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Post by hondobrode on Nov 21, 2017 0:39:40 GMT -5
I knew of it, and have the issues, but haven't read them yet.
It sounded cool to me.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 21, 2017 5:27:54 GMT -5
I'd go a little further ahead in time and focus on what the individual members did following their breakup in 1951. It always bothered me that we're expected to believe that the JSA just petulantly stopped helping mankind because of pressure from the H.U.A.C. Somehow I just can't see these guys adopting a "You're gonna be hard on us? Fine, we'll just stop saving lives - maybe that'll teach you!" policy. I'd like to see Jay Garrick playing the role of pipe smoking retired guy who sits on his porch all day who just smiles and shrugs when the FBI comes around to ask if he knows anything about all those reports of a blur averting disasters all around town. Why not have Alan Scott use his ring to wipe out Earth's memory after each of his tussles with say, a 200 foot tall, Ultra-Humanite possessed Eisenhower on the White House lawn? IMO the Atomic Age (1946-56) is an era both DC & Marvel ignore from their histories. When they focus on anything pre-Silver Age they always focus on stuff printed between 1938-45. I find that time (1946-56) fascinating when stories had to shift from the WWII setting to peace time. From Nazi spies to common criminals or super villains. Yeah, I'm always happy to see characters from those years pop up in continuity. Which is to say I really want a Chondu the Fawn book. And before MRP complains, lemme just point out that Marvel published Street Poet Ray. Just because a book has no reason to exist and has no possible audience... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 11:54:30 GMT -5
IMO the Atomic Age (1946-56) is an era both DC & Marvel ignore from their histories. When they focus on anything pre-Silver Age they always focus on stuff printed between 1938-45. I find that time (1946-56) fascinating when stories had to shift from the WWII setting to peace time. From Nazi spies to common criminals or super villains. Yeah, I'm always happy to see characters from those years pop up in continuity. Which is to say I really want a Chondu the Fawn book. And before MRP complains, lemme just point out that Marvel published Street Poet Ray. Just because a book has no reason to exist and has no possible audience... Not to use too much hyperbole, but Street Poet Ray was published in a different world than exists today. In 1990, it made sense for Marvel to publish a book like that for several reasons -there was still newsstand distribution bringing new readers into the market though newsstands were diminished form where they had been -there were multiple distributors in the comics field so more voices promoting different books to shop owners -mainstream continuity shred universe books were selling at a healthy rate and it was a healthy progressive market that was growing so there was more room for an experimental book and more revenue coming in to cover such an experimental title -publishers were actively seeking new audiences, the trade market was just getting off the ground and into traditional bookstores and books like Sandman were finding new audiences and bringing them to comics -it was an era where the best selling issues could sell a million plus copies (or 8 million as is the case of X-Men #1 a year or so later) so no one was looking at the performance of each book as closely because there was enough revenue to create security -Marvel was not yet a corporate entity, a division of a larger entertainment conglomerate who had to answer to balance sheets and quarterly earnings projections for people to keep their jobs The world of comics publishing is different today. There's still room for a book like Street Poet Ray in today's world, but it isn't with the big 2, it's not even with a publisher that uses Diamond as it's main source of distribution and the direct market comic shop as its primary outlet. It's more likely to come form a publisher whose main business plan is to deliver product/content to the book trade and is a wing of a larger book publishing company, something like FirstSecond Publishing or publishers of that ilk. The Direct Market is unhealthy and has revenue stream problems today. That makes publishers regressive. There is a fight for shelf space in comic shops and dollars from comics retailers who are the publishing business' primary customers. There is only room for books that appeal to those retailers who decide what gets shelf space in the marketplace. Anything that doesn't do that only gets ordered to fill preorders from pull customers and never sees the shelf to find an audience. That is the reality of the comics world in 2017. Comics are a wonderful medium that in many cases is an artform. Comics publishing is a cold, hard business and is about revenue stream, profit margins and market share, not art, not quality books, and not finding a place for unique voices or offbeat visions. People in the current publishing world who push that find themselves out of a job because they are out of step with the current marketplace and the needs of the big businesses that run it. -M |
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