A selection of some of the funniest, most interesting and strangest quotes from the past week:
“Stan Lee Does Paris; Disney Looks Away”
– the headline of the week, courtesy of ICv2.com
“… What you need to understand about the manga licensing game is that it’s highly cutthroat and competitive. If there’s a popular title out there, you can bet your bottom yen that every single manga publisher here already knows about it and covets it, and has already put in an offer on it. It’s gotten to the point, as I mentioned last week, where in order to stay competitive, you have to start making offers while titles are still being serialized in magazines and before they become tankoubon!”
– Seven Seas Entertainment Publisher Jason DeAngelis, on the art of licensing manga
“It’s definitely a little heavy-handed in places, and overly nostalgic and glowing, with the whole ‘We are heroes. We are here to save the world. We are the the perfect line-up of beautiful, perfect heroes. See how we shine! You are hideous by comparison! Your comic books are also hideous by comparison, with their bastard heroes of today. Your Flash is garbage! Barry Allan is a beautiful glowing ball of perfection! When he returns you will not be fit to receive him!’”
– blogger Rachelle Goguen, on DC’s Justice series
“One of the strengths of manga which most press and analysis don’t realize is that manga is a not just a genre of gore for guys or romance for women, but a medium for all: there’s comedy, adventure, fantasy, romance, sci-fi, non-fiction, etc. Japanese comics didn’t succeed in the US market because it was also geared for girls, but because of its diversity to find stories that were more in tune to what women are looking for.”
– Devin Brown of Kokoro Media, responding to a Wall Street Journal article about publishers trying to court teen girls
“See, this is why police aren’t allowed to go off half-cocked, when they have crimes that look like they might be similar, so they blame the same suspect for all of them, because it’s easier to convict one serial criminal, over finding all the individual ones who might have done all these crimes.
“Unfortunately, comic bloggers aren’t held to any such rigid standard, which is why we have non-issues, like the MJ statue, blow up every week or so. Personally, I blame CSI for this, but that’s just a personal theory.”
– blogger James Meeley, on recent online outrage over a series of Marvel products
June 15th, 2007 at 11:16 am
I was going to get on Rachelle about Justice, but after reading the entire column, she gets a pass and I understand where she’s coming from, even if I don’t see it. Some pretty good reviews over there. Loved the scan of Interita drinking the shot off Mirror Master’s arm I forgot about that scene. Hilarious.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Yeah, I love her reviews.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:59 am
LITTLE KNOWN FACT: Actually, they require comics bloggers to go to Comics Blogger Academy before they get licensed to carry a comic book blog.
June 15th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I got mine from ITT Technical Institute!
June 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I love her reviews too.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I lost my license when I told the Mayor off. Now I’m a cool vigilante blogger, hunted by the licensed bloggers.
June 15th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Like Richard Fell I got shuffled off to the feral city of videogame blogging!
June 18th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I am honoured to be quoted. Thanks!
It has been brought to my attention that I have repeatedly spelled Barry Allen wrong on my blog (and in the above quote). I have, for my whole life, believed his last name to be spelled Allan. Everything I thought I knew was a lie.
June 22nd, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Great post and straight to the point. I am not sure if this is really the best place to ask but do you guys have any ideea where to employ some professional writers? Thanks in advance