Comments on: Review: Wolverine First Class #4 http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/4475.htm/ We know you love comics. We do, too. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:16:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: steviecool http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/4475.htm/#comment-75824 steviecool Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:34:29 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/?p=4475#comment-75824 Old Schools probably will like it, but why not wait for the trade? For any "Lost Tales of..." series, it can wait until they can get it for a lower cost. It's not like there's a crucial story element that ties in to whatever crisis invasion now. Plus, now with Astonishing, people can get their Karate Kid Kitty fix with Armor/Hisako in Astonishing - so there's competing product. You have to make new readers care about the girl that... oh wait... doesn't buddy with Logan that much any more... shot into space... can't figure out a way to bring her back... Young Kitty was cool. Old Kitty was griping at Emma and sleeping with her un-dead boyfriend. Old Kitty has a few good lines, but kind of a yawn these days anwyays. No new reader is going to know the line "Professor Xavier is a jerk!" So, you really need to have a feel of nostalgia to be picking this up in non-trade format. Old Schools probably will like it, but why not wait for the trade?

For any “Lost Tales of…” series, it can wait until they can get it for a lower cost. It’s not like there’s a crucial story element that ties in to whatever crisis invasion now.

Plus, now with Astonishing, people can get their Karate Kid Kitty fix with Armor/Hisako in Astonishing – so there’s competing product. You have to make new readers care about the girl that… oh wait… doesn’t buddy with Logan that much any more… shot into space… can’t figure out a way to bring her back…

Young Kitty was cool. Old Kitty was griping at Emma and sleeping with her un-dead boyfriend. Old Kitty has a few good lines, but kind of a yawn these days anwyays. No new reader is going to know the line “Professor Xavier is a jerk!”

So, you really need to have a feel of nostalgia to be picking this up in non-trade format.

]]> By: ykw http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/4475.htm/#comment-75765 ykw Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:14:15 +0000 http://www.majorspoilers.com/?p=4475#comment-75765 <i>However the sales are not justifying its quality, with only 22,000 sold for issue 3. It’s a pity, because it is a book I want to continue reading.</i> Relax. The DM sales figures on W: FC aren't that big a deal, as the book (like its cousin, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) is aimed at other markets (subscriptions, newsstands) and is further destined for a long life in collected form in junior high book clubs and the Young Adults section of your local Borders. Whatever it generates in DM floppy sales (again, like several other non-DM-centric Marvel projects of recent vintage, e.g., MARVEL ILLUSTRATED, MARVEL ADVENTURES) is pure gravy. And, for a project of this stripe, 22K is an <i>AWFUL</i> lot of gravy, at that. However the sales are not justifying its quality, with only 22,000 sold for issue 3. It’s a pity, because it is a book I want to continue reading.

Relax. The DM sales figures on W: FC aren’t that big a deal, as the book (like its cousin, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) is aimed at other markets (subscriptions, newsstands) and is further destined for a long life in collected form in junior high book clubs and the Young Adults section of your local Borders. Whatever it generates in DM floppy sales (again, like several other non-DM-centric Marvel projects of recent vintage, e.g., MARVEL ILLUSTRATED, MARVEL ADVENTURES) is pure gravy.

And, for a project of this stripe, 22K is an AWFUL lot of gravy, at that.

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