The Movement #12

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I hope this ends like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid! Except Vengeance Moth has a little trouble getting the wheelchair rolling, so when she hears the gunfire cut down the rest of the team, she simply says “Fuck that!” and scoots out the back door.



The main problem with comic books is that they’re not a form of entertainment where the best written material rises to the top (the best art will generally sell better than the best writing simply because we’re a shallow people, us humans. But I don’t want to write about the art! I just felt it had to be mentioned since comic books rely on both art and writing for a well told story). In comic books, sales are all about the characters. Marvel has a lot more iconic characters and teams with large fan bases, so a lot of their titles sell well across the board: Spider-Man, Punisher, Captain America, Wolverine, The Avengers, The Hulk, The X-Men. The list of names that will sell a title is long over at Marvel. DC basically has Batman. Sure, Superman and Green Lantern can round out that list but I wanted to put the burden on Batman’s shoulders. I don’t think Wonder Woman and The Flash have the same kind of dollar drawing power as any of the Marvel list. Possibly the thing that has given DC the biggest boost in building a fan base for characters has been their cartoons. So now Teen Titans and Young Justice and Harley Quinn have a rabid following because they were all written so well in the cartoons. But it takes a long period of adjustment for fans to recognize that their favorite characters are not always going to be treated so well on the writing side of things. So we have a series like Teen Titans that ran for thirty issues without one good issue in the batch and, by February numbers, it’s outselling The Movement which has had eleven good issues in the batch (I can’t judge #12 yet) by 20,000 issues. Now that’s either 20,000 people that are simply buying a book because characters they love appear in it or that’s 20,000 people that can’t tell the difference between crap and a cupcake.

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You are mean to Scott!

But otherwise, bless your cold, dead, hilarious heart.