Nine Marvel titles end in October,

[madmarva]

I know Marvel and DC have both been experimenting with bundling the digital version in with the floppy paper comic book... has anyone here downloaded the digital after buying the print edition?

If you have the paper comic that you can take anywhere, why would you want to re-read the digital? Not being a smart alec; I just don't know why you would.

But, I rarely have time to re-read comics unless it's a Marvel Masterwork or DC archive or a collection that I didn't read in serial format.

To me, Marvel Now is a marketing plan with new No. 1s. and new creative teams unless there is something coming Marvel has yet to announce. I read where one Marvel character will have a different person in the suit and something about the possible death of Mocking Bird (probably speculation).

I'm a character reader, but I do follow certain talent. If Perez were drawing the Punisher, I might read it, but maybe not. Greg Rucka's one of my favorite writers, but I don't care for the character enough to put my money down. The Punisher's a good guest, but I've never liked him as a lead. I like Dare Devil OK, but I hadn't read the book regularly since Miller's final arc until Mark Waid starting writing the book. Waid is a writer whose work I'll try most of the time.

Yeah, reading the Avengers-X-Men thing is sort of a mess. I'm reading the main book and AVX and that's it. At least DC hasn't subjected its readers to a big crossover in the New 52. The Court of Owls thing read fine to me just sticking to the Batman. But that Trinity War thing is brewing. I hope the Green Lantern Third Army story doesn't stretch into any books other than the 4 GLs.

[samurainoir]

I know Marvel and DC have both been experimenting with bundling the digital version in with the floppy paper comic book... has anyone here downloaded the digital after buying the print edition?

I've always followed creators over characters and for the past decade anyways, Marvel has had more writers and artists that I will read than DC. Even though I did pick up a few more DC books with the new 52 (and sample a bunch more).

Since this is just musical chairs over at Marvel, I don't really think this changes my Marvel reading habits since I assume Jonathan Hickman, Jason Aaron, Ed Brubaker, Matter Fraction, and Brian Bendis, are all just swapping books after long runs. Continuity remains the same so that we do feel the character repercussions of AVX... I can't imagine Wolverine will be too popular as the head of the Jean Grey school when all this shakes out.

AVX to me is kind of the same irritation I felt with Blackest Night... a big crossover where I only picked up the titles with the writers I like, that made assumptions around a reader buying everything. I buy two X-Men titles and two Avengers titles, and there are too many questions left over because I don't follow Legacy or New Mutants or X-Force or Avengers Academy or whatever.

[The Toyroom]

I haven't been happy with DC for awhile now, but this won't make me pick up more Marvel books as a result. The only Marvel books I've been reading regularly over the last year have been Daredevil and Captain America. I've cut my comic buying WAY back and the New 52 was the catalyst. The swapping of talent doesn't interest me enough to jump on board any of these new titles. I haven't read X-Men books in years and Bendis finally scared me off the Avengers franchise. I haven't read any Spidey titles since One More Day. And I am not a fan of the constant renumbering, as I prefer the legacy numbering. But who am I fooling, none of these titles/characters even resemble the ones I started reading about back in the early 70s...

Make Mine Reprints

[madmarva]

I have a feeling the suits probably pushed for this at Marvel. DC came from way behind to outsell them on their top 10 or 15 books for about six months, but this is a bit more organic than DC's reboot, New No.1 s but not throwing the continuity out with the bathwater.

Berto makes a lot of good points. The price-point on comics is killing the readership as much as anything. Digital should cut out a lot of the cost of producing books, but they are priced virtually the same. If digital is going to save comics as some have theorized, the price has to come down and way down. For comics to seriously increase their readership digitally, the price is going to have to fall down to the dollar range, where a person can sample 10 titles for a relatively low amount to see what he likes. If something like that happened maybe the readership could grow because the cost would be incidental. A person might buy a comic to read at lunch or on the subway ride home for a dollar. But at $3 and $4, it's too much. Only those of us who are addicted to them for whatever reason are willing to pay that much.

[emeraldknight47]

Yeeesh! Doesn't ANYONE in the big two have ANY original ideas, anymore!!! It sounds the "House of Ideas" has turned into the "House of Let's Copy our Distinguished Competition." Enough already! And the sad this is, this nonsense WON'T stop until fans and consumers STOP buying the product they put out....

[ctc]

>It will be interesting to see if Marvel's approach pleases longtime fans, the losers in DC's reboot, any better.

It was pointed out in another post that Marvel and DC have been swapping readers for the last little bit; and I suspect this'll be the thing that gets them back to Marvel for the next little while.

Don C.

[samurainoir]

Seems like business as usual. Pretty much all those titles were relaunched with new #1 issues and then returned to their "legacy numbering" in time for a double zero anniversary issue. It seems these days that they do it whenever a new creative team comes on board after a long run. Essentially my understanding is their top tier writing talent is playing musical chairs... Hickman's jumping off the FF franchise over to the Avengers. Bendis from Avengers to X-Men. Fraction is ending his long run on Iron Man and Thor, Brubaker I think is finally off of Captain America. Incredible Hulk just got relaunched less than a year ago.

[Blue Meanie]

Marvel better have whatever reboots ready to roll as soon as the titles are ended...if they don't it will give older collectors/readers all the more reason to stop collecting/reading. From what I've heard Marvel is doing this on purpose to compete with the DC Zero issues that are coming out at the same time. It really is sad and pathetic what the BIG 2 are doing these days. It's almost as if they really don't want to be comic book companies anymore. They are more interested in making movies and crappy toys then they are in putting out quality comics at a cheaper price. $4 is ridiculous. DC's price point is the only thing that's keeping them afloat. The New 52 in my opinion is a complete train wreck and there is no way that they can ever undo what is being done right now. I've completely cut out comics....only title I get is Worlds Finest and that's because Perez is doing it. Soon as Perez is finished on the title...so am I. Bring back newsprint and bring the prices down on comics. Cancel the 50 Bazillion X-Men, Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and Avengers titles and give me ONE DECENT book a month from those titles. Just one more nail in the comic book industries coffin. RIP DC and Marvel.

[madmarva]

Nine Marvel titles end in October according to Marvel's solicitations, but at least some of them are likely to be relaunched/rebooted/started over between November and February.

Fairly prominent titles — Captain America, Fantastic Four, FF, Incredible Hulk, Invincible Iron Man, New Mutants, The Mighty Thor, Uncanny X-Men and X-Men Legacy.

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Nine Marvel titles end in October,

From what I've read this isn't a starting from the ground up approach like DCnU, but more of a reorganization of talent and characters with new No. 1 issues. Wish DC had taken more of this approach, but it probably wouldn't have sold as well early if it had. Marvel following so DC's lead so quickly on its heels attests to DC sales success.

It will be interesting to see if Marvel's approach pleases longtime fans, the losers in DC's reboot, any better.