Joecooler2u

July 3, 2012 3:47 pm Marvel Now sounds so freaking awful! DCnew52 that rhymes and sounds nice at that. Marvel Now sounds like a company who lost touch with it's fanbase. This from a life-long Marvel guy. smdh

July 3, 2012 3:45 pm They are all to $3.99 from the sounds of it. God I miss the days of $1.75 and creators like Chris Claremont/Marc Silvestri (or Jim Lee). $3.99 and they wonder why the business is struggling to sell titles?

July 3, 2012 3:42 pm These are only the announced titles. There will be a lot more to come. They said 20+. I wonder if this includes Gambit , X-Treme X-Men and other titles like that we already know about. I guess we'll see.

July 3, 2012 3:20 pm Agreed about Remender. His books are new (& old) reader friendly. I love how you never know what's gonna happen to even main characters. He's beat the living daylights out of Wolverine in Uncanny X-Force. Unpredictable is very good when it is done how Remender does it.

July 3, 2012 3:17 pm ** COMMENT MODERATED ** But yeah, I used to love Quesada's art but this is easily his worst since some bad issues of X-Factor he did way back. (Remember his creation - Random? UGH!) I agree about Thor and Cap and Hulk is just fugly. I wish these were just concepts to get fan feedback. Haven't they learned anything from Jim Lee's bad costume designs on Wonder Woman (or most of the DC52 with high turtlenecks for Superman & others)

July 3, 2012 3:11 pm Ha your 2nd comment made me register so I could log in and reply. I absolutely agree with everything you said except maybe the Iron Man comment. It looks almost like the recent Iron Man armor they just introduced. I think they should be going for a company-wide reboot. This is coming off even messier than DC's reboot which kept some things but also created a mess like with Batman being in costume 5 years but having 4 robins. It just don't make sense. It's like Marvel is so scared to completely reboot even though they've been rebooting in Spider-Man for years now (killing and bringing back Aunt May how many times? Undoing his marriage. etc). The Phoenix is a being representing life and death. Why not kill the old universe and start anew? The old universe still could have existed but there's just too much of a mess to keep anything. Too many deaths and returns from death. This way everyone can be alive and they can do what they want without all these clones (Spider-Man, Stryfe, Madelyn Pryor etc). Just make them original characters. And maybe make one a clone (Madelyn Pryor would be the one to keep). Marvel should make things clear. I hope they are just running a smokescreen by saying its not a reboot but it actually is. There is a lot of things they can do to make the Marvel-line better. Diversify the titles by getting some women & minorities in their own titles. Batwing is a great example as well as Batgirl, Batwoman, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman. Cyborg being given a push by being on the big-gun Justice League team. Some failures like Static Shock but at least they gave it a shot. There are titles and characters I've always loved but never felt got a good shot until Nu52 (Nightwing & Batgirl are great examples) I love how some of them are being given a chance at DC unlike Marvel. And if a title is unsure of being a hit pair it with another title in a flip book (especially if the other title is a sure seller). They could put Black Widow in a flipbook with Winter Soldier (it's as much her book as it is his anyway). They could do the same for Storm/Black Panther, Captain America/Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) and so on. If they insist on $3.99 anyway they should do 40 pages and 20 on each side. Marvel 20 years ago did this with Marvel Comics Presents but the creators, characters and stories became so watered down. This way a question mark is paired with a sure seller (outside of Storm/Panther). Since Northstar is in Astonishing X-Men why not make that a flipbook with Alpha Flight?