Marvel's 52 Slashes?
monkey010101
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Apologies if someone else has mentioned it before, but I keep seeing a Marvel Now poster with 52 slashes on it being posted online. Anyone got any ideas what its means. There's some speculation that this means a line wide reboot but i'm not sure thats likely. I've also heard that its a DC crossover and also that they are going to kill off 52 characters.
Any thoughts? I hope its not a reboot. Like Pants I've become a bit of Marvel convert lately and am really enjoying a lot of their titles.
Any thoughts? I hope its not a reboot. Like Pants I've become a bit of Marvel convert lately and am really enjoying a lot of their titles.
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If they are really thinking of killing off 52 characters in one year, and are using that crass lack of imagination as something to brag about, you have to think the Big Two have completely lost their way. It would be a like desperate NBC promising that every one of their dramas and comedies this year would feature a character's wedding. Ugh.
Until they stop the double shipping and $3.99/20 pages and take JRJR off of the books that I would be reading if not for shipping, price and him, make mine anything other than Marvel.
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Ignore the marketing and buy the good books. It'll bring you happiness.
For all that we bitch, I'm loving the hell out of: FF, Indestructible Hulk, Savage Wolverine, and X-Force...and on the other side Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Aquaman and Red Hood. Excellence in comics. Not just mainstream comics. Comics, period.
I'm all for ignoring the marketing of both DC and Marvel. It's just pretty hard to do that when its in your face all the time. I wish they could just concentrate on bringing out more quality books and less childish sniping at each other... Shame that'll never happen.
As for Marvel Now! feeling like it's been going on for months. Sort of. Mostly because it was not a real hard reboot. Nothing has completely changed. Origins or more or less the same. History hasn't changed. The biggest thing is that there seemed to be a musical chairs thing when it came to the creative teams and slightly changed titles like Superior Spider-Man instead of Amazing. Nothing overtly changed with the characters to the point where it would feel as new as the New 52. At least that's how I see it.
And, as it turns out, a creative team reshuffle that is making for a lot of great books.
But, regarding this teaser, The time someone took to make this promo image was never going to be time spent on making books. Good ones or bad ones. It's a different department. And even the time editorial might spend liasing with the promo department was going to get spent on promos of some kind. I could see saying you want them to make better promos, but beyond that it is sort of like saying the accounts receivable department should stop what they are doing and just focus on making good books. You know what I mean?
Personally I'm just getting a bit bored of this Marvel Now role out now. Maybe some more imaginative promos would keep my attention better.
I think Fraction points out in the letters column, or someplace, that his son says "Hawkguy" and that's where he got the idea from.