Marvel!
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Sep 30, 2016 03:40
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The new Hawkeye book sound exciting. I loved the Kate in L.A. issues from Fraction's run. 
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Sep 30, 2016 03:43
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Lurdiak posted:DC was beating out Marvel in the first months of the New 52 as well, things will normalize come Christmas. New 52 didn't set a 20 year sales record.
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 So Marvel knows this makes the Inhumans look creepy as gently caress right? They don't think a ship full of people with grins like that makes them all seem normal and happy?
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Sep 30, 2016 05:04
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Seems like classic comic book art to me.
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Sep 30, 2016 05:19
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Just out of curiosity, how many of you would risk hanging around for the cloud? Knowing there's a non-zero chance of it turning you into a senitent x-ray emitting cucumber creature, I mean.
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Sep 30, 2016 10:09
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Anyone posting in this forum is a disgusting subhuman mutant, so it'd go badly for any of us.
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Sep 30, 2016 10:12
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With my luck I'd probably get some power that makes my dingus disappear, so no thanks. Rockslide, Mettle and Thing can keep their 3-way monopoly on that poo poo.
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Sep 30, 2016 11:06
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I'll stick around for a power to make Lurdiak's dingus disappear
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Sep 30, 2016 11:56
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Noooooo
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Lurdiak posted:With my luck I'd probably get some power that makes my dingus disappear, so no thanks. Rockslide, Mettle and Thing can keep their 3-way monopoly on that poo poo. Mettle has a dick. He literally talks to Rockslide about how he does in comparison to Rockslide being all Ken doll, and its part of the reason he decides to stay with Hazmat after angsting about how he doesn't deserve to be with her.
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Argument irrelevant, Mettle dead.
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Inhumans turn into nonhuman forms far too often for my tastes
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Lick! The! Whisk! posted:Mettle has a dick. He literally talks to Rockslide about how he does in comparison to Rockslide being all Ken doll, and its part of the reason he decides to stay with Hazmat after angsting about how he doesn't deserve to be with her. Man, Mettle was a dead man walking in Arena - not only was he black, he and Hazmat did the deed at the start of the story. That's the Kiss of Death in slasher movies.
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Sep 30, 2016 15:48
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I'd hope I'd get the power to be like a super accounting power or the ability to code really well. But yea, I'd probably just be one of those inhumans that looks weird without anything useful.
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On the one hand, superpowers. On the other hand, I'd be an Inhuman who's not Kamala, so NO THANKS.
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Is there a support group for casual comic book readers who never heard about One More Day and thought "Hey, I enjoyed reading Civil War, now that I have Marvel Unlimited I should read some of the stuff that follows, I especially want to see what happens to Spider-Man"?
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Yvonmukluk posted:Man, Mettle was a dead man walking in Arena - not only was he black, he and Hazmat did the deed at the start of the story. That's the Kiss of Death in slasher movies. Mettle was Pacific Islander, not black.
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I can definitely see how, especially in the Marvel Universe, a bunch of normal people faced with a potential source of an origin might decide to stick around and go for it. That said, most of the really unfortunate Inhumans seem to be conveniently offstage a lot of the time, so that might influence the decision a bit. I get the feeling nobody is publicizing the notion that you might die or end up wearing your organs on the outside or something. Come to think of it, few if any of the new-generation Inhumans ended up with anything that was seriously disfiguring.
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