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Post by Action Ace on Aug 4, 2016 16:28:36 GMT -5
The Beat is the new home of the column. It seems the new CBR owners aren't fans of "columns."
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 4, 2016 16:35:35 GMT -5
I love that right under the Marvel Now! banner it has a sponsered by Dynamite Comics banner. I'm also glad Brian found a new home, I love his writing.
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 4, 2016 16:44:35 GMT -5
With Augie's column ending as well, it looks to be down to The Buy Pile and Axel in Charge. One is a set of quick reviews for the week and the other is Marvel publicity.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 19:04:48 GMT -5
Tilting at Windmills was the last thing I still read regularly at the CBR main page. Glad it found a new home but now there's no reason for me to go to the CBR page at all. No great loss there it seems.
It just saddens me to see both the big2 fumbling opportunity after opportunity in this era of unprecedented popularity for their properties. Maybe it's time they hired professionals with publishing and entertainment experience rather than ascended fans to run the business aspects of their publishing wings. People who can make good business decisions not fan decisions for their favorites and unfavorites. These people shouldn't be in charge of creative, but in charge or publishing, marketing, market outreach, customer service, etc. the stuff a business needs to thrive that seems to be taken for granted by the suits running the big 2 right now. Image does well because Eric Stephenson actually understands this side of the business and makes appropriate decisions based on that knowledge while the creative folks handle the creative aspects of making the comics. Looking at the decisions Marvel makes highlighted by Hibbs here just makes you shake your head with sadness and frustration at the complete lack of a clue how to do business. DC isn't any better. They are their own worst enemies in this market.
-M
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 4, 2016 20:20:01 GMT -5
Tilting at Windmills was the last thing I still read regularly at the CBR main page. Glad it found a new home but now there's no reason for me to go to the CBR page at all. No great loss there it seems. It just saddens me to see both the big2 fumbling opportunity after opportunity in this era of unprecedented popularity for their properties. Maybe it's time they hired professionals with publishing and entertainment experience rather than ascended fans to run the business aspects of their publishing wings who. People who can make good business decisions not fan decisions for their favorites and unfavorites. These people shouldn't be in charge of creative, but in charge or publishing, marketing, market outreach, customer service, etc. the stuff a business needs to thrive that seems to be taken for granted by the suits running the big 2 right now. Image does well because Eric Stephenson actually understands this side of the business and makes appropriate decisions based on that knowledge while the creative folks handle the creative aspects of making the comics. Looking at the decisions Marvel makes highlighted by Hibbs here just makes you shake your head with sadness and frustration a the complete lack of a clue how to do business. C isn't any better. They are their own worst enemies in this market. -M When you consider just who the parent companies are for Marvel and DC it's frankly almost astounding that something like you posited hasn't happened already. When Disney first bought Marvel I remember a lot of backlash over the speculation that Disney would be more involved with the running of Marvel, most people thought that would be poison but it made perfect sense to me and its strange that it hasn't happened. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 5, 2016 14:22:34 GMT -5
The Beat is the new home of the column. It seems the new CBR owners aren't fans of "columns." Ads and click-baits, though... |
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Post by Randle-El on Aug 5, 2016 23:17:16 GMT -5
I've noticed that they've started publishing more and more listicles that require you to click through multiple pages of content. Grr...
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 6, 2016 9:46:16 GMT -5
I've noticed that they've started publishing more and more listicles that require you to click through multiple pages of content. Grr... Yeah, I had a feeling that was coming as those are big on screenrant. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2016 7:27:44 GMT -5
With Augie's column ending as well, it looks to be down to The Buy Pile and Axel in Charge. One is a set of quick reviews for the week and the other is Marvel publicity. Hasn't been am Axel column for a couple of weeks, either. CBR is getting less and less interesting to me - they're in danger of "Newsarama-ing" CBR (ie completely killing off all the reasons that readers had to go there), though in fairness that started years before the take-over, and the immolation of the forums was already a massive step towards irrelevance, which they've never recovered from. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2016 4:18:17 GMT -5
No Axel column again this week - looks like that might be gone for good, as well
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