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Roth posted:Witchblade always just seemed like trash to me, but I've never actually read it. didn't they have a TV series for wtichblade. Like around the same time as the Birds of Prey one?
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Yes, but it was 2 years earlier than Birds of Prey. Somehow NBC is doing a new Witchblade series soon.
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Aug 5, 2017 03:46
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I tried to read a witchblade once but it seemed to up it's arse in some bullshit mythology that I lost interest. Something like witchblade shouldn't be so up it's arse in mythology
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Aug 5, 2017 03:47
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Edge & Christian posted:Man, I looked up what's up with the Gold Key licenses and... jeez. I knew that when Acclaim went out of business and the current Valiant bought up the "Valiant" IP that the Gold Key licenses were uncoupled from the Valiant ones, but... Acclaim's bankruptcy was in 2004. This history of the Gold Key characters and license is the last thing I ever wrote for ComicsAlliance
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Aug 5, 2017 04:18
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Everyone of the parties involved knows nobody will care about the GK properties unless they are coupled to Valiant. The problem is, the owners of the GK IP only want to license it and Valiant is only interested in buying it outright.
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Aug 5, 2017 05:18
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For the last few months I've been reading the 80's runs of Moon Knight and now Thor. I absolutely love the old school coloring so much more than our modern day coloring. Yeah, we have more colors on the page, yeah we can get stuff "realistic", we can do cool stuff with filters and poo poo. But using those gorgeous flat, limited pallets really brings something out in the art. I love it.
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Soonmot posted:For the last few months I've been reading the 80's runs of Moon Knight and now Thor. I absolutely love the old school coloring so much more than our modern day coloring. Yeah, we have more colors on the page, yeah we can get stuff "realistic", we can do cool stuff with filters and poo poo. But using those gorgeous flat, limited pallets really brings something out in the art. I love it. You should read the Bill Sienkiewicz New Mutants, he drew most of the Moon Knight you're talking about.
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Aug 5, 2017 06:20
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Oh, I did New Mutants last year. Read everything up through the most recent X-Force. Sienkiewicz is absolutely one of my favorite artists, and, one I didn't appreciate as a kid when I started reading comics. I would kill for a high quality print of this cover.
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Aug 5, 2017 06:31
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Mother Panic is a big two comic that has good flat coloring going on right now, but John Paul Leon probably demands it.   (some random preview pages)
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Aug 5, 2017 23:19
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Are signed trades worth more money than normal ones? I was looking to sell some old stuff and 2 of my trades from Mike Carey's run on Hellblazer I realized he'd signed inside the front cover, there's no personalization, just his signature I imagine he did a signing at the store I bought them from and he'd signed some of their stock while he was there.
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Aug 5, 2017 23:29
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No COA usually means no value added at all.
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Aug 5, 2017 23:33
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https://twitter.com/RIPMarkusJ/status/894000080155496450
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Rhyno posted:No COA usually means no value added at all. Is a COA worth the effort?
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Aug 6, 2017 10:34
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Usually not unless it's a big name or dead creator.
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Aug 6, 2017 15:05
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I just read Abnett's Guardians of the Galaxy run. And I gotta wonder, why does characters in this universe bother with building huge memorials to people who die? I mean death is just a minor setback when you're a superhero.
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Aug 6, 2017 18:17
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Well, the reader knows that. Random people in the actual comics probably don't.
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Aug 6, 2017 18:31
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One of my fave parts of David's X-Factor run is when Siryn hears that her dad's died and she just bursts out laughing. Everyone looks at her like she is crazy and she explains that he'll probably come back to life soon so it's no big deal
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Aug 6, 2017 18:35
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Roth posted:Well, the reader knows that. Random people in the actual comics probably don't. She tells one of the journalists something like "yeah, boo hoo, your wife died of cancer. At least you know she's dead and you can move on with your life and remarry because you know she's dead. I have no idea if Bucky will ever come back, or if he's trapped in a hell dimension, or brainwashed, or lost in the timestream, or if he'll be resurrected by the Hand, or turned into a zombie, or cloned! The pain of not knowing is worse!!!" And all of the weak beta cucks of the TMZ newsroom had to admit that Black Widow put them in their place and the giant statue of Abraham Lincoln probably gave her a solidarity salute as she swung out of their offices and into the Fear Itself tie-in that came out two weeks later revealing she had helped Bucky fake his own death.
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Aug 6, 2017 18:37
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X-Statix and X-Force by the same guy are generally considered solid reads, right? Also, does Werewolf by Night fit into the wider Marvel continuity at all? A local store was having a buy 2 used trades, get 1 free sale, so I ended up picking up the Essential Werewolf by Night--just curious if it's any good. I read the first issue in the volume and thought it was alright.
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Aug 7, 2017 02:36
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A Strange Aeon posted:X-Statix and X-Force by the same guy are generally considered solid reads, right? Be sure to snag the Wolverine & Doop miniseries, too.
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Aug 7, 2017 02:41
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Endless Mike posted:No, because this is a fantastic run of comics exceeding "solid". I liked Doop in Aaron's Wolverine and the X-men--his origin is in X-Statix? Oh, and is the X-Statix Omnibus the way to go? Does it include everything I want? A Strange Aeon fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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Aug 7, 2017 02:42
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A Strange Aeon posted:I liked Doop in Aaron's Wolverine and the X-men--his origin is in X-Statix? Yup and yup.
