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She's back, bitches!

The timing of this announcement is quite something. Marvel chose to follow the New Warriors travesty with an announcement of more America Chavez. Considering that America is supposedly in line for a Disney+ show, I can see them using the New Warriors as some kind of hate sink while they quietly try to get out whatever the hell they're trying now with America. Given that Gabby Rivera isn't involved with this mini-series, my guess is that this could be some sort of course correction to try and get Chavez away from Gabby's more batshit insanity.
 
It looks like Marvel has some more "goodies" in store for us this year besides the New Warriors.
 
In very related new Seems like Comic book shops are panicking because of the Wuhan quarantine could very well be the end of the comic industry as we know it. Apparently Most comic shops couldn't survive 1 or 2 months without sales.

All while Marvel seems more interested about promoting their latest lineup of woke superheroes while Marvel, diamond, and DC comics are ghosting on comic book shops


 
Pixy Misa said:
In very related new Seems like Comic book shops are panicking because of the Wuhan quarantine could very well be the end of the comic industry as we know it. Apparently Most comic shops couldn't survive 1 or 2 months without sales.
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In related news, cancer keeps metastasizing while the host dies and water is wet.
 
nyess said:
lol at all the youtubers who dont read comics all chiming in talk about new warriors

gotta get those shekels somehow
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In their defense, this is an exceptionally low bar to cross. The name Kibbleshits runs continuously through my mind every time I need a laugh.
 
OFF TOPIC: I may be the only one on here typing this at the moment, but I love Gary Larson’s “The Far Side”. His sense of humor is really unique to me.

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AnOminous said:
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Well In my defense I thought the "comic book stores are panicking" due to a lack of response from Marvel and DC was news, but yeah, you got a point, It's not novel things are going downhill overall.
 
So is anyone else excited about the impending collapse of the comic book industry? I apologize if I sound a little edgy here, but I'm kinda excited about this. After years of current year Marvel, I can't wait to see Corona-chan burn everything down.
 
AnimeGirlConnoisseur said:
So is anyone else excited about the impending collapse of the comic book industry? I apologize if I sound a little edgy here, but I'm kinda excited about this. After years of current year Marvel, I can't wait to see Corona-chan burn everything down.
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Marvel absolutely deserves it at this point. From the highest to the lowest positions they’ve made it abundantly clear that fans are not welcome and everything you used to like about their books means nothing to them. Donnie Cates seems to be the only person who seems to genuinely enjoy working working on Marvel characters and you can’t sustain an entire company on one man’s enthusiasm.
 
Detrogen said:
Marvel absolutely deserves it at this point. From the highest to the lowest positions they’ve made it abundantly clear that fans are not welcome and everything you used to like about their books means nothing to them. Donnie Cates seems to be the only person who seems to genuinely enjoy working working on Marvel characters and you can’t sustain an entire company on one man’s enthusiasm.
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TBH I'm amazed marvel and DC have lasted this long. They have done nothing but anger their fans with SJW crap, and gimmicks for years now. And now with the Wuhan virus giving a huge blow to the economy and comic book stores even less people will buy from them.

I wouldn't be surprised if their parent companies just shut them down because, in the current year, money doesn't come from selling overpriced comic books, but from selling merchandise, and movies/tv shows. And tbh, you don't need comics anymore for that.
 
Pixy Misa said:
TBH I'm amazed marvel and DC have lasted this long. They have done nothing but anger their fans with SJW crap, and gimmicks for years now. And now with the Wuhan virus giving a huge blow to the economy and comic book stores even less people will buy from them.

I wouldn't be surprised if their parent companies just shut them down because, in the current year, money doesn't come from selling overpriced comic books, but from selling merchandise, and movies/tv shows. And tbh, you don't need comics anymore for that.
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Supposedly, their financial impact is minimal to such a big corporation, and it allows companies to keep minor characters in trademark in case they want to use them later in a movie or TV show or something. Both explanations seem plausible, though they could arguably accomplish both without the direct market, just going to some subscriber-based online-only thing.
 
