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Boom! nombra a Mark Waid editor, Zoom! nuevo sello con Disney, El Padrino,
2007-07-28 20:59:00 Sorpresón, Mark Waid creador entre otras muchas cosas de Kingdom Come ha sido presentado como el nuevo editor en jefe de Boom! Studios, la editorial de Ross Ritchie y Andrew Cosby ha seguido revelando nuevos proyectos sorprendentes. ZOOM! será un nuevo sello de Boom! que se dedicará a publicar novelas gráficas y comics para los niños, para ello han llegado a un acuerdo con Disney, motivo por el cual han creado un sello separado que lanzarán en primavera del 2008. En esta línea habrá sitio para material licenciado de alto nivel, lo cual es muy llamativo con Disney implicada, y también para comics de Boom! que también se acercan al público