Comments on: ‘Rama Rampage: Blame yourself.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:45:06 +0000

“Is it a solicitation? The link at the beginning of this blog says it’s a piece from Diamond Previews, in their Splash Page section.”

Well, I could be wrong here.

However, I thought that the Splash Page bit was just Diamond’s featured items from that month’s Previews. Essentially, they highlight potential items of interest, using the solicitation copy from the catalog.

If that’s the case, then yes, Marvel wrote the piece; Diamond just published it in Previews and did a ctrl-C + ctrl-V into the Splash Page.

Again, I could be wrong.

By: Kevin Huxford

Kevin Huxford — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:05:44 +0000

Gotta go with Matt. Most copy is written by the publishers.

By: CodeGuy

CodeGuy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:31:30 +0000

Is it a solicitation? The link at the beginning of this blog says it’s a piece from Diamond Previews, in their Splash Page section.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:48:54 +0000

“Marvel didn’t write the bit about Spider-Man, Diamond did.”

I was under the impression that the companies wrote their own solicitation copy…

By: jedifish

jedifish — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:49:04 +0000

“And yet DC is the one slaughtering their characters left and right.”

And Marvel isn’t?

Captain America
Giant-Man [Bill Foster]
Captain Marvel [Genis-Vell]
Quasar
Super Skrull (at least he was dead in the 2nd Annihilation HC)

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:50:43 +0000

And yet DC is the one slaughtering their characters left and right.

By: jd

jd — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:42:07 +0000

particularly interesting is the mention of gwen stacy. It should say “who gets thrown under the bus at the expense of gwen stacy.”

By: Tuckenie (Chris Tucker)

Tuckenie (Chris Tucker) — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:54:02 +0000

I’m with CodeGuy. Especially sense if anybody DOESN’T care about the actual characters, it’s diamond. Maybe after this they’ll stop with the doom and gloom Spidey though…

By: CodeGuy

CodeGuy — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:56:48 +0000

Marvel didn’t write the bit about Spider-Man, Diamond did.

By: Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:26:55 +0000

The most alarming thing about that Spider-Man press release, to my mind, is the open acceptance that this is a story which people will buy because it’s an EVENT, not because they have the slightest emotional investment in the characters. If anything, it practically belittles the concept that anyone might in fact care.

But if you’re in the business of telling stories – no matter how cynical or commercially-driven they may be – surely you WANT the audience to care. I can’t imagine why you’d want to signal so blatantly that you don’t care, and the readers shouldn’t care either. It’s arguably the single worst press release I’ve read, judged in that light.