pmallory

June 6, 2013 5:40 pm A great series of articles, and thanks for sharing your story. As an aspiring creator myself, I definitely learned a few things, especially how hard it is to break into the business, even for someone with "connections." Group lesson learned: think thrice, not twice, before picking up the "all new, this time we are different, I swear" 100th X-Men book from the stands and realize you are missing out on other stuff because you think you want to know what happens to "fill in the blank" character.

June 4, 2013 10:15 am I totally agree with you. Giving a character facial piercings does not automatically qualify a character as "interesting." Still, Layman is doing a great job, and Fabok's art has been giving this title a classic feel. I wouldn't mind Tony Daniel if all he did was the art.

June 4, 2013 10:09 am How does he have time we ask? Its not that hard to write these books if you work full-time at it.

June 3, 2013 8:23 pm On a podcast some time ago, I remember Josh Flanagan saying something about how the 3.99 books "subsidize" the lesser selling, 2.99 books. It's sad that a book like this can't survive, but oh well, this is just three dollars I'm not going to be giving Disney.

April 29, 2013 4:00 pm I couldn't say it better myself. I've learned a lot from Fear Itself and AVX: skip the events. Even Hickman can't get me interested, and he's one of the best right now.

April 24, 2013 4:56 pm Sand Castle looks interesting. I may order it, and not a bad deal even at a $20 cover price.

April 15, 2013 2:18 pm A Saga film will only work with unknown actors. This isn't like The Walking Dead book where all the characters have generic faces.

April 11, 2013 9:35 am I didn't read all the comments, so this may have been pointed out to you, but the correct word is "wont" not "want" in the first paragraph.

April 9, 2013 3:43 pm Great podcast guys. I don't think I have issue #3, but I do have Leonard Nimoy's Prinordials #1 in a long box, still unopened as a testament to the craziness of the 90s. I don't know what my 18-year old self was thinking, but for the life of me I have no idea why I thought that comic book would soar in value. Those were the times that tried men's souls.

April 8, 2013 8:11 am I'm showing my age here ( a spry 34), but didn't DC do some kind of phone-in voting for something like this back in the 90s with the whole Knightfall thing?