Comments on: MUST READ SAN DIEGO COMICON WRAP UP

By: Consumer Unit 5012

Consumer Unit 5012 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:39 +0000

“And come on, it’s Marvel Comics – is there a comics company with a better track record of digital delivery than Marvel?”

…Every single webcomic-writer in the universe?

By: Sofa King

Sofa King — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:19:43 +0000

What DID happen to the Milestone characters?

By: Lister Sage

Lister Sage — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:07:09 +0000

Flip The PAge: The thing is MGK’s mock Marvelman story isn’t all that far off from what Moore already did with the character. So if Zeb did write that story it would be completely in keeping with the Marvelman saga.

I haven’t read any Wells to make a judgment on the man, so I’d gladly read whatever he had to write. The only reason I haven’t so far is Venom does nothing for me and I’ve had an X-book embargo since the early 2000s (with a few exceptions).

By: Flip The PAge

Flip The PAge — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:22:13 +0000

Okay hate to say it but with how well Zeb has handled New Mutants he could POTENTIALLY pull off a decent Marvelman comic…

… I feel scorn heading my way somehow

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:07:10 +0000

The real reason Marvel bought Marvelman is simple, they’re going to blackmail Alan Moore by threatening to let Jeph Loeb write the series if Moore doesn’t agree to work for them.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:59:03 +0000

Will daredevil be Redevil or Dared?

I’m thinking the former if he is going to be an evil twin and the latter if he will have a skateboard and appeal to “kids these days with their music and hair”.

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » July 28, 2009: Like a movie trailer

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:39:17 +0000

[...] “ITEM! PRACTICALLY NOTHING EVER HAPPENS OR IS REVEALED AT SAN DIEGO THAT FUCKING MATTERS. THE ENTIRE FUCKING THING IS LIKE A MOVIE TRAILER THAT LASTS FOR A FUCKING WEEK!“ – Christopher Bird [...]

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:14:42 +0000

this post needs more sarcasm

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:27:23 +0000

Man, why you gotta be raining on my Marvelman parade?

By: Suzene

Suzene — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:54:27 +0000

Bah. The main point of SDCC is to spend way too much money in Artist’s Alley anyway.

By: Lister Sage

Lister Sage — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:11:00 +0000

SC: Yes. On all counts.

By: Kyle W.

Kyle W. — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:39:57 +0000

Ah, but where else could I get signatures by Jeff Smith, Sergio Aragones, Brian Lee O’Malley, and Matt Fraction, and forget to talk to Robert Downey Jr. due to seeing one of them?

Admittedly, the Kevin Smith panel demonstrated your thesis very well.

By: SC

SC — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:04:20 +0000

Oh, and Gaiman and Mark Buckingham have both said that they hope this will give them a chance to finish their story.

By: SC

SC — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:02:54 +0000

The legal issues surrounding Marvelman/Miracleman are mostly settled at this point, though, as Gaiman commented, McFarlane could still try and sue again.

Barring that, reprints of the 80s series would just require Marvel reaching appropriate compensation agreements with the creators involved (Gaiman, Leach, Davis, Totleben; Moore, so far as I know, gave up his rights to Gaiman, and he earlier said that he’d support reprints and that his money should just be given to Mick Anglo). And Marvel has enough money to reach an agreement with McFarlane, one expects.

Bottom line, I can’t imagine Marvel would have gone to all the trouble of buying Marvelman and making a huge deal out of it if they didn’t expect to be able to reprint the most valuable stuff (Quesada commented on CBR that this news was potentially very bad for people like himself who paid $200+ for the out-of-print trades).

By: Dru

Dru — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:41:21 +0000

As far as I know, the rights for Miracleman are tied up by Todd McFarlane. There was some fuss between him and Gaiman about them. If they are not going to finish the FUCKING EXCELLENT Miracleman run I’m not interested. Any bets on just how quickly Marvel can suck away everything interesting about the character?