Comments on: CrossGen Dies Again

By: Dean Peterson

Dean Peterson — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:20:24 +0000

I agree…wrapping up Negation War would have been a great way to reboot everything. IMHO, they started getting waaaay too convuluted with Solus.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:49:30 +0000

I wish Marvel would have wrapped up the Negation War. Then they would have had a reasonable place to reboot the universe.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:48:23 +0000

I always wanted to like Ruse more than I did, because I wanted a straight mystery comic with new Holmes-like stories. When it got into the battles and supernatural stuff, I wasn’t as interested. Is it fair to compare Marvel owning CrossGen to DC owning WildStorm? That there’s really no point, except for eliminating competition? That’s probably more applicable to Marvel owning Malibu.

By: Lori Henderson

Lori Henderson — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:49:47 +0000

That is such a bummer. As an old Cross Gen fan I did enjoy the three series’ they put out for the most part, but then, I wasn’t expecting a continuation of the previous stories. Except for Ruse, which I did feel some disappointment about.

Mystic did a good job of keeping the spirit of that title, and by the end I wanted to see more from that world. The same with Sigil. Oh well.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:38:09 +0000

Mystic was a good read, but honestly other than names it had nothing to do with CG. It was the equal of the news of the Buffy TVS movie that was going to have no involvement from Whedon or any of the characters from tv show.

By: Ralf Haring

Ralf Haring — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:16:03 +0000

I’d have been up for a Peter Milligan spy comic. That seems to play to his strengths.

I don’t know if I’d say they spent an *insane* amount of money. They bought all of their IP for $1M. They did produce quite a lot of series in the 3-4 years they were around. I want to say 15-20 per month at their highest production level? If just one property became a modest Disney-scale success in just one medium, they’d probably make their money back on the whole deal. The bankruptcy trustee shouldn’t have just let it be sold off for peanuts.

Kudos indeed to Marvel responding directly to customer feedback in that way. They do have a history of editors being very available online.