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site posted:e&c is this you, cheryl lynn eaton just rt'd this and i noticed it was posted just a couple minutes after you made that post lol Yeah, that's me. I realized after posting it here that it's honestly dumb enough to share with a greater audience. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 00:09 on May 14, 2019 |
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I had no idea about the 90% off ordering policy thing. Good heavens. It's almost like a pump and dump stock scam. "Look how well it sold, Netflix! Wanna take it to series? Eh? Eh?"
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May 14, 2019 00:45
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That’s gross and terrible. Goddam Millar.
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May 14, 2019 00:50
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Oh yeah. I forgot Magic Order was a shock comic. There was even an orgy on the cover of one issue..
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May 14, 2019 01:25
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Dawgstar posted:I had no idea about the 90% off ordering policy thing. Good heavens. It's almost like a pump and dump stock scam. "Look how well it sold, Netflix! Wanna take it to series? Eh? Eh?" There have been numerous similar mini-scandals with touring musical acts where Livenation or a similar concert promoter buys tons of a pop artists' album, bundles them into the ticket price for the tour, and then because a hell of a lot more people want to see U2 or Madonna live than they want a physical copy of their new CD in 2019 they get to brag about how they sold some huge-for-2019 number of copies of their brand new album and after so many years they can still be the #1 Billboard artist in the country. They do this sometimes for up-and-coming acts (Travis Scott and the Chainsmokers were two prominent examples) as sort of an insurance policy that the narrative as they launch the tour is "triumphant #1 artist embarks on first world tour" and not "dudes with a couple of hot singles have a disappointing album debut and now they're on tour I guess?" So for the Magic Order deal, it's a win/win/win in that a) Mark Millar/Millarworld can brag about what a huge debut the first corporate-owned Millarworld comic is, and the bloom is definitely not off the Millar rose, just look at what a smash hit his new series is! b) Netflix can bask in the glow of a news cycle about how smart they were to buy up Millarworld and also when they invariably make the Magic Order TV show can say "from the record-breaking comics smash hit" or whatever c) ReedPop can giveaway the comic/write it off as a business expense but also feel comfortable that NYCC/C2E2 are thought of kindly by Netflix when they're booking talent/buying floorspace/programming announcements for future Millarworld stuff, plus Umbrella Academy, plus Stranger Things, plus Altered Carbon, plus Black Mirror/The Witcher/Locke & Key/all their pseudo-Adult Swim stuff they're making.
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May 14, 2019 01:55
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Speaking of Millar, X-O, in case you don't see what I asked in my thread: Does a book being way out of print, with no realistic chance of it ever being re-released, affect the piracy rule any? There's no actual legal way to buy The Unfunnies and it's probably never resurfacing, given Millar's not exactly proud of having written it.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Speaking of Millar, X-O, in case you don't see what I asked in my thread: No, we're still not posting full or near full issues on this forum. Being out of print doesn't mean it's public domain. You can use panels and pages to illustrate points in your thread up to a certain point. If you're doing a read along in the thread or whatever I have faith the people can find their own copies somehow.
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Alright, fair enough! I'll have to rethink my approach a little, but I should be able to do this still.
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May 14, 2019 05:23
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Edge & Christian posted:Yeah, that's me. Wait, I've been following a goon on Twitter?!
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May 14, 2019 06:02
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Lurdiak posted:That Cap vs Hulk fight scene was pretty neat but I can't remember any of the story for either of them. Still, the worst thing from those Marvel animated movies is the ending of Dr. Strange. It's even worse considering how great the ending of the live-action Strange movie is. Live-action Dr. Strange ending: Strange faces Dormammu and knows that it's a battle he can never win physically. Instead, he uses cosmic magic, trickery and endless physical sacrifice to annoy Dormammu into an agreement and save Earth. Even then, this solution drives one of Strange's closest allies down a dark path. Cartoon Dr. Strange ending: At some point in the movie, Mordo pointed out that Strange has the innate ability to absorb magic. Strange faces Dormammu and his attacks are of no use. Then he hears that Dormammu is made out of pure magic. He effortlessly absorbs Dormammu into himself and the movie just ends.
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May 14, 2019 06:37
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Speaking of selling comics at a huge discount to artificially boost sales numbers, didn't the Cowboys versus Aliens guy just ship his book to comic stores whether or not they asked for it, so he could get a movie deal or something
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May 14, 2019 06:40
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I just re-read issue 1 of The Unfunnies and I want to drink until I die
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May 14, 2019 06:46
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You could just like, not read it
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site posted:You could just like, not read it it is a grim responsibility i have placed upon my own shoulders, because gently caress Mark Millar, he doesn't get to just sweep this one under the loving rug
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May 14, 2019 06:52
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I feel like I should counsel you but I got in early on the bad comics train and picked the baby one. I've never even heard of this and am awaiting the posts.
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May 14, 2019 07:03
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Skwirl posted:Speaking of selling comics at a huge discount to artificially boost sales numbers, didn't the Cowboys versus Aliens guy just ship his book to comic stores whether or not they asked for it, so he could get a movie deal or something This is more or less correct. Marvel also ships thousands of extra copies of books to retailers and counts them as sold copies.
