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Also, I was trying to remember all the in-continuity Wolverine deaths. I know there was Uncanny X-Men Annual #11, Wolverine #20 (Marvel Knights series) and Wolverine #57 (Again, Marvel Knights). Then there are the two “deaths” in Astonishing X-Men #3 (2nd series) and Age of Ultron #9. I’m not trying to be snarky, I am genuinely curious as to how many times Logan has died so far.

A Marvel fan highlights the unintentional comedy of Marvel’s Death of Wolverine series and promotion as a “big event.” Then again, another fan in the same thread seems genuinely upset that Marvel is “going to really go through with it,” so clearly someone’s convinced by the hype.
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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.

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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.

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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.)

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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…?
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Hey, Comics Internet: The 2000AD Digital Store is having a Rogue Trooper sale today, with pdf editions of the first three Tales from Nu Earth collections only £5.00 (which is $8.39, according to current exchange rates). There’s 400-odd pages in each one, and the second volume in particular is great. Future War has never been so tempting, trust me. 

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Marvel has confirmed the end of their Essentials program of black and white reprints of classic material. Marvel has sold off almost all remaining inventory of older in-print volumes and will not be adding further books. ‘This material needs to be in color,’ Marvel Senior VP of Sales David Gabriel said. ‘So we’ll be replacing our Essentials program with more full-color Epic Collections.’

“This material needs to be in color” translates as “We can charge twice as much for the same material if we change format,” I believe.

It’s sad, but not surprising, that the line is going to be killed. Guess I’ll never manage to find cheap copies of Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-in-One now.