AnimeGirlConnoisseur said:
So is anyone else excited about the impending collapse of the comic book industry? I apologize if I sound a little edgy here, but I'm kinda excited about this. After years of current year Marvel, I can't wait to see Corona-chan burn everything down.
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The problem is that this will have a minimal impact on Marvel, but will absolutely devastate indie publishers and local comic book stores. As much as I wish the big two would feel some pain, its not worth burning down the rest of the industry.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
The problem is that this will have a minimal impact on Marvel, but will absolutely devastate indie publishers and local comic book stores. As much as I wish the big two would feel some pain, its not worth burning down the rest of the industry.
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No, I think that this will be just as bad for the big two as it is for everybody else. Before all of this went down wasn't there talk that Warner Bros was considering shutting down DC Comics? I think that this current situation is more than enough to push WB over the edge.

As for Marvel, Marvel is owned by Disney. Here is a chart I posted on the Chuck Wendig thread awhile ago. It was created by a youtube channel called 'The Market is Open'.
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Here, we can see that 'Parks and Resorts' makes up 34% of Disney's revenues while 'Studio Entertainment' (movies) makes up 17%. Those two areas are not going to be making any money while Corona-chan is still out there. That's 51% of Disney's revenue gone while social distancing is in effect (or 'Thanos-snapped' if you prefer) This means that, for the first time in recent history Disney is in trouble. I don't know about you, but if I was Disney and I only cared about money, wouldn't it make sense to shut down Marvel comics, which isn't making any money now and wasn't making much money before the virus?

I agree that this is pretty bad for distributors and all of the people in the industry that just want to tell good stories and make money, but if the slate is wiped clean then don't you think that it will provide an opportunity for a stronger industry to be built on the corpse of the old one? I apologize for getting all poetic and shit, but don't you think this could be like how some types of forests regularly catch fire and use that as an opportunity to get rid of old, dead organic matter so that new life can replace it?
 
The wu-flu has my LCS closed for business and it may never reopen. Between woke nu-marvel low quality content and a drastic decline in month to month sales we may be witnessing the death of the direct market as we know it. Disney stock is tanking so I highly doubt any bailout for LCS's are coming. The direct market relies heavily on subscribers that come in every week, if disney sweetens the digital pot by making online comics near free which would reflect their actual value it could kill the direct market.
They have a huge library of their old books digitized and no one reads the new stuff.
collecting books for the sake of owning paper that will never appreciate in value and is almost worthless the second you walk out the door is over. Spiderman will never be worth more than 4 dollars and rare variant cover gimmicks that currently benefit shops appeal to an ever shrinking fanbase.
The LCS is dead, long live the LCS.
 
Anyone knows the names MightyGodKing gave to his other parodies he made besides I Don't Need Your Civil War?
 
Just finished reading the worst Doom Patrol arc by Grant Morrison, it's through issues 37 - 41.
Everything about that arc was just boring and outside a few couple interesting panels here and there the story was just convoluted for me to make any sense, and also the dialogue with the yellow guys were just annoying to read through, I caught a migraine reading them. At the least the good thing out of this arc is Cliff Mentallo. Guy's pretty cool.

On another note: I'm setting my eyes on DC Rebirth Batman 2016 just to see Joker's new girlfriend. Does anyone know which issue to begin?
 
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I'm going to put this here since none of my friends like comics so i need to scream about this into the void. I like Scott Snyders writing, I think overall he is a good writer, but he is very obviously a Joker fanboy and has serious issues with being an edgelord. I like Death of the Family, and I think it has a brilliant ending, but Joker cutting his own face off was a bit needlessly edgy.

I like Endgame, how Joker decides if he can't have Batman then no one can and how it takes the entire Batfamily and the rogues gallery to stop Joker. But the whole Pale Man and electrum shit was unneeded.

So this brings me to the point of my rambling, The Batman Who Laughs. A fusion of Batman and Joker, the worst of both of them. The ultimate edgelord. I'm indifferent to him, he made sense in Metal and served his purpose and then he just never went away. Now he's in the main universe and is treated as some unkillable Batgod who's the best and what he does.

I think a really interesting idea for the Batman Who Laughs, that Scott should've done if he wasn't a horrible edgelord is. BWL comes from a nightmare world. The rules don't matter because he's the nightmare, he can do whatever he wanted in that world and win, because it's a nightmare and he's the monster. I think it would've been really interesting if when he came into the main world he was just utterly incompetent, because everything he tries to do abides by nightmare rules, which the real world doesn't abide by. It just would've been really interesting to see him have to actually use that Batman side of him and learn and adapt to being in a real world and not a nightmare anymore, instead of just instantly being the most capable person there.

so in summary i like scott snyers writing but god damn is he an edgy boy.
 
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