May 02020
Marvel Reveals Updated Release Schedule
July 8th: Doctor Strange #5 and Strange Academy #2
Update: Also July 8th: Ghost Rider #7 [Dr. Strange was in #6, out 11 March]
July 29th: Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality #5
Doctor Strange #6, Savage Avengers #12 not yet rescheduled
[29 May 02020]
Brian Hibbs: Tilting at Windmills #279: The Plague Diaries- How Comics Retailing Moves Forward
[a retailer shares his current reality;
how do we reopen?- with an unaffordable print-product "catch-up" dump?
with print comics that have already been released digitally?
with fans who have had the weekly habit nuked out of them due to the virus shutdown?;
Marvel/DC tease "digital only" and "trade only" and play Russian roulette with the print Direct Market;
the DM amortizes the production costs and lowers prices of digital and trades for viability in other book markets;
no one outside of the DM can sell fragile expensive atomized singles- no more newsstand market;
"one of the very first questions that was asked by AT&T when they had their first post-takeover meeting at DC,
in the pre-plague past, was 'Why are we still printing these?'"]
Your latest "a single-issue-based brick-mortar Direct Market is not long for this world" essay,
coronavirus-finally-making-it-a-reality edition
[note: the two biggest Diamond accounts are mail order/online]
Haven't seen one of these in a while: Your latest
"the anthology format will save comics" essay
[but having the content available first digitally a-la-carte style kills it before it starts]
[28 May 02020]
Doctor Strange: Five Story Retcons That Fans Liked (And Five That They Hated)
FANS LOVED: The Fate of Casey Kinmont
FANS HATED: Clea's Affair With Ben Franklin Was An Illusion
FANS LOVED: Doctor Druid Was The Ancient One's Placeholder For Doctor Strange
FANS HATED: Ghosts Have No Sense Of Human Morality
FANS LOVED: Agamotto Saved Strange's Magical Items
FANS HATED: Doctor Strange Has A Brother
FANS LOVED: Doctor Strange Secretly Saved The Fantastic Four From Rama-Tut
FANS HATED: Doctor Strange Crashed His Car On Purpose
FANS LOVED: The Tribunals Were A Hoax
FANS HATED: Chaos Magic Was Fake
[27 May 02020]
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