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July 5, 2012
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I am finally, FINALLY giving Houdini & Holmes a...
I am finally, FINALLY giving Houdini & Holmes a full revamping to prepare it for rerelease. Drawings will be touched up and redone, pages will be relettered, tone will be added, and this time it will hopefully be released in a printed trade AND high quality digital download. There might even be some bonus pages! (Those that bought the original issues will get sent digital copies of the new version for free. Thank you for supporting me!)
If you want to be updated when Houdini & Holmes is available again, just email me at YGPOLLY at GMAIL.COM with the subject line “Houdini & Holmes Updates”
Wait. What? I’ve never heard of this book.
But NOW I WANT IT.
It sounds amazing, particularly since Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini had such strong disagreements in real life. This is a must have!
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Awesome! Wish these folks luck!
Just reblogging for signal boost, this is a wonderful development, and if there’s any way I can help, even if it’s just getting the word out, let me know.
Wolverine's son is named Daken (also one of my fav character ^^)No, I agree it's an issue of popularity, and that selling enough copies is a natural issue for publishers to worry about, although I disagree that legacy characters marginalise the original ch
I can only go by what we all hear all day long and what retailers tell us. It’s the opposite message from what we see on message boards, but that is actually usually the case, to be honest.
You answered an ask on the topic of legacy characters saying: "But for many reasons, they have become inaccessible to newer or returning readers. It’s just a fact." In my own experience as someone who started reading superhero comic books barely 2 years ag
Yep, and I know that there are others like you. I myself became interested in comics because of a comic that was not just part of a continued story, but was a big crossover title with a ton of legacy and multiple Earth teams (it was JLA/JSA). But the reality is that many legacy books, maybe even most legacy books, have two problems:
1) They marginalize, to some degree, the original characters that the new heroes are spun off from, and
2) They themselves rarely find an audience big enough and loyal enough to keep going.
I always feel like the Grinch pointing this stuff out. But there is the reality we WISH was the truth, and then there is the one that actually exists, and in the latter, all these books just off the top of my head were canceled for low sales; Steph Batgirl, Wolverine’s Son (name escapes me), All-New Atom, X-23, on and on and on. It’s harder to think of recent books of this type that survived than those that failed.
If you go by word of mouth on message boards and Tumblr, it would look like these books are more popular than they are. But what we see time and again is that the message board audience is kind of a gourmand audience, it doesn’t really represent what actually sells. The opposite seems to be true, for the most part.
I hate discussing popularity of comics, or any art, really. It’s not my favorite topic at the best of times. Sales clearly do not equal quality and vice versa. But even in the gravy days of comics, a book that didn’t sell would eventually face cancellation.
Everyone comes in for a different reason and for different books. I have no doubt people have been alienated by the new initiatives at Marvel and DC both, but we also get people all day long telling us they are new DC readers or returning readers who have jumped back on.
It’s all commercial stuff, I kind of wish it wasn’t part of the conversation but realistically, it has to be, you know?
July 4, 2012
If the members of the Secret Six were to attend a midnight showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", who would everyone dress up as?
i have only seen the movie once, a long time ago, so I don’t really know the characters.
Can some more familiar make suggestions?
July 3, 2012
Racism 101: Are you a Racist?: The media lies.
They keep referring to Michael Laney as a “suspect,” when it reality, the only thing suspect about him is that he was riding a red scooter.
They’re simultaneously saying Michael Laney had his hands behind his back and that he was reaching for an officer’s gun (or his…
Another horrifying story.
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