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(CTV) Cool Marvel to finally drag itself into digital age next year, will release most titles online. Excelsior   (ctv.ca) divider line 34
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logic523
2011-11-05 08:40:42 AM
Marvelous.
 
Honest Bender
2011-11-05 08:53:03 AM
Uh, they're already all online. I read them all online all the time. I'm failing to see the point here.
 
Summer Glau's Love Slave
2011-11-05 09:20:18 AM
Honest Bender: Uh, they're already all online. I read them all online all the time. I'm failing to see the point here.

Where?

/Please.
 
InCaseOfFire
2011-11-05 09:23:31 AM
Summer Glau's Love Slave: Honest Bender: Uh, they're already all online. I read them all online all the time. I'm failing to see the point here.

Where?

/Please.

You can get a digital subscription for like $50 a year. It's awesome.

I just wish it worked with the mobile app.
 
whizbangthedirtfarmer
2011-11-05 09:29:23 AM
Now all they have to do is come up with some decent storylines.

/asked myself a few months ago: am I buying because I enjoy it, or out of habit?
//saw monthly bill drop from about $200 to $50
///and most of that is magazines
 
foo monkey
2011-11-05 09:45:50 AM
Will the chicks still all have DD implants? Will everyone still have 60 teeth? Will each issue still cost six dollars?
 
Pegasus_CAG
2011-11-05 09:58:45 AM
images3.wikia.nocookie.net
 
Honest Bender
2011-11-05 10:10:23 AM
Summer Glau's Love Slave: Honest Bender: Uh, they're already all online. I read them all online all the time. I'm failing to see the point here.

Where?

/Please.

Link (new window)
 
VaportrailFilms
2011-11-05 11:19:20 AM
I wonder if they'll start scanning in back issues too.


Also, I am now concerned for my local comic shop.
 
RandomAxe [TotalFark]
2011-11-05 11:34:53 AM
foo monkey: Will the chicks still all have DD implants? Will everyone still have 60 teeth?

Will the characters, foo monkey, still constantly use each others' names at awkward points in their awkward expository dialogue, just to remind readers who they all are? And will they continue to stand in physically improbable poses for no reason? And will they fight the villains stupidly, lose, argue and agonize angstily, and then regroup to fight the villains again less stupidly like they should have the first time?

More importantly, will there actually be sufficient editorial oversight to keep Writer A's actually decent story from being crapped on by Writer B's bad writing and disregard for continuity?

/time will tell!
//next issue
 
PizzaJedi81
2011-11-05 11:42:59 AM
RandomAxe: foo monkey: Will the chicks still all have DD implants? Will everyone still have 60 teeth?

Will the characters, foo monkey, still constantly use each others' names at awkward points in their awkward expository dialogue, just to remind readers who they all are? And will they continue to stand in physically improbable poses for no reason? And will they fight the villains stupidly, lose, argue and agonize angstily, and then regroup to fight the villains again less stupidly like they should have the first time?

More importantly, will there actually be sufficient editorial oversight to keep Writer A's actually decent story from being crapped on by Writer B's bad writing and disregard for continuity?

/time will tell!
//next issue

So...Claremont and Liefeld fans, I take it?
 
Chariset [TotalFark]
2011-11-05 12:11:21 PM
PizzaJedi81: So...Claremont and Liefeld fans, I take it?

Obviously not fans of Brian Michael Bendis.
Bendis?
Bendis.
...Bendis...
(Bendis.)
Fans of...
Fans.
Of Bendis.
Bendis!
 
foo monkey
2011-11-05 12:22:40 PM
PizzaJedi81: RandomAxe: foo monkey: Will the chicks still all have DD implants? Will everyone still have 60 teeth?

Will the characters, foo monkey, still constantly use each others' names at awkward points in their awkward expository dialogue, just to remind readers who they all are? And will they continue to stand in physically improbable poses for no reason? And will they fight the villains stupidly, lose, argue and agonize angstily, and then regroup to fight the villains again less stupidly like they should have the first time?

More importantly, will there actually be sufficient editorial oversight to keep Writer A's actually decent story from being crapped on by Writer B's bad writing and disregard for continuity?

/time will tell!
//next issue

So...Claremont and Liefeld fans, I take it?

