For as awful as Marvel is now, they still have decades of phenomenal material to pull from.
Collected editions, especially the Epic line (big enough to cover a healthy amount of material, but not omnibus big, which are not good for easy reading) should be an evergreen part of their business. There's SO MUCH material that, by the time you finish printing a run, you can legitimately start over. New fans and fans who didn't jump on the first time around, or who were collecting something else, can get started, see a whole comic from inception through its golden eras.
Floppy comics are a hassle to sort and store, but handsome trades with matching spines look great and are easy to shelve and read.
And you don't have to spend a small fortune and an eternity sorting through back issue bins at the back, on the floor, or in the basement of the comic shop
It would be so Disney to screw up the only good thing Marvel's done in twenty years.
It's dead. It's all dead. The 21st century will destroy the greatness of the 20th century and they'll do it with glee.
I’m frankly amazed that a normal, older, white guy still had a job there. I assumed they were all personae non-grata.
This one stings.
For as awful as Marvel is now, they still have decades of phenomenal material to pull from.
Collected editions, especially the Epic line (big enough to cover a healthy amount of material, but not omnibus big, which are not good for easy reading) should be an evergreen part of their business. There's SO MUCH material that, by the time you finish printing a run, you can legitimately start over. New fans and fans who didn't jump on the first time around, or who were collecting something else, can get started, see a whole comic from inception through its golden eras.
Floppy comics are a hassle to sort and store, but handsome trades with matching spines look great and are easy to shelve and read.
And you don't have to spend a small fortune and an eternity sorting through back issue bins at the back, on the floor, or in the basement of the comic shop
It would be so Disney to screw up the only good thing Marvel's done in twenty years.