Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 23, 2024 13:36:29 GMT -5
Anyone remember the comic Dinosaurs for Hire, my dad got it for me when I was way too young to be seeing boobs in a comic Got the few issues from the Malibu run that semi crossover with The Protectors series. Wasn't bad from what I remember. And got a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game.
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Post by Talent Name on Jul 23, 2024 15:48:51 GMT -5
Anyone remember the comic Dinosaurs for Hire, my dad got it for me when I was way too young to be seeing boobs in a comic Got the few issues from the Malibu run that semi crossover with The Protectors series. Wasn't bad from what I remember. And got a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game. The game was hard but I remember the comic was also in black and white and my dad used white out to cover the boobs. I want to go back and reread that and some other indy books mostly because you are bringing back so many memories
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Post by Kalmia on Jul 23, 2024 16:08:36 GMT -5
I hope they truly commit to Batman being poor in that comic. They took (most) of his fortune in the main run but still gave him his Batman gear. I want to see Bruce buying stuff at the dollar store to make his toys and MacGyvering his gear out of trash.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jul 24, 2024 3:34:18 GMT -5
So I've heard rumour Marvel is piloting the idea of QR codes that grant you access to the final page of your X-floppies. Supposedly to stop leaks/spoilers before street date releases. But fans seem pissed that they're buying an incomplete physical comic. And no word whether Marvel will invest in making the QR codes last the same way the AR links from the Marvel Now era don't work anymore. Sounds like a bad business move to me. People might just as easily drop titles from their pull lists altogether. Some discussion about it in Breevort's newsletter. tombrevoort.substack.com/p/121-idaho
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jul 24, 2024 9:03:25 GMT -5
So I've heard rumour Marvel is piloting the idea of QR codes that grant you access to the final page of your X-floppies. Supposedly to stop leaks/spoilers before street date releases. But fans seem pissed that they're buying an incomplete physical comic. And no word whether Marvel will invest in making the QR codes last the same way the AR links from the Marvel Now era don't work anymore. Sounds like a bad business move to me. People might just as easily drop titles from their pull lists altogether. Some discussion about it in Breevort's newsletter. tombrevoort.substack.com/p/121-idahoSo basically, manufactured cliffhangers before the actual cliffhanger for a comic.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 24, 2024 9:28:15 GMT -5
That seems like a great way to deliberately tank the sales of all your books, Marvel. I'm reading 4 DC books and one Marvel book and when She-Hulk ends I'll have 0 so at least I won't be worrying about this.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Jul 24, 2024 9:35:38 GMT -5
People love talking X-Spoilers, why are Marvel actively trying to hurt that? Mainstream fans won't even know, what purpose does this serve other than to annoy fans?
Tom Brevoort gives me heavy Vince Russo vibes.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 24, 2024 9:55:51 GMT -5
In general while not everything they put out is bad by any means Marvel's comics division on the whole right now feels like an aimless stumbling mess that is actively trying to antagonize its fanbase.
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Post by thechase on Jul 24, 2024 12:09:14 GMT -5
Marvel Comics have no drive to improve across the board, their indulging their writers mad pitches and throwing anything at the wall not caring if it sticks because they have Disney backing them and some of their worst stuff keeps producing gold and platinum records. Their enragement engagement doesn't affect their bottom line too much, and for those that don't like it, they now have the Ultimate Universe reminding them of what they lost to 616.