Woah, get out of my head.
 
t3knomanser
2011-11-05 12:29:03 PM
These guys carry a decent selection of Marvel titles. Not as complete as what they have for DC. But more important: they have a good selection of titles from other labels. Criminal remains the best comic in print right now.
 
foo monkey
2011-11-05 12:42:13 PM
t3knomanser: These guys carry a decent selection of Marvel titles. Not as complete as what they have for DC. But more important: they have a good selection of titles from other labels. Criminal remains the best comic in print right now.

It's criminal that it costs $3.50 an issue.
 
YodaBlues
2011-11-05 01:09:18 PM
Summer Glau's Love Slave: Honest Bender: Uh, they're already all online. I read them all online all the time. I'm failing to see the point here.

Where?

/Please.

The first rule of newsgroups is you don't talk about newsgroups...

/easynews ftw
 
FirstNationalBastard [TotalFark]
2011-11-05 01:16:52 PM
VaportrailFilms: I wonder if they'll start scanning in back issues too.


Also, I am now concerned for my local comic shop.

Marvel was doing digital before DC ever did.

In fact, they had digital exclusive comics 3 years ago, to try to convince people to sign up for their digital service. And a good chunk of their back catalogue is already available digitally. And, they were the first of the big two to do a same day and date new comics release.

They just waited to do the whole line that way, letting the ass-draggers at DC take the risk first for once.
 
sugahboy
2011-11-05 01:25:58 PM
PizzaJedi81: RandomAxe: foo monkey: Will the chicks still all have DD implants? Will everyone still have 60 teeth?

Will the characters, foo monkey, still constantly use each others' names at awkward points in their awkward expository dialogue, just to remind readers who they all are? And will they continue to stand in physically improbable poses for no reason? And will they fight the villains stupidly, lose, argue and agonize angstily, and then regroup to fight the villains again less stupidly like they should have the first time?

More importantly, will there actually be sufficient editorial oversight to keep Writer A's actually decent story from being crapped on by Writer B's bad writing and disregard for continuity?

/time will tell!
//next issue

So...Claremont and Liefeld fans, I take it?

My first thought was Straczynski, but I can see where you're coming from.
 
Mad_Radhu
2011-11-05 01:38:43 PM
t3knomanser: These guys carry a decent selection of Marvel titles. Not as complete as what they have for DC. But more important: they have a good selection of titles from other labels. Criminal remains the best comic in print right now.

They are probably going to be the company that Marvel deals with to get the digital comics out to the public, since they already handle the back end stuff for the dedicated Marvel and DC iPhone/iPad/Android apps. I just wish they'd hurry up and get a general Comixology app out of Windows Phone to supplement the DC app they already have. They also need to get something out for the Kindle Fire soon after it launches.
 
PizzaJedi81
2011-11-05 01:48:06 PM
sugahboy: My first thought was Straczynski, but I can see where you're coming from.

At least JMS tells a coherent, if often overly long, story. Claremont...yeesh. I give the guy credit for establishing the characterizations of the X-Men, and telling some of the more classic stories, but yowza, does he love him some narratin boxes. Large narration boxes. I've read a few Claremont books where he barely needed an artist, there was so much dialogue and narration. JMS, at least, can leave well enough alone, and allow the artist to help him tell his story.

And Liefeld...well, even Robert Kirkman can't tell a story with Liefeld.
 
t3knomanser
2011-11-05 02:08:43 PM
PizzaJedi81: And Liefeld...well, even Robert Kirkman can't tell a story with Liefeld.

When I saw promos for that book, I was like, "lolwhut?" That's a terrible pairing.
 
texdent [TotalFark]
2011-11-05 02:18:20 PM
And just because...


LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!
 
PizzaJedi81
2011-11-05 02:56:48 PM
t3knomanser: PizzaJedi81: And Liefeld...well, even Robert Kirkman can't tell a story with Liefeld.

When I saw promos for that book, I was like, "lolwhut?" That's a terrible pairing.

