Minorities In Comics and Related Media

[Smoov-E]

Seems DC is now targeting BM & possibly MA fans...silver & blu,huh?

After all Earth-2 is also a team-bk.

Mks u wonda y dey cudnt just use Icon instead if DC wantd a true DC/Marvl match-up.

We/SZrmo interestd in d Supa-president frm Earth 23.

Wat do y'all say abt dis?

Cud dis b a play against BM?




By d way, pls pls y'all vote:

Which Guy Do You Prefer for Storm?
Thrd started: 05-11-2014, 07:35 PM
http://community.comicbookresources....efer-for-Storm

Don't care about anything DC related and I don't care about anything X-Men related

I think they are happy because of the check they are getting; DC might be paying them big bucks for those licenses.

Which is odd since they only cared about one character and then when said character got a solo comic they didn't give a damn about it

[Jamal]

Don't care about anything DC related and I don't care about anything X-Men related





Which is odd since they only cared about one character and then when said character got a solo comic they didn't give a damn about it

Not really when you think about it: Static is the crossover hit so if you anchor it with the rest of the Milestone character they become a big threat to DC; especially with way the 52 universe has turned out.

They would rather pay them off than see those characters in the market. Unfortunately with McDuffie gone I think some of the owners don't want to take up the responsibility of restarting Milestone so they let it sit at DC and collect a check...IMO

[skyvolt2000]

Not really when you think about it: Static is the crossover hit so if you anchor it with the rest of the Milestone character they become a big threat to DC; especially with way the 52 universe has turned out.

They would rather pay them off than see those characters in the market. Unfortunately with McDuffie gone I think some of the owners don't want to take up the responsibility of restarting Milestone so they let it sit at DC and collect a check...IMO

So in other words Milestone likes collecting welfare? Because waiting on DC for a check is that collecting welfare.

There was no way Milestone was a threat to DC. Now if Marvel got a hold of Milestone and Milestone guys still kept ownership-yes DC would be SCREWED.

You don't work 20 years to sit around and collect a check. If Veronica Mars can do kickstarter and get a film not only funded but made and sold-Milestone has no excuse.

Maybe they need to be reminded what Static meant to folks.

[ed2962]

Seems DC is now targeting BM & possibly MA fans...silver & blu,huh?

After all Earth-2 is also a team-bk.

Mks u wonda y dey cudnt just use Icon instead if DC wantd a true DC/Marvl match-up.

We/SZrmo interestd in d Supa-president frm Earth 23.

Wat do y'all say abt dis?

Cud dis b a play against BM?

I don't think so. This is Grant Morrison's thing much like Infinite Crisis. If anything it'll make some fans wonder about Icon.

[ed2962]

So in other words Milestone likes collecting welfare? Because waiting on DC for a check is that collecting welfare.

There was no way Milestone was a threat to DC. Now if Marvel got a hold of Milestone and Milestone guys still kept ownership-yes DC would be SCREWED.

You don't work 20 years to sit around and collect a check. If Veronica Mars can do kickstarter and get a film not only funded but made and sold-Milestone has no excuse.

Maybe they need to be reminded what Static meant to folks.

I don't think you can compare the situation to welfare.

It's like when writer writes a book, Hollywood pays him for the option to perhaps do a film, studio changes their mind about film, but the writer still keeps the money. He's being paid to not take his ideas to another studio while the first decides if it's worth their time to invest in. DC might think it's worth it to just sit on the Milestone universe rather than the characters end up at Dark Horse or IDW or Boom.

Marvel isn't doing much with those Malibu characters

[G. Boney]

And according 2 Mikel Davis Milestone Media cre8rs r happy with dat.

Derek Dingle and Dwayne McDuffie were the owners of Milestone at the time of McDuffie's death. Now I assume it's Dingle and McDuffie's widow. Honestly anything Davis says is just his opinion and has to be taken with a grain of salt. It's like when Stan Lee has said that marvel Studios is working on a Black Panther movie. Stan Lee co-created BP, but he doesn't work for marvel Studios. His knowledge on the situation is probably greater than ours but he's not Kevin Fiege and has no actual say in the situation.

You don't work 20 years to sit around and collect a check. If Veronica Mars can do kickstarter and get a film not only funded but made and sold-Milestone has no excuse.

Maybe they need to be reminded what Static meant to folks.

Well none of us know the details of the deal. From what writer Geoffrey Thorne (who was friends with McDuffie) has said, Milestone CAN'T just take the established characters to another publisher. They could take new characters somewhere else.

It's like when writer writes a book, Hollywood pays him for the option to perhaps do a film, studio changes their mind about film, but the writer still keeps the money. He's being paid to not take his ideas to another studio while the first decides if it's worth their time to invest in. DC might think it's worth it to just sit on the Milestone universe rather than the characters end up at Dark Horse or IDW or Boom.

