March 10th, 2010
Deal or No
The latest in our ongoing series of “Let’s never get hired to do real comics!” comics.
The latest in our ongoing series of “Let’s never get hired to do real comics!” comics.
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March 11th, 2010 at 1:10 am
If you ask me, they need to imitate the practices of Japanese, South Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, etc. publishers, where applicable. In both sales and variety, manga and manhua dwarf western comics by an incredible factor. It’s like the Golden Age never ended there – cheap printing, genre collections, and omnipresent distribution mean that any individual creator who is not blisteringly incompetent and can stick to a schedule can likely find an audience.
The absence of a train-commute culture probably hurts us, and there’s no helping that, but I can’t help but think that the way to win is to leave the comic book shops behind and start selling in places where people already are. (It works for Archie, after all.)
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March 11th, 2010 at 1:53 am
This reminds me of that Conan skit where I think USA and Russia have a race, only for them to kill each other and have Libya win.
Where in this case I guess Libya would be Boom Studios.
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March 11th, 2010 at 2:53 am
Absolute. Genius.
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:23 am
You guys, you rock so hard you could only be stopped by Bruce Willis drilling a hole in you and… No, wait, bad analogy. But you rock.
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March 11th, 2010 at 7:11 am
try something new????…..man dont u guys know about Wednesday Comics, Spider Woman Motion Comics and things like the Noir line……oh wait all that stuff sucked yea lets try something new….i like what you said about costume changes….i’ll never understand why having a new costume or having someone new in the suit is a trend that never goes away.
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March 11th, 2010 at 8:43 am
“The latest in our ongoing series of “Let’s never get hired to do real comics!” comics.”
I dunno, guys, I think one day Joe Q is gonna call you up and say, “OK then, let’s see you do something better.”
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March 11th, 2010 at 8:55 am
@Mark yeah, without the mass transit commuters, we just can’t sustain that kind of industry. (Hell, we can’t even sustain newspapers)
though I’m curious to see where we go when digital comics gain a little traction. Cafe Ave (french company) is testing comics on the iphone/pad. They deal directly with the artists and have no qualm supporting small/unknown artists. (why isn’t LBFA on that system yet
?)
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March 11th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Great strip guys.
What’s sad is that behind both doors is yet another round of this game. And another, and another, and so forth. Sigh.
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March 11th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Funny, honest comic. I hope it doesn’t keep you all from getting paid to do this someday.
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March 11th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Please tell me this strip was inspired by the announcement of the Hawkeye and Mockingbird book.
I mean if DC has a book about a married male archer and bird themed female, then MARVEL MUST HAVE IT TO, AMIRITE?
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March 11th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Zach – Unfortunately, this strip was written before that announcement, so this is a sad example of life imitating art.
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March 11th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Great, simply great comic.
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March 11th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
This is the Grade-est of Grade-A commentary. Bravo.
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March 11th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
@Zach
Oh, totally. Not like they could’ve gone with a Luke Cage and Jessica Jones book; no sir, it’s all tit for tat when it comes to Marvel and DC.
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March 11th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
BRILLIANT!!!!
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March 11th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
I’m excited for Heroic Day. Excuse me, I meant Brightest Age.
Also, nice pun Max.
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March 12th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
@Mark: i’ve been thinking for a long time we should have comics magazines like 2000AD or Weekly Young Sunday but with USAian comics. I think it would work good, alraedy Shonen Jump is in some grocerty stores and at every magazine section in barnes and nobles.
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March 12th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I love a good anthology. I wonder if you could get away with black and white in America, though.
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March 13th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Long-time listener, first-time caller. Gotta say, guys, if you never did another strip, this one would be enough. It’s a perfect little summary of the state of the industry.
Unfortunately, it’s still true enough that I actually can’t laugh at it. ^^U
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March 14th, 2010 at 2:32 am
They need to start selling comics at convenience stores and supermarkets again. Put ‘em at kid’s eye level, like they do with the candy. Marvel Adventures would be perfect for this.
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March 14th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I just realized that you guys went from no pupils to ALL PUPILS. Awesome!
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March 16th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Wait, wait, a Hawkeye and Mockingbird book?! I admit haven’t been paying attention lately, but day-um, that sad.
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March 17th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Tim, Maxtothemax, Tommy – Thanks, guys.
Ffordesoon – Thanks for the call.
BurntToShreds – That’s actually starting to happen, albeit very, very slowly. I’ve been seeing comics in 7-11s and occasionally in supermarkets again lately, so maybe there’s hope.
Larry – Gotta keep you on your toes.
Vanessa – Seems kinda lame, right? It’ll probably be a pretty decent book though, even if the premise makes me facepalm.
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March 17th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
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March 23rd, 2010 at 8:40 am
Excellent commentary on the perpetual circle-jerk that is mainstream comics. (At least at the moment)
Call them on their shit! Do it!
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April 16th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Does Quesada’s hair really look that way? Last I saw a picture of him it was nothing like that
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June 23rd, 2010 at 4:01 pm
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September 13th, 2011 at 9:45 am
This sort of seems strange after this month, unless Marvel have something planned.
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