JD's Comic Book Thread

It means absolutely nothing, it's just a brand name for this period of time after the Infinity crossover. Some issues are being called 11.NOW but they're really just issue 11 and it means nothing

 

Are the IDW Transformers, TMNT, Ghostbusters or Godzilla series any good?

 

Turtles: I've really been enjoying the TMNT title. It's a satsfying mix of the classic traditional Mirage, the Archie and a mix of new. We have a thread on it but when it became clear I was the last one still reading I stopped contributing. Didn't seem anyone cared.

Ghostbusters: I've not read but there was a thread on that. Faded out a bit quicker than TMNT one.

Transformers and Godzilla are for someone else to comment upon.

This board seems heavily DC interested more so than Marvel and discussion of much else is hard to maintain. I tried a VALIANT thread for awhile. I find their Universe lots of fun.
That showed me to not even try the Dark Horse Comics superhero relaunch with Project Black Sky or Dynamites Gold Key relaunch sub-line.

 

There is two TF titles. One is More Than Meets the Eye, the other is Robots in Disguise. MTMTE deals with Hot Rod leading off the Autobots in a spaceship and having adventures while trying to find the lost ancestors of the transformers so they can rejuvenate their home planet. RiD is about the Autobots left on their planet trying to rebuild their world and governing a population of neutrals and Decepticons who hate each other and the Autobots. MTMTE is usually considered the superior title and is up there with some of the best stuff put out by the Big 2 and Image though it's written more like something in the vein of Farscape or Dr. Who. RiD is decent too, but its plotlines take longer to build up and it's written more like a regular comicbook.

 

IDW Ghostbusters has been excellent recently. Well worth picking up. They just started their big 30th Anny arc which reintroduced Dana and harkens back to the first movie.

Yeah, the .NOW stuff is just branding stuff...usually denotes a major arc or important issue though within an arc...a way for Marvel to tell us what they feel is an important issue or whatever.

 

I've been reading X-Men Comics on and off, but I can't keep track of the timeline if I miss anything. We're up to like 45492 X-Titles now and then 14 one shots a month. It's infuriating.

 

Marvel isn't as great as it used to be, but it's a damned lot better than the DC Reboot!

 

Like Savage Dragon showed, the reboot worked for casual readers.

 

That's really what the purpose of the relaunch was. To draw in casual fans who hadn't been reading in a long time and of course "new fans" (which is still debatable). It really wasn't focused on long term hardcore fans.

 

I think the numbers have shown the books have settled back to their pre-Flashpoint numbers, but I don't have the source to back me up

 

Not graphs, but if you scroll down to the middle, they compare each titles February's sales to the same titles sales 6 months ago, 1 year ago, 2 years ago, 5 years ago and 10 years ago.

http://comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-month-to-month-sales-february-2014-forever-evil-slows-the-pack/

They are losing money on almost every front.

(13 seconds of googling.)

 

Good work, Guy!

It looks like the A list titles are selling higher, but that's because of Scott Snyder and Jim Lee and whatnot, not because of the reboot, while the middling titles are right where they were before.

 

Jim Lee isn't even on there.

 

The early issues of Justice League?

 

Just picked up the first (digital) TPB of Runaways on Comixology marked down from US$10.99 to US$1.99. I hadn't planned on getting any more comics until I finished the ones I already bought but haven't read (Winter Soldier Part 2, Star Wars: Legacy Vol 4, and New 52 Wonder Woman Vol 3.), but at that price I couldn't pass it up.