Exactly. Studios make shows and movies to sell tickets or get people to subscribe… they don’t give two shits about the comic they’re stuck selling for $1 to distributors who turn around and sell for $2 to shops who then turn around and sell for $4 or more…
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The sense of entitlement is extraordinary.
The “Comic Book Market Influencer Community” (WTF) didn’t invest; they speculated.
Nobody owes them anything.
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Sounded to me like satire, I don’t think that post is being serious.
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Yeah the guy is doing a bit lol
I think they’re being serious. Unless they put a smiley or winky emoji at the end, then words on a screen carry no emotion or tone so it comes off as being serious to me.
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“Keep their investments afloat”? Is he serious?
This is comics, man. Marvel Studios has no duty to secondary market resellers to make a back issue sell and retain value. Marvel Studios’ job is to make compelling media to be consumed by movie-goers. Say what you will about Gorr’s appearance, but being mad about it because it might tank your “investments” isn’t a valid argument that anybody with decisionmaking power will listen to. Maybe if those “investments” tanking are Disney stock, somebody will listen, but that’s not the complaint here. It also sounds like a petty criticism based in a petty grievance.
A filmmaker’s decision on how to make a character look made your 22 pieces of stapled paper worth a couple Franklins less than before to people with disposable income? Boo hoo. Maybe it wasn’t such a solid “investment” if the market reacts so fickly to it.
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Klaw was a massive failure because they didn’t stay faithful to his comic book look. /s
(Honest hot take of mine: Klaw was annoying as shit and a complete joke to me in both Age of Ultron and Black Panther, but I don’t fault others for enjoying him. I was happy he was killed off so I didn’t have to watch his character anymore. #lessandyserkisinmoviesplease)
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Is anyone actually “investing” in Gorr comics/Thor God of Thunder comics to begin with? I guess it is just semantics but I don’t know that I’d use that term for a great deal of the books we discuss. A quick flip, hustling, speccing=sure.
Other than FOMO buyers…who would pay a big price for these?
I’ll sell these books for whatever I can get. Will I try to get the most possible? Of course! I’ve putting my graded copies out there and getting whatever I can. Adjusting prices lower as needed. In the end however, I paid cover price, and later cheap back issue bin prices for these issues. We were buying and talking about these books sooooo long ago.
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If you read that article, it’s clearly a non-fact stupid assumption.
"I think a lot of fans are gonna potentially assume, ‘Oh, OK, this is the passing on of the torch’… I’m not privy to any plans Marvel has for the future, but I don’t think that’s the case," Waititi said.
“Though he doesn’t outright confirm it, Waititi does seem to be indicating that Jane won’t remain in possession of Mjolnir.”
NO, Waititi does NOT indicate that. The article’s author is twisting words. Almost as bad as the writers for Giant Freakin Robot…
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I just want Thor and Gorr to compare business cards. Now, that was quite the crazy character Bale played…
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This movie should have been a two-parter - one that shows why/how Jane Foster gets Mjolnir - notice no mention of cancer here, and two origin of and a Gorr storyline. Of course, the two could be mixed together - just seems like too many storylines in a very compressed movie. And dont forget - hip Thor sounding like a surfer dude and finding his mojo. BTW, the costumes look all shiny and nice, nothing like what a batte-hardened costume should look like, and the Valkyrie, Korg characters look like cannon fodder. Again all assumption on my part based on the trailer, the movie could surprise me. Natalie does look buff, like Brie.
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I learned long ago, never judge a book on it’s cover… same goes for movies, never judge a movie based on what they tease in the trailers.
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I’ll give it a shot, been wrong before. BUT the track record for me regarding movies and most comics, since Avengers Endgame, has been abysmal. Not ashamed to say atleast for comics most of my purchases are based on cover art, for the art, and hope/pray for a good story. Last good story I read was early Immortal Hulk, early Cates Venom, and mostly newer independents early runs.
It’s always sunny has an episode dedicated to poop in the bed.
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In case you all missed the 3rd trailer a couple days ago.
“Give His Weapon To Beta Ray Bill”
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that is not a legit trailer,
yeah its fake, the beta ray bill line is from the cartoon avenger’s earth’s mightiest heroes
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