There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Thor gets beaten a lot. He's not in the same class as the Surfer, the Spectre and so on. And even so, his comic has never been especially popular. It's been canceled several times.
No, 53 issues is not a successful tun. You're welcome to see it otherwise.
The Surfer belongs on a team, and he can't be vastly more powerful than the other members. He's not going to sell a solo comic.
Here's what's accurate. An "ongong" is supposed to do just that. It's supposed to go on. It's not supposed to peter out after 40 or 50 issues. If a comics company planned ahead that a title would run for only that long, then it would be a maxi-series, and the stories could be structured so that the comic would build to that conclusion point. You'd get a better product that way too, than by just thinking, "We'll sloppily end this when people refuse to buy it any more."
Powering the Surfer down to a level where he's writable, relatable and team material would not change his character. Of course, they could keep him the way he is and off the market, and so help a few aging fanboys on messageboards cling to their childhoods. But there's no money in that, is there?
As far back as 1989, Steve Englehart said that the Fantastic Four was stale and needed a personnel change. His solution wasn't good, but his diagnosis was correct.
So basically be Spider-Man, X-Men, or DC's Trinity then? all others are failures?
I don't think that's a useful definition.
I also don't think your definition of ongoing books is accurate, considering that they basically don't exist.
Silver Surfer kind of stories are not really compatible with being part of a team.Powering the Surfer down to a level where he's writable, relatable and team material would not change his character. Of course, they could keep him the way he is and off the market, and so help a few aging fanboys on messageboards cling to their childhoods. But there's no money in that, is there?
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How did Nirvana lead to Oasis? They're absolutely nothing alike.
And that's sort of the ignored point I made the other day. Grunge wasn't a style of music. I was a way to sell Doc Martins and market NW bands. There was no sound, there was no formula.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
God some of my friends though Oasis was the second coming.
DC: Aquaman, Batman, Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman
Marvel: Ms. Marvel, Punisher, Daredevil
Image: Outcast, Bitch Planet, The Autumnlands, Black Magick, The Goddamned
Indies: Black, Insexts, Animosity, Alters, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Red Sonja
s sI don't mean they literally lead to them. I mean the idea of that sort of tone of singing. The "emo" ish, no dance sounds, down beat sort of music. People seemed to like that sort of sound, that's all that I mean.
True enough, but a lot of people associate the music that was played at that time by the fashion that the musicians wore, and thus, when you say Grunge a lot of people associate acts with it. And yes, you're right, it was, but it was also annoying as all get out when you want an upbeat song and you get...well Teen Spirit played over and over and over again on the damn bus.
Okay let's put it this way, you're right that it lead to those, but when I say it lead to them I mean that the sort of feeling and that "emo-ish" tragic meloncholy sound at times rose out of the non formulaic sound that bands of the early 90s had.
Oh god yes. I heard wonderwall so many times that anytime I hear it now I have to change the channel.
during the 2016 election dems was like
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