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HassanT wrote:
When you say buyers do you mean the retailers or customers?
I was referring to retail customers having to wait only a month from initial order, but is having an extra month really beneficial to shop owners? Would two months make that much of a difference compared to the current three months? That is an honest query, for I do not know.
I know the end customer would be happier dealing with a shorter pre-order time, wouldn't shop owners? Streamline the entire process?
The Green Team (Teen Trillionaires) representing the 1% and The Movement representing the disenfranchised 99%......
What do people think?
The Green Team is a nod back to this 1975 comic:
It only lasted for 1 issue back then, I'm mystified as to why this particular trope is being revisited instead of just going with something completely new for the 1%.
So, Geoff Johns has announced his last issue of Green Lantern will be issue 20. No replacement has been announced. Issue 20 will also contain 64 pages of story which I'm sure will have a consumate price tag. $7.99? more? I not thrilled with having to pay the assumed higher price for that issue in order to keep my run going but it sounds like it is at least one story, not one story with a bunch of subpar back-ups. I'm looking at you ASM 700.
Anyway, Congrats to Johns for a nice run that reinvigorated the GL universe.
I stopped reading GL a few months ago as it seemed like I had been reading the same arc or story-line for the past 5 years. Hope the new writer doesn't make me want to return.
jonah wrote:Am I reading the solicitations wrong or are ALL of the writers on the Lantern books concluding their runs ?
That is correct
Changing of the "guard" is nothing new in comics. This has happened often with Batman and X-Men books, but Geoff John and Peter Tomasi has been involved in the GL books for almost 9 years. This is huge.
Geoff Johns did a lot of world building over the past 9 years and created something that could last for a long time.
BobBretall wrote:
Gilgabob wrote:
So, Geoff Johns has announced his last issue of Green Lantern will be issue 20. No replacement has been announced.
I'll be very interested to hear who is announced as his replacement.
JSA took a nose-dive after Johns left, fans bailed on the series left & right.
A large part of the reason sales declined because the quality of the book took a huge dip after he left because of the person they chose. They felt that they get some of that Fable magic, but that magic always seem to work on Fables. So it is very important for DC to pick a great writer on the lead GL book.
But, at least they are not solicited as "Final Issue" so we should not be seeing new #1s for them all next month (which is what Marvel would do).
BTW, DC is going for a cash grab on GL #20. $7.99 for 64 pages.....why let Marvel have all the fun with ASM #700?? It will have a " special retrospective on Geoff’s run on GL" so expect the normal story in the issue to be padded out with a lot of useless junk that you could read on Wikipedia to make up the bulk of those extra pages.
But, at least they are not solicited as "Final Issue" so we should not be seeing new #1s for them all next month (which is what Marvel would do).
BTW, DC is going for a cash grab on GL #20. $7.99 for 64 pages.....why let Marvel have all the fun with ASM #700?? It will have a " special retrospective on Geoff’s run on GL" so expect the normal story in the issue to be padded out with a lot of useless junk that you should read on Wikipedia to make up the bulk of those extra pages.
Seems odd to do a complete change of talent on one of the most successful corners of their universe.
I'm more curious now to see if I receive the 7.99 issue via my subscription with no penalty incurred.
BobBretall wrote:
BTW, DC is going for a cash grab on GL #20. $7.99 for 64 pages....
And doing it back to back as Detective #19 (900), coming out a month prior, will also be $7.99.
I still wonder if there is more to this "we have all finished the story we want to tell, so why not all walk away at the same time?" notion. Not sure what, but it just doesn't feel right. Surely that is enough for me to cry 'foul', right?!
Perry wrote:
And doing it back to back as Detective #19 (900), coming out a month prior, will also be $7.99.
'TEC #900 is a real "Have your cake & eat it too" thing. They cancelled the old book, they shouldn't be trumpeting a 900 issue anniversary. They forfeited that right when they rebooted...... Just my opinion.
BobBretall wrote:
'TEC #900 is a real "Have your cake & eat it too" thing. They cancelled the old book, they shouldn't be trumpeting a 900 issue anniversary. They forfeited that right when they rebooted...... Just my opinion.
I agree with you, but thanks to heros reborn and marvel knights the same thing can be said about every single Marvel anniversary issue in the last 10 years, including ASM #700
