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Hmmm. I can see where your confusion might arise. The terminology here is mutable.
There may or may not be thematic similarities between Faction Paradox and the Invisibles. However, your plaint was that Miles should be believed when he says that he has never read the Invisibles. This makes perfect sense, because they are both derivative ideas, which may be derivative of the same prior sources. I was addressing those who were mocking it for its lack of originality, pointing out that the Invisibles could be described in just such hackneyed terms. You're confusing "similarity", in your last post, with "connection" in mine, having confused "compare" and "accuse of being derivative" in your previous.
Thanks for the dollar.
So, again - was this not "superhero" enough, or just not successful enough? Something like Hopeless Savages or Optic Nerve, theoretically at least, is not likely to attract the same audience as The Authority, although we know in practice that the two overlap. I'd imagine FP was aimed more at the latter group than the former, which is a choked market - putting "sci-fi" in with "superhero" doesn't seem to me to be unrealistic. As implied above, the superhero novels go in the sci-fi section.
Where something like Fables has an advantage is that there are relatively few magic realist/sub-Angela Carter comics out there, so one can reasonably hoover up the audience that wants sub-Angela Carter fairytale stories, done in colour and professionally released. Faction Paradox, AFAICT, was aimed primarily at a subsection of a subsection (Dr. Who fans) - maybe that was just not enough to sustain it, and either through marketing or the opinion of the potential audience it failed to sell enough to those outside this subset to break even. It's sad, but it's not necessarily a reflection of the market being hostile to anything not involving capes - only that a lot of comic books, as we know, are fighting for the same section of the audience. |
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