It sounds like Marvel plans at the earliest to start publishing again in July. Since everything is uncertain right now, they only want to go with books that are most likely to sell.
It sounds like Marvel plans at the earliest to start publishing again in July. Since everything is uncertain right now, they only want to go with books that are most likely to sell.
Those stores do that by CHOICE to get that one variant that they will sale for too much and get that ONE sale.
Stores do have the power of choice.
As for put out what people will buy? So you have been to every comic book store and know what sales? Because despite the hate squad who will be out in force now-sales vary by store.
Maybe this means when I go to a store I won't see 10-20 copies of unsold X-Men books on the shelf. The books that actually have large piles of unsold books that folks seem to miss seeing at times.
Or just put them in OGN formats. Along with all the Empyre tie ins.I can see New Warriors and Power Pack easily getting suspended.
Yes.Like, can a book like Runaways survive this?
I bet it would depend on how many books have mail subscriptions. They take out Miles-do I get a refund on the remaining 10 issues?
Yes but wasn't it the combination of digital and physical sales making some of the lower selling books worth it for Marvel? A book may sell better digitally but if the physical copy doesn't sell that well to begin with and now they can't rely on physical sales either then what is the point?
"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
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What about the iron man 2020 event books? Are force works and those books canned?
That is the question isn't it like WTF are they doing still no announcement about the April 1st comics, or April 8th, they still have time to just push everything back by one week and get on schedule if they want, or they could release all of April 1st comics in April 8th aswell I just need to know, money is no problem I'm racking up so much of the **** right now it's ridiculous ain't nowhere to go.
Yes, you've made it abundantly clear you DGAF as long as your favorite book comes out immediately.
I'm glad you are rolling in the dough. With 10 million unemployed in the US due to the crisis, and now some Marvel creators joining them, you are very fortunate.
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
Don’t compare me to the anti-diversity CG morons on Twitter. That’s not at all what I’m saying. What I’m saying is the current system allows Marvel to dump the costs on the stores. If they print 60k copies of Spider-Man but only actually sell 40k copies, the stores are the ones who eat the difference. Now Marvel and DC can’t dump that on the stores anymore, which means that a lot of the lesser selling books will probably end up being cancelled. I’m not celebrating that since I like a lot of the books that don’t sell well.
Well, damn. I hate being right about the contraction.
Agreed with all the above. Like I said elsewhere, it's going to mean nothing but the MCU characters getting any books / pages.
I can see the new / re-launches getting delayed / cancelled, but not Empyre. They make money off their events, which they need, plus events can get people into stores again.
I need to dig out my Previews and see what was lined up for May and June.
I agree.
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
Not selling any comics period doesn't help anybody. Digital comics is the lifeline that this industry needs right now. I'm sorry that some LCS owners and employees are going to be hurt by a shift to digital but nothing can change that now, the direct market will not survive months of shutdown. It's simply absurd that everyone connected to comics is risking their livelihood to prop up an outdated business model.
Marvel waited to drop the news on a Friday evening, cold-blooded.. The thing is when we (hopefully) manage to get things sorted out there is going to be a new normal in the comic industry. I don't think Diamond is coming back, Geppi's message had a "taking this animal to live on a beautiful farm upstate" vibe to it.
"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
Newsarama claims it's 1/3 of the titles. Bleeding Cool claims it's 15-20%. Anyone wanna do the math to get a rough number of how many titles we could be losing?
They could always creators to continue making content and stockpile it and once this is over release it as TPBs and then continue with single issues afterwards.
It would avoid a glut of back issues as well as messing up whatever their timeline is; which I assume they spent a long time planning out (especially Hickman & Ewing's stuff).
Not only that creators can continue to work and hype their stuff which would be awesome because imagine in 6 months time picking full arcs already done in TPB format.