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May 14, 2019 07:09
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Rhyno posted:This is more or less correct. Why couldn't they do that with loving Wasp?
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May 14, 2019 07:11
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END ME SCOOB posted:I feel like I should counsel you but I got in early on the bad comics train and picked the baby one. I've never even heard of this and am awaiting the posts. #1's in the thread already
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May 14, 2019 07:25
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Skwirl posted:Why couldn't they do that with loving Wasp? Because it was really important that GotG be the #1 best seller for some reason.
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May 14, 2019 07:34
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:#1's in the thread already ...Boy howdy was that a thing.
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May 14, 2019 07:35
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If you want to talk about Unfunnies could you do it in the thread you specifically made about it, because I don't want to hear about it and I don't think it's bad in an interesting enough way to really be worth hearing about.
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Archyduchess posted:If you want to talk about Unfunnies could you do it in the thread you specifically made about it, because I don't want to hear about it and I don't think it's bad in an interesting enough way to really be worth hearing about. but that would mean less people paying attention to him which is unfathomable
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May 14, 2019 08:38
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Yeah, uh, I'm just going to check out of that thread now. I tutored a child molestation victim, and there is no way I'm going to be able handle that filth.
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May 14, 2019 10:00
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Skwirl posted:Why couldn't they do that with loving Wasp? Stars a girl, has gay couple, the main cast is all women, and all of the agents of girl are poc
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Skwirl posted:Speaking of selling comics at a huge discount to artificially boost sales numbers, didn't the Cowboys versus Aliens guy just ship his book to comic stores whether or not they asked for it, so he could get a movie deal or something Yeah, he was one of a number of people around that time who started shopping a movie deal around for his comic before the comic existed and trying to fake the comic into being a success for the sake of getting a movie deal. Oddly enough, scamming sales rankings is a huge thing in publishing in general. Publishing is one of the scummiest industries on earth and if there's a terrible thing you think that a publisher could do, someone has done it as a standard business practice.
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May 14, 2019 15:26
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site posted:Stars a girl, has gay couple, the main cast is all women, and all of the agents of girl are poc Almost like there is a sexist, racist, homophobic, and transphobic bias in comics? Not mocking you, mocking the bullshit of the comics industry and my ever-shrinking tolerance of it.
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May 14, 2019 15:30
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I appreciate that Marvel keeps trying at least. She’ll probably get another “ongoing” in a year or so. Hopefully the trade sales are good. I’ll try and pick them up soon. I keep hearing great things.
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May 14, 2019 16:31
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Skwirl posted:Why couldn't they do that with loving Wasp? It's dumb and annoying, but the theory always seems to be "if this ad can increase sales by X%, shouldn't we try to bump sales of a big seller rather than a small seller?" and this is wisdom followed by pretty much every big corporation on Earth, not just Marvel or some sort of backwards comic book industry stupidity. Random Stranger posted:Oddly enough, scamming sales rankings is a huge thing in publishing in general. Publishing is one of the scummiest industries on earth and if there's a terrible thing you think that a publisher could do, someone has done it as a standard business practice.
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May 14, 2019 17:29
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At least Wasp came back!
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May 14, 2019 18:22
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Edge & Christian posted:This is the way pretty much every big business works, all of their marketing effort goes towards making successful stuff more successful, not lifting up smaller projects. It's why there's a relentless marketing push to let everyone know Game of Thrones is coming back, but a tiny fraction of money/effort spent letting everyone know that Barry or Insecure are also returning, it's why blockbuster movies get more hype than arthouse films, why Coca Cola still spends the lion's share of its marketing budget reminding you that Coke exists instead of trying to lift up Smartwater or Odwalla or Monster or any of the other brands it owns. Corporate America has a collective IQ of .5
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May 14, 2019 18:29
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I am very thankful for the Sony email leaks for proving once and for all that corporate people are loving idiots who don't know what they're doing.
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Lurdiak posted:I am very thankful for the Sony email leaks for proving once and for all that corporate people are loving idiots who don't know what they're doing. Except about Spectre. They were totally right about that.
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May 14, 2019 21:52
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Lurdiak posted:I am very thankful for the Sony email leaks for proving once and for all that corporate people are loving idiots who don't know what they're doing. I am sad about them because we're not getting the MIB/22JS crossover.
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May 14, 2019 22:00
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Except about Spectre. They were totally right about that. I didn't see those ones, did they know it was an incoherent mess?
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Skwirl posted:I didn't see those ones, did they know it was an incoherent mess? Yes, although it was apparently even worse for a long while.
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claire napier has been posting in a thread over the last day about her dislike for horizontal panelling, which i find strange because i tend to prefer them against several smaller panels https://twitter.com/illusClaire/status/1128264092781883392 what are yalls opinions on horizontal panels? site fucked around with this message at 16:16 on May 15, 2019 |
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site posted:calire napier has been posting in a thread over the last day about her dislike for horizontal panelling, which i find strange because i tend to prefer them against several smaller panels I'm going to blame The Authority for popularizing the term "widescreen comics" and then people running with that. I know it's probably not true, but I'm doing it anyway.
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May 15, 2019 16:10
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I hate when I open a page and its divided into three huge vertical panels, so more widescreen please
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