Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
A current book mattering to later material is irrelevant to the quality of the current book, it's relevant to the quality of the later book and its decisions to downplay or focus on previous things.
The casts of X-Books are far less important to their success than we imagine them while stanning characters.
A 30+ issue, six month event with no very clear main title that is serving as the compliment to the flagship title instead of spearheading the line with creators who aren't too popular isn't going to rock the direct market.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
it may just be my twisted perception but I see that all the discussions across the board regarding the characters involved in this new reality has faced a sudden downturn, it's just not exciting to see these characters in these situations if they don't really know who they are, I just wanna read the last issue of it all so that we can move on and be excited about the issues they are going to publish each month, as it stands I'm just waiting for July.
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
Yeah, that's fine. But it's also why I don't understand the mentality of solicit announcements sucking up hype for current books. If people lose interest in the current material because they know of stuff that's coming later... then that means they weren't actually that interested in the current material.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
you'r right, even JDW weekly interviews seems to betray a certain disinterest toward Age of X-man, The only title I can stomach right now it's Uncanny (even with all the stuff happening off-panel).... I'm still getting that certain "little thrill" when a new issue comes out.
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
Hard to disagree with that, but I'd argue that's the kind of monster Marvel has created by constantly reshuffling and relaunching their series with new creative teams who pretty much ignore what happened just a month before. And the very reason why they're going to have to do it more and more often to feed that same monster. Once you lose the illusion that "every issue matters" all you're left with is readers chasing the shiny new thing they know it's coming up in 3 months time, instantly losing interest in the books that are here and now because they've been taught they "won't matter".
This thread has 26 pages! Will issue 17 beat this?
X-Twitter is comparing this to Claremont and Morrison already so it's time this run wrapped up.