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Post by Motherfucking Awesome!! on Jun 3, 2009 0:57:34 GMT -5
I guess I'm in a "FUCK MARVEL" mood tonight.
I don't really buy any Marvel titles but I try to keep up. So is the never ending story that started in Civil War every going to end. Seems like we've gone from Civil War to having the Heroes outlawed and Iron Man being a douche, and now stormin' Norman is in his place and using villians to take over the heroes spots, and causing every book to get "Dark Reign" plastered on it.
Will we ever get an normal status quo back? It all feels like a 3 year event to isn't stopping.
X-men Forever is looking to be the best Marvel book coming out.
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Post by Ramon133 on Jun 3, 2009 1:13:52 GMT -5
Haha, I am in a "FUCK MARVEL" mood almost seven days a week.
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Post by Kris on Jun 3, 2009 1:18:33 GMT -5
All the books I buy from Marvel are coming to an end by August and/or put on hiatus and have been so eh that I doubt I will continue picking them up afterward.
Captain America was one book I never thought I'd drop, but being that it's on hold for this whole Reborn thing, plus Reborn is $3.99 for a standard comic, that's gone. In fact, most everything I want to sample from Marvel is now $3.99 and I'm not sampling nor am I paying regularly that price for comics. I'd like to believe comic fans will be smart enough to fight Marvel on this, but being that 8 of the top 10 comics in April were $3.99, I highly doubt it.
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Post by Motherfucking Awesome!! on Jun 3, 2009 1:20:18 GMT -5
General comic fans are stupid. The bitch but keep buying. Like Justice League of America and the 3.99 books.
At least DC through in some back up features for their 3.99 books that seems to have some semi strong fan bases like Manhunter and Blue Beetle.
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Post by Kris on Jun 3, 2009 1:24:08 GMT -5
Yeah. I don't mind paying more if I'm getting more. But Marvel wants me to pay more, get the same, and they even have the balls for something like Reborn to not even tell me what they want me to pay more for and get the same of in advance.
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Post by adumb on Jun 3, 2009 1:37:13 GMT -5
You know, in most cases I'd be right there with you Kris, but Reborn is Brubaker and Hitch and that's the kinda quality I'd pay 4$ for any day of the week in a mini-series format. If it were an ongoing though they would have to dig Kirby up from the grave and make new comics for me to buy it. I totally ban the 4$ comic unless it has extra content...or it has Brubaker/Hitch on it. If only it were 2005 again when Marvel's fledging titles were their flagship titles doing their own thing. Then we wouldn't have to deal with this "driving toward nothing but wallet rape" road.
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Post by Kris on Jun 3, 2009 1:46:55 GMT -5
The quality of the creators involved is without question, but would it be asking too much for just a measly 8 extra pages per issue to coincide with the price increase? DC has Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely for $2.99, and if I'm getting my favorite creative team on a regular sized book at that price, it sets the standard that no other creator team could possibly be worth more.
This kind of pricing, for me, has only turned me into a trade waiter, which is what I assume I'll now be doing on Captain America after #601.
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Post by adumb on Jun 3, 2009 2:23:53 GMT -5
I don't think there is gonna be a 601 after this and it's gonna go straight into reborn.
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Post by Kris on Jun 3, 2009 2:43:52 GMT -5
marvel.com/catalog/?id=12324Nope, there's a 601. I think it's more like a random WWII story though and not a continuation of anything from 600. I saw someone from Marvel do a video interview and they were making a big deal about how excited they were for Gene Colan's guest art for this issue, so it's coming out.
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Post by Stubacca on Jun 3, 2009 7:16:12 GMT -5
I'm not reading any Marvel books with the exception of Thor and the Dark Tower stuff right now (always great reads). I just completely lost interest in the universe for some reason. I thought Civil War was great, the things that followed just weren't, however. Secret Invasion was just poor crap. Like a Michael Bay movie. Lots of explosions with no substance. Don't get even get me started about X-Men! When was the last time that they actually settled with a team for more than a year? Why can't they actually get back to the core concept that the titles stood for in the first place? Morrison was the last one to produce anything good coming out of X-Men. Spider-Man? He was one of my favourite heroes. After the big "One More Day" fiasco I just don't care for him anymore.
And this comes from somebody who was almost exclusively a Marvel guy (except for the bat franchise) ten years or so ago.
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