We Need To Talk About Marvel Comics (Disastrous 2023)
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2023
- For the most part the comic book shill won't talk about Marvel Comics and how they've affected the industry in 2023. But that may be changing, even The Comics Beat almost through shade at Marvel Comics this week. Wes doesn't think Heidi McDonald goes near far enough. And lays a serious verbal beatdown on Marvel Comics and they're disastrous 2023. We need to talk about Marvel Comics.
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Part of the problem is writers want to be the next Grant Morrison. I’d prefer writers trying to emulate Gerry Conway, Len Wein and Marv Wolfman
Oh you mean REAL comic book writers?!
Cebulski has been an utter failure as EIC. They need to do whatever they need to do to bring back Shooter or find someone else of his caliber to take over and do a complete overhaul of the creative teams currently on the payroll.
Jim Shooter was a fairly solid helmsman until he got hooked on 'events', a gimmick which subsequently infected DC as well.
@@Steve_Green True. The success of "Secret Wars" put him on that path, sadly. Loved "Secret Wars", but felt it should have remained a rare event at Marvel (and DC).
Peter revealing his identity to ms Marvel has been the last straw for me, just back issues from now on
fr, there's so many great old comics, welcome aboard
Lol why would he do that? Marvel and dc are so garbage stopped reading about a year ago
Kitty Pyde becoming a cold blooded murderer shocked me deeply.I 'm used to watch and read many gore and erotic stuffs but see the former heart of the X-Men killing hit hard in me.
@@EvandroACruzwhat book did that happen in?
What was even the point Ms.Marvel wasn't dying she came back from the dead!
kelly thompson is... tolerable... sometimes. She at least doesn't treat Gambit like a unwanted step child and the brood arc in captain marvel was actually good (again because she actually treats Gambit with respect and didn't make him secondary to Rogue like she did in Mr and Mrs X ).
"Heroes be made to look stupid" - if this doesn't describe X-Men Krakoa era the best I don't know what does... I can't agree with this more.
I have a soft spot for Jed MacKay since I like his Moon Knight run and he recently did write the single best Spider-Man issue where I felt it all clicked - Mary Jane & Black Cat : Beyond #1.
From the outside, not reading X-Men anymore, it looks more like all mutants being villains now.
Jed mckays avengers is ok but each issue is short and there’s no b or c plot
Listen to Wes rant about the comic book industry has become a staple of my day
I used to spend hours at the comics shop, now I just check the manga section. Five minutes and I'm out, often without buying anything
The storylines in manga is so much better than Dc and Marvel
I’ve been reading The Boys, Invincible, and The New Mutants from the 1980s. I have no interest in reading anything from current year DC and Marvel. Not only that, it’s hard to find anything outside of manga that catches my eye in my LCS.
I think Flashpoint Beyond is great and the Justice Society of America with the time travel that Huntress undertakes is also worth reading. Other than that, there wasn't much this year. Unfortunately. 😒
@OrthwormJEB
I read R34 Cassandra Cain and Superboy from Sketchatron.
Your channel is the only hard evidence that north American comics still actually exist
The sad thing is Kelly Thompson actually write a GREAT series when she did Mr. & Mrs. X. It was a throw-back to fun adventure stories with Rogue and Gambit, a couple everyone actually loved and were rooting for. Marvel actually even gave her a fantastic artist for it, too, with Oscar Bazaluda. It lasted all of 12 issues before being cancelled so Hickman could turn the X-Men into racist supervillains. I'm not a Kelly Thompson fan but her series was head and shoulders above any X-book Marvel has put out since you could tell she was loving writing these characters and was having fun doing it. But Marvel punishes you for turning in good, fun stories just like it punishes you for enjoying those books: by cancelling them.
If they had creators that cared and made stories that would hook people in and no "Outrage sales" Marvel may not be in the state it is in.
If anything, instead of leaving Marvel, Spencer should have stayed his ground and taken over editorial, because gods know that Cebulski needs the boot bad.
Sana Amanat is the true reason for the rot.
The not caring is the worst thing to me, I don't mind change, even welcome it and think comics are great for it. When Miller took over Batman he changed so much and all for the better. I've also read Batman, Spider-man stories that changed a lot but didn't work and even got changed back. But in all those stories you always felt like the creators cared and took it seriously. Now a days it's all a joke and silly, the MCU is doing the same thing for god knows what reason.
