MisterShaw

May 24, 2012 10:48 am Who's the blonde Beast's holding hands with? And does Brand know?

May 23, 2012 4:41 pm Can't not see it now.

May 23, 2012 4:17 pm My favorite (by which I mean least favorite) part of Fraction's Uncanny run was when Wolverine went & recruited Northstar for Utopia and apologized for killing him. And Greg Land drew him with the biggest, goofiest, cheese-eatingest grin while he was saying it.

May 21, 2012 5:18 pm It does matter how many appliances are out there, because every appliance is a potential customer. And no one's saying it's not the creators' choice, we're just saying it's a dumb choice to make.

May 21, 2012 4:45 pm They do. And I won't. But if you want to talk about analogies that don't fit, let's talk about movies. Comics sell, max average, what, 150k per issue? Movies have an audience of thousands of times that. So the model can't be applied. When your audience is already limited, you have to get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. If anything, LCSs are the DVD of comics. Apple has sold around 222.3 million iPads since launch as of April; and then there are all the Android, Blackberry, and Windows tablets out there, plus normal computers. Even just taking the iPad numbers vs the AvX numbers for April, a digital comic is 1400x the chance to be purchased (give or take).

May 21, 2012 3:32 pm Sure you can equate to something that's new on the marketplace. It happens all the time. No one pre-ordered Dorito tacos. And good thing, too, cuz tacos, let me tell you, are no good after 3 months. If the customer wants to give you money for a product, and you want to sell that product, but you don't have that product available, the customer is right. As someone else said, the sense of entitlement argument just doesn't apply here. We're not talking about someone trying to return something outside of policy, or stealing it because they think the price is too high. We're literally only discussing trying to give a comic publisher money and them not wanting to take it.

May 21, 2012 2:19 pm This issue was duuuuumb.

May 21, 2012 1:39 pm TV, I guess? But over the Christmas break I cancelled my pre-orders for almost all of the shows I was watching.

May 21, 2012 1:30 pm "if somethings not available and somethings not available. Tough, it’s the creator’s decision not the decision of the sea of the ‘entitled’ that populate the earth at the moment." (sic) While that is correct (SCIENCE!), it is also the problem. If something's not available, people's money is not available for it, either. And then the creator(s) will complain to any and everyone about piracy/mainstream dedication/mindless readers killing the industry. You know why I use Gillette razors, or drink Diet Coke, or wear the boots I do? Because they're good, and I don't have to tell Wal-Mart or the mall to order me some so I can pick them up 3 months from now. It's supply 1st, then demand.

May 21, 2012 10:19 am The only circumstances under which I would read a Sentry story would be Feral Dalrymple doing one in a newspaper strip style. I imagine it being all about how much he cries.