BKole

Sorry mate, but this is a meaningless arguement. Why would a studio waste their money on the Matrix, which doesn't already have an existing fan-base? Perhaps because the story is good, the idea is promising and it has a clever, innovative and interesting directory behind it. I dunno, maybe if people stopped getting butthurt over their favourite characters getting passed up to let 'crap' characters like Guardians of the Galaxy, or Ant-Man get made, we might live in a comic-reading community where we don't fling turds at each new title coming out because Batman isn't getting his Bat-pole out and Catwoman's Cup size has reduced.

Frankly, I want to see Ant-Man. I will enjoy it, because I am a big fan of Hank Pym, and to say it's a waste of time is as meaningful an argument as why do Fish live in pools instead of streams. Inconsequential.

I think the more quirky books don't ever get a foot hold in the market. It's all good and well saying 'DC don't do enough to make sure a title sticks' blah blah. In the 'olden days' yeah, they did switch up creative teams - on titles that had previously sold well. If it always sold poorly, why bother? they're wasting money on something with no return.

I think there's a certain amount of rose tinting in this. I'm not happy about titles getting canned either - Frank was one of my pull list titles, along with Res man. But I can see most of the dark stuff getting deleted in favour of more Bats/JL stuff. Just sells better.

@Z3RO180: He isn't part of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

I read this.

It's called supporting something different in a market saturated with people in capes punching each other into buildings.

@inferiorego: No that.

That is a damn shame. I'd pay for it. So, you got yourself what...2 dollars right here.

I'm just curious here - with such a wealth of information inside the comicvine website, and that it's ease of use, why don't you guys just turn this website into a comic collector app. All you need to do (he says with little to no technical ability) is link a mobile version of comicvine to the website, and include something like a 'add this comic to my collection' button.

Easy (he says.)

@Jonny_Anonymous: I'm glad to see the point of what I said wasn't lost then.

@CircularLogic: @Jonny_Anonymous: What he's trying to say is that they're great books, but as with what happens with comics, no matter how great they are, people look back at them and go 'Oh, that wasn't very good was it? I didn't like this, or that. Actually, it was a distinctly average affair.' There's just complete polar views, some view it's great, and some think it's awful. It's obvious in this very thread, people calling out the concept of Jen as the thing, or the art style, or Fraction is a terrible writer, and then there's people like me saying 'well, no. He's pretty good, actually.'

People do this all the time. Waid and Ringo's run is one of the all time greats, in my opinion, but people look back on say, the Ben in Heaven thing and say 'That wasn't good was it? Killing him off and then bringing him back. YAWN RESURRECTIONS.'

Same for Hickman's return of Jonny Storm storyline, the same of Millar's Nu-Earth Story, or say, Simonson's Malice storyline, or Byrne's Galactus storyline. Comic fans either look back at total toss with Rose tinted glasses and go 'THAT SPAWN STORY ARC WHERE NOTHING HAPPEN FOR SIX ISSUES WAS EPIC' or they look back and go 'THAT STORYLINE THAT WAS MET WITH INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM WAS TOTAL RUBBISH. HE SHOULD NEVER WORK AGAIN.'

Never wish a creator out of work, never knock a man for trying something different. Fraction doesn't always hit the mark, but he always tries, and that's worth a whole lot. I'll be reading this, and I'll following the various voices of dissent from the Peanut gallery, calling out the book on why it's crap etc etc, and how they can't wait to buy the next issue to complain. Yawn. His Hawkeye is excellent, his Defenders, less so. This is the way it works. Not everything Morrison does is gold, or Hickman, or say, I dunno, Bendis? Everyone does a fluffer once, but they're there and they're working and it's all good.

As I always say, if you don't like it, don't buy it.

I think a lot of people missed the freaking point with this. I don't necesssarily think that G-Man was talking about EVENT COMICS like Avengers Vs. X-Men, Blackest Night etc. He was talking about CROSSOVER COMICS where universes that previously have not intereracted, or do not interact with each other often, do so.

For Example, Avengers Vs. X-Men is AN EVENT; Infestation is A CROSSOVER. I'd actually like to see more Crossover comics - One of the very, very first trade paperbacks of American comics I got was one of the second round of Amalgam Comics that came out of the 90's. They were stupid and fun and they had characters I'd never seen before (I.e. Green Lantern, etc)

DC Vs. Marvel was silly fun, and other crossover comics, like War of the Independants is a great read (Probably read by me and about six other people because it doesn't have Batman in it...) but Crossovers can be fun and silly and great for publicity for the characters. We're not talking about 50 tie-in issues of Cyclops stroking his new facial hair maleviolently, we're talking about Thor Vs Superman, Batman Vs the Lone Ranger, Zoro Vs Savage Dragon. Just something fun and different - but instead, we have 48 posters going 'AVENGERS VS. X-MEN IS TEH SUXOR. LOL. WTF? LMAO.' Whatever. Just read the article before you post, and maybe engage brain before that?

I'd be a lot more excited for this if it was someone else writing it. So far the least essential, interesting and original takes on the Watchmen stories have been JMS's attempts at Niteowl and Doc Manhat. They're just very poor. I've enjoyed some of JMS' work, and I've disliked a slightly larger proportion of it. Always given it a chance, but...given the experience I've had with his other BW titles - not for me.

Before Watchmen, not Cannibalise Watchmen. Which is what's happening anyway, arguably.

Well, Risso is an excellent, excellent artist, but I won't be buying this any more than any of the other Watchmen series. I tried most of the first issues and frankly, the only two series worth anything are Silk Spectre and Minutemen. Everything else (Sorry Azz, but Comedian and Rorschach just aren't quite on par worth 100 Bullets or Wonder Woman) just didn't capture the same spark as Spectre and MM, they have a sort of quaint feeling of foreboding that's moving through them, whereas everything else is just...trying to be Watchmen but not hitting the beats.