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Ed Love
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Posted: 22 July 2009 at 3:24pm \| IP Logged \| 1

Then you buy the back issues if the trade doesn't come about.

I don't understand the logic of telling someone that if they want the Trade they must buy the individual issues. If I bought the individual issues, why would I want to spend the money on the trade? It's like berating someone for waiting for a novel to come out in paperback instead of buying it in hardback or just waiting for a movie to come out on dvd and renting it as opposed to seeing it in the theater. The whole point of having a TPB and collection market is not to hit the same people twice but to get people who for a variety of reasons didn't buy the original series. It's to provide multiple formats and entry points to sell to a wider audience. Least it should be. In fact, with the wider distribution outside of the comicbook stores, the success or lack thereof of a title as a monthly should be only a small part of the decision to go to collecting the book in a trade but instead the success of other similar trade books.

In fact, if enough people buy a trade of something that was only a mediocre success, DC & Marvel are apt to produce more trades and keep mediocre series going longer knowing they can make more money in the long-run. So, maybe the mantra really should be, "support the monthlies by buying more trades."

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Kirk Melton III
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Posted: 22 July 2009 at 4:47pm \| IP Logged \| 2

I think another reason for Liefeld's (sp) was that if HE could draw that way and turn pro with M**** and D* .... ANYONE could.

working at the comic shop, there was no end to the fans who wanted to draw comics and turned to RL, TMcF, JL and SValentino to learn how to draw comics.

Ah...the memories of telling said youth, don't draw like them, draw like YOU. And look at ILLUSTRATORS..not comic artists of today.

One distince memory was looking at Todd McFarlane's work...I asked a few people...do you think this anatomy is well drawn? (one particular issue of Spider-Man).

How many yes answers...? FAR MORE than no answers.

sigh....

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Rob Drew
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Posted: 22 July 2009 at 7:55pm \| IP Logged \| 3

Rob Liefeld being a comics pro makes about as much sense as a blind NHL player. He has none of the requisite skills required to do the job in anything resembling a competent manner, and serves only as an annoyance to anyone who has ever aspired to be good at anything in their life. He's like the MC Hammer of comics, maybe you did like it once, when you were young and stupid, but you can't remember why, and you sure as hell don't admit to it.

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Peyton Holden
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Posted: 23 July 2009 at 12:12am \| IP Logged \| 4

Kirk, I did the same thing at the shop I managed.

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Posted: 23 July 2009 at 5:20am \| IP Logged \| 5

I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same

But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well.
You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself

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Thanos Kollias
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Posted: 23 July 2009 at 7:08am \| IP Logged \| 6

I think trades provided fans the opportunity to get to read issues that were hard to find (almost like reprints, only in a format containing multiple issues). They came out quite a bit later than the actual issues. Nowadays, they appear almost immediately after the issues themselves. I think this current use of trades is a bit distorted.

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Arc Carlton
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Posted: 23 July 2009 at 10:39am \| IP Logged \| 7

Arc,

I meant, does anyone care about Liefeld, not you.

I hope you didn't take my post as an insult.

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Don't worry. I took it as a joke. Good to know the insult was directed to Liefeld and not me , though.

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