Que me está contando, si los comics de Marvel, está mucho mejor
Manga is better because it’s not agenda driven and even when it is, manga writers have it all planned out to make sense
Yes indeed😊
When the MCU started with Iron Man, and then Captain America, The Avengers etc.. the characters that were there to represent the fans were Agent Coulson & Stan Lee Cameos and the comics were also there to please the fans. They were using heroes that people like and were making them shine (Remender Uncanny X-Force, Waid Daredevil, Hickman FF etc...) But how is the target audience depicted now that Stan Lee passed away? As the vilain of She-Hulk. Small brains like Dan Slott will say that that's the most She Hulk thing ever but if it was, She-Hulk would have been blasting Disney for 6 episodes straight instead of the fans and fan favorites like Hulk & Daredevil.) The comics did the same shift but 10 years earlier and then never course corrected and that's why they are where they are at the moment.
Marvel died with Hickman's Secret Wars event which lets face it was a great ending point for the universe as a whole, easy jumping off point for people who want stories with a beginning, middle and end.
DC died when they tore apart rebirth and handed Superman to Bendis.
To me, it died after AvX, when they started to turn 616 into the MCU after the first Avengers did 1 billion at theaters
Remember when they tried to do away with the mutants and force feed us the Inhumans because the mutants movie rights were on Fox?
My real question is why do they keep turning the heroes into the villains? I guess beast is now the villian of the xmen where previously it was always cyclops (continually all the way to the xmen v avengers) and Angel (Xfactor) Jean (Phoenix saga)
Once Stan Lee passed away it was all downhill from there.
Yup. I would even say that once Jack Kirby had passed away back in 1994, the writing was on the wall. Stan Lee's last years alive was their borrowed time.
It's true.
The world has turned upside down when it comes to comics
And I'm sad about it
It got to the point where I'm now tracking down Facesmile reprints because it's made by people that actually HAD morals back then.
So if you want good comics, we need to go back in time and see what made those comics great in the first place.
Sigh 😔 yeah
The dementia ridden old man that had nothing to with stories for at least 20 years? Stop doing drugs.
@@jackiechan2524He didn't have dementia and if you don't like Stan Lee, fine. But don't disrespect the man. He did a lot of good things for comics whether you like it or not. More than any of us ever will.
It’s crazy this video comes out now… I was planning on picking Captain America and Daredevil #1 next month. I’ve been hella enjoying the Jed McKay Avengers run so far too.
Zero hopes for Captain America. Daredevil might be worth a shot.
In general, DC is stronger overall right now, but when DC is bad it’s every bit as bad as current-day X-Men.
You mentioned everyone except the Fantastic Four. They've been killing it.
I picked up Void Rivals #3 today. I also found a Spiral Zone comic from the $1 bin. And finally I got Spiderman Fake Red, the Spiderman manga you and Dok reviewed. I don’t care what the big two is doing.
The Spiral Zone is my favorite 1980s animated television series ever.
@@incubustimelord5947Me too! I was so mad they never finished it. I also never knew they had a comic from DC.
I, along with a lot of people who watch this channel I'm sure, have been saying for years that this was gonna happen. Personally, I was hoping I'd be wrong, that Marvel would put out good stories even if they weren't anything I cared about. It saddens me that we were right, telling Marvel until we were blue in the face that the current path they were going wasn't a good thing and braving their retorts of "you just don't like this because you're a terrible person!" until so many of us walked away because of the indifference we felt.
Shame on Marvel and the cretins in Marvel who brought this current state of events out through their own hubris.
Don't worry Wes ..Jazdia Axelrod is still here !
🤢🤮
Maybe Akira Yoshida can start writing again. 😂
Akira Yoshida lmao
His luck is that he was impersonating a "minority" the far-left wackos at Marvel don't "care" about
I liked that Kitty Pryde story.
Let's see, Steve Rogers was turned into a Nazi, killed, and sent to one of the bad hells, and the thing running around calling itself Steve is a soulless simulcram created by the cosmic cube.
Iron man was killed, stored his memories as an AI used by Iron Cornrows, and it's now in a kind of cloned body. So it's just an AI based off of him, but not him.
The X-Men turned their backs on Xavier's dream, became xenophobic fascist drug dealing villains, and most of them are dead and what exists now are just clones with memory implants. They call it resurrection, but it's not, they're just clones. The person that died is dead and it's just a copy now.
They ruined Carol when she became Captain Marvel, turning her into a Mary Sue rampaging feminist.
