Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
Is there no Joker comic?
Comic Companies continue to drive me away...maybe you as well??
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Is there no Joker comic?
Flash ends in December, with Flash: Rebirth starting up in April. Poor Wally...
And you're still reading Moon Knight? You're braver than me.
Great so there isn't going to be a Flash #250!
Rebirth, jeez I wonder where they got that catchy title?? 
Moon Knight has been crazy but I hit a point where I'm staying with it, especially now since it'll be 1of2 books I'm buying.
I'm loving this book. Highly underrated at the moment I think cause most of the press goes to the big crossover events. I've decided to wait on the Danny Ketch mini to be put into TPB, hope its as good as the other current GR material.
Like you I could see this coming but jeez no middle ground price point of $3.49? Straight to $3.99 is just wrong and I agree unjustifiable. Does Ford, GM and Chrysler make their decisions also?
Two more books to go and I'll be done as a monthly buyer of an indusrty I've been reading since I was 10...I'm 32 now. So it appears my monthly legacy hinges on the continued existence of Moon Knight and Ghost Rider.
I am sick of the reboots and tie-ins myself. I came and went from comics twice. Right now the only one I buy is a tie / adaption of a novel series I enjoy, The Dresden Files. I, too, would like to buy just one Batman title that does not do the tie-ins and has good art. But the Batman RIP story line seems to make this a bad time.
i only buy trades anyway, but in February, Marvel's finishing Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic 4. WTF?!
FINALLY, looks like UWVH will be out though as #1 and #2 are on Feb's solicits, so i should get to read it around... August...
FINALLY, looks like UWVH will be out though as #1 and #2 are on Feb's solicits, so i should get to read it around... August...
I read both these books in trade form. Do we know the reason they're going away?
A little something called Ultimatum, aka Jeph Loeb's Big Dumb Crossover With Explosions, Robots, Flooding and People Getting Killed.
I see. Thanks. I guess I will have to wait and see how this "Ultimatum" business plays out and what comes in its wake.
Ultimate X-Men sells decent enough in monthly terms, Utlimate FF sells less, but certainly not bad, they're being ended due to Ultimatum and how it is going to change the status quo of the Ultimate universe. I would expect these titles, or at least the X-Men one, to be relaunched soon enough.
Regarding the cancellations mentioned in the OP, I cant say I'm surprised at Birds of Prey, if has been selling poorly, at around 20k an issue for a long time now, I'm only surprised it hasnt been cancelled earlier.
I quit in July after 30+ years for the same reasons.
I quit comics back in '96. Marvel and their stupid reset button. I thought the prices and the tie-ins were bad back then, I can only imagine what it is nowadays. We won't even get into the gimmick foil covers. When they cancelled Dr. Strange, they cancelled my comic collecting days. In other companies, there were too many Star Trek titles to keep up with. (Just like the novels when DS9 came out.) I thought comic stories were bland and dumbed down. I thought the artwork of the "then" current hot artists was insipid. Give me the days of Ditko, Colan, and Brunner any day.
No, there are occasional graphic novels and miniseries, but the Joker doesn't have his own comic. Harley Quinn did for awhile, though.
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
She did? Awesome I like Harley Quinn in Batman - The Animated Series
i collected Superman and Batman starting with Death of Superman and Knightfall. I stopped getting both characters books following the two Jim Lee runs. I was done with the books by then. I've tried jumping back into superman a couple times, but i just dont care for the book anymore.
Now i basically collect from IDW. Their transformers and Star Trek books. I've really liked what they've done with both licenses.
Now i basically collect from IDW. Their transformers and Star Trek books. I've really liked what they've done with both licenses.
I gave up when they started the re-boots/endless resurections with Jean grey in the mid '90's, that and all the split-off comics, how the f many "robin" comics do we need? and I don't bother with the darkhorse starwars comics because thier serial and I can't find back issues or trades anywhere
I think the only reason I'll ever quit comics is if the two comic book shops near me both close their doors. And even then, I'd probably switch to trades I'd buy online and just collect fewer titles.
Still, I've been cutting back on monthly titles over the past few years. I've dropped quite a few, not so much because of expense, but because I haven't liked the direction many of them have gone in and didn't think they were worth my dollars anymore. What finally ended my 20-year run on Amazing Spider-man wasn't OMD/BND but collecting three books a month. I've tried several times to get into Superman, but everytime I do, DC starts these long drawn-out crossovers with two or more other titles that I don't want, so I wind up quitting Supes altogether.
I can only look at $3.99 USD as the new pricepoint for Marvel and DC as a good thing because it means I'll be buying even fewer titles from them and just concentrating on those few titles that I enjoy the most...
Still, I've been cutting back on monthly titles over the past few years. I've dropped quite a few, not so much because of expense, but because I haven't liked the direction many of them have gone in and didn't think they were worth my dollars anymore. What finally ended my 20-year run on Amazing Spider-man wasn't OMD/BND but collecting three books a month. I've tried several times to get into Superman, but everytime I do, DC starts these long drawn-out crossovers with two or more other titles that I don't want, so I wind up quitting Supes altogether.
I can only look at $3.99 USD as the new pricepoint for Marvel and DC as a good thing because it means I'll be buying even fewer titles from them and just concentrating on those few titles that I enjoy the most...
i know what you mean. i've lost interest in reading x-men when jean died in the most stupid way imaginable for that level of power. it's been years since, but marvel still uses jean/phoenix for promos and whatnot. for someone who's currently dead, she's getting a lot of face time. lol
i suspect though that as her return comes nearer, i'll start picking it up again.
i suspect though that as her return comes nearer, i'll start picking it up again.
darkwing_duck1
Vice Admiral
The problem being that not every story of every title gets "traded".
I've been out of Marvel mostly since the start of Morrison's botched abortion of a run on X-Men, and Joey Q has pretty much ruined the rest of the MU in his quest to "Ultimatize" all of Marvel.
I never was that big a DC buyer, but they've done their share of pissing me off too. Snatching Young Justice out from under PAD just to farm out the characters to the new Titans, for example.
Same here. Destroying decades worth of some of the most important modern mythology ever made in an attempt to make Lee and Kirby's world conform to how you think it should be is creative narcissism. Joey Q is a great businessman. But he's a terrible editor. He loves most of the bad ideas and hates most of the good ones. Mostly because the bad ones almost always involve controversy, and he loves that. And he refuses to retcon anything, no matter how terrible or controversial the creative ideas are. I long for the days of when Marvel didn't have to resort to controversy or shock tactics in order to sell books. Like I've said before, the only Marvel book I read anymore is The Punisher. Because ironically that fucking lunatic (and I mean that in the good way) Garth Ennis is the only writer at Marvel I trust, with out question, to have the creative restraint and maturity not to screw up classic Marvel characters. But now he's leaving so now I'll pretty much wash my hands of it all.
Dann Dido is the mirror universe version of Quesada, mustache and all. He's a Silver Age Nazi who needs to get over the fact that it's not 1972 anymore. He's undercutting decades worth of creative progress to try and recreate something that really wasn't that great to begin with(sorry guys but IMO The DC Silver Age sucked). Some of his decisions led to good results, like bringing back Hal Jordan, even though I still disagree with it. But most are terrible IMO. Killing Spoiler, bringing back Jason Todd, bringing back Barry Allen, killing Bart Allen, etc. And don't even mention giving Grant Morrison free reign to do whatever he wants, which is always a mistake. The cancellation of Nightwing and Robin's solo titles was the last straw for me. If Johns writes it it's probably golden, but I don't know how much of this nightmarish nostalgia trip I can take.
