Making a note
Aug. 4th, 2012 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaMarvel is about to quasi-reboot their line--the Marvel NOW project is a lot of cancellations and new #1s and a lot of shuffling of creative teams. (Matt Fraction writing Fantastic Four? Hells bells, of course I'll buy that.)
I just want to note that right now I am buying 14 Marvel ongoing monthly titles. One of them has already been announced as ending with no replacement, Kieron Gillen's brilliant Journey into Mystery; others have been restarted with creative teams I'm not interested in following (Brubaker's Captain America, Fraction's Mighty Thor). I'll check back in January to see how many I'm buying then.
I also note that right now I'm buying more DC main-imprint titles than I was before the "New 52" relaunch--18, up from 11 in August 2011--so it's quite possible I'll end up getting more Marvels after the relaunch; I just don't think it's likely. DC has actually shown some cleverness in recruiting new writers from the indies (Jeff Lemire, Josh Filakov), from outside comics (China Mieville), and getting good work out of writers who had been away (Paul Levitz, Marv Wolfman). I don't see Marvel doing that; almost all the writers who have been announced so far for Marvel NOW are already working for Marvel. (The one exception so far is screenwriter/comic actor Brian "Brian from The Sarah Silverman Program" Poesen for Deadpool, which is a great choice.)
Anyway, as I said, just leaving a record.
I just want to note that right now I am buying 14 Marvel ongoing monthly titles. One of them has already been announced as ending with no replacement, Kieron Gillen's brilliant Journey into Mystery; others have been restarted with creative teams I'm not interested in following (Brubaker's Captain America, Fraction's Mighty Thor). I'll check back in January to see how many I'm buying then.
I also note that right now I'm buying more DC main-imprint titles than I was before the "New 52" relaunch--18, up from 11 in August 2011--so it's quite possible I'll end up getting more Marvels after the relaunch; I just don't think it's likely. DC has actually shown some cleverness in recruiting new writers from the indies (Jeff Lemire, Josh Filakov), from outside comics (China Mieville), and getting good work out of writers who had been away (Paul Levitz, Marv Wolfman). I don't see Marvel doing that; almost all the writers who have been announced so far for Marvel NOW are already working for Marvel. (The one exception so far is screenwriter/comic actor Brian "Brian from The Sarah Silverman Program" Poesen for Deadpool, which is a great choice.)
Anyway, as I said, just leaving a record.
