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I wonder what makes Jones' crime worse than Justiniano's. Justiniano worked on Day of Vengeance and that has been reprinted multiple times since his arrest and incarceration. He also contributed to...

I hate (some with a burning passion of a thousand suns) all the things you've listed here, but I'm really enjoying the book right now. It's been fun.

You are not stupid. But you are arguing something that is not what he said. Direct market sales matter first and foremost to Marvel and DC and Image and IDW and Boom and all the others. You know that.

They need a cohesive publishing strategy across all platforms and markets. They can't continue to treat the direct market differently from the bookstore market differently from the digital market.

I want to say, sort of? On the grand scale, these are relatively recent developments. The bookstore market and the direct market have been historically separate when it comes to comics. They've been...

The direct market needs to die.

Absolutely. And print more graphic novels through Scholastic. Captain America Ghost Army was awesome. My kids and I loved it. More of that, please. Scholastic has fucking reach.

One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. I get that you want to see Marvel as a failure, I do. But comparing apples to grapefruits isn't the way to do it. You're comparing the american comic...

Nothing's sorry when it's selling.

Coke's sales bottomed out and there were protests in the streets. Marvel hasn't seen an equivalent sales slide that would make them reverse course. New Coke was...

Why do they need that?

What? What are you talking about?

So, you're just making things up?

I don't understand the 'do it for free.' No one should lower their standards but who was getting paid for their standards?

I don't believe the editorial hate has ever been this large or transparent. Nor has it ever been this misguided.

I think they're not very good for entirely different reasons. Tomasi has always been pretty poor, Jurgens best work is years behind him, PKJ suffered from too many disparate artists (and I don't care...

That carry single issues?

Those things, as well as G’s response, are perfectly normal. I don’t think they’re a substitute for reading the entire issue, but it can get you enough, along with preview pages and officially...

I think the point of his question is that you’re very well informed on nearly every plot point, as if you’ve read each issue. There’s a few options besides pirating. You could Byrne Steal each issue....

Marvel's biggest problem right now is most of their A List talent has moved on to purely creator owned work. I'd say 90%. And the up and coming talent isn't up to snuff. Individual taste...

Thinking of relaunches makes me recall something I never considered.

20 years ago, I pitched to take over Legion of Super-Heroes. A shiny new number 1 wasn’t considered. At the time, it would...

That’s about as short term as it gets. There’s some trees in that forest, as they say.

You’re a smart man, twice over.

All said, Marvel is looking at the long term. That’s why there’s market studies and focus groups and new digital formats and attempts to break in to new markets....

I’d be down with him as EiC. He’s a damn fine editor who is interested in opening up new avenues outside the DM.

Gail Simone has a little something. I think it’s called talent? I’m not too sure. That could be it.

I would pick a writer from a forum or Discord and see what they’ve got. Let them do the pitch and show them what’s it’s like to do a comic out in the real world.