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May 22, 2012 11:19 am Just looked at the preview and the art looks like Paul Grist meets Frank Quitely. Add that to Swierczy writing and this is added to the pull list.

May 22, 2012 1:51 am Since when dd I mention lies being told? I mention being ignorant to the facts!

May 21, 2012 5:33 pm €5.10...? How on earth did your retailer get the price that high? my lcs sells a $3.99 comic for £3.15 (€3.50) and they are artificially inflating the price. Surely a retailer in Eire should be on a par or only slightly higher in price than a UK retailer.

May 21, 2012 5:04 pm @mistershaw it doesn't matter how many appliances are out there. Digital purchases seem to place between 7-13 ish percent if print sales (according rmto various publishers interviews) But anyway, we're getting off topic. If a person chooses to not use one platform to release something (and that's not to say they won't down the line) its their choice, whether its a risk of losing sales or whether it may gain sales, they own it, its up to them.

May 21, 2012 3:44 pm Its not as simple as that. Take Mark Millard argument, that comics releases should mirror film releases. Releasing on one format at a time in an attempt to maximise the revenue on each. So cinema to film pay channel or streaming service to DVD release to free to air tv, equalling issue to digital release to tpb to page per day on the web. The creator doesn't necessarily not want you money just not at the time you want to pay it. And please stop with the groceries analogues. They don't fit.

May 21, 2012 2:28 pm @KenOchalek: The Takio OGN was published at the beginning of March 2011, and first appeared on Comixology Mid August 2011. expecting to be able to buy in the same format does not make you entitled. Expecting it do be available at the time that you want it in that format does @Jimski: The customer always 'thinks' they're right. A good salesman has them leaving still thinking they're right. Thing is, it's very rare that they are right. @Mistershaw: you can't compared something that will be on the new on the marketplace. (and lets face it pre-orders really amounts to people showing an interest in) Groceries that are established have a well recorded ebb and flow, and shops reorder based on recent sales. Comic companies don't have the funds for massive market research everytime they launch a title, so they have to use a register of interest - pre-orders)

May 21, 2012 1:12 pm the problem is we live in an age of entitlement. for all we know BMB might have negotiated a massive exclusive deal to be serialised on some new website. He might not have done. 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.

May 21, 2012 12:58 pm Since when do we have to drive to a store to pre-order a comic? I send an e-mail or a tweet, bingo, my interest is registered. The only person at fault is the person who told her daughter that Takio was going to be out but didn't look to see if the information was correct first. Creators of 'independent' books can choose to put out books how they want, when they want.

May 13, 2012 10:13 am This comic had me crying with laughter.

May 3, 2012 11:21 am I think exactly the opposite if you. The characters were introduced at a perfect pace, the art was gorgeous, and the action was incredible. This was the best issue of a comic so far this year for me.