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Kenny Teeology

I actually have an interest in the All New Wolverine series. I happen to really like X-23 and would really like to see what should does on the battlefield compared to what Logan did.

I got tired of Marvel back during the first Civil War. Didn't like the superficial way they approched Super Hero registration and how the punch of the whole story was outside of the main book. DC lost me at Flashpoint. The years of backstories was what made their universe a living thing that felt deep. With Rebirth, they are trying to win people like me back. I've bought half a dozen trades and so far, yes, the old universe is making a come back but the writing is not always there. I've red a lot of European comics and some suggestions I could make are The Quest for the Time-Bird by Le Tendre & Loisel (his Peter Pan is also a good read) Wake by Morvan & Buchet (a sci-fi that plays with different genres) SkyDoll by Barbucci & Canepa (sooo pretty)

Mathieu C

21st century culture is internet culture.

Well I actually liked Secret War. I didn't read all the crossovers I just read the main Secret War story and a few of the crossovers. It was cool and different and introduced me to A-Force and a few new titles. But I agree, after that Civil War 2 burned me out. And then I tried to get excited with the new Black Panther series but it sucked. I guess award winning journalist doesn't mean you can write a comic book to save your life. And the artwork sucked as well. I agree, Marvel was trying to use diversity as a gimmick. It was dumb. They wanted to fast track these new minority and female characters by race swapping or gender swapping them with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, etc. They didn't want to take the time to write original, new characters which is never a guarantee. They got desperate and made a dumb ass decision they are paying for now. Does anyone remember all the HATE DC got when they killed off Barry Allen and replaced him with Wally West? Took YEARS for people to like Wally West...and that was one white guy replacing another white guy.

Ever since you said that Alan Moore quote about the 21st century deserving a culture, I haven't been able to get it out of my head. You done fucked up superhero comics for me too!

Dan Westwood

Comics need a big distribution make over as well, the monopoly Diamond has over distribution is damaging and out dated. We have veteran comic writers pleading/chastising readers online for not PRE-ORDERING a book that was canceled. For whatever reason Marvel and DC think that if a book doesn't get enough pre-orders from readers at direct market comic book stores its not really successful. The people who pre-order at comic shops are a fraction of a fraction of the potential audience for comics. The idea that people who pull books off shelves, buy trade paperbacks, or read on digital platforms "don't count" towards the success of a book is insane. Marvel can't try and reach out to new fans and not change the distribution. These days there are so many damn crates and boxes for collectible merchandise around comic characters to granola bars but NONE of them will just send you a weekly box of your comics. I can get same day of release delivery of any video game for a reduced price from Amazon but not comics. Keeping comics locked away in specialty stores that are not all great and keeping pre orders only to the people who bother to read the previews at least three months in advance is the recipe for stagnation that we've seen in the last 30 years. Make comics accessible and accept that some people want to read trade volumes and digital and I think the sale slump will be over.

Barry Donnelly

Yea between DC's Convergence and Marvel's Secret Wars the number of super hero books I buy floppies of has dropped to close to zero. Then as within a few months of All new- All different Civil War II happened and killed the inkling I had to check in on Marvel last year because so many books were being interrupted or being canceled just after that. They're so disruptive with their own stories and they start great books and cancel them or switch creative teams. I say this as someone who buys more female led books than male led books, the fastest way to turn my head is to have a strong female main character. There was an amazing She-Hulk run in 2014 that only got 12 issues but was a huge critical success and I believe would have picked up in sales if left alone and got good word of mouth.

Barry Donnelly

This is the first video I have watched as a patreon subscriber. (YAY!) You are awesome. I can't wait to pour over all the content on here :)

Danial McCoy

I've been re-reading Nowhere Men because it's the best comic I've read in years. I really don't care about any of the Marvel vs. DC idiocy, but I haven't found Marvel's output to be very interesting in a while. I really don't care at all about their movies either. Except Guardians!! Guardians is very much up my alley and I'm trying not to get too carried away about the second one next month. Anyway, thank you for the sneak peak video. I can't wait for Dune Club. You guys are my favorite YouTube channel (several years running), hands down. Keep up the good work.

David Ware

I agree with everything you said.

I miss your comic book recommendations, I would pick up digital subscriptions of about half the titles you'd discuss, and you've never steered me wrong! Ms. Marvel was a particular delight, as was She-Hulk. I'm pretty pumped for the Dune Book Club. I need to stretch my reading muscles; I haven't read Dune since high school.

sweet, soo the investment that the non-avid marvel comic book aficionados drawn in from the early 90's is too steap to hold water "Dune reference (not really, it is tho)" as the bla bla (you already mentioned it and spacebrain did), i kinda thought you sold out when you did marvel off the rack ( i was onto something there, you didnt really seem yourself (whatever that means) you were too nice on there or too neutral or not interrogating enough but the interviewees were very sweet and open but it didnt feel "fresh (am i still on quotes")" , im prepping for the potentiall pre-subscription of dune (my first time). it seems intense, the guide (your guide) aspect to things, linking it to the the JoDorowsky Greator Creators vid, his imagery dialogue by-passing filters or defense mechanisms to create juxtopositions of symbolisms and narattives ( i guess over-explaining ( already mentioned in your vid ) ) the items with the presubscriptsion linking back to your Flex Mentello days with the wallet and chaos magic and doing that technique about chanting at the same time through the vid (not sure who the author was at the time that was a chaos magician)...where am i