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« Reply #20 on: 11:10 AM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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I think this book did have an uphill battle to gain some traction and was niche to begin with so its not that surprising that it didn't resonate with the masses. Good books are lost every month. This will free me up to go check out something else.
On the bright side, we do have a market where we are getting plenty of mainstream supernatural. Between Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Demon Knights, JLD & I, Vampire, DC is definately servicing the genre. |
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« Reply #21 on: 11:10 AM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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Maybe we could move Ponticelli to Animal Man full time?
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« Reply #22 on: 11:10 AM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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On the bright side, we do have a market where we are getting plenty of mainstream supernatural. Between Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Demon Knights, JLD & I, Vampire, DC is definately servicing the genre.
Absolutely, there are lots of good options in that area still. I am picking up all those books outside of Demon Knights, maybe I can check that out once Frankenstein ends  |
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« Reply #23 on: 11:10 AM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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Maybe we could move Ponticelli to Animal Man full time?
That would be ideal. Of course that means it will never happen. |
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« Reply #24 on: 02:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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Maybe we could move Ponticelli to Animal Man full time?
You don't like Steve Pugh's art? He's one of the main reasons I'm still getting Animal Man. |
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« Reply #25 on: 06:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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You don't like Steve Pugh's art? He's one of the main reasons I'm still getting Animal Man.
I do like Pugh but given the subject matter of the story I think Ponticelli would be a better fit. |
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« Reply #26 on: 06:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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pugh is good, but that issue that ponticelli did was the straight tits.
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« Reply #27 on: 06:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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Didn't it have over a year to find an audience?
Fair point. I guess I was hoping they were going to let it go a little longer cause of its involvement in the Rot World crossover but I guess the numbers weren't there. |
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« Reply #28 on: 06:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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pugh is good, but that issue that ponticelli did was the straight tits.
I'm not a big fan of Ponticelli's art, but all personal taste. I'm not a big fan of the whole Rotworld thing in general and am pretty close to dropping all those books anyway. |
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« Reply #29 on: 06:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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Yeah I'm starting to think that its time for DC to make some changes in Editorial.
Here is who I think should get books and actually would sell:
Red Robin (have Tim Drake leave Teen Titans and not go back to Gotham)
Booster Gold teamup
Classic Teen Titans (Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, Nightwing, Beast Boy)
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« Reply #30 on: 06:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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Booster Gold is the one title I really miss from the old DCU.
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« Reply #31 on: 07:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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Booster Gold is the one title I really miss from the old DCU.
Word. These cancellations (including JLI) are hitting some of my fave characters pretty hard - Booster, Blue Beetle, Frankenstein, August General... |
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« Reply #32 on: 10:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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Maybe we could move Ponticelli to Animal Man full time? I believe he is moving over to Dial H. |
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« Reply #33 on: 10:10 PM | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 » |
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I believe he is moving over to Dial H.
Dang. I've been digging on Mateus Santolouco's work on that book (That could be the Horie's colouring work though). Ponticelli will be all right (I guess). |
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« Reply #34 on: 01:10 AM | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 » |
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Too bad. That was one of my favorite lines in the New 52. I hate to say it, but I really loved Frankenstein AoS up until Lemire stopped writing it.
No offense to Matt Kindt, I like his other work (and I liked "3 Story" a lot), but his Frankenstein AoS wasn't doing it for me.
Funny. I was getting ready to drop Frankenstein before Kindt took over, and after that, it became one of my favorites. I wish that Frankenstein would have a few more issues to find a audience. I would have thought that they would have waited another month or so after the rot world crossover but I guess the numbers didn't go up as high as they thought it would during it.
I am getting really tired of the rot arc so much that I am ready to drop both Animal Man and Swamp Thing. The rot feels like a bad station both trains are stuck in and can't move on. I desperately need the arc to conclude to see if either book can expand beyond their current horizon. Having Frankenstein get sucked into this story line was the last thing I needed. |
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« Reply #35 on: 01:10 AM | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 » |
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I am getting really tired of the rot arc so much that I am ready to drop both Animal Man and Swamp Thing. The rot feels like a bad station both trains are stuck in and can't move on. I desperately need the arc to conclude to see if either book can expand beyond their current horizon. Having Frankenstein get sucked into this story line was the last thing I needed.
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« Reply #36 on: 02:10 PM | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 » |
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I believe he is moving over to Dial H.
I've heard that's good. It's been stuck on the pile. Is it worth moving to the top? |
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« Reply #37 on: 05:10 PM | Thursday, October 18, 2012 » |
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Frankenstein was fun, so this is disappointing. The writing was on the wall from the start, however. Maybe we could move Ponticelli to Animal Man full time?
I'm hoping they move Diogenes Neves over to Animal Man (I believe he's no longer on Demon Knights?). Pugh just isn't doing it for me. |
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« Reply #38 on: 10:10 AM | Saturday, October 20, 2012 » |
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I've heard that's good. It's been stuck on the pile. Is it worth moving to the top?
I'm loving it, but then again China Miéville is one of my favourite prose authors. It doesn't feel constrained by been in the mainstream DCu and definitely has a 90s vertigo feel to it (Karen Berger is the editor) and Miéville doesn't fall into the too-wordy trap of a prose author moving into comics. Like the inventiveness of the super heros in the series, Pelican Army, Captain Lachrymose & Boy Chimney to name but three. |
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