{"id":1681,"date":"2008-04-10T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/04\/10\/5-thoughts-about-mainstream-comics\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:26:17","slug":"5-thoughts-about-mainstream-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"5 Thoughts About Mainstream Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Last week’s wrap-up of Superman & The Golden Age Legion in Action Comics<\/em> was really, surprisingly enjoyable and probably the best comic Geoff Johns has ever written. I can now actually recommend a Geoff Johns comic. Who’da thunk it?<\/li>\n
  2. On the Secret Retailer Forum, I’d been watching and not one retailer out of the hundreds that participate there was asking for more copies of Secret Invasion #1<\/em>. Apparently no one at all sold out. And yet… due to “demand” Marvel is releasing a second printing a week later. I’m curious where the demand was… I couldn’t see any. Does anyone believe that story anymore?<\/li>\n
  3. Hibbs kicks Wizard in the teeth and deservedly so<\/strong><\/a>. Go read it.<\/li>\n
  4. I have no problem at all selling manga, specific manga, to non-manga readers at the comics shop. Stuff that would otherwise fit their tastes of course… But I will never sell a manga to a “superhero” reader, because I don’t think they’re interested in the medium of comics so much as the superhero content via any delivery system. Maybe this is obvious, but the sales of recently-completed series’ Death Note, Dragon Head, <\/em>and Drifting Classroom<\/em> to a wide array of people who would say or have said that they “hate manga” really put that into perspective for me.<\/li>\n
  5. I’m personally aware that producing regular single issues and competing in the direct market is not “the way” for alternative and art comix, but at the same time I miss having weeks where every single new comic on the stands wasn’t a superhero\/fantasy\/zombie genre book. No more Love & Rockets, no more Eightball, and a minimum of a year between issues of everything else… I think that except for Young Liars #2<\/em> and Ganges<\/em> this week*<\/strong>, every other comic book is a mainstream\/direct market\/fantastical element sort of thing, and that’s just a little disappointing…?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    – Chris
    \n*: I totally forgot about Criminal #2<\/em>, which I just read, and was fan-fucking-tastic. Best book of the week. Faith in comics: Maintained!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Last week’s wrap-up of Superman & The Golden Age Legion in Action Comics was really, surprisingly enjoyable and probably the best comic Geoff Johns has ever written. I can now actually recommend a Geoff Johns comic. Who’da thunk it? On the Secret Retailer Forum, I’d been watching and not one retailer out of the hundreds … <\/p>\n

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