Yes but that’s what some of you all are implying by saying what you’re saying… what do you expect from them is what I’m saying… why would any creator who wrote a book say it’s not the greatest thing ever? If they don’t market it to try and sell it, then what’s the point in making it in the first place?
I’m not following ya’lls logic I guess. Just ignore the creators if you don’t like them saying their stories and art aren’t the best thing ever…
If you take financial advice off of twitter tweets from random people creating comic books, then you should lose all your money anyways I say…
You can tell everyone what a great book or piece of art your work is. Once you start attaching becoming rich and buying vacation homes if you run out and buy my product you become a snake oil salesman. Even if you are being satirical a lot of people take Donny Cates and Ryan Stegmans Twitter as the word of Marvel and rush out to follow their advice and buy these things. So in a way they are taking advantage of their fan base to pump book numbers.
Read my previous comment… if you believe everything on the internet to be true, then that’s on you.
Black Winter first appearance started moving again after Donny Cates tweet about it. That’s the power they wield it’s up to them to use that power responsibly and not take advantage of their fan base.
Just like a comic spec site can’t say there’s a black girl on action comics it must be Naomi rush out and buy them all first and sell them to their readers and still expect people to take anything they say seriously again.
He’s just tweeting about his character… how people react is on them still. I doubt Cates is sitting on piles of Thor comics hoping to score a lot of sales on eBay or elsewhere… Geeez… come on Alana…
A creator responding to another user saying he’s not “done” with the character is one thing… a spec site pumping and dumping half truths for their own gain is another. There’s a big line drawn in the sand with the differences. Now if you got some proof that Donny boy has stacks of books he’s selling on the secondary market and using the power of his creators voice to pump and dump those copies, then I’ll side with you but I seriously doubt that’s the case, so just knock if off with this nonsense… he’s a creator who boosts his product… by your logic, every company should stop advertising their products… they’re influencing people to buy something they might not necessarily need… 
I would be mad if I was a shop owner that bought 500 copies of kib off some bs hype by the artist and writer. Then get stuck with a 1:500 15min cover drawn by Donny Cates with no spec and the 450 copies of the book they will never sell. But hey I’m sure KIB #1 has the highest print run for the month maybe even the year so mission accomplished.
If you’re a retailer acting like a consumer, buying more than you can likely sell cause you’re not keeping tabs on your customer base, then that’s on you. Like I said, if you’re that gullible to believe everything on the internet is true, then you deserve to lose your money. Do your homework, know your own business and customer base… if you fall victim cause you took the word from the publisher and creators, then you’re a complete and utter moron to begin with and I’m surprised you’re still in business anyways.
Simply put, if I ran a comic shop and I know of 50 customers that want KIB #1, why would I buy 500 copies cause Stegman told me to? That’s on me and I’m a moron if I’m buying more than I know I can sell. Trying to blame the publisher or creators for marketing their book is just the very sad attempt this world has come to… The whole… “not my fault, let me blame someone else” is completely out of control nowadays. Sigh!
Well we can revisit this when Midtown sells out their copies of King in Black #1 since they have multiple stores in metropolitan areas and a huge online presence by your logic they should of been sold out on foc date with how big they are. My guess is 4 years from now they are still in stock at midtown.
If anyone took Stegman’s tweets as literal, sarcasm is foreign to them. C’mon people, that was all in fun.
Maybe… but Midtown I wouldn’t use as a good measure of how the smaller local shops operate with their customer base. Midtown serves the world as probably the biggest online retailer for comics. I would not want to be their ordering manager, cause I’m sure they sit on a lot of books thinking more will want over days or weeks. That’s just how it goes though… do your ordering based on what you know and think you can sell, not by some turd blossom’s tweets on twitter… 
Crossover #3 has 8 secret variants. "The 8 variations illustrated by Todd McFarlane feature Ellie reading different hit image comics while Spawn looks over her shoulder: Crossover #1, Cyber Force #1, Savage Dragon #1, Shadow Hawk #1, Walking Dead #1, Nowhere Men #1, Spawn #1, and Crossover #3. We’ve estimated the ratios for these books at 1:4, 1:8, and 1:25. " (copy/pasted from Stadium Comics website)
Wonder if any is actually rarer than the others or if they’re all equally rare.
Oh FFS…
This is how Eric Stephenson reacts every time the marketing department says they’re putting out another “variant cover” for a title at Image Comics…
The amount of people who contact us asking if we can find/send them the secret variant(s) with their pre-orders/subscriptions when there’s just ONE secret cover is going to get even worse…
(And before anyone gets snarky in here the answer is no you get what you get :-P)
Can I be excluded and treated special? I MUST HAVE EVERY SECRET VARIANT!!! I 
CATES SO MUCH, MUST HAVE THEM ALL!!!
