The Natural Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Gillen said he is off Iron Man after Original Sin for sonething he was offered and couldnt turn down Hmmm, wonder what that might be. What reception has Gillen's run on Iron Man had? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I was disappointed by it, frankly. Also, I love that the Spidey comics are keeping Anna Maria around. She's a fun character. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Cheers Bald Bombshell. With you on Anna Maria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 22, 2014 Author Share Posted May 22, 2014 I dropped iron man after the first space arc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 This is the first comic I read with Anna Maria in it. Is she technically a dwarf or just a typical short person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 She's a little person, yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Gillen said he is off Iron Man after Original Sin for sonething he was offered and couldnt turn down Hmmm, wonder what that might be. What reception has Gillen's run on Iron Man had? It's one of the lower selling solos. Hulk and Thor do a lot better. Believe it or not, Deadpool crushes everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Gillen said he is off Iron Man after Original Sin for sonething he was offered and couldnt turn down Hmmm, wonder what that might be. What reception has Gillen's run on Iron Man had? It's one of the lower selling solos. Hulk and Thor do a lot better. Believe it or not, Deadpool crushes everything. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 What I've read of Gillen's Iron Man (first 3 volumes) has been decent so far though kind of convoluted as well. He really wasted what could have been a very interesting concept of Tony in space. Weirdly enough at the same time it did make me kind of want to see Gillen writing a cosmic book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 I though the Recorder story ended up really good. It took a while to get there though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 God damn it, Marvel, get your shit together. Bleeding Cool and CBR are reporting that Marvel is cancelling the Fantastic Four books just to spite Fox. Also artists are being instructed not to draw the FF and FF-related characers for sketches. From now on the plan is to only use the Fantastic Four as supporting characters on other books. This is the kind of bullshit I expect from DC, but I thought Marvel was better than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 That is some pretty petty bullshit, that's just giving up money on books that usually sell pretty well for the hell of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 31, 2014 Author Share Posted May 31, 2014 This is The Mouse after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 They're putting the blame on Ike Perlmutter who has a pretty bad history with spite decisions as it is. I'm still wary about how believable this one is though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Tom Breevort says it's absolute bullshit. So I guess we'll have to wait and see. EDIT: Though I don't really care about the Fantastic Four anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 I'd be more inclined to believe it if they hadn't just relaunched FF. Also, the article implies they're going to stop promoting the X-books, if not cancel them outright. Given how many X-books they publish and how well they sell, it sounds nuts to stop promoting the X-line because you don't control the movie rights. In general, I don't see the point. X-Men and FF both make money for Marvel. Granted, you undoubtedly have to sell a hell of a lot of tpb's to make what DoFP would bring in, but one drives the other. A sucessful movie is going to have some effect on comic and collection sales, merchandise sales, etc. - profit streams you do control. Also, the bump from movies seems like it would be fairly short lived, whereas you're making at least some money from FF on a regular basis (and more from the X books). The part about them concentrating on Avengers amuses me greatly, Has there really been that great a sustained increase in sales due to the Avengers and Iron Man movies? Iron Man, I could sorta believe. Avengers has never been a huge seller for them. Bendis raised the profile a little, and the movie raised it a little more than that, but I doubt the movie is going to propel Avengers into the stratosphere of, say, Batman and X-Men - particularly when the core Avengers books don't tend to feature the same characters as the movie. Honestly, if that's their plan for Avengers, they need to get Hickman off the books asap. Nothing about Hickman's plotting and writing seems likely to appeal to the casual moviegoer who is not already a huge comics fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Don't they get a cut of the movies anyway? Not nearly as much obviously, but it's still money in their pocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 As a side note, Breevort danced around actually denying it. He dismissed it without ever specifically saying "this is not true" which is... interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 He never gives a straight answer with bleedingcool rumors though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 As a side note, Breevort danced around actually denying it. He dismissed it without ever specifically saying "this is not true" which is... interesting. "Is Marvel really cancelling Fantastic Four and not putting them in their 75th anniversary? ""Plenty of questions about this, many belligerent ones mostly from anonymous posters. So let me reiterate: I’m going to give priority to answering questions that come from an account with a name. And the belligerent questions just get trashed either way. Anyway, there’s a lot of fear and crazy going on out in the world as people jump to conclusions and work themselves up into a lather. It was a good weekend for those that profit from such things, I expect. We are publishing FANTASTIC FOUR. Next month, we will be publishing FANTASTIC FOUR. A year from now, assuming that it’s still selling well, we will be publishing FANTASTIC FOUR. Given enough time, anything can happen—we went a couple of years, for example, without a THOR series, as well as a year and a half with FF, AVENGERS, CAP and IRON MAN not being a part of the Marvel Universe. So anything can happen. But it probably won’t. And for the couple of folks who punctuated their complaints by saying that they were dropping all of their Marvel books, and switching over to DC—well, first off, you must think that I’m a very simple man. But you can, as always, do with your time and money as you will. I will point out that if the purpose of your endeavor is to insure the continuation of FANTASTIC FOUR, then perhaps buying MORE FANTASTIC FOUR would be in better service to that goal than buying less. Just a thought. Oh, and James Robinson sent me notes for the 75th Anniversary Special story that he is doing this morning. And as you’d expect, the Fantastic Four are at the core of it." Seems pretty definitive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Yeah, that's much more definitive than what he had said before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Just picked up two brand new books from the library I reserved and managed to get first, The Superior Spider-Man (Vol. 4): Necessary Evil and The Superior Spider-Man (Vol. 5): Darkest Hours. Looking forward to get into them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Yeah, that's much more definitive than what he had said before. Rich still doesn't buy it and has dissected Brevoort's entire post. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/06/02/dissecting-tom-brevoort-on-the-future-of-the-fantastic-four/ It would be funny, if they now kept publishing Fantastic Four just to spite Rich Johnston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted June 3, 2014 Author Share Posted June 3, 2014 Im surprised Brevoort was allowed to mention Heroes Reborn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Yeah, that's much more definitive than what he had said before. Rich still doesn't buy it and has dissected Brevoort's entire post. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/06/02/dissecting-tom-brevoort-on-the-future-of-the-fantastic-four/ Doubt is an important thing, up until the point you become a denier. I wonder if Johnston also thinks the explosive experts that brought down the Twin Towers from the inside also orchestrated the vast, global warming conspiracy. Although it makes a little more sense here, as it's within his self-interest to perpetuate the unbelievable. Dude seems incapable of considering that maybe his "sources" at Marvel could be mistaken, have incomplete information, or could just BE FUCKING WITH HIM. If they even exist. That's why real (read: non-entertainment) journalists don't use anonymous sources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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