Friday

November 26, 2012 3:59 pm I prefer stories with characters that "Don't matter" because stories with characters that "matter" always have to be back at the start for the next creative team. Not to say that tings like the Superboy Prime Rampage from IC should happen, just that an ongoing with second tier characters has the potential to change instead of being forced to stagnate.

November 26, 2012 3:53 pm So it takes the hunger games/battle royal premise an applies it to the Marvel Universe? That sounds fun. And its got Darkhawk? Even more fun. This and the two Hickman Avengers books are going to be my Marvel Pulls for now. Quick question: should I check out Avengers Academy before this comes out?

November 19, 2012 2:26 pm You could argue that. But its just a medium for the story. We've seen time and time again that the story is viable for consumers and that the problem is in getting them to try the medium. Pricing yourself into a niche market, or pricing as if you're always going to be there is not the answer.

November 19, 2012 2:19 pm I fully support Absolute Lucifer.

November 19, 2012 2:15 pm My problem with the price of comics isn't that its took much to ask for $2.99 or $3.99 but how out of synch it seems to be with other entertainment mediums. If I want to buy an episode of a TV show off of Amazon or iTunes its probably going to run me $1.99. For that $1.99 I get 40 some minutes of entertainment. The costs in producing that $1.99 product has to be significantly higher than producing the $2/3.99 product. So why am I paying twice as much for it? That's what I don't like. That and when Marvel does $3.99 for 20 pages. That just sucks.

November 19, 2012 1:54 pm I get a lot of the .99 sales myself. I also run a month behind on a lot of books because they drop to 1.99 then. I'm a lot more willing to try out new books at that price point too. I've noticed as a side effect i get less marvel books because they don't seem to have a set time when back issues drop in price. As a random example Avengers Assemble #1 came out 8 months ago and its still $3.99. I'd expect part of that is because of them providing Digital Redemption codes in the physical issues. It also isn't really great for business if you want to maximize your $3.99 sales to have a set time for the price drop because of people like me.

November 13, 2012 11:10 pm Doesn't time travel in the Marvel Universe normally follow the alternate timeline style to avoid paradoxes?

November 13, 2012 11:01 pm I believe he's Kid Brittan.

November 8, 2012 1:33 pm I'm OK with the highly corporatized characters like Batman and Superman being rebooted and revised every few years. Its their nature. They're fluid with the needs of when they're being written. John Fucking Constantine is not and they're taking that away. They're taking away what feels like the last constant at DC Comics. They're taking away the only character published by the big two that has aged. They're taking away one of the best horror comics on the market. And I don't know if I can stay with them after that. I've been trimming my pulls from DC lately. Maybe its time to let it go. Just like they do.

November 1, 2012 2:22 pm The Manhattan Projects. No other books brings the mix of huge ideas, interesting characters and creepy artwork as regularly as it does. Hickman's take on Einstein alone would make it my pick and thats been barely touched on in it. I love it. And I know it says no lists but Saga, Prophet and Wonder Woman were all close contenders.