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drrockso20 posted:To be frank the fact that they don't have literally every comic they've ever published that wouldn't have rights issues up on there is an absolute joke considering the service has been around for about a decade now I've heard the digital versions on Unlimited usually get made when they are digitally recolored for new print collections. So if it's not on Unlimited, it's usually because they haven't collected them again yet.
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glitchwraith posted:I've heard the digital versions on Unlimited usually get made when they are digitally recolored for new print collections. So if it's not on Unlimited, it's usually because they haven't collected them again yet. It's funny because they were doing random chunks of things like clockwork for ages, then they just stopped. I guess if they keep updating the new stuff like they've been every six months nobody's going to care much if they never get around to all of Power Pack.
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Mar 28, 2022 22:49
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glitchwraith posted:I've heard the digital versions on Unlimited usually get made when they are digitally recolored for new print collections. So if it's not on Unlimited, it's usually because they haven't collected them again yet. Which is dumb for multiple reasons, not least of which is that their recoloring efforts are almost always terrible compared to the original colors
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Mar 28, 2022 23:12
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Dawgstar posted:It's funny because they were doing random chunks of things like clockwork for ages, then they just stopped. I guess if they keep updating the new stuff like they've been every six months nobody's going to care much if they never get around to all of Power Pack. For a while up through the beginning of the pandemic, they were putting so much deep-dive stuff up every Thursday. You’d open the app and suddenly for no reason there’s Marvel Chillers starring Tigra! Or a bunch of 50s horror comics! Or golden age Boy Commandos! It stopped about a year ago and it’s mind boggling. I still can’t believe they haven’t put up a ton of Web of and Spectacular Spider-Man yet.
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Mar 28, 2022 23:25
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I got three free months of Unlimited from Game Pass so I'm looking at it for the first time in at least five years and I think they've got the same 36 issues of Alpha Flight they had up in the late Obama administration (1-20 and then 16 basically random pulls from the remainder of the run). gotta figure if they haven't filled those holes yet they're staying unfilled.
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Mar 28, 2022 23:46
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Did anybody read The Mystery of Ultraseven? How was it?
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Mar 29, 2022 03:57
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It hasn't even been solicited yet, so I'm going out on a limb that no one has read it.
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Edge & Christian posted:It hasn't even been solicited yet, so I'm going out on a limb that no one has read it. It was announced in the last issue of Trials of Ultraman, which ended on a cliffhanger setting up ultraseven. What's the hold up?
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Mar 29, 2022 04:10
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Probably that you're the only person who read the first mini and they canned it
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site posted:Probably that you're the only person who read the first mini and they canned it Trials of Ultraman was the second Marvel Ultraman miniseries, following immediately after Rise of Ultraman.
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Mar 29, 2022 04:51
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drrockso20 posted:Which is dumb for multiple reasons, not least of which is that their recoloring efforts are almost always terrible compared to the original colors Everyone who hasn't read it should still read it because it's great comics, but oh my god does the Walt Simonson run on Thor look so much worse on Unlimited than the original coloring.
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Edge & Christian posted:It hasn't even been solicited yet, so I'm going out on a limb that no one has read it.
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Mar 29, 2022 13:26
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During the last mini my store went from stocking two copies to zero, and I think that was a pretty typical experience.
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Mar 29, 2022 13:31
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As for sales.... Trials of Ultraman #5 10,508 So yeah, I'm guessing this isn't a priority for Marvel.
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If an editor has stepped in and said "no, we aren't going to publish this until you figure out how to make it good" then that's a good sign. But after two series that have pretty well convinced Ultraman fans that Marvel Ultraman is godawful and not Ultraman, and offered absolutely nothing to readers unfamiliar with Ultraman, it's hard to see how they could repair the damage at this point. Even if Trials of Ultraseven eventually comes out and is better than the Ultraman series, it's still tied to them and the terrible plot and worldbuilding decisions made in them. A clean break with a brand new setting and a new Ultraman might be their only hope of salvaging this collaboration.
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I have just gotten off the phone with Marvel and they are redoing it to be that and it will come out on your birthday.
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i know there's a ton of crossover in posters between this thread and the action figures thread but for anyone who missed itNerd Of Prey posted:The conversation in this thread a while back about the infamous McFarlane/Gaiman legal dispute over Angela... Nerd of Prey is sharing a lot of interesting info about the weird legal issues around Angela; the quote i put in this post will take you there
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How Wonderful! posted:I have just gotten off the phone with Marvel and they are redoing it to be that and it will come out on your birthday. If it's a new Ultraman then even if the comic is cancelled that Ultraman will get a fun cameo in a movie or something. The current Marvel Ultraman will simply sink into nothingness without a ripple, and never be thought of again.
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Gripweed posted:If it's a new Ultraman then even if the comic is cancelled that Ultraman will get a fun cameo in a movie or something. The current Marvel Ultraman will simply sink into nothingness without a ripple, and never be thought of again. Ultraman won't appear in a movie. Their license is specifically for comic books, and given the issues Marvel/Disney have had with licensing their own characters, I'd be very shocked if they want to go to the trouble of licensing someone else's characters, unless they buy it outright.
