AoANightcrawler

August 12, 2013 11:14 pm @USPUNX My point is the industry does not need to change because even if it does the medium simply is not appealing to women as a whole. Also if you don't want to be condescended to don't start a conversation by condescending. If you had begun with your actual argument we could have avoided the last 4 responses. @Invincipal I used pornography as an example simply because it has clear statistical evidence to back my point. You could just as easily make the argument for say fashion magazines or gaming magazines. Though there are not many, manly because they are not sustainable, (which is my whole point) male targeting fashion magazines or female targeting gaming magazines. I could have chosen to compare say Maxim to Cosmo but that wouldn't have been a fair comparison since you would also have to consider Vogue, Glamour, etc since we're talking a total of 1 magazine aimed at men versus a more specialized 10 aimed at women. My chosen reference does not somehow invalidates my point nor does it imply I masturbate to comics (which is a rather wild accusation).

August 12, 2013 9:48 pm I'm sorry you misunderstood then. Might I suggest reading the entire article again from start to finish, followed by my comment. Keep in mind that progress is a subjective term. Don't worry, you'll get there.

August 12, 2013 9:17 pm Don't disqualify a dissenting point of view with your lack of reading comprehension. Missing and point and disagreeing with one are two very different things.

August 12, 2013 7:58 pm I'm getting unbelievably tired of comic book editorials telling me how tired they are that comics can't be as "progressive" as they are, it reminds me an awful lot of a certain South Park episode about Smug. Lets consider the economic reality of what you're saying with another real world magazine industry: Pornography. Playboy sells more than 10 million copies a year, Playgirl sells just over 5 (not considering most are also to men). Two more or less identical magazines with identical editorial standards designed to appeal to opposite sexes. Why does Playboy sell nearly twice as many copies? Because its a form of entertainment males naturally find more appealing. We need to stop pretending comics are somehow different and mandating stories from industry leaders. Yes, we all know female readers but the fact remains females make up roughly 20% of American comic readership and every single time Marvel or DC tries to make another comic specifically to appeal to females it sells a fifth the copies of everything else no matter how heavily its promoted. If the industry put out only two books, Superman and Wonder Woman (which really is aimed at men as well but let pretend it wasn't) Superman would outsell Wonder Woman every month. Now if half the industry was selling 1/5th of what it normally sells suddenly the industry would be making a whole lot less money and what do you think would happen then? Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying we should perpetuate violence against women and there are always books that probably should never have been written, but we need to stop pretending anything other than the readership drives the nature of the stories and characters. Barbies don't come with guns and that's okay believe it or not, it doesn't mean everyone that works for Mattel is a bigot.

July 18, 2013 8:10 pm Still a little early to tell but this character feels a little more like Jamie Foxx than Electro. Can't say I can really picture Electro rhyming about his powers.

June 19, 2013 10:47 pm Can anyone tell me what sort of paper stock is used on the Batgirl Robin year one TPB? I'm not much into double dipping but I'd be willing to trade up from the newspaper quality printing to a glossy finish.

March 19, 2013 1:01 am I'd say your half right Ken, Personally I think we all need to except the fact that the traditional comic shop IS dead. Publishers have been supporting the LCS business model for years and by extension WE have been supporting them for years. Yes, its sad to say, and yes I'd love to have a local comic shop, but the fact of the matter is the industry as a whole can't support it. Sure there are some markets, New York for example, that the LCS may never die but for the vast majority of cities its just no longer a viable business, its time we all stopped eating the cost of it. The sad truth of it is the only ones really willing to shoulder the costs to begin with are the die hard fans, that's why we're not seeing growth to reflect the millions super heroes are racking in at the box office. I hate to say it but if we don't stop supporting LCS there wont even be a comic industry left to worry about.

February 15, 2013 11:43 pm I only dislike covers that outright lie. The original ultimate covers were actually some of my favorites and they were little more than what you'd find on a trading card. Oh and I'm surprised you didn't mention every 4-5 issues has to be a group shot now, otherwise your Avengers and X-Men trades all look like they aren't about the whole team

January 28, 2013 7:13 pm I can't believe how many people disagree with this article, it echos what I felt about reading Avengers 3 almost perfectly. Now maybe its because I've never read Hickman (everyone seems to indicate this is how all his stories start) but I really felt like there were too many characters and virtually nothing in the way of explanation. I like a long story with a big payoff but that doesn't mean the story needs to begin incoherently. If it wasn't for the art I would have dropped the book with this issue so the "payoff" wouldn't even matter which I think is the real point here. How many questions can you handle before you get your first answer? I don't think there was nearly enough room in the first 3 issues for what Hickman wanted out of this arc but we're already moving onto something different.

January 18, 2013 5:27 pm All this talk about an app has me interested (even if their customer service sucks). Can anyone who has it back up the .apk and share it somewhere