The X-Men, (Wolverine in particular), have turned into Marvel's cash cow. Storylines and characters don't have to make sense anymore, as long as they awe the clueless little fanboys.
What started out as a noble concept, was totally overblown by the 90's, and it won't get better as long as fanboys want more and more. Eventually Marvel will give in and have guys like Apocalypse bitchslapping Thanos and even Galactus, and then the X-fanboys will be in our faces saying, "I told you so!"👇
Originally posted by Lord S
The X-Men, (Wolverine in particular), have turned into Marvel's cash cow. Storylines and characters don't have to make sense anymore, as long as they awe the clueless little fanboys.What started out as a noble concept, was totally overblown by the 90's, and it won't get better as long as fanboys want more and more. Eventually Marvel will give in and have guys like Apocalypse bitchslapping Thanos and even Galactus, and then the X-fanboys will be in our faces saying, "I told you so!"👇
Agreed there, the fanboys are pathetic now...
A lot of good points were brought up here in the past pages.
There was that huge influx of those chronium, hologram, special edition covers and so on that just made Marvel basically outprice itself. (The real blame IMO lies with Image, who made probably 8 different variant covers for each edition of their comics). And as it was rightfully stated, when people were buying these comics as investments and Marvel kept printing out more and more because of the demand, eventually there's that point of saturation where they become worthless and everybody loses. I remember reading on Wizard one time that when the comic book market bubble burst Marvel went from over 140 monthly titles to around 40 or so. Can you imagine how many artists, writers, inkers, etc this effected?
I also agree with those nonstop extra-huge crossover Marvel events that involved buying around 40 comics at a time in order to get the full story. Even though they still continue up until today in all of the major companies (Identity Crisis, Civil War, Worlds at War) at least now there's the surge of TPB where you can just wait and buy the full story at your own comfort and at a discounted price too.
IMO I think Image helped make the whole comic industry come down in the nineties. Too many variant covers, heavy emphasis on quantity over quality, too much focus on the comics as investments, too many startup comics with all the buzz in the world only to go to 10 issues because of lazy creators, and too many creators who would start their comics with the immediate intention of marketing it as toys, movies, cartoons, video games and so on instead of actually focusing on the comics themselves.
Originally posted by systemshock2
A lot of good points were brought up here in the past pages.There was that huge influx of those chronium, hologram, special edition covers and so on that just made Marvel basically outprice itself. (The real blame IMO lies with Image, who made probably 8 different variant covers for each edition of their comics). And as it was rightfully stated, when people were buying these comics as investments and Marvel kept printing out more and more because of the demand, eventually there's that point of saturation where they become worthless and everybody loses. I remember reading on Wizard one time that when the comic book market bubble burst Marvel went from over 140 monthly titles to around 40 or so. Can you imagine how many artists, writers, inkers, etc this effected?
I also agree with those nonstop extra-huge crossover Marvel events that involved buying around 40 comics at a time in order to get the full story. Even though they still continue up until today in all of the major companies (Identity Crisis, Civil War, Worlds at War) at least now there's the surge of TPB where you can just wait and buy the full story at your own comfort and at a discounted price too.
IMO I think Image helped make the whole comic industry come down in the nineties. Too many variant covers, heavy emphasis on quantity over quality, too much focus on the comics as investments, too many startup comics with all the buzz in the world only to go to 10 issues because of lazy creators, and too many creators who would start their comics with the immediate intention of marketing it as toys, movies, cartoons, video games and so on instead of actually focusing on the comics themselves.
You do realize that this thread is over a year old, right?