Comments on: Marvel Looks to Exploit “Blackest Night”

By: Alfonse

Alfonse — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:18:08 +0000

well this mean that marvel is about to launch a new comics saga, definitely I can’t miss them.

By: C. J. Vera

C. J. Vera — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:30:48 +0000

Marvel might as well have just hung themselves and Deadpool. If you look at the DC Comics shelf at my store, the Blackest Night book section is empty. I have enjoyed every Blackest Night crossover I have read, with the exception of maybe Doom Patrol. You mean that soulless Obama cabinet reject, Niles Caulder, is still alive? Booster Gold “Dead Ted” had the greatest tribute to Ted Kord. Even if you have never read about him, it was a tribute to one of the best friendships in comics. Blackest Night rules.

By: hguwj

hguwj — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:06:55 +0000

Marvel V. DC.

It’ll never end from “borrowing” each other’s talent, copying event gimmicks and so on. Its all about undercutting the competitor. Snively bastards

By: Russ Burlingame

Russ Burlingame — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:25:24 +0000

@Obo – What does this even have to do with shopping online?

Also, the sentence “A rare variant goes out and a bunch of weak tie-ins that a lot of people don’t care about is in” makes no grammatical sense.

I’m sorry, are you a stroke victim?

By: Statham

Statham — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:02:58 +0000

I love the number of people assuming that the books are ‘cheap, crappy tie-ins’ when they probably haven’t read them. They’re picking on these books because of the ring promotion, but it would have been really interesting to just see them have the balls to declare Blackest Night itself, and the Green Lantern books as returnable covers, too. Of course, they don’t.

By: Ejay

Ejay — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:10:52 +0000

All the hubbub about this move has been pretty entertaining, I’ve been cracking up from some of the stuff on the different message boards. Personally I cant say I care either way, if a company puts a crap product on the shelves I don’t buy it, so if it stays on the shelves or gets burned in a trash can, doesn’t make a bit of difference to me. In the end fierce competition eventually benefits the consumer so we’ll see how this works out in the end.
All that said, just support who you like and buy the books you want, cause the only way to send any message is through the $bottom line$, cause those are the only messages any of the bigwigs read anyway.

By: Wesley Smith

Wesley Smith — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:14:09 +0000

I seem to recall that this “get one of ours for sending us one of theirs” ploy has been used before sometime in the past ten years or so, but I can’t recall the circumstances. Am I crazy here, or does anyone remember what I’m talking about?

By: Obo

Obo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:06:24 +0000

It’s not smarmy or cheap at all. A rare variant goes out and a bunch of weak tie-ins that a lot of people don’t care about is in.

if anything this is just one more reason to shop online.

By: Russ Burlingame

Russ Burlingame — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:22:28 +0000

@Eric – There’s some interesting discussion on the message boards here and at Johnston’s site, regarding the idea that Marvel might have some way of using this program to gauge the success of DC’s program, so that they can emulate it somehow without spending a fortune on promotion or R&D or whatever. So maybe I was a little quick on the draw accusing them of playing some game…but however you look at it, this seems smarmy and cheap.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:04:05 +0000

You know what this is prompting me to do? Go to my retailer and buy up an issue of each of those BN crossover books. Seriously. The only reason I didn’t buy them before is I’m watching my pull list, but if Marvel’s endgame here is to embarrass DC by trumpeting how many “unwanted” books they got — for a Deadpool cover variant, as if ANYONE cares about that — that is a total dick move. Focus on your own product. Start making books I care about again. I did not buy a single Marvel comic this week. Not one. Instead, I bought five DC and one Dark Horse. And believe me, if I could give back some of my “unwanted” Marvel crossover issues, I have PLENTY in my longboxes that I would happily part with. Even for a lame Deadpool variant cover.

By: Wade

Wade — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:09:51 +0000

How much does shipping 50 covers end up costing retailers?

By: Ravager

Ravager — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:01:19 +0000

WOW a Dead Pool Variant comic =D

what else?

By: Dave H

Dave H — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:31:09 +0000

It was 50 total for 1 Siege comic.
Any combination of the 6 books will do.

So if they had around 10 of each issue left over that’s more than enough to get 1 copy of the DP variant.

By: Ortiz

Ortiz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:11:25 +0000

Hmm… interesting, hey Russ, do you have an idea how many “an awful lot of copies” is? That would be nice.

Peace.