DC on the other hand keeps producing a lively, good, and wholesome universe and get rewarded by losing significant ground in the industry charts.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 24, 2024 12:19:41 GMT -5
Marvel Comics have no drive to improve across the board, their indulging their writers mad pitches and throwing anything at the wall not caring if it sticks because they have Disney backing them and some of their worst stuff keeps producing gold and platinum records. Their enragement engagement doesn't affect their bottom line too much, and for those that don't like it, they now have the Ultimate Universe reminding them of what they lost to 616. DC on the other hand keeps producing a lively, good, and wholesome universe and get rewarded by losing significant ground in the industry charts. Being fair the numbers are likely skewed by a mix of 1), Marvel publishing like 10,000 books per month so just the sheer density is likely helping their overall market share, and 2), the one month turnaround on DCU meaning unless you need to read something right then or prefer to get something physical there's really not much incentive to actually buy DC comics. Plus at least Marvel's benefitting a lot from the major rebound of X-Men of late in the popular consciousnesses while DC is still just endlessly trying to milk Batman.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 24, 2024 12:47:19 GMT -5
YEah, the end of the Krakoa stuff had a lot of people interested in the X-men again... as well as a lot of the new Creators on the books have excited a lot of readers...
so they clearly decided they needed to do something to stop that >_>
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jul 24, 2024 14:58:37 GMT -5
What's even worse/dumber is that the QR code takes up its own page? Where the preview page could have gone.
Someone should tell the House of Ideas they're called comic books, not comic phones.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 24, 2024 16:34:17 GMT -5
What's even worse/dumber is that the QR code takes up its own page? Where the preview page could have gone. Someone should tell the House of Ideas they're called comic books, not comic phones. like it'd be neat if they use that QR code to be like a legitimate preview of the next issue ore something like they do the trailers for hteir events... not "do you want the actual conclusion... go online."
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 24, 2024 17:51:07 GMT -5
Hell, maybe you could do like a thing where you have a mini comic each month spread out across the different QR codes. Sure, people would compile them immediately, but it'd at least have some novelty.
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Post by Kalmia on Jul 24, 2024 19:00:56 GMT -5
Have the QR code be extras, like previews, a side story, creator interviews, storyboards etc but not part of the actual story. Imagine going to a cinema and the last five minutes of the movie are cut off so you can scan a QR code and watch it online.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 25, 2024 3:08:27 GMT -5
Hmmm
Stopped reading most stuff from DC and Marvel in 95ish.
Back then Marvel was trying every gimmick they could to sell the comics and forgetting about the story and art. DC was focused on Batman and everything else was in 5th place.
Not much has changed it seems.
Oh nice Skull the Slayer TPB. 70s Marvel so much fun so little worry about continuity.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 25, 2024 5:15:32 GMT -5
Have the QR code be extras, like previews, a side story, creator interviews, storyboards etc but not part of the actual story. Imagine going to a cinema and the last five minutes of the movie are cut off so you can scan a QR code and watch it online. Everyone loved The Devil Inside, right?
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jul 25, 2024 10:53:56 GMT -5
What's even worse/dumber is that the QR code takes up its own page? Where the preview page could have gone. Someone should tell the House of Ideas they're called comic books, not comic phones. like it'd be neat if they use that QR code to be like a legitimate preview of the next issue ore something like they do the trailers for hteir events... not "do you want the actual conclusion... go online." That’s what I thought the code in X-Men 1 was! I just thought it was an ad and skipped it, didn’t know it was the last page of the book! So I won’t be buying any of that going forward. What a stupid thing to do.
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Post by Talent Name on Jul 25, 2024 17:14:38 GMT -5
Sooo I went home opened my copy of X Men one and the last page is the last page, the QR leads to a stinger page so it is a complete issue and even Tom said the thing. answering a question about the above QR code, he explained the strategy. “It was a bonus page to begin with, an extra page—we didn’t scale back the contents of X-MEN #1 in order to do it,” Brevoort wrote. “And it gave us a page whose contents we could conceal until the day of release, thus avoiding any early spoilers. You’ll find that we’re doing similar pages in most of the new X-launches. They’re a little free bonus, a little extra—sort of a modern day equivalent of that ‘Things To Come’ page that ran in the first issue of the Claremont/Lee X-MEN #1.”
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Post by Talent Name on Jul 25, 2024 17:18:48 GMT -5
Hell, maybe you could do like a thing where you have a mini comic each month spread out across the different QR codes. Sure, people would compile them immediately, but it'd at least have some novelty. That is their plan to collect them as a trade in the future
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