Look what they did to the punisher!!!
They turned Iceman gay for no reason other than the original X-Men "need" more minorities.
They gave Blade a Mary Sue lesbian daughter, who's better and more powerful than him despite being only a quarter vampire, and she's nowhere near Buffy level.
Nick Fury has been ruined, replaced with a black son, who's been cucked and made to look weak.
How many times is Thor to be made unworthy and weak. The whole Jane foster as the "mighty Thor" thing was stupid.
They turned all Visions kids queer. I can understand Wiccan as he's basically a male clone of Scarlet Witch infused with a shard of Mephistos soul, but Speed is supposed to be basically a clone of Quicksilver and he became bisexual...now just gay, out of nowhere.
Should I even mention that Prodigy theorized that Wiccan made Hulkling bisexual and in love with him, and it's handwaved away simply because gay is ok. It's not ok, it's very very messed up and wrong.
There's so many wrong things in marvel AND DC comics. So much pettiness, stupidity, hate, and pandering to a crowd that doesn't even pay to read the comics. They have a shit ton to clean up to get people to care again.
With the list of foibles outlined, is it even possible to turn things around at MARVEL or DC?
This is one of the best and most accurate comments on marvel
You forgot the death of Peter Parker. The current Peter Parker is just Doc Ock in Peter’s body after he got his memory altered to think he is Peter. Marvel never undid the story where the actual Peter Parker dies in Doc Ock‘s old body. So yeah, you can add Spider-Man to the characters killed and replaced.
@@davidgantenbein9362they never undid that Superior Spider-Man bulshite? What a mess.
@@amadeusagripino6862 They „undid“ it by giving Doc Ock Pete Parkers memory, so that he is now Peter Parker. But yes, the death of the real Peter Parker in Doc Ock‘s body was never undone. So it’s technically still Doc Ock, while the real Peter Parker is dead for quite a while.
Tks for keeping it real man.
Thank you Wes.
The average life of a corporation is 75-100 years. Marvel is dead. I accepted that fact back in the 2017 era. Most people are not gay. Most marvel characters are gay. BTW, Marvel jumped the shark way back in the '90s when Spider-Man was ret-conned into Ben Riley, the fans hated it, and they had to bring back Norman Osborne. You could just feel the credibility crumble. It got much worse with "brand new day". Now I consider Spider-Man a second-rate character. That bridge was crossed when he wore a shirt saying, "ask me about my feminist agenda".
We also need to clean house in the X-Men office and the Spidey office.
Any other areas in Marvel you guys think need working on?
their hiring department, it's lacking good people there.
All of their offices. All of their departments. All of their characters. Especially the Fantastic Four and the Avengers in addition to Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Wolverine. But nothing will change unless the disease of the woke trash mind virus is thoroughly cleansed from the company. Bacteria and germs cannot be cleaned only. They must be completely neutralized.
Fire everyone and call the old guys back to mentor new writers and artists. Feelings need to be set aside.
Awesome work mate
Thanks for the rant video, been wanting to watch one of these
Great video, Wes. I suspect the editors aren't so much the problem as they are more the enforcers of corporate directives.
Since you mention JM DeMatteis, have you ever done a retrospective on his Spec. Spider-Man run?
Yes. We do need ‘’yo’’ talk about Marvel Comics. 😆
😂
The only new Marvel series I've bought recently was The Avengers: War Across Time, a fun retro five-parter by Paul Levitz and Alan Davies set in the team's early days. Otherwise, it's the omnibuses of vintage material, which sadly remind me just how far that company has fallen.
Cómo se nota que eres antiguo, ponte a jugar con tus nietos y no opines más de comics
JMS is going to be writing Captain America? Expect Captain America to be walking the country.
So that Superman story was JMS? Didn’t know/remember that (also never read it).
Though JMS is a legit good writer, that Superman story was pretty lame and boring. He basically carbon copied what Denny O’Neil did with green lantern 50 years ago!
I was at the collectible/comic shop last night to get my Death of Venomverse 2, I saw Voices X-Men and part two of Wolverine/Ghost Rider. I put Voices back and I'm on the fence if I want to invest into Wolverine/Ghost Rider story. I would love to read X-Men book but where to pick up now? I don't want to pick up series with $5 book only for it to feel like waste.