This is probably close to the truth, IMO.

Marvel isn't doing much with those Malibu characters

They'd have to pay royalties to the creators of the characters from what I've heared. So even with the power of The Mouse behind them they are too cheap for that.

[Smoov-E]

You can't compare it to the Malibu characters since

1) Marvel really just wanted their coloring department

And

2) Those characters are owned by several different people with weird contracts

[Mr MajestiK]

Greg Land is killing it on the Mighty Avengers art front. :gasp!:

[Vic Vega]

You can't compare it to the Malibu characters since

1) Marvel really just wanted their coloring department

And

2) Those characters are owned by several different people with weird contracts

I thought it was that the creative team for each character gets a check every time that character is used, no, ifs ands or buts.

So Marvel can't use Prime without the writer, penciler and inker all getting a check but according to Quesada, there are other issues on top of that as well.

[SilverZeal]

I don't think so even though he does look very similar. But if anything it'll help generate interest in BM. I like how this looks BTW Im gonna pick this up.

Doeant it bother any1 y dey aint using ICON instead...y 2 blak supamen? y wudnt Val-zod b Asian, Native American or Arab? y d blu & silva color skeme soooo similar 2 BM?

I don't think so. This is Grant Morrison's thing much like Infinite Crisis. If anything it'll make some fans wonder about Icon.

EXACTLY!!!!!!

[SilverZeal]

I think they are happy because of the check they are getting; DC might be paying them big bucks for those licenses.

If dat true...& 4 d luv of d loas we/SZ hope its nt....den dat is an incredibly terrible luk on d Milestone cre8rs & an insult 2 their xcters/property.

Basically dey wud b hpy getting cash while letting their xcters rot in limbo assuming wat u a saying is tru.

[SilverZeal]

You can't compare it to the Malibu characters since

1) Marvel really just wanted their coloring department

And

2) Those characters are owned by several different people with weird contracts

True!

So in other words Milestone likes collecting welfare? Because waiting on DC for a check is that collecting welfare.

There was no way Milestone was a threat to DC. Now if Marvel got a hold of Milestone and Milestone guys still kept ownership-yes DC would be SCREWED.

If Marvl did get d license 2 use Milestone xcters AND actually publish dem under gd creatv insyt, supprt & mrkting & if it proves succesful DC wud luk lyk SUPA-FOOLS OF D CENTURY. LOL!!!

You don't work 20 years to sit around and collect a check. If Veronica Mars can do kickstarter and get a film not only funded but made and sold-Milestone has no excuse.

Maybe they need to be reminded what Static meant to folks.

PREACH!

Derek Dingle and Dwayne McDuffie were the owners of Milestone at the time of McDuffie's death. Now I assume it's Dingle and McDuffie's widow. Honestly anything Davis says is just his opinion and has to be taken with a grain of salt. It's like when Stan Lee has said that marvel Studios is working on a Black Panther movie. Stan Lee co-created BP, but he doesn't work for marvel Studios. His knowledge on the situation is probably greater than ours but he's not Kevin Fiege and has no actual say in the situation.

Gvn hw much prominence vibranium is going 2 hv in A2:AoU & sum of d production dat was done SA & d massive specul8n frm movie-'experts' abt d BP appearance of sum sort, Lee myt probably b ryt.

So dat myt nt b d best example.

Davies apparently has 'inside' knwledge about d Milestone/DC thingy but with his crazy edginess its very easy 2 ignore wat he says.

This is probably close to the truth, IMO.

Agrd!

Greg Land is killing it on the Mighty Avengers art front. :gasp!:

Land's cvrs r superb & yes his art in MA is gr8.

[7thangel]

I don't think so. This is Grant Morrison's thing much like Infinite Crisis. If anything it'll make some fans wonder about Icon.

i don't think this is his. this is an entirely different character that is forced to take up the mantle, because the current superman is massacring folks in the name of darksied. despite the cover, he's a young adult who is a pacifist at heart and just getting his power since he was locked away in isolation since for decades (?)

[ExcelsiorPrime]

Not really when you think about it: Static is the crossover hit so if you anchor it with the rest of the Milestone character they become a big threat to DC; especially with way the 52 universe has turned out.

They would rather pay them off than see those characters in the market. Unfortunately with McDuffie gone I think some of the owners don't want to take up the responsibility of restarting Milestone so they let it sit at DC and collect a check...IMO

#team Jamal

I don't see nothing wrong with it. Would I love to see new Milestone books? You betcha. But not if they are gonna be produced just for the sake of being produced.

True! Land's cvrs r superb & yes his art in MA is gr8.

Greg Land haters make no sense. I mean if comics kicked out every artists that used reference material--there wouldnt be any artist. No artist knows how to draw everything.

[Smoov-E]

I think folks is giving DC too much credit in being smart enough to sit on a license when they can't even figure out how to keep a non Supes or Bat title going