Marvel did the very same thing with the X-Books in either '99 or '00. Only it was six months instead of a year. It worked better for some books than others, which is all down to writing.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Mr. Broom - Jun 07, 2005 8:39:10 am PDT #8109 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Tom Scola - Jun 07, 2005 4:01:56 pm PDT #8110 of 10000
hwæt
Weird industry news for the day: Slave Labor Graphics gets Disney Comic Book License.
Atropa - Jun 07, 2005 4:41:41 pm PDT #8111 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Weird industry news for the day: Slave Labor Graphics gets Disney Comic Book License.
Huh? That goes beyond weird and barrels straight into BizzarroLand.
Glamcookie - Jun 07, 2005 4:44:34 pm PDT #8112 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Wha-huh????
Gandalfe - Jun 07, 2005 5:11:32 pm PDT #8113 of 10000
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
That's like Russ Meyer becoming spokesperson for the Moral Majority.
Tom Scola - Jun 07, 2005 5:12:30 pm PDT #8114 of 10000
hwæt
Disney obviously missed the last issue of Jhonen Vasquez' Fillerbunny, where he depicted Dan Vado t gross sitting on his throne wearing a coat of live fetuses t /gross
Polter-Cow - Jun 08, 2005 10:31:04 am PDT #8115 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My comic book store is going out of business waaaaaaah.
§ ita § - Jun 08, 2005 10:53:49 am PDT #8116 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I read #1 of House of M today, and apart from the little voice in my head trying to make me think of The House of Yes, I'm wondering -- what's up with Wolverine? He was zombified and killed the French Canadian guy, and then a couple X titles were dealing with fallout -- but how done is that?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 08, 2005 10:57:52 am PDT #8117 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I just found out that mine's probably closing by August, and the competent knows-the-business clerk is jumping ship next month to a new store run by a friend of his that I could, if I were feeling uncharitable, call a pinheaded blowhard. By next year I may be buying all my comics in Memphis on Saturdays.
sumi - Jun 08, 2005 10:59:25 am PDT #8118 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Zombified???!!??
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I was going to get my comics after work but given the giant black line of t-storms coming my way, I think I'll wait 'til tomorrow.