I thought the progression of Mr & Mrs X was an amazing run (by Kelly Thompson btw) and seeing rogue and gambit in that type of adventure was exciting and then… power/house of x
I feel so sorry for you.
Especially since it kept getting worse for both characters and "Rogue and Gambit" somehow reached a new level of awful.
What ever happened to the Asian Hulk, the Latino Ghost Rider and the Chick Wolverine? I remember them being around for a bit, then got busy with other things.
My nephew and my niece gave up on marvel and Dc a week ago, Jon from DC and Kamala Khan from Marvel. They both read jon Kent and ms marvel and said they were done, I've been done with both for year's, they're never going to change.
What's the qualifications to apply as comic book writer for Marvel and DC Comics? I have a university degree in English Literature and owned a comic book shop. I'll take a job offer from Marvel and DC if they're seeking people with in-depth knowledge about creative writing and has experience catering to customers who want to be entertained.
Hey, Wes! Do you know any Bonelli comic (Bonelli is the main comic book publisher in Italy, sort of an Italian Marvel - its most famous characters are Tex Willer, Dylan Dog, Zagor and Nathan Never). If so, what's your opinion on them?
I'm sure it is going to go down into economic history that the era from 2010 with free internet feedback somehow led to a period 2015-2025 where they ignored all feedback to make all the worst choices and then lose all the money and wonder how they could possibly have gotten a better read on the market.
All companies just looked at eachother and thought "I'm sure THEY did market research so we copy them". And that is how you get all video game companies going with cash shops because "It makes money" rather than "Not a single customer likes it, and it only works on their gambling brains".
Dog man spotted 0:29
I never knew I needed Yo...
I once met whilce portacio in the 2010s.
And he told me if he had to do it agaon,he would rather work in the video game industry.
Problem is people with real talent are creating their own comoc book companies (evs,eric july) like image did in the 90s rather than work for the big 2.
Let's face it.its over
Why can’t the mainstream just point the finger at Marvel and DC? If the quality had remained high and talented writers been allowed to flourish, sales would not be nearly as bad as they are right now. I tried them for a few months and gave up and went back to other publishers.
So much agree on that art. I grew up reading in the 80s and 90s and there were so many fantastic artists then. Nowadays there are only a handful of Marvel titles which have art better than mediocre or pretty terrible.
I had never heard of Lore Olympus and Rachel Smyth so I looked them up. Lore Olympus seems like it's for a completely different audience than a typical Avengers reader.
All I’ve been doing have been reading comics from pre house of x and post civil war, war world hulk comics
Those were the good old days in marvel comics
The problem is that the good stories, and yes, there are some, are not promoted or are on side books that no one really cares about anymore.
I feel like the current Ghost Rider series has been pretty good
So how do these people get work? Im really starting to think I could do better.
i don't know you or your work and i'd put money on you every time.
You probably could do better, it’s just that you had zero chances to access the market and hence earn a dime. And yes, I know that some crowdfundings are huge successes, but these people have built an audience over time, while Marvel and DC „own“ the direct market shelves.
as a 50+yr DC kid, i understand that readers/fans on my particular stripe will be phased out/replaced by the al-fag-bet mafia readers and the sells will be better than ever., right?
on the other hand, Manga publishers/readers/fans have opened up to embraced us older/abused fans w/open arms. and there sells will suffer from it.
LOL
Agree with Moon Knight and Hulk being the best. And tbh agree with your view on what's going wrong and for me its such a shame because I've always been a Marvel collector/reader.
the next allan moore will probably be a self publisher
Who is John Galt?
You should read dog man, it’s hilarious
sitting here with over 500 volumes of manga to read sure feels nice... because comics ain't the one anymore.
I've been so blasé about american comics for so long now, to the point where this conversation seems out of my league. However as an outsider, walking into my local comic shops now just feels disheartening; a big part of it is what you're saying about the editors seeming to prefer villains to heroes and making the heroes look stupid; wouldn't mind if the villains were interesting, but they can't even seem to provide that. That and the art, it's just so damned ugly. I honestly agree with prettymuch everything you've said.
Squirrel Girl: Please leave me off-panel to save the universe.
Alan Moore lost his touch after he wrote V For Vendetta in 1988. After that he wrote woke trash Commie bullshit like the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Part Two and Part Three. If you thought that Part One was bad, the sequels are even worse. Alan Moore once was a good writer but just like Frank Miller, he ran out of steam a long time ago.
I would even say that on his peak he was extremely good, but that also often means a short lived peak and often an inability to ever get back there again.
