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Lance Hill
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| The old days of comics was like taking aim with a sniper rifle at 50 yards. The target (a dedicated audience who knows the characters inside and out and expects things a certain way) was clear and specific and with careful aim you will score a hit. |
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How on earth would catering specifically to the readers who "know the characters inside and out" be a good idea? They should be aiming for the widest audience possible, that's what made them successful in the first place.
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John Byrne
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The old days of comics was like taking aim with a sniper rifle at 50 yards. The target (a dedicated audience who knows the characters inside and out and expects things a certain way) was clear and specific and with careful aim you will score a hit.•• You must be very young to think of that as "the old days." Comics when they were most commercially successful were not snipers, they were armies of guys armed with shotguns!
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David Allen Perrin
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Ok, So my analogy is off. Fair enough.
But I do feel young at 50 years old!
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Conner Dinkins
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I showed someone at work this and they said "How can Stan Lee let this happen"?
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Antonio Diniz
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Steve de Young wrote:
| The Thing is now a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, that's his outer space jumpsuit. |
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I find this idea strangely intriguing.
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| And the Human Torch is apparently in the Inhumans, and in a relationship with Medusa. Which makes no sense because they could have just as easily hooked him up with Crystal, and because they just introduced a new Inhuman named Inferno with fire powers. |
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I agree. Sounds silly.
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| There is no Fantastic Four anymore. (I'm sure that has nothing to do with Fox Studios). |
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Seems to make sense from a business standpoint. Why promote the competition?
Edited by Antonio Diniz on 10 June 2015 at 9:45am
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Charles Valderrama
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A friend of mine thinks that the recent announcement that Ben Grimm is joining the Guardians Of The Galaxy now opens the possibility of him appearing in the feature films. Told him that's NOT how contracts work.
-C!
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John Byrne
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Seems to make sense from a business standpoint. Why promote the competition?••• You're talking about the same Marvel which, during the speculator boom, ran page after page of dealer ads festooned with Image characters.
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Gene Best
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I showed someone at work this and they said "How can Stan Lee let this happen"?
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I wonder if he manages his own Facebook page.
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Stephen Robinson
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What disturbs me most about Marvel's "All-New, All-Different" line-up is that apparently someone at the company found my old notebook of ideas from when I was in sixth grade. And I haven't seen a dime.
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John Byrne
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What disturbs me most about Marvel's "All-New, All-Different" line-up is that apparently someone at the company found my old notebook of ideas from when I was in sixth grade. •• If that were true, I might almost have hope for them! It would mean they were turning back toward the proper audience!
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Brian Hague
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Eric Jansen wrote: "Notice how so many things that were one-offs in WHAT IF--? forty years ago are now being turned into long-running arcs or series?"
Eric, I wrote this list a few years back, but yes, now we can officially add What If v. 1 #10 to the list...
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Rick Whiting
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It seems that whenever it comes to justifying these types of changes to the Marvel characters, the writers working on the books often say that these changes will either "open up a great deal of possibility for the characters" or "open up a lot of potential story ideas". It's like these writers think that there ideas are so great and will be referenced by future writers of the comics and provide (or inspire) those said future writers lots of story ideas. It's like they are so full of themselves and think that there story ideas are groundbreaking and will go down in comic book history as the definitive take on these characters.
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