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Paul Reis
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JB, if that were to happen, i would become an active comic collector again rather than just a buyer of Essential/Masterworks/Archives/Showcase/Omnibus editions (oh, and your new stuff, of course!)
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Brendan Howard
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No crossover events, to be sure. That's a sure way to prevent me from reading a book. Hell, Avengers Disassembled got me to quit reading anything by Marvel.

I would also suggest a moratorium on miniseries starring characters that already have one or more books. Find a way to fold these stories into the existing books (with a framing device, if necessary).

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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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No Bendis...No Quesada...
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Clint Ludwick
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No Quesada... we can only dream of the day!
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Jozef Brandt
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Cut all ties with Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, Greg Land, David Mack...


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Greg Woronchak
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How many of these challenges have already been lost, d'you
suppose?

Early 2009 seems to be driven by three 'events': Marvel Noir, Dark Reign, and War of Kings. All seem to entail buying lots of different titles to get the 'whole story', and all three look cheesey and boring.

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Jack McCarthy
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I'd be happy to see them follow any two on the list (except for the 3-issue limit on storylines as long as there's actual STORY to fill more issues and not nonsense filler).

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I don't want things written for a trade all the time, but I don't mind a story
taking a while when there is not a lot of useless filler.

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Try to find a Lee/Kirby story that ran more than 3 issues. The First Coming
of Galactus actually ran less!!
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Martin Redmond
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Imo 3 issues is a good limit. Most people doing 6 parters aren't even that good at it. All of Warren Ellis' best stories are self contained single issues. 4-6 issues should be exceptional.

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Brian Hunt
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Without decompression, you don't need more than three issues.  What today takes 6-7 issues to tell used to only take one or two.
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Lance Hill
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Since Amazing Spider-Man went on a three-times-a-month schedule there's only been one story to last more than three issues, and that had a lot of villains in it. I don't mind stories longer than three issues, but they should definitely be a rarity.
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JT Molloy
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This is why I'm reading Amazing Spider-Man and ONLY Amazing Spider-Man from Marvel right now (Pre-Brand New Day, I read absolutely nothing for years). It comes out three times a month, the talent is recycled, they have a coherent shared agenda, Spider-Man doesn't participate in the MU in his own book much, and the stories have generally not lasted longer than 1 or 2 issues with sub-plots galore!

Every single other Marvel book and character needs serious retooling, and it's not going to happen til Quesada's out. Shouldn't there be some kind of 8 year limit like presidents?
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