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Gripweed posted:If it's a new Ultraman then even if the comic is cancelled that Ultraman will get a fun cameo in a movie or something. The current Marvel Ultraman will simply sink into nothingness without a ripple, and never be thought of again. Much like the Harvey Comics version
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Endless Mike posted:Ultraman won't appear in a movie. Their license is specifically for comic books, and given the issues Marvel/Disney have had with licensing their own characters, I'd be very shocked if they want to go to the trouble of licensing someone else's characters, unless they buy it outright. No I mean a real Ultraman movie, the movies the Ultraman people make about Ultraman. edit: like this 
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site posted:https://twitter.com/PenguinUKBooks/status/1508760891919003650?t=OfbtXvymOOJfQ7gg9_HiCw&s=19 More people should read Panther's Rage, which is collected in full here, so that's awesome. Why would someone buy this Spider-Man collection and not the Masterworks or Omnibus or some other similar collection? Not trying to be a downer, I just honestly wonder what the difference is here.
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Lobok posted:More people should read Panther's Rage, which is collected in full here, so that's awesome. it's a new thing, it looks fancy, it'll fit on your shelf nicely with the other Penguin Marvel Collections
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Lobok posted:More people should read Panther's Rage, which is collected in full here, so that's awesome. my read is that it's packaged to create a prestige look to the comics to sell them somewhere it'd look tacky to have a Spider-Man book and it also states that comics are part of middle to highbrow culture, legitimizing them by lending the same cover format as something like War and Peace or The Grapes of Wrath. it's probably just a coincidence that penguin is trying to state that comics are serious literature now that they're in that business
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Lobok posted:More people should read Panther's Rage, which is collected in full here, so that's awesome. Penguin Classics have, for a long time now, been regarded as the publishing imprint for Classics Of The Western Canon; hell, the very first Penguin Classic was a translation of The Odyssey. The blush is off of that rose a bit in more recent years, since the imprint has been broadened a bit too much (poo poo, they published Morrisey's autobiography for some dumbass reason), but there's still a good deal of cultural cachet to the name Penguin Classics. Hell, back in the day, owning a full collection of Penguin Classics was considered the hallmark of an impressive personal library. So, basically, it's not meant to appeal to comics fans; it's more about making a statement that look, comics have been an important part of Western culture and these are some of the most important ones. That's my read on it, anyways.
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Marvel Masterworks have the corniest looking "fancy" trade dress possible, tend to have a lower page count, and cost more (until they get blown out at like twelve bucks), so bring on the Penguin Classics for me, honestly
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fwiw, penguin has been good at broadening the canon to include works such as The Hanging at Union Square, Romance in Marseille, Cane and dozens of others by non-white authors but this just seems like a marketing decision
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Cloks posted:fwiw, penguin has been good at broadening the canon to include works such as The Hanging at Union Square, Romance in Marseille, Cane and dozens of others by non-white authors but this just seems like a marketing decision Yeah in the past 10-20 years they have published a TON of good international and stuff and really broken loose of the old reputation of being one of several Harold Bloom Presents: clubs. They're also a force to contend with in terms of cranking out solid new translations of many things. I lean on some of their more recent anthologies a lot in classes, esp. The Stonewall Reader and The Portable Nineteenth-Century African-American Women Writers both of which include tons and tons of stuff which would be either impossible or very expensive to have in print otherwise. That being said I don't think I NEED them to be doing comics and I guess it remains to be seen if this line has legs. NYRB Comics is doing ok and has been knocking it out of the park though so I'll keep an open mind. Maybe if they reprint something a little more obscure than Amazing Spider-Man which I could go into any suburban Barnes & Noble and find like four different editions of.
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Those editions looks really nice, and I'm glad to see that they're not numbered like those weekly collections that Hachette puts out. It ensures my shelves won't look weird if I only purchase a couple of these. I'm definitely eyeing that Black Panther hardcover. 
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lmao i can’t believe i thought Beyond was gonna be good.
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I had never read the first Moon Knight story until just now on unlimited. Man what a wild story. It’s like Noir with just a dash of Saturday morning cartoon in it.
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I read the original Doug Moench / Bill Sienkiewicz run last year and as long as you're up for a little bit of pulpiness it's great. That first issue absolutely moves as well
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Party Boat posted:I read the original Doug Moench / Bill Sienkiewicz run last year and as long as you're up for a little bit of pulpiness it's great. That first issue absolutely moves as well That Sienkiewicz art 
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Mar 30, 2022 23:27
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that sienkiewicz fella really knows his way around a panel
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I'm going to repost the splash page from issue... 6? that made me say "holy poo poo" as well
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Mar 30, 2022 23:36
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poo poo, i want a winged skull decoration for my roof.
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I really wanted to like Beyond... and I did up until this issue. Really, really hated it. Ben deserves a win. On the other Spider-Hand, Spider-Woman's finale was lovely. I know no one was reading it, but I loved this whole series and the last issue is worth it. Great run on Jessica.
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Cartridgeblowers posted:I really wanted to like Beyond... and I did up until this issue. Really, really hated it. Ben deserves a win. This whole run was super fun. I just want the Anka costume design back. That's my only note for the series.
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