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- Posted: September 25, 2020 9:27:53 pm
- It's a simple problem. Since the late 1990s when Warren Ellis was writing his "Come in Alone" column, much of the comic book industry, it's creators and the media have been focused on one thing. How do we get rid of the people who currently come in every Wednesday to buy comics and replace them with a different audience?
How do they fire their current customer base and get a large enough new one? And can they do it in a month?
This also reminds me it's time to renew my Kill Conway Club Membership.
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- Posted: September 27, 2020 5:07:16 pm
AmZoMBiE said:
I have an easier solution lmao...fire every superhero artist and writer completely, let them live in the gutter to come back to reality, meanwhile bring in new EXCITING artists and writers and just do another Do-Over like they do every year anyway because the old fartsy artists/writers hands start to hurt and they cant think of any Good stories because they are stuck in their old oopsie poopsie ways...
personally i have a few storylines that would be STELLAR to read...unfortunately i am not a writer...but i could definitely give them some solid ideas if they want to pay me lol...
must suck to have to draw cartoons for a living lmao...
When it comes to hiring new “talent” (I put talent in parenthesis for a reason), current day Marvel and editor, SANA AMANAT, says “don’t bother submitting to us; we will find you”—I’m paraphrasing. But they search the internet, social media, etc. to be sure the “talent’s” politics aligns with their own agendas. Instead of hiring truly talented writers to script entertaining stories, Marvel just looks to hire people based not only on their politics but also how they look. If a character is gay, the writer must be gay. If the character is a Muslim, the writer must be Muslim. If the character is a feminist female....well you get the point. I’m not sure that Marvel even cares about making money off their comic books anymore. As long as their movies are making billions, they are fine with that.
I have focused my comic book entertainment on independent crowd-funded books. It’s not for everyone. I understand that. But as long as DC, and especially Marvel, keep churning out their heavy-handed political propaganda, I’ll continue to support indie creators.
And on a side note, take a peek at Manga. It’s interesting to see them thriving while Marvel and DC flounder.
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- Posted: September 27, 2020 11:25:13 pm
logerine said:
Instead of hiring truly talented writers to script entertaining stories, Marvel just looks to hire people based not only on their politics but also how they look. If a character is gay, the writer must be gay.
This was exactly the problem I found with the horrible "America" series. Marvel hired a writer based on her sexual orientation and race that had ONE novel to her name that took her a decade to write. The series was predictably laser-focused at a specific audience and also predictably short-lived.
I got a TON of e-mail and private messages calling me racist, homophobic, and misogynist over my review of America. But truthfully, it's like the great Huey Lewis said: " Sometimes bad is bad". Hiring a writer based on her race and sexual orientation is just bad.
And not for nuthin' but the artist they hired on America because he was Hispanic was pretty bad as well. . .in my extremely humble opinion, of course.
Last edited September 27, 2020 11:28:15 pmFavorite Characters: Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, Captain America, The Shadow, Zorro, The Rocketeer, Jonah Hex
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