Comments on: Liveblogging the August 2009 Previews – Part 1

By: Bitter Matt

Bitter Matt — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:38:33 +0000

Whoa: Reading about the Winter Men collection got me interested in checking it out, and I realized something…

Take a look at the price of back issues. They seem to be about $1, maybe $2. Unless there’s more in the trade than the five issues I’m finding at online retailers, that’s about $7 or so to get the whole series in singles.

Versus TWENTY DOLLARS?

I’ve seen this phenomenon from time to time, but that seems a bit extreme!

By: Allyn Gibson

Allyn Gibson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:04:27 +0000

"Oh and on page 31, we’ve got a reprise of the naked John & Yoko album cover on RAPTURE #5, complete with naked man-ass." Not to quibble, but the image of the naked John wrapped around Yoko was not an album cover. It was shot by Annie Leibovitz for Rolling Stone on the day Lennon was shot and killed — see Rolling Stone's article on the matter. :)

By: Kit

Kit — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:39:33 +0000

“7:16pm: I kind of can’t believe that Peter Bagge did a red Hulk variant for STRANGE TALES #2. “

I’m sure he didn’t – it’s not his lettering on the “variant”, so Marvel presumably just recoloured the original cover from Incorrigible Hulk and had someone letter a new balloon in-house.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:24:37 +0000

DC not having any series starring a person of color is even sadder when you realize they have the rights to publish Static, who has all the recognition from the animated series and they’d rather make another go at the Archie heroes.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:04:58 +0000

Having read the description on OMN a few more times, it seems to be he just picked the name for the figurehead of the “violent, well dressed revolution” without any background given as to why. Maybe within the actual book it will give a reason for the name, but so far I’ve yet to see anything regarding why “Das Model.”

Supposedly it’s based on a screenplay Taylor has written as well, so maybe a movie is in the works for this title?

By: chasdom

chasdom — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:29:15 +0000

Is “One Model Nation” actually based on the song “Das Model” by Kraftwerk (like Image’s recent string of music-based anthologies), or is it just appropriating the scene to tell a story (like Phonogram)?

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:47:24 +0000

Funnily enough having just done the order for my shop last night, some of your comments were similar to what I said when flipping page by page through the Previews.

Especially the Azrael comment, I believe I said the exact same thing out loud in my store.

And to be completely honest, the image for One Model Nation actually compelled me to read what it was about, rather than take a slight glance and write it off. Sadly as a history graduate, books that use historical-esque imagery tend to draw my interest a lot more. Hopefully OMN will be a good read and customers will be interested to pick it up.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:52:52 +0000

But isn’t wAr Marchine canceled now?

Cheers,

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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:50:16 +0000

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By: Greg McElhatton

Greg McElhatton — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:23:23 +0000

I had no idea that Monster Society of Evil collection still wasn’t out yet. (The original, that is, I’ve got the Jeff Smith one.) That’s just… bizarre. At best. I mean, I even get the whole “softcover a year or so after the hardcover” release schedule because of the amount of stuff I used to do in fiction publishing (although DC needs to figure out when that has to be accelerated, and they’re horrible at that), but the Monster Society hardcover just NOW? Good lord.

The thing is, I like the idea of the “DC Classics Library” (or whatever it’s called) but I’m actually a little surprised at how few of the books are actually out. With two of them already containing nothing but stories I already own in other reprint forms (Life and Death of Ferro Lad, Roots of the Swamp Thing) I’ve yet to actually buy one. C’mon, DC, pick it up a little bit.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:49:30 +0000

War Machine, good sir!

By: David Wynne

David Wynne — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:16:39 +0000

3 superheroes of colour with current titles? So that’s Doctor Voodoo, Black Panther and… who’s the third one?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:38:55 +0000

I ended up ordering Planetary with a little bit of “oomph” behind it because I do think that, despite the time, people like yourself are gonna wanna finish their collection (and not wait a year to see how it ends…). We had a lot of success with SCUD too, so never doubt the power of fandom.

Meanwhile, the only personal bright-spot in the Marvel catalogue was CRIMINAL. The rest was generally not to my taste (save for the one of two bright spots I mentioned, the Marvel Illustrated stuff).

By: Bitter Matt

Bitter Matt — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:04:11 +0000

Can I also say that Marvel’s previews for November just looked painfully, uniformly atrociously bad? Normally it seems like a few rays of light get through, but this time, just utter bleaacccchh.

By: Bitter Matt

Bitter Matt — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:18:55 +0000

YES. It’s on.

Y’know, I made a point of preordering Planetary #27 when it occurred to me that it’s got to be a complete crapshoot to estimate orders for that one. Because not only has it been so long, iirc #26 was assumed to be the last issue at the time. It certainly didn’t end on a cliffhanger, and while the 27th issue has gotten some publicity since, I swear it was not at all clear at the time that there would be any more.

I bet it does well, though. Plenty of people came back after a whole decade for the ending of Scud (at least at my LCS); myself among them.