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Aug 7, 2017 03:45
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the only thing I know about Werewolf by Night is that that is where Moon Knight debuted.
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Aug 7, 2017 03:52
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A Strange Aeon posted:X-Statix and X-Force by the same guy are generally considered solid reads, right? Yeah, Jack Russell (one of the worst and therefore best pun names in comics IMO) is a relatively important supernatural character who's involved with the likes of Dr Strange.
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Aug 7, 2017 04:13
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A Strange Aeon posted:X-Statix and X-Force by the same guy are generally considered solid reads, right? It's in continuity unless something gets retconned, that should have Moon Knight's first appearance, which is then followed up in Moon Knight's first solo series. I think all the Marvel horror stuff is considered in continuity, it just doesn't get followed up on very often.
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Aug 7, 2017 07:09
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If J. K. Rowling announced that she was going to personally write Harry Potter comics that would either bridge the gap between Deathly Hallows and Cursed Child or tell new stories set during Harry's years at Hogwarts, how big would that be? Could it pull off a "one million copies sold" like Star Wars #1 did a couple of years ago?
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Aug 7, 2017 21:51
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Wheat Loaf posted:If J. K. Rowling announced that she was going to personally write Harry Potter comics that would either bridge the gap between Deathly Hallows and Cursed Child or tell new stories set during Harry's years at Hogwarts, how big would that be? Could it pull off a "one million copies sold" like Star Wars #1 did a couple of years ago? I honestly think it would be bigger. DC has pitched HP comics to her numerous times. The word is she doesn't really care for the medium.
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Aug 7, 2017 21:55
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Star Wars #1 was in a Loot Crate, so it didn't really do a million.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Harry Potter comics would sell well, but not *as* well as you might expect. The people who would buy HP comics are probably going to "non-traditional (i.e. not white male)" buyers, so it will do well in trade and digital, maybe not gangbusters in the direct market.
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Endless Mike posted:I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Harry Potter comics would sell well, but not *as* well as you might expect. The people who would buy HP comics are probably going to "non-traditional (i.e. not white male)" buyers, so it will do well in trade and digital, maybe not gangbusters in the direct market. I disagree. The Dark Tower comics did bonkers numbers when they were new. A JK written HP mini series would be a massive hit.
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Aug 7, 2017 22:17
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Yeah but Stephen King's demo is already comic book store types.
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I was thinking about how he script for Cursed Child apparently broke some sort of record for copies sold and how much hype there was around it (I've neither seen it nor read it); I am pretty confident that "JK to write new Harry Potter" would be front page news on the BBC whatever format it was in.
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HP fans pushed a loving unadorned play script that JK Rowling looked at the story outline to and went "yeah okay whaver" to the top of the bestseller list, don't underestimate what they'd do with new Rowling words in any format.
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Rhyno posted:I disagree. The Dark Tower comics did bonkers numbers when they were new. A JK written HP mini series would be a massive hit. Not really? Looking at Comichron for random issues, they tended to end up selling in the 40-50k range after a 100k+ first issue. Quite good, to be sure, but Star Wars is currently in the 70k range in its 32nd issue.
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Wheat Loaf posted:If J. K. Rowling announced that she was going to personally write Harry Potter comics that would either bridge the gap between Deathly Hallows and Cursed Child or tell new stories set during Harry's years at Hogwarts, how big would that be? Could it pull off a "one million copies sold" like Star Wars #1 did a couple of years ago? Deathly Hallows sold 8.3 million in 24 hours. I think it could do it. Endless Mike posted:I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Harry Potter comics would sell well, but not *as* well as you might expect. The people who would buy HP comics are probably going to "non-traditional (i.e. not white male)" buyers, so it will do well in trade and digital, maybe not gangbusters in the direct market. You're saying Harry Potter isn't that popular among white males? The story of the white kid who was constantly bullied the first ten years of his life only to discover he's the chosen one to save everyone isn't gonna be popular among stereotypical nerds?
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I'm just one dude in a small shop but we get asked if there are HP comics constantly. It's been discussed at retailer summits every time I have attended. DC knows it would be the best selling book ever. It's the white whale. Endless Mike posted:Not really? Looking at Comichron for random issues, they tended to end up selling in the 40-50k range after a 100k+ first issue. Quite good, to be sure, but Star Wars is currently in the 70k range in its 32nd issue. The first issue was the most heavily hyped and advertised Marvel comics we'd ever seen to that point. External news sites that didn't care about comics were reporting about it. We had a midnight release on the first issue with 100+ people showing up to buy it. If people care that much about DT 7 years ago I guarantee the HP fanbase would show up in shops to get the comics.
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Skwirl posted:You're saying Harry Potter isn't that popular among white males? The story of the white kid who was constantly bullied the first ten years of his life only to discover he's the chosen one to save everyone isn't gonna be popular among stereotypical nerds? When I first read Harry Potter as a teen I was annoyed because I felt Harry was way too blatantly Peter Parker.
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Aug 7, 2017 22:35
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See I've long been irritated because he is clearly ripped off of Tim Hunter.
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My household would be buying at least 2 copies of Harry Potter comics. This doesn't include variants. There are folks in my house who are love that property.
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The catch is it needs to be a new JK written story. An adaptation or authorized book will drop in popularity quickly. If King had ever actually done the DT one shot they talked about it would have been unreal, easily the most ordered comic of that year.
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