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Kevin Brown
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And it looks like DC is serious about making sure the books come out on time:  LINK.  However, once they replace a Jim Lee or a David Finch because they're late, I'll truly believe it.
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I like the "Deadshot looks stupid as shit" comment.  Could not have said that better myself!
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"Comic stores are dying. Book stores are dying. Part of it's the economy but part of it is also just the way publishers do business. "

I will go so far as to say comic stores are dead. The key to success is to be a full-service genre store.

Stores can no longer afford to be storage bins of back issues. $1000 per month means only moving $30-$35 per day of back stock and that is not going to get a store anywhere. And frankly, customers don't care. The internet really killed the LCS. When someone wants a back issue, they rarely go to their LCS first, they turn online first. They look to eBay and other sources to order and have shipped the books they want. We stocked shelves for three months and then moved most everythingto our dollar or less bins.

Comic books need to just be a section of a store. It is a section among RPGs, CCGs, decore, toys, videos, clothing, minatures, clix, video games, and similar items if you want to stay in business. Comic shops can't think of themselves as just comic shops. If they stay away from that mentality than same-day digital release will really have little impact on the retailer because comics themselves have had so little of an impact for quite some time.

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A coloring mistake on the "nu" Wonder Woman?


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Cover to Batgirl #2

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I preffer this version of the costume to the one we saw on the issue #1 cover.

Still the only title i am absolutely sure to buy.

Probable others: Hawkman, Aquaman, Firestorm, Batman, Detective Comics, Batman & Robin. A few issues of JLA. Maybe Swamp Thing. Probably Justice League Dark.



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From:

 

Confirmed as the definitive Wonder Woman #1 cover and, costume.

As Moyer said (or rather linked).



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Stéphane Garrelie
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I may Buy Wonder Woman too.

I like that art.

The question is will the stories be good?

Who is writing? I don't remember...

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Mike Farley
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Brain Azarello (100 Bullets) is writing Wonder Woman.
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Lars Johansson
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I think comics are at their best when an editor takes one step back and lets the writer and artist do as much as possible and the editor shows his trust in the creators.Such as it looked like with the Man of Steel reboot. I believe Dan Didio also was in an a reboot of Doom Patrol, but he later took control and switched back to what it was. I think good comics should be an editor in cheif and creators working together, but the editor has to learn to leave it alone as much as possible. But these comics look like a brain child of the current editor rather than Geoff Johns and Jim Lee whose input has been very minimal.
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I think comics are at their best when an editor takes one step back and lets the writer and artist do as much as possible and the editor shows his trust in the creators

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I would argue that everything wrong with Marvel and DC in the last 20 years is because of writers and artists being given too much freedom without editorial direction.
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Stéphane Garrelie
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No Joe. Under Harras writers looked like puppets.

Excepted big selling names that were image artists.

Until maybe Heroes Return, which seem to have marked the return to qualitie stories.

 



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Azarello! That's it. Thanks Brian.

I liked the few Azarello 100 bullets i read.

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