@Om1kron: They just got a new artist on Batwoman. I understand that writing and drawing a monthly comic is incredibly time consuming and hard work but it's a huge bummer. Amy Reeder is nowhere near the artist that Williams is.
Hate to say this G-Man but you are part of the system that focuses most the attention onto the big publishers leaving the indies out in the cold in terms of press coverage and attention. Marvel or DC will announce their next big event, whatever it may be and shortly there are numerous articles on this website about that event and what that will mean for their respective universes. The indies cant match the hype machines DC and Marvel have available to them thus they get less attention. Also every Wednesday there will almost always be a review of a comic with Batman in it and another with Wolverine. The rest will mostly be reviews from other Marvel or DC comics with the occasional indie thrown in. Some might say the site is covering the titles the fans are most interested in. That may be true but how are we the fans that are not in the know suppost to find out about the good indie comics out there if the comic news site they go to does not prominently display that info. Generally I think the staff of Comic Vine does a good job but you need to spread your focus around more to the entire comic book industry.
I completely agree with Lorex.
G-Man, I understand that it's necessary to cover what's most popular, but if you want to have more articles on CV about Indie Comics, write more articles. It's as simple as that. You have a keyboard, you have a soapbox, you have an audience. Laud them, criticize them, whatever; bring attention to them by talking about them. Your article is one step in the right direction. I hope to see more like this.
I'm really glad other users have picked up on the hypocrisy of this article. The editors have a platform to shine a light on truly great indie writers. There was news last week of Matt Kindt taking over for Frankenstein: Agent of Shade. All the coverage here was on how Jeff Lemire was leaving and picking up other titles. Matt Kindt is an incredible writer (Superspy, Revolver) and he deserves at least a mention. I understand that Marvel and DC get's page views but there are innovative and interesting things happening in small published comic books, that get drowned out by derivative superhero crap.
@Mizakazim: Is that Rafael Grampa's Madman? That picture is the background to my phone. He's totally top three favorite comic book artists right now. Can't wait to see it finished.
I'll totally check it out. Speaking of comic magazines, does anyone still read Heavy Metal? I watched the 1981 movie again (still rad) and I've been curious to see where it came from.
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