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I'll grant you that that they didn't promote it as such, that's a fair point. But what "true support" mean? The level of marketing dollars they give Cap/Iron Man/Thor etc? Marvel's marketing dollars...

Pretty much this. Let's give the devil his due, at least in comics Marvel has tried. I really liked the last Angela series but it just didn't sell. If it doesn't sell, Marvel's not going to produce...

Does an all male cast need an in-story reason? If not, then, yes, saying an all female cast needs a reason is pretty classic sexism.

That pretty well sums up every character in X-Men movies aside from Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine, and Mystique. They are all just window dressing with zero development and we're supposed to be excited...

Well, that's disappointing.




Honestly, that's always been my biggest complaint about the Fox X-Men movies--characters thrown in randomly as if they are just there so they could show more...

Not sure why the hostility in your response but, very well:

The issue with the original post is that it ignores the power of brand recognition. If brand recognition were not a powerful economic...

That might be a more persuasive argument if we weren't getting (or had) so many reboots of older movies and shows: Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, 21 Jump Street, He-Man, Godzilla, Transformers, The...

On the contrary, if nothing happens with the X-Men in Civil War 2 then the complaints will be "look, another big Marvel event where the X-Men did nothing/we're irrelevant." See? If it includes the...

This is a great summary of the situation as I see it too. Things certainly could have gone better but that's not entirely on him.

I think it's pretty much the same as before. Some books are great, some are okay, some aren't my thing. Some characters are, I think, being written better like Tony Stark and Dr. Strange and I'm...

Doom wasn't the villain for saving everything. Reed acknowledges that Doom saved everything when he couldn't.

Doom proved himself to be a villain who needed to be stopped because of what he did...

All due respect, but without digital sales numbers, what exactly makes the list of "definitely canceled soon," "allowed to go to a natural ending point," or "relaunched soon" factual?

So it seems. That's why more than half the threads here end up in the same negativity spiral whether it's ANAD failing/being the worst thing ever or Marvel's evil conspiracy to destroy the X-Men....

Well, I'm betting those are ignored because that doesn't fit the "Marvel is failing because they aren't doing what I want them to" narrative that some on these boards try very, very hard to...

A good question. I imagine it's not too different from the shift to digital in general. Bookstores are struggling a bit, I would think this would apply to comic shops too. It may be a little slower...

Why do we still have these sorts of discussions? We all know that the numbers we have are orders, not sales. At best, they are a rough guide and with every year that passes, these numbers become more...

I have a question for the group. Why is it so hard to grasp that people like different things? Find different jokes funny? Have people really never read a book, watched a movie, or seen a comedian...

That's all well and good for you but that's not the only way to write. As a writer, you certainly wouldn't say that all writers have the same style, right? In the movie The Usual Suspects, they tease...

Well...yeah. What do you think fiction is? Structured reality. Writers don't just sit down and let characters and story flow. They research, write, rewrite, edit, research some more, rewrite again,...

Yeah, I agree, there's no branding there. I never said there was. In fact, I don't think "branding" is the right word to use in general.

As for "slipping," two points: 1) it's been months, no one...

Where's that "Like" button, CBR... :)

I'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean. A reference to an event is a brand name? So any word that evokes imagery or details is a brand name? Then every word is a "brand." Even if that's what...

In-story, though, that vagueness is a perfectly natural way for the characters to speak. It's not just obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. It is fair to just want to know what happened but that's...

You can say it's not suspense, I suppose, but it's not forced or contrived, that is EXACTLY how people talk about things in real life. Take 9/11. See? Most people will know exactly what events and...

I'm confused...isn't that EXACTLY how it works? Not with a 100% success rate, naturally, but isn't that the general idea? Tell a good story, get some people to read it and, if it's to their taste,...