@Babs: and i'll reffer you to the comment i made soon after. what does it matter if it was the same ad? how does that affect anything?
i understand you made your pissy, ill-concieved video, (and no thanks i'll spare my face from another palming, and not watch it again.) and the white knight bregade is going to immediately jump to your defense, but what exactly is your arguement? that ads shouldnt be in comics? (re: the title of your video.) that there should only be ads that you dont care about?(your comment to Jakob187.) how are any of those arguements in any way practical? you made the comparison by shopping a bunch of ads into ME2, but here's the hard truth: Mass Effect 2 doesn't have overabundant advertizing because it doesn't need it. comics do. that's not to say video games these days dont get stuffed to the britches with ads, (racing games and sports games being the biggest offenders,) but the arguement against ads in games is far more valid than any arguement against ads in comics, because the video game industry makes money, and the comic industry doesn't. almost any printed publication these days, be it Blue Beetle or Cosmo, has an ad on almost every other page. even National Geographic is pretty ad heavy these days.
So yeah, Bioware has a big, shiny ad campaign, and they're going to use it. thier ad campaign involves a collection of posters featuring characters from Mass Effect 2 and a word defining thier role in the game, and so they decided to include multiple ads in one comic as a theme, but the fact is, ALL comics have ads of ALL kinds, and if you're so put off by the abundant but necessary ads in the floppies, then wait for the trade. (which, of course, you can't because you have to review the issue, in which case, just review the book and whine less.) and if your problem is that Bioware baught up a shitload of ad space, then that arguement is still impractical because if DC gets picky about who places ads where, they're going to go out of business.
@Babs: No, pretty sure he's saying that ads are going to be in comics anyway, tons of them, because the industry is circling the drain. at this point, it's better to have a quality product filling that space than a bunch of other "join the army!" and "Gamer is on Blu-Ray!" ads. i reffer you to my previous comment.
hey, know what? when the comic book industry is making ANY MONEY on it's own, or has ANY BEARING on pop culture at large beyond a well for the movie industry to drink it's fill from? go ahead and make your whiny video. i love comics, hell i write comics, but until the comic book industry figures out a way to get out of the forced, superhero worshiping niche it constantly digs itself into and then complains about, tough cookie. ads are ads.
can i point some things out to all these whiney fanboys?
1: Disney also owns Miramax. the guys who distrubuted There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men. it's pretty fucking safe to say we wont see mouse ears on Doctor Doom.
2: Joe Quesada has done a better job of running Marvel into the ground than Disney could ever do.
3: DC Comics is owned by Warner Brothers, and has been for the last 4 years, so any DC fanboys yucking it up can shut up too. but i should also point out that DC has been doing much better creatively as a whole for the last 3 years, and that's after a whole year of being owned by the Bugs Bunny company.
4: Disney has a well documented history of how they treat the companies they own, and one word alone should mitigate your b*tchy squaking: Pixar.
5: Marvel is now a movie studio, not unlike the afformentioned Miramax, and Disney puts major clout behind any movie connected to them.
6: that old platitude about disney being a big, heartless corperation is outdated, the CEO who tried to run the company into the ground has been gone for years, and like i said before, Joe Quesada is doing a fine job of fucking up Marvel on his own right now.
last point: do you know what this changes? absolutely nothing. at all. really. Marvel is still going to be Marvel, except they'll have bigger budgets for thier movies, better developers on thier video games, and more money to throw around thier weight. boo freaking hoo.
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