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We couldn't have anticipated all this interest from British people!
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Actually, I suspect that some non-comics regulars are buying it, as it was featured on the news due to our Prime Minister being featured in the first issue.
From Zeromus
www.twitter.com
You can sign up and make short, 140 character long posts and people can read them. You can just say what you're doing, make random comment, post links to stuff, whatever you want. You can get plug-ins for Firefox or Facebook or whatever and just post and view messages through those programs or you can go straight to the Twitter site and do it there.
I'd been meaning to try it out for a while and figured it would be a decent way to just make random comments on comics that don't warrant a full post on a forum or post the occasional link to something comic related that, again, doesn't warrant a post.
From Nogs
I started following you. still getting used to this, though. Pretty neat so far.
Does anyone else besides me hate crossover stories? I have 2 examples --
-The Lightning Saga JLA/JSA crossover. I collect JLA, but I do not collect JSA. Those characters just don't interest me, so I don't get the book even though Johns is a great writer. It really bothered me that I had to buy a couple random issues of JSA just to get the "whole story" for this arc. Now I have 2 random JSA issues mixed in to my collection that I don't really want, other than for story completeness. I'd have preferred if the story would've stayed contained to the JLA only, and just featured members of the JSA if they had to use them at all. A crossover was completely unnecessary.
-The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul story. This arc was even worse than the lightning saga, cause it crossed over 4 different books. I collect Detective Comics and Batman, because I am a Batman fan. However, I don't collect Nightwing or Robin because I dont' care about Batman's little sidekick's solo careers. But again, to get the "whole story" I would've had to buy books from 2 different titles that I don't even buy. In this case, I didn't get them, so now I'm just missing chapters from the story. Ugh. I really hate crossovers.
Also re: Captain Britain:
I'm pretty sure it sold out in the US as well, becuause of its status as a tie-in. I'm fairly certain they're reprinting it, in any case.
Although I'd hesitate to call Lightning Saga "bad", more like "mediocore" or "unremarkable".
But there have been plenty of good ones too.
See: SI and FC
Yeah, I was fortunate that I already collected both GL and GL Corps. If I didn't collect GL Corps I would've hated it.
In general, I'm against having to buy extra shit that I don't normally buy.
Using Civil War as an example, I bought the 7 core CW books, because together they tell a coherent story without needing other books to suppliment them. I also got the Captain America CW Crossovers, but that was by coincidence because I already collected Cap. I did not, however, get any of the Spiderman, Avengers, Fantastic 4 or other CW crossover issues, because I don't normally buy those books.
Ya, but it was with Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps, two books that are directly related to each other. JLA and JSA, to me, are not related in any way and if they watned to feature the teams together, they shouldn't have forced readers to buy both books to get one story, provided they only buy, say, JSA or vice versa for JLA.
Same with Resurrection of Ra's. Personally, Batman and Detective are only barely related to the Robin and Nightwing books and those books bring in different readers. If Morrison wanted to tell the return of Ra's, he should have did it in Batman or with Detective and left the other two titles, which were complete filler in that crossover (although Fabian's Nightwing was great), alone. But they wanted sales spikes from the event and spread a 2 or 3 issue story over 7 or 8 parts with the other books, much like how they are advertising Batman RIP as some 13 part story with tie-ins in Robin, Nightwing, Detective and Outsiders when it's mainly a Grant Morrison Batman story.
Those I hate, regardless of whether or not the tie-ins or story were good. Green Lantern and GLC go hand in hand, much like Batman and Detective, and you'd expect them to cross over or reflect major storylines. Having Flash, Green Lantern and Green Arrow books all tie into each other and force GL fans to buy Flash and Green Arrow in some imaginary event simply because DC wanted a crossover between them would be an example of something I hate, as it forces me to buy books I don't read to get a story when they could have kept it confined to one book with guest stars from the other ones.
JSA/JLA teamups are a DC tradition.
Just like there are good events and bad events
good comics and bad comics.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
That made me curious, and then I found this.
I dont like having to jump around 6 characters POV's to get the main story. (generally I see DC doing this)
I could be wrong though...
Edit: oh right, self-contained; well, I suppose that was mostly the case, though a few things could make absolutely no sense without reading some tie-ins.
Marvel really botched the execution of a pretty good idea, but it was worth it because it's been such a good launching point for other stories - which is generally the goal for these sorts of things.
I'm curious, is this worth buying? Wiki says that the first volume of the omnibus and the first two trades cover roughly the same content (issues #0-16 for the omnibus, issues #0-5, 7-10, and 12-16 for the two trades), but the trades seem to cost a bit less, and are probably easier to store. Has anyone checked out the omnibus? Is it worth buying over the trades?
Also, why the hell do they do that thing where trades don't always collect issues in the order they were published?
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
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Blackwulf
I think the omnibus is collecting it in publication order; the omnibus is the first of six which will collect the entire run of the comic, which the trades never came close to doing.
Hulk
well Red Hulk does
wolverine (usually)
"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
so it's coming out from idw, not dark horse. i don't really know anything else about it, though, and that article's from earlier this year, so i don't know if that's still accurate.