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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 9, 2020 6:32:33 GMT -5
Not a news item about an upcoming series but something I noticed while looking at comixology today that seemed odd...comixology has all of DC's new books out today instead of Wednesday. It doesn't look like a glitch either as I went back to last week and DC's books again were listed under new on Tuesday. Anybody know when this started or why? Was it a part of their new distribution plan that I just missed before? On sale date/street date for DC books through the two new distributors in Tuesdays, not Wednesdays, so Comixology is following suit with the digital copies. It's been a bone of contention with retailers in the whole mess that is DC leaving Diamond. -M From what I remember of my days working at Borders it aligns with book store releases which were typically on Tuesday, so it makes a certain amount of sense but comics will always be Wednesday in my mind. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2020 12:03:30 GMT -5
On sale date/street date for DC books through the two new distributors in Tuesdays, not Wednesdays, so Comixology is following suit with the digital copies. It's been a bone of contention with retailers in the whole mess that is DC leaving Diamond. -M From what I remember of my days working at Borders it aligns with book store releases which were typically on Tuesday, so it makes a certain amount of sense but comics will always be Wednesday in my mind. Comics are still Fridays in my mind as that was new comic day when I first started going to comic shops (in the days of multiple distributors with shipments arriving all week long and shops putting them all out on Fridays), so Wednesdays still feel off to me after all this time. -M |
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Post by Dizzy D on Sept 9, 2020 14:29:08 GMT -5
I usually never was close to a comicstore until I lived in the US. Back here it was Thursday's for a long while (due to extra shipping time), these days due to Covid restrictions, I pick up a package once a month, usually in the weekend.
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Post by brutalis on Sept 9, 2020 14:48:12 GMT -5
It was always Thursdays here in Phoenix until the late 80's. Due to everything was shipped in by plane or train and arriving late Wednesday afternoon. All the LCS's spent the evening separating their orders to put out for purchase. Sometimes there would be a day or two's delay during the hottest summer days as heavy freight loads would be held back in preference of the passengers.
If you were lucky (like I was) and were not only customer but friend, sometimes I got calls to come help sort the new arrivals. I then got to make my purchase before anyone else while the shop was closed for giving my assistance.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 23:43:08 GMT -5
Bendis run on Superman and Action is coming to an end in December.
December also sees the first work by Mark Waid for DC in a number of years, as he is doing a story in the Dark Nights Metal Lost Tales of the DC Universe anthology one shot published that month.
A lot of people are trying to add these tow together to come up with Waid finally getting to write the Superman monthly starting the following month since Didio and Harras are both gone from DC, but that part is just wild rumor mongering at this point.
Meanwhile, Kurt Busiek is returning to do some Marvel work, with a story in the giant sized Spider-Man #850 and doing a Namor mini series that is a spin-off of the Black King event that focuses on modern Namor telling a tale from his teen-age years in the 1930s that explains the origins of some of the Atlantean villains in that event, so is essentially a lost tale form Namor's teen years set in the 30s.