I saw Robert Kirkman and almost picked it up, then I saw the pouches on the cover and realized, crap, Liefeld. Not even my comic guy can really sell it. He didn't even pick it up himself.
 
t3knomanser
2011-11-05 03:25:41 PM
PizzaJedi81: I saw Robert Kirkman and almost picked it up, then I saw the pouches on the cover and realized, crap, Liefeld

Kirkman wrote a thing for the press where he talked about how much he looked up to Liefeld, and I lost a bunch of respect for him. Either he's being honest, or he's shilling to promote his new book. Neither one of those speaks well of him.
 
the opposite of charity is justice
2011-11-05 03:49:57 PM
Summer Glau's Love Slave: Honest Bender: Uh, they're already all online. I read them all online all the time. I'm failing to see the point here.

Where?

/Please.

Hail Hydra!

Seriously, I was recently shocked to see that the current cutoff point for books is around 15k copies. The industry is in dire need of a change, its been slowly starving to death ever since direct distribution took over. But after telling us for decades that each price increase was from rising paper costs and they still keep $3+ pricepoints on digital copies they might as well start shutting down now. Sell the books for 99 cents, take the books out of the dark dungeons, they could see million-selling books again.
 
PizzaJedi81
2011-11-05 03:58:18 PM
t3knomanser: Either he's being honest, or he's shilling to promote his new book. Neither one of those speaks well of him.

I'd rather the latter than the former, in all honesty.
 
t3knomanser
2011-11-05 04:24:49 PM
PizzaJedi81: I'd rather the latter than the former, in all honesty.

Agreed, but neither one is actually good.
 
FirstNationalBastard [TotalFark]
2011-11-05 04:33:50 PM
the opposite of charity is justice: Summer Glau's Love Slave: Honest Bender: Uh, they're already all online. I read them all online all the time. I'm failing to see the point here.

Where?

/Please.

Hail Hydra!

Seriously, I was recently shocked to see that the current cutoff point for books is around 15k copies. The industry is in dire need of a change, its been slowly starving to death ever since direct distribution took over. But after telling us for decades that each price increase was from rising paper costs and they still keep $3+ pricepoints on digital copies they might as well start shutting down now. Sell the books for 99 cents, take the books out of the dark dungeons, they could see million-selling books again.

15k is actually generous.

Vertigo books are usually lucky to sell 10,000 copies in the traditional format. But, it's the TPB sales that keep them alive.
 
PizzaJedi81
2011-11-05 05:28:36 PM
t3knomanser: PizzaJedi81: I'd rather the latter than the former, in all honesty.

Agreed, but neither one is actually good.

Not disagreeing in the least.

So...what's the over/under on how long he'll be on Hawk & Dove?
 
PizzaJedi81
2011-11-05 05:29:12 PM
PizzaJedi81: t3knomanser: PizzaJedi81: I'd rather the latter than the former, in all honesty.

Agreed, but neither one is actually good.

Not disagreeing in the least.

So...what's the over/under on how long he'll be on Hawk & Dove?

Sorry...that's about Liefeld, obviously. Still should have clarified.
 
t3knomanser
2011-11-05 06:20:45 PM
PizzaJedi81: .what's the over/under on how long he'll be on Hawk & Dove?

I'm not sure, but I think I'm going to take the under.
 
Virtual Pariah
2011-11-06 11:43:40 AM
t3knomanser: These guys carry a decent selection of Marvel titles. Not as complete as what they have for DC. But more important: they have a good selection of titles from other labels. Criminal remains the best comic in print right now.

These guys are awesome, but, can they stay in business if the publishers decide to go direct?
Comixology has re-sparked my interest in comics.
 
t3knomanser
2011-11-06 12:23:50 PM
Virtual Pariah: These guys are awesome, but, can they stay in business if the publishers decide to go direct?

I don't think publisher direct is going to be successful. It's hard to start a retail business if you don't have any expertise. If the publishers were smart, they'd just buy Comixology and be done with it.
 
FirstNationalBastard [TotalFark]
2011-11-07 01:28:14 AM
t3knomanser: Virtual Pariah: These guys are awesome, but, can they stay in business if the publishers decide to go direct?

I don't think publisher direct is going to be successful. It's hard to start a retail business if you don't have any expertise. If the publishers were smart, they'd just buy Comixology and be done with it.

Publishers sticking their nose into a business they know nothing about usually fails.

Marvel buying Heroes World for distribution is why Diamond is a monopoly today.
 
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