Comments on: Good Comics Out March 30

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:57:27 +0000

that’s what I thought.

btw, they’re raving about Jimmy Olsen at bleeding cool. Rich said “Jimmy Olsen is dazzling work that leaves me breathless just writing about it”

Ok. The art sure looks pretty.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:08:43 +0000

Oh, I had no idea that was a concern, since I haven’t had a chance to read that issue yet. (Yes, I’m a week behind.) I’ll keep that in mind when I read it to see what I think.

My first response, though, is that Morrison brings back Silver Age stuff because he thinks it’s cool, not for any kind of weird political conspiracy.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:42:16 +0000

Johanna,

Going off on a tangent here, but what did you think of Batman Inc. 4?

Just wondering because there’s a bit of a bruhaha at CBR over comments made in a podcast where one woman reviewer claimed that morrison bringing back silver age Batwoman was an attempt to marginalize or trivialize the new “Kate Kane” character. Just wondered what you thought about it. Thanks.

By: Thad

Thad — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:19:18 +0000

Ugh, didn’t know they were doing that with the Jimmy one-shot; thanks for the warning. A pity; I’ve really liked it up to this point, but I’m not about to re-buy the parts I already paid an extra buck for last year so DC can hold the line at $5.99.

The hell of it is that when it doesn’t sell DC will almost certainly interpret it to mean nobody wants to buy Jimmy Olsen comics.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:28:15 +0000

You make a good point. Looking on the bright side, the Jimmy Olsen one-shot makes a good purchase for someone who’d heard about it late. They get the whole story in one package.

I agree with your last paragraph. Unfortunately, that teaches people not to try indy periodicals in future, which pretty much makes their failure a foregone conclusion.

By: SKFK

SKFK — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:34:37 +0000

“I will not be buying the Jimmy Olsen one-shot because I think it’s a cruddy move to tell readers “you can only get the conclusion to this serialized story by rebuying all the pieces you already have for $6.” ”

I agree that it’s annoying when a major publisher pulls stuff like this. I wish DC had done it like how they handled the Detective Comics situation, by devoting an entire issue to wrap up the backup story. (The obvious difference is that both the main and the backup stories on Detective Comics were by the same writer, so maybe they couldn’t do the same thing with Jimmy Olsen.)

On the other hand, since I haven’t been buying Action Comics anyway, this is a good way for me to pick up a complete, brand-new story in one convenient package.

Outside of major publishers, I’m pretty much used to having to buy TPB’s to get the finished stories when either the publishers go out of business, or decide that single issue releases don’t make business sense, before the run is done. Off of top of my head, I can think of titles like Impaler (by William Harris), Elk’s Run (by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon), Guerrillas (by Brahm Revel), Of Bitter Souls (by Chuck Satterlee and Norm Breyfogle), and Midnight Sun (by Ben Towle). In many cases, reading the completed stories were worth the double-spending for me.