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With Flight basically coming through as the standard bearer, it seems as though anthologies are on fairly solid ground, of late. Other books like Project: Superior, Four Letter Worlds, and the Negative Burn reprint and upcoming new collections are giving me the impression that such projects are being seen as commercially viable, again.
The obvious benefits of letting new creators get a start in something with prestige, as well as giving a popular face to things that normally wouldn't be a success in the comics world (ie, most of the flight comics) are great. However, the really important thing, for me, is this brings back the chance of more good short pieces, which are less and less common in comics.
The standard example I use is the Sin City story that ended up opening the movie (can't recall the name). Short, sweet, brilliant, and with more story expressed in those few pages than I could read in 2 issues of (insert x-book here). More recently, Flight (yes, mentioned yet again) has been showing some examples of visual storytelling primacy that aren't at all common in most serial work.
So, opinions of the value and viability of the anthology in today's comics market, short comics work in the modern market, as well as opinions on recent anthologies you've read. |
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