I know it was just announced and maybe got a little lost in all the con news, but I kinda find despicable and extremely hypocritical that there has yet to be an article from any comics site about the fact that STORM is getting an ongoing series. Like Star-Lord gets seventeen articles, and Storm gets a half-line mention along with other stuff.
I don’t know about either despicable or hypocritical. Sites cover what they want to cover, and what they think is going to be of interest to their readers. And there are a lot of comics coming out every week.
There’ll no doubt be coverage given to the STORM series. but that’s really got very little to do with us.
Worth noting from the journalist side of things: Star-Lord has the benefit of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie to act as additional buzz/interest (Storm has X-Men: Days of Future Past in theory, but the character hasn’t featured heavily in promo for the movie; also, people have seen multiple X-Men movies by now, so it’s less exciting for many). To be blunt, Star-Lord will likely get more hits.
Not to mention, Star-Lord has had an official press conference from the publisher and Storm hasn’t.
I’ve been following, and loving, the response to this post for many reasons, not least of which is the wide variety of different responses and readings to the same text. It’s not necessarily been the critical analysis I was looking for because of the nature of Tumblr and the Internet in general, but it’s been fascinating in many of the same ways nonetheless. Yay for the Internet, even with the occasional vehemence/hyperbole/tendency towards binary constructs that it engenders.
I think it’s dangerous to tell retailers and fans, “Hey, check out this cool lenticular cover! Who’s writing and drawing it, you ask? Nevermind, check out this cool lenticular cover!” If I were the writer or artist of that issue, I’d wonder why my involvement is being concealed. And if I were a retailer or a fan, I’d be skeptical that I’m being asked to literally buy a book for its cover. I’d assume the enhanced cover is camouflage for a fill-in issue.
Marvel’s editor-in-chief Axel Alonso on DC advance-soliciting September’s comics because of the lenticular covers. He later says “At Marvel, the important thing is story and the talent that bring you that story,” which explains why Marvel would never solicit comics with no creative teams or story information attached, especially not just a month ago.
(Alonso also rebuts the idea that there were no creator credits because there aren’t creators attached by saying “From a production standpoint alone, each of those issues should be in outline form, at the very least, just in order to hit deadline.” Oh, Axel. I think you put too much faith in DC being a well-oiled machine at this point. These comics aren’t coming out for five months yet.)
I want to see something, Reblog if you’re older than 25 and younger than 40.
Lowe said the delivery for the “ASM” title will be different – “on May 4, we’re going to drop four issues at once,” with another four issues coming about a month later. The experiment “is like the ‘Oregon Trail,’” Lowe said, “but we don’t want people getting tuberculosis or anything.”
Marvel is splitting the difference between binge watching and tradition with its new digital release schedule. I’m not sure this will do anything but irritate both sides, though…?