mattstev2000

January 5, 2012 9:26 am Don't get the love for the Archie cover personally - messy horrible thing it is. Jock's Detective Comics cover on the other hand is beautiful and striking... I would have put it as the winner by a country mile.

December 16, 2011 9:15 am Love the Severed cover. In fact, loved all the Severed covers so far despite what Dave Johnson say's! The Avengers Academy cover on the other hand does absolutely nothing for me, in fact I think it's downright awful. The characters look like they've been plonked on a generic background with little or no thought. The background itself looks like it was knocked up with a cheap desktop publish program effect and the logo placements are really weird. Just generally bad.

November 22, 2011 4:38 am Man that's egotistical. Especially considering that revised Severed cover looks like it was knocked up by a 13 year old with Microsoft Paint.

November 15, 2011 4:05 am Looks really good. Although I'd be inclined to lose the shoulder pads. They're a bit 80s...

November 15, 2011 4:03 am Bit of a silly article really and some of the, albeit jokey, comparisons are ludicrous (if I bought 20 whoppers every Wednesday then the comparison to the cost of a burger might be valid, as I don't, it's not). If you honestly think that people shouldn't pay so much attention to the cost of things just because they enjoy them then you've obviously never lived on a budget... I'm pretty sure most people here would buy and enjoy more comics if they were more reasonably priced. I know that my ever dwindling Marvel pull list wouldn't be so sparse if they didn't try to fleece me for $3.99 every time I want to read one of the comics they chuck out. Also, if you look at 'cost of purchase vs. time spent enjoying' then comics is considerably more expensive than cinema, dvds, computer games, books etc. DC's $2.99 price point is a little steep for what you get, Marvel's $3.99 default price is nuts.

November 1, 2011 4:31 am Don't think it was a stealth reboot, just Marvel's usual process of flooding the market. Fling as much stuff at the wall and some of it may stick. Sure there are a lot of low numbered books but the majority of them are just spin offs or continuations of existing stories in different books. Ultimate Spider-Man 1 not a reboot, just a continuation of the story after Peter died. Incredible Hulk, not a reboot picks up after fear itself. Uncanny X-Men, not a reboot just a renumbering. Wolverine & the X-Men, not a reboot just a spin off continuing the story. etc. etc. If anything, Marvel's line is in desperate need of a proper reboot like DC did - it's tired, bloated and needs refreshing. And if they started matching DC's prices at the same time then all the better.

October 13, 2011 4:17 am Totally agree - I just can't 'get' Sean Murphy's art. In actual fact I've tended to avoid it after it turned me off of Joe the Barbarian and that recent Hellblazer mini. Different strokes for different folks and all that I suppose.

October 4, 2011 4:09 am Totally disagree with the main point of the article, I think there were bundles of books in the reboot that could quite easily be given to new readers for them to understand and enjoy. Especially when you consider that probably 80-90% of people on this site didn't need to wait for a number 1 book to jump into reading comics. If people can pick up Batman #832 and enjoy it, why wouldn't they be able to pick up a much more reader friendly Batman #1 and enjoy it? Lack of readers is nothing to do with jumping on points, content or anything like that. It's distribution, delivery, marketing and a change of focus in what people want to do with their free time (comics are going to struggle to pull people from gaming, tv and movies). Also, I don't get the Jonah Hex point either? Tying it to the Batman world is only a crutch for you because you know it contains elements of the Batman world, new readers wouldn't care about it being set in Gotham and probably wouldn't know who Amadeus Arkham was. Surely they'd just enjoy the excellent writing and art and the fact it was a continuing story would bring them back for the next issue rather than the (albeit excellent) 1 and done issues that used to be Jonah Hex's staple. Pretty much the only point in the article that I agree with was Superman #1 being a mess. That was the biggest balls up by DC in the reboot.

October 4, 2011 3:49 am ...also, I think I read in another press release that the same Image books are going day and date digital on ComiXology as well.

October 4, 2011 3:47 am Got to agree, Graphic.ly just isn't in the same ballpark as ComiXology usability and content wise. ...also, and this probably isn't a problem for a lot of people but drives me nuts, Graphic.Ly's Windows Phone 7 app is dreadful whereas ComiXology's (via the DC Comics app) is excellent.