"We Need Yo Talk About Marvel Comics"
Even with a typo, you're targeting the young demographic better than Marvel has in over a decade.
Heii, I'm not really as experienced in Marvel comics, but I would like to say that I think the current venom run is really great.
The rot set in about 2015 at Marvel with the influx of all these shit assistant editors who never cared about comics. They drove off the good writers and brought in shitheels like Ayala, howard, rosenberg et al who drove down the average quality of the b and c list comics while Jason Aaron busily shit on the biggest characters Marvel had. The X-men office has been dire for years and they drove away Hickman who was the one shining light in that whole morass.
The only comic I'm enjoying from Marvel at the moment is Alien, PKJ and now Declan Shalvey have been doing a good job kind of under the radar, it's worth checking out.
They need to go back to basics and bring in people who are invested and love the books there working on its just sad to see the state of marvel and DC 😢
Yes indeed
I love the comics that have been coming out. There are some bad ones, but I genuinely believe it's not just moon knight being good. I love immortal x men's politics, x men reds action, x men's adventures. Invincible Iron Man is one of my favorite runs on Iron Man with great insight into Tony's being and seeing the character in a different, harder situation.
What’s wrong with telling villain stories?
I want J. Michael to fix One More Day. The wounds still hurts after nearly 2 decades.
Ghost rider is fine but Wolverine sucks. How? They have same writer
It’s not the writer’s fault. Practically every X-Book, outside of a few, is the writing equivalent of one guy just endlessly walking in a circle.
Percy turned Beast in a irremediable bastard in X-Force and Moira was turned in a evil cyborg.Both the titles are terrible.
Could be that writers themselves aren’t always consistent, could be that the books have different editors aka different forms of meddling or simply that the artists make the difference.
I 100% agree with you my friend and do wonder how are these people getting work making these awful comics?! The only driving force is keeping me buying issues is variant covers done by professional, or fan favorite artists such as Arthur Adams, J. Scott Campbell, Frank Cho, Adam Hughes, and many others!! It literally irks me to crack open the book to see the horror lying inside!!!!😂
Hazlo si puedes tu, seguro que tú haces una mierda de comics
It’s just insane that marvel still treats my favorite character peter Parker Spider-Man like freaking garbage just to have the other characters like Paul and the stupid horrible spiderboy character who nobody wants myself included, get all the glory which is just sad and depressing at least in my opinion, because the peter Parker Spider-Man I knew and love ❤️ was married and he has his daughter mayday Parker spidergirl alive and kicking and shocker actual adult, not a loser who can’t get a job and is in all misery mode 24/7 which is just driving me insane to the point that I have lost all hope of amazing Spider-Man ever getting good at least in my opinion.
Spencer run give us hope to Peter and Mj again but Wells take all apart.
They do identify more with the villains, Wes. They even said so on a Marvel podcast that I cover about 2 years ago. They just come out and admit it.
6-11 dollars comics will drive us away for good
Yeah, Unfortunately Marvels on straight trash right now. Lets hope sales reflect that and they get their sh*t in gear and get back to being Marvel again The fix to this problem is to knock off all the forced gay stuff, knock of the feminism and girl power, knock off making the primary characters less important and seemingly fools compared to these new characters that nobody likes.
Sjw, feminist, snowflake and others destroy characters and legacy and if i own both i will put the editors in Asia. Marvel and DC and others have lost their souls. Man i miss old comics. Dark house is next but image comics is the only good one and dynamite comics. We need real creative people to fix the comic industry. Look at how Manga is doing.
All these writers you was naming only thing i had in mind: Dogwater
When marvel only knows how to do events, they stop being events
AXE Judgement Day put me over the top. It was the last event series that I bought, and will buy.
2003 was the last great year in Marvel comics!
* 1994
2004 for me.Avengers Disassembled was the end of the Marvel that all know growing reading.
@@incubustimelord5947 Why 1994?
@@EvandroACruz That was the last best era for DC and Marvel. Then the mid-1990s happened and all of the soulless cash grabs started.
@@incubustimelord5947 I liked of many Pre-Crisis Dc stuff.many of what did Dc so special was losted in Post-Crisis era.
Sing it, Brother!
15:10....lol.
