Do you like Dynamite Comics?

[The Toyroom]

Plus, I'm not a fan of how these guys do business behind the scenes.

How so?

[Captain]

^^ They have a very nasty habit of trying to steal other companies licenses. I dont mean the AC/DC/Marvel Super Powers issue either. I know a guy who works with Moonstone, and Dynamite has tried to usurp several of their licenses by throwing mad money at the situation.
Too much money and not enough class running Dynamite!!

[The Toyroom]

^ Wasn't there an issue between Moonstone and Dynamite over the rights to The Phantom?

[fallensaviour]

I have been collecting red sonja from the start.Have a bunch of lone ranger,The man with no name and army of darkness.
I like the art and the stories have been decent.
However the biggest and I mean biggest thing to frigging cheese me off is when they do 3-5 frigging covers every book!!!
I really despise that.I refuse to buy anymore than one cover for any book put them inside the book as pin-up old school style.
Or have the artist do the cover or the writer.But having 5 different artist depict one cover of one story every book is stupid...
And a blatantly disgusting money grab.
P.S. this really annoys me...

[aquatroy]

Zorro is a great read. After issue 14 (maybe 15) the stories have gone from telling Zorro's origin to showing how individuals have been effected by Zorro's actions. Very good one & done stories. Wagner's writing his *** off and Francesco Francavilla is doing a great job with the illustration. If he was on Lone Ranger, I would probably still be reading it.

[MadMikeyD]

I love the Lone Ranger and have since issue #1. I have also enjoyed Project Superpowers and all of its spin-offs. Zorro is also a very good book.

[palitoy]

My LCS owner kind of forced Super Powers on me because I like Ross so much. I gave it a shot but dropped it after a few issues, the concept was solid but the pacing was turtle like and some of the dialogue was so infantile, it made me angry.

[samurainoir]

^^ They have a very nasty habit of trying to steal other companies licenses. I dont mean the AC/DC/Marvel Super Powers issue either. I know a guy who works with Moonstone, and Dynamite has tried to usurp several of their licenses by throwing mad money at the situation.
Too much money and not enough class running Dynamite!!

Which other licenses? I know about The Phantom, but thought Dynamite had stepped off and decided to wait for the license to expire before beginning their run (no doubt with Alex Ross involved somehow).

[Earth 2 Chris]

I really wanted to like their Lone Ranger, but decompression doesn't begin to describe the slow-as-molases pacing going on there. I'm not even sure the Rangers ever made it into Bryant's Gap before I dropped it. And that was like issue #7 or so I believe.

Project Super Powers looks pretty on the outside, but these characters have been done by others, and done better from what I've seen for the most part. Ross' involvement gave it a certain pedigree, but that's about it.

Chris

[Captain]

^ Wasn't there an issue between Moonstone and Dynamite over the rights to The Phantom?

Yep that was the first shot across the bow. They tried to steal the license. Not sure of the details, but in the end Moonstone had something in place, and KF and Dynamite couldnt do anything. Once the license term is up though, dynamite has already stated they will beat any offer Moonstone makes.

The other two properties are based on old sixties tv shows. I wont name them directly since I'm not 100% sure its not supposed to be hush hush or not....Either way, Dynamite didnt win any fans in the way they handled these dealings.

[johnnystorm]

^ Wasn't there an issue between Moonstone and Dynamite over the rights to The Phantom?

Yeah, awhile back Dynamite announced they had the rights to The Phantom, and those rights were (and still are) under contract to Moonstone. I remember Moonstone being kinda professional about the whole thing in their statements to the media, and Dynamite's Nick Whatever being less than professional.

Personally, the Sherlock Holmes book they did was very good, And I've been keeping up on Zorro & Lone Ranger, but doing so through the clearance boxes, I haven't bought a full price issue of either in quite awhile. I started Project Superpowers but quickly realized it was headed nowhere and served only to trademark Alex Ross costume designs and endless character logos.

I had some hopes for the Green Hornet, but since they've announced , what, FIVE individual series, each with 4-6 covers per issue? Not buying in, sorry. I'll get 'em later. Won't be a problem , plenty of supply.

Somehow I think Diamond Comics has a hand in this whole affair, butI dunno. They throw a lot of money at licensed properties, somehow that's gotta come back and bite you. Seriously, Robocop?

And I agree, the concepts are excellent for some of these series, the endless pacing and nothing hapening issues are too much to deal with. Lone Ranger's been around for 4 years and only 20 issues? C'mon....this pacing makes Flash: Rebirth look like a whizzer!

[The Toyroom]

I am still not sure exactly what the relationship is between Ross and Dynamite...they were publishers on his recent Marvel work...is he exclusive to them?

[thunderbolt]

^^ They have a very nasty habit of trying to steal other companies licenses. I dont mean the AC/DC/Marvel Super Powers issue either. I know a guy who works with Moonstone, and Dynamite has tried to usurp several of their licenses by throwing mad money at the situation.
Too much money and not enough class running Dynamite!!

How does Marvel get messed up in the Super Powers non controversy? I understand AC and ABC Comics/Wildstorm/DC. ALthough, AC really missed the boat on those characters by not doing anything with them except lackluster black and white comics.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I was disappointed in the way they handled the Battlestar Galactica license. I prefer the classic series, but they wrote their classic stories like they were the new characters and story lines with the illustrator drawing the original likenesses. Hard to explain, but if I'm shelling out $4 for nostalgia, then I want it to feel old school.

I've looked a Lone Ranger but haven't pulled the trigger on purchasing it (pun intended).

[Captain]

How does Marvel get messed up in the Super Powers non controversy? I understand AC and ABC Comics/Wildstorm/DC. ALthough, AC really missed the boat on those characters by not doing anything with them except lackluster black and white comics.

Marvel said they owned one of the GA characters dynanite was going to use...dont remember which one?As you said it became non-issue of sorts. did force DC into bringing back the Super Powers trademark though.