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Sun Wukong said:
Nevermind the mess that X-Men has become with all that Krakoa nonsense.
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I'm willing to bet a ton of money this is exactly how she comes back.

"Someone find me an egg!!!"

Optimus Prime said:
Why would you spoil this?
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Secrets in comics mean absolutely nothing, especially if it means it'll generate more sales. DC announced the death of Superman in the 90s and reaped the sales from the speculation market. Publishers don't care. I knew a month before the public release of Batman #50 that Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle weren't getting married because I didn't get a review copy as I normally do. DC only does that when they know the outcome will be leaked and affect their sales potential. Publishers don't care about spoilers if it affect the dollars.

Now, Marvel did have some concerns about this for safety reasons. This run by Zeb Wells and John Romita, Jr. is almost universally hated and they feared Wells was going to get Tom King-level hate as a result (after the release of Batman #50, DC had to hire personal security for King for his convention appearances. It was needed in a few instances). Marvel actually asked Wells to cancel his convention appearances post-ASM #26. I saw Wells at C2E2 in Chicago this year. He had very little traffic compared to others.
 
bonnjer said:
www.thepopverse.com

CBR is going through a major overhaul due to "culture and performance" issues

It's not just the editor-in-chief: Valnet has just laid off the senior news and feature editors for CBR.com, Popverse has learned.
www.thepopverse.com www.thepopverse.com
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I honestly haven't given that site the time of day in years. Since Jonah Weiland sold it, I'd guess. Which is sad, because I spent *a lot* of time on those forums back in the 00's. Arguably too much.

But much like Newsarama they got purchased by a clickbait syndicate and it all went to sheet. The fate of many a website I used to frequent before the rise of social media.
 
Sun Wukong said:
I honestly haven't given that site the time of day in years. Since Jonah Weiland sold it, I'd guess. Which is sad, because I spent *a lot* of time on those forums back in the 00's. Arguably too much.

But much like Newsarama they got purchased by a clickbait syndicate and it all went to sheet. The fate of many a website I used to frequent before the rise of social media.
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Those forums are pretty terrible now.
 
Sun Wukong said:
I honestly didn't know they still existed. If I remember correctly they purged the old forums at some point and all the stuff from my era there was lost.
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Yeah. Guy I podcast with speaks highly (negatively) of that and the comments pages at CB.com.
 
GrandAdmiral said:
Yeah. Guy I podcast with speaks highly (negatively) of that and the comments pages at CB.com.
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There was a lot of great content there. Many writers and artists had subforums of their own and a lot of really great stuff was lost when they got rid of everything.
 
Sun Wukong said:
There was a lot of great content there. Many writers and artists had subforums of their own and a lot of really great stuff was lost when they got rid of everything.
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I can count on one hand perhaps the number of times I've been to CBR of late, and like you said, since NewsARama merged with GamesRadar, it's totally unreadable. And they continue to lose folks (several to ReedPop and PopVerse).
 
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The idiots at Marvel has decided to kill off Kamala Khan in the pages of Spider-Man for no apparent reason. The expected backlash was so bad that the rumor is that they purposely leaked the story and told series writer Zeb Wells to cancel convention appearances after the issue's release for safety reasons.
ASM has been in freefall ever since editorial prevented Nick Spencer from undoing the comic crime that is One More Day, and Zeb Wells hasn't done since taking over (add to it the terrible art from John Romita, Jr.).
 
GrandAdmiral said:
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The idiots at Marvel has decided to kill off Kamala Khan in the pages of Spider-Man for no apparent reason. The expected backlash was so bad that the rumor is that they purposely leaked the story and told series writer Zeb Wells to cancel convention appearances after the issue's release for safety reasons.
ASM has been in freefall ever since editorial prevented Nick Spencer from undoing the comic crime that is One More Day, and Zeb Wells hasn't done since taking over (add to it the terrible art from John Romita, Jr.).
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I wonder if the "creatives" just have a bunch of multi-sided dice for different actions (kill, de-power, resurrect), different characters, etc and just roll them to determine the next storyline.
 
GrandAdmiral said:
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The idiots at Marvel has decided to kill off Kamala Khan in the pages of Spider-Man for no apparent reason. The expected backlash was so bad that the rumor is that they purposely leaked the story and told series writer Zeb Wells to cancel convention appearances after the issue's release for safety reasons.
ASM has been in freefall ever since editorial prevented Nick Spencer from undoing the comic crime that is One More Day, and Zeb Wells hasn't done since taking over (add to it the terrible art from John Romita, Jr.).
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If Romita wasn't a nepo baby nobody would be paying him to draw anything these days. His art is horrible. I know it wasn't always this bad especially earlier in his career, but I can't even stand to look at it now.
 

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