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Roberto Orci Comic Question

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Jsplinis

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Does anyone know if there is a significance to the fact that Roberto Orci is listed as Story Consultant on IDW's Star Trek: Ongoing but not on any of their latest JJ-Trek mini series?

He is not listed in the credits for Starfleet Academy, Manifest Destiny or the Green Lantern crossover.

Is this a sign of him being to busy to oversee all of them? Or does that mean that only The Ongoing Series and The Countdown/ Villain minis have the Orci seal of approval?

Has anyone seen or heard this brought up in an interview or somewhere else?

Thanks and have fun,
Jsplinis
 
I think that Orci is no longer directly involved with the moviemaking process (or at least is more peripherally involved than before), so it stands to reason that he wouldn't be in a position to keep the comics consistent(ish) with the movies anymore. I guess he's moved on to other, non-Trek projects. (Looks like he's co-producing Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy remake.)
 
Yeah, Orci is pretty much done with Trek. Wouldn't surprise me if that's one of the reasons the Ongoing series is ending.
 
It seems more likely to me that they just want to relaunch the series and give it an extra push. I doubt Orci being involved would make much difference one way or the other.
 
It's certainly true the trailers of Beyond make it clear the Ongoing would need to undergo changes were it to continue after the movie anyway.
 
JonnyQuest037 said:
Yeah. I'm just saying that comic book publishers don't need too much of an excuse to relaunch a series from #1 these days. :)
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Or just slap a #1 on the cover even though it is clearly a #24
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Well #1 issues just sell better than other ones. Amazing Spider-Man #1 (from 2014, not 2015, 1999 or 1963) was the best selling issue of the year, if I recall that correctly.
 
Yep, that's totally why they do it. Oddly enough, back in the Silver Age of comics, the thinking was different. Publishers assumed that readers would prefer the stability of a long-running title over trying an unknown new series. That's why when the Barry Allen Flash got his own title in 1959, they just resumed the numbering with #105, picking up right where Flash Comics left off in 1949, ten years before.

There's also no "#1" visible on the cover of 1960's Green Lantern #1, for the same reason.
 
JonnyQuest037 said:
Yep, that's totally why they do it. Oddly enough, back in the Silver Age of comics, the thinking was different. Publishers assumed that readers would prefer the stability of a long-running title over trying an unknown new series. That's why when the Barry Allen Flash got his own title in 1959, they just resumed the numbering with #105, picking up right where Flash Comics left off in 1949, ten years before.

There's also no "#1" visible on the cover of 1960's Green Lantern #1, for the same reason.
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Since superheroe movies "drag" more casual movie watchers into comics (like me), they probably assumed that they'd prefer to start with a #1 (or just buy a Complete Collection of mid-2000s Guardians of the Galaxy comics like me).
 
Jinn said:
Since superheroe movies "drag" more casual movie watchers into comics (like me), they probably assumed that they'd prefer to start with a #1 (or just buy a Complete Collection of mid-2000s Guardians of the Galaxy comics like me).
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I don't think the movies really have much effect on the comics sales at all. The movies do blockbuster business and most comics are still struggling at tens of thousands of sales.
 
Idran said:
Has any series ever tried just having #1 issues, out of curiosity? :p
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Not an ongoing, but there are some miniseries that are technically speaking a series of #1 issues, like DC Retroactive, which gave us DC Retroactive: Batman: The 1970s #1, DC Retroactive: Batman: The 1980s #1, DC Retroactive: The 1990s #1, DC Retroactive: Green Lantern: The 1970s #1, and so on. (I know there are others I can't think of now.)

JonnyQuest037 said:
I don't think the movies really have much effect on the comics sales at all. The movies do blockbuster business and most comics are still struggling at tens of thousands of sales.
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I don't think comic films really bring in new readers per se, but I do think they draw the attention of comics fans toward certain properties-- since the Guardians of the Galaxy film, for example, interest in the comic surged enough to allow not only a Guardians of the Galaxy ongoing, but also a Legendary Star-Lord ongoing, a Rocket Racoon ongoing, and a bunch of other minis and such.
 
Idran said:
Has any series ever tried just having #1 issues, out of curiosity? :p
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The recent Multiversity miniseries was made up of several #1 issues (each the first issue of a different Earth's hypothetical ongoing series), with a single #2 issue drawing it all together at the end.
 
Stevil2001 said:
Not an ongoing, but there are some miniseries that are technically speaking a series of #1 issues, like DC Retroactive, which gave us DC Retroactive: Batman: The 1970s #1, DC Retroactive: Batman: The 1980s #1, DC Retroactive: The 1990s #1, DC Retroactive: Green Lantern: The 1970s #1, and so on. (I know there are others I can't think of now.)


I don't think comic films really bring in new readers per se, but I do think they draw the attention of comics fans toward certain properties-- since the Guardians of the Galaxy film, for example, interest in the comic surged enough to allow not only a Guardians of the Galaxy ongoing, but also a Legendary Star-Lord ongoing, a Rocket Racoon ongoing, and a bunch of other minis and such.
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I'm not sure, but I think I read somewhere that each member of the GotG has or will have their own solo series either now or soon.
 
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