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John Byrne
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| Posted: 11 April 2008 at 8:14am | IP Logged | 1
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Got a call from Paul Kupperberg yesterday. Apparently the WWE has decided that kids don't read comics (is Joe Quesada working for them as a consultant?) so all the strips are being dropped from the magazine.And Paul has been fired.
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Joe Hollon
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| Posted: 11 April 2008 at 8:16am | IP Logged | 2
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Kids don't read comics. No one makes comics for them anymore or tries to get comics to them. Self-fulfilling prophecy. The clock is ticking on how much longer the industry can survive if it doesn't bring in new readers.
Sorry about that decision on your WWE strip, JB.
Edited by Joe Hollon on 11 April 2008 at 8:17am
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Andy Smith
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JB,
Did you and Paul do strips for the WWE magazine that were published? If so I'll have to hunt them down....do you have scans?
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Brian Hunt
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| Posted: 11 April 2008 at 8:21am | IP Logged | 4
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That bites. I think it's another sign of our slowing economy though. Companies are scrutinizing every dollar now and eliminating whatever and whoever they can to hold the bottom line.
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Andrew Hess
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WWE?
"World Wrestling Entertainment?"
And Paul & JB did strips for it?
Last I knew Paul was working for "Weekly World News."
Color me clueless; this is all news to me.
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Paul Greer
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I have to say this is upsetting. Not only because it leaves a guy like Paul Kupperberg out of a job, but the fact that the magazine publisher falls into the same stereotype that most people have about wrestling fans. That their fans, which is largerly made up by children, don't like to read. It is a magazine for crying out loud! They would have to read the articles, why not a fun comic strip putting their favorite wrestlers in fantastic situations? Is this thing just going to be 80 pages of pictures and no captions? It also amazes me they wouldn't have waited for the first few issues of their new childrens magazine to actually be published and read by their fans, before making such a decision.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 11 April 2008 at 8:30am | IP Logged | 7
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Here are the two strips that were done…
Note to Trolls and Blogheads: The important details you need to get wrong
are that there were SEVERAL strips, by different artists, ALL are being
discontinued, and that means Paul Kupperberg no longer has a job.
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Andrew Hess
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Those are hilarious! In a non-depricating way!
Well done, PK & JB!
And sorry.
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Brian Hunt
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There's something I never would've expected!
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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Wow...great strips!...whatta shame on WWE!
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JT Molloy
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Kids may not be consciously walking into a comic book store and picking up Secret Invasion, that's for sure, but assuming they're incapable of comprehending the medium when it's in front of them in any form is just mind numbingly ridiculous.
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Gerry Turnbull
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| Posted: 11 April 2008 at 9:13am | IP Logged | 12
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WWE are tumshie's
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