Lurdiak posted:

It's the better version.

Lurdiak posted:

How much money can Claremont possibly have?

Madkal posted:

I remember there was a panel ages ago where someone confronts a mad scientist and says something like " you could cure cancer or world hunger but instead you use your powers to create killer dinosaurs with lasers" and the mad scientist replies that he doesn't want to cure cancer or solve world hunger, he wants to create killer dinosaurs with lasers*. I'm pretty sure this way of thinking is the same for heroes.

*Not the exact dialog but the gist is the same.

remusclaw posted:

They don't want to cure cancer, they want to turn people into dinosaurs.

CzarChasm posted:

And as kind of an aside, has the Secret Wars event books been collected in trade yet? And I would like both the main story titles as well as all the weird off shoots (Battleworld, Deadpool's Secret Wars, Angela Witch Hunter, Planet Hulk, etc).

Ghostlight posted:

i always liked those because in the comics they pretty much always were in some other dimension.

Skwirl posted:

That would have been better than the third Summers we ended up with.

Lobok posted:

It's not the most original because there are several characters who possess this power but the power of good luck always seemed very strange to me because their lives don't seem appreciably better than any other character despite being able to (supposedly) always win at life.

Lobok posted:

This just raises more questions!

Like, is Longshot arguing with his X-gene over ethical questions? To paraphrase The Good Place, "this is why nobody likes moral philosophy powers".

CzarChasm posted:

"CPT"?

I'm sure it's nothing good.

Dawgstar posted:

Oh, yeah. Aren't those the books they gave to Warren Ellis?

bessantj posted:

I quite like the Youtube channel 'Comic Tropes' and was wondering what other channels people like. I get suggestions for channels like TheQuatering which just seems like an alt-right channel.

Schneider Heim posted:

Has Hank McCoy ever become likable in anything? Young version doesn't count, though I imagine he's still insufferable in that form.

Skwirl posted:

I think that's the story that broke the Comics Code Authority's stranglehold on approving content of comics. The Nixon whitehouse asked Stan Lee and Marvel to do an anti-drug Spider-Man comic, but the code didn't allow any depiction of drug use at all, even in a clearly negative fashion so the wouldn't approve the story so Marvel just said "gently caress it" and printed the comic without the stamp, retailers didn't care and the CCA shortly after loosened a lot of their content guidelines.

Schneider Heim posted:

Kinda of a broad question, but who among comic book writers have pet characters for the Big 2? That is, characters they love writing and get super-protective of that it's very transparent in their work? It could also be for characters they didn't invent.

The few whom I know are:
Warren Ellis - Pete Wisdom (self-insert with a hard-on for Kitty Pryde)

Lobok posted:

Did the NotMontoya character in the movies end up a traitor or something? I'm fuzzy on the details but I feel like she did something bad.

Lurdiak posted:

Deadpool was only turned into a parody because Rob stole the Deathstroke design so blatantly that Fabian Nisceza felt the need to make him a parody to protect them legally, hence naming him Wade Wilson.

Open Marriage Night posted:

I really did love the Azzarello New 52 run. All the Greek gods felt like distinct characters as they fought over Zeus’ place in the pantheon. And the dialogue is so drat crisp.

I’d recommend Earth One first though.

Alhazred posted:

At this point I'm pretty sure every Marvel hero has killed Hitler.

X-O posted:

Lurdiak posted:

My correcting you on a comic book fact isn't an expression of anger.

LadyPictureShow posted:

He was a talent agent/manager and the red writing appeared on his skin (and I seem to remember he peeled a piece off and gave it out as a business card?). He was partners with a lawyer that had bat wings.

X-Statix was dope. Aside from Doop coming back, all of the other members are still dead, yeah? Aside from that Dr. Strange/Dead Girl mini.

Skwirl posted:

Allred on art?

Edge & Christian posted:

I don't know if it's as simple as "Manga is outselling Marvel and DC", Manga is outselling Marvel and DC. According to Hibbs's Bookscan analysis, the calculated retail value of all of the manga sold through bookstores is about $36M. That means that manga accounts for about 22% of the comics sold in bookstores. "Western publishers" account for most of the rest, and Marvel and DC both only account for about 10% of that, so about $13M apiece. The total bookstore market for comics in 2018 was about $166,000,000 in retail sales.

Meanwhile according to ICV2, the total North American Comic market is around a billion dollars, most of which isn't covered in BookScan. The billion dollar mark is combining estimates from bookstores, digital sales, crowdfunding, the direct market, etc. so it's not entirely clear where all of this falls on the "Marvel and DC" vs "Manga" spectrum (a lot of it is neither) but one of the numbers we do know is that Diamond reported sales of about $517M in comics/graphic novel sales to comic shops in 2018.

Out of that $517M, the dollar market share (across comics and graphic novels) was dominated in comic shops by Marvel and DC, who combined to account for 68% of that $517M, or around $350,000,000. Viz was the top manga publisher, at 1.22%.

So on a pure "dollars made" level -- not accounting for value-per-page, number of actual readers, demographics of said readers, people sitting on stacks of unsold Doomsday Clock #1s, etc -- Marvel and DC both sold more comics individually through Diamond/comic shops than are covered on the entire Bookscan list.

Granted, far more individual copies of stuff like Dog Boy or Raina's OGNs were sold than any individual copy of a Marvel or DC book, so by that standard there are some comics (not manga, but not Marvel/DC) that are selling better than any superhero comics. But this is a complicated question of how you measure anything.

It's also worth noting in terms of industry trends that Manga has had some major ups and downs in terms of readership/market in the United States in the past 10-15 years and isn't some simple narrative of "more and more people are reading manga!" and the same can be said for 'real' book publishers getting into comics; Scholastic is killing it in terms of being the company that got Bone into the mainstream and they hitched their wagon to Raina Telgemeier's star but outside of those two people they have... Amulet sells pretty well, I think? There have also been a ton of "real publishers doing graphic novels!" pushes in the past 10-15 years, with some big successes and a whole lot of books that are now out of print and shuttered/combined imprints. A lot of the narrative here sounds like it's straight out of 2006 or something.

Skwirl posted:

No it isn't, they have numbers on the balls.

kustomkarkommando posted:

I'm forgetting that about American pool - British pool is eight-ball with numberless red and yellows

prefect posted:

What if he's playing against Domino or the Black Cat?