-M
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Post by Bronze age andy on Sept 12, 2020 1:52:29 GMT -5
Bendis run on Superman and Action is coming to an end in December. December also seeks the first work by Mark Waid for DC in a number of years, as he is doing a story in the Dark Nights Metal Lost Tales of the DC Universe anthology one shot published that month. A lot of people are trying to add these tow together to come up with Waid finally getting to write the Superman monthly starting the following month since Didio and Harras are both gone from DC, but that part is just wild rumor mongering at this point. Meanwhile, Kurt Busiek is returning to do some Marvel work, with a story in the giant sized Spider-Man #850 and doing a Namor mini series that is a spin-off of the Black King event that focuses on modern Namor telling a tale from his teen-age years in the 1930s that explains the origins of some of the Atlantean villains in that event, so is essentially a lost tale form Namor's teen years set in the 30s. -M Not too bothered about the DC news... Busiek writing Namor? A thousand times yes! |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 12, 2020 6:44:39 GMT -5
I'd love to see Waid on Superman
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 14, 2020 19:54:11 GMT -5
Bendis run on Superman and Action is coming to an end in December. December also sees the first work by Mark Waid for DC in a number of years, as he is doing a story in the Dark Nights Metal Lost Tales of the DC Universe anthology one shot published that month. A lot of people are trying to add these tow together to come up with Waid finally getting to write the Superman monthly starting the following month since Didio and Harras are both gone from DC, but that part is just wild rumor mongering at this point. Meanwhile, Kurt Busiek is returning to do some Marvel work, with a story in the giant sized Spider-Man #850 and doing a Namor mini series that is a spin-off of the Black King event that focuses on modern Namor telling a tale from his teen-age years in the 1930s that explains the origins of some of the Atlantean villains in that event, so is essentially a lost tale form Namor's teen years set in the 30s. -M Busiek writing Namor sounds good... I'm really down for Busiek anything. Waid on Superman... finally!?! That would be AMAZING. |
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 14, 2020 22:58:50 GMT -5
Waid on Superman is great except I hear he hates the marriage, which I hope stays intact.
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 15, 2020 19:32:50 GMT -5
Meanwhile, Kurt Busiek is returning to do some Marvel work, with a story in the giant sized Spider-Man #850 and doing a Namor mini series that is a spin-off of the Black King event that focuses on modern Namor telling a tale from his teen-age years in the 1930s that explains the origins of some of the Atlantean villains in that event, so is essentially a lost tale form Namor's teen years set in the 30s. While I love Busiek, I feel like anything classic Atlas era Marvel should be handled exclusively by Roy |
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 15, 2020 22:49:17 GMT -5
When was the last time Roy did any work for Marvel ? Probably not in this century
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2020 22:50:13 GMT -5
Meanwhile, Kurt Busiek is returning to do some Marvel work, with a story in the giant sized Spider-Man #850 and doing a Namor mini series that is a spin-off of the Black King event that focuses on modern Namor telling a tale from his teen-age years in the 1930s that explains the origins of some of the Atlantean villains in that event, so is essentially a lost tale form Namor's teen years set in the 30s. While I love Busiek, I feel like anything classic Atlas era Marvel should be handled exclusively by Roy I felt the same way about Conan in comics, but Busiek was great. I never would have guessed he had the requisite savagery in him. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2020 22:54:01 GMT -5
When was the last time Roy did any work for Marvel ? Probably not in this century Roy wrote issues 10 and 11 of the latest Savage Sword of Conan book cover dated Dec 2019 and Jan 2020. -M |
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 15, 2020 22:55:54 GMT -5
Oh !
Well I've barely followed Marvel, let alone Conan, for 20 years and probably 40 years.
I love the Atlas characters. That was one of the very last titles I desperately held on to hoping it would succeed : Agents of Atlas
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2020 22:59:50 GMT -5
While I love Busiek, I feel like anything classic Atlas era Marvel should be handled exclusively by Roy I felt the same way about Conan in comics, but Busiek was great. I never would have guessed he had the requisite savagery in him. I still say the Busiek/Nord Conan was more true to Howard's Conan than any other Conan pastiche that has been published in comics or prose. Roy felt more like I was reading Carter and de Camp pastiches than Howard. I grew up reading Roy and de Camp/Carter Conan and I like it, but Busiek had access to pure unadulterated Howard Conan and Roy didn't, and it shows in their work. Reading pure unadulterated Howard myself for the first time when they finally became available changed my perspective on the de Camp/Carter and Thomas Conan material. I was in correspondence with Busiek through a private mailing list at the time he was writing Avengers and preparing to write and writing Conan, and had a few discussions about Howard and his work, previous versions of COnan in Comics and other REH matters, and it was obvious he was a real student of Hoard and got Conan. -M |
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