Thank the comic gods for omnibuses and back issues otherwise we should just buy art prints and skip this variant covers scheme. Peter David’s last Joe Fix it run actually made me excited once again. Hadn’t had that feeling in awhile
I too am aware of how well Moon Knight is being touted. However, the art is unacceptable & I’m not buying that kind of “art”. Other than the brand new Conan, Death Dealer, that new Fire & Ice, some weirdo horror books (Ice Cream Man, Red Room, etc) American comics is Meh.
The problem and the solution is so simple that it goes over the heads of the Marvel comics division to the point where its being done on purpose.
Cause I refuse to believe their is some one that grade a stupid not to pull there heads out of their own butts and return to making stories first and foremost.
I disagree that we need another Alan Moore as well. You have to have actual comic books for someone to turn them on their head. What we have now is $5 propaganda pamphlets. We have enough Tom Kings running around trying to be Alan Moore. Get back to just making good stories with strong characters and let someone rise above it.
I wonder if anyone from DeviantArt wants Job at marvel comics.😄
They probably more than likely find their new employees from that sexually aberrant and deviant website.
Here’s another reason not to trust overly dramatic, overly self-assured comic book websites. You know how some of these websites make their own UA-cam videos featuring their articles and lists? Well, a few years ago I was listening to a video about bizarre moments in Marvel Comics or something to that effect (which is fair because man, have they had some bizarre moments!). One of the moments on the list was the Capwolf storyline, which was a late-80s or early-90s storyline with Captain America as a werewolf. It’s fair to put it on a list because “Captain America becomes a werewolf” is a wild idea for a series (I thought it was okay and had some good moments. I had it years ago, but then I decided to downsize). What made me do a double-take, however, was them claiming, “Marvel was apparently so embarrassed that they’re trying to hide this from public memory.” I thought, “What do you mean?! They just released a trade paperback of it! I saw it at the library!” Since then Marvel has obviously become even less “embarrassed” because they’ve released a Capwolf Funko Pop (which is proudly sitting on my shelf between my Endgame Mjolnir & broken shield Pop and my Steve Rogers Nomad Pop), had an issue with Sam Wilson briefly becoming a new Capwolf, introduced a Capwolf skin in a Lego game, and advertised an upcoming miniseries with a World War II version of Capwolf. In fairness, the four things I just mentioned happened more recently, so they could be shrugged off as a matter of shifting attitudes (embracing the weirdness instead of being embarrassed). However, them claiming, “Marvel wants you to forget this storyline,” when Marvel had actually released a TPB is hard to shrug off. I guess they think “haven’t said much about it recently” means “actively trying to hide it”? :-/
Spot on with respect to Moon Knight. Looks like they are killing it off in the next couple of episodes. You need to cover that Death of Mark Spector storyline. Why kill off your only compelling character? What is the logic behind that?
I’d add Miles to the good books. Haven’t ever read Miles, but it’s definitely my favorite book from Marvel behind Moon Knight. Too early for me to add Incredible Hulk, but it has been great so far
Marvel need Petter David back on a x book
Good Series From Marvel:
Venom
Doctor Strange
Daredevil (Zdarsky’s run just Wrapped Up)
X-Men Red
Avengers
Fantastic Four
Hulk
Blade (Only one issue but it kicked ass and Bryan Hill is a good writer)
Ghost Rider
Moon Knight
Black Panther
Captain America (JMS is writing Cap what more is there to say)
Immortal Thor
Meh.
JMS sucks.
WE NEED A DOGMAN MOVIE!!! LOL!
I’ve never liked Marvel or Disney …
So Heidi dear if it's not the material then why did The Last Ronin sell 100k+ ? Does anyone really believe that if the quality was there consistently X-Men, Thor... couldn't sell as much or more than TLR?
Jed McKay's stories are like ranger school or an STX for a light infantry unit. 25 miles. Lots of grumbling, bitching, and moaning for 5 miles with a ton of bullshit weighing you down. Then there's 30 minutes of action and excitement, and then another 15 miles of absolutely nothing but questioning your existence. Rinse wash and repeat.
A kids book about a police dog whose head is sewed onto a dead body that fights crime. Out sells Marvel and DC. Wow, who knew?
They also lost star wars back to dark horse.
I'm enjoying Ryan North's run on Fantastic Four. I can't work out if it's continuity or not as no other characters have been involved. Feels like an alternate universe type set of stories
I could be wrong but I thought CB sebolski left marvel I thought somebody else took his place currently
Moon knight is definitely the best but I have been enjoying the fantastic 4 as well