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Nickel and dime comics

17:54 / 11.01.03

I had a pleasent suprise this week. Daredevil 41 was at the great try out price of a quarter while superman was indulging in a 10 cent adventure.

So did anyone else pick up these comics? what did they think? And where these comics good jump on points to the ongoing series... or even *gasp* a way of starting a costly comics habit?

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18:50 / 11.01.03

Sales-wise they seem to do nothing. The Batman stunt was a poor one since it was the start of a 20+ part storyline and didn't give the line a bump in sales. The Gen 13 comic convinced me not to buy the series and the FF one didn't do anything to that comic's sales even with the best creative team the book has seen in the early 90's.

Story-wise they have been OK, but they aren't doing what they are supposed to do, Convince people to pick the books up on a regular basis.

15:30 / 12.01.03

The DD issue was great, as usual for Bendis & Maleev -- one of the greatest teams on comics in the past 5 years! I would have bought it anyway at its regular price, as Bendis' DD is a 'must-have' book for me.

The SUPERMAN 10 cent book, however, sucked ass. Read it in the store and thought, "This is such crap I won't even pay a nickel for it. This is such crap I won't even buy it for a dime and give it to my nephew, because I only give him quality comics."

Which is a shame, since Waid's 9-cent FF was so good, and the BATMAN 10 cent book was really terrific.

17:03 / 12.01.03

Thanks for starting this thread. I've picked up 3 of these so far:

- the 'Fantastic 4' issue. Thought it was aimed for a younger audience. Which is fine. Might get it in a trade collection if I have some extra cash when it comes out. But would love to see an 'Ultimate' version or whatever done by Morrison. Something nice and weird, because the Fantastic 4 should be very weird.

- that 'Superman' issue. Thought it was a (not very) good attempt to critisize marvel for it's 'Ultimate' line of books. While at the same time trying to make Superman seem more relevant by talking about body counts and mass destruction and all of that. Which seems rather defensive on their part. Never really been a big Superman fan, though, and there's no way I would have bought this if it didn't cost 10 cents (10p? how much do these things cost outside the US?). Do people even read Superman anymore?

- 'Daredevil'. Have read maybe 10 'Daredevil' issues my entire life. Have never really been into this character at all, never really read much 'Bendis' stuff, either. But it was 25cents, and there's a movie coming out that might not be absolutely horrible. It was allright. Has the idea of a blind love interest for DD been done before? The art was nice. What does the 'Marvel Knights' thing above the title mean? Does this series take place somehow outside of the primary marvel continuity? But then there's an 'Ultimate' Daredevil now as well? It's all so confusing.

So I don't know. If marvel/dc/whover want to make money off me .10 and .25 at a time, then more power to them.

20:38 / 12.01.03

What does the 'Marvel Knights' thing above the title mean? Does this series take place somehow outside of the primary marvel continuity?

'Marvel Knights' is Event Comics, home of Joe Quesada, that took editorial control over a batch of titles in 1999 (1998?) that weren't doing well sales-wise (DareDevil, Punisher), while reinvigorating some concepts with fresh blood (Kevin Smith & Quesada on DD, Bernie Wrightson on Punisher, Paul Jenkins & Jae Lee on the Inhumans, initially). And yes, it takes place within oldskool Marvel continuity.

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01:48 / 13.01.03

I've picked them all up except the daredevil one, which i didn't even know about before i read this thread.

The Batman and F4 ones were pretty good, I thought, although neither of them really made me interested in picking up future issues at the full price.

The Superman one, however, was powerful weak. I can't even remember anything about it, and I only read it about 3 days ago. Nothing happened in it. The "cliffhanger" epilogue was pointless. Oh, look, a fake Supergirl, how devastatingly thrilling. Does anyone think it's a good idea for Superman to be drawn in this weird, pseudo-manga style?

They cost about 80 cents, Australian, but comics are expensive as fuck here (7 bucks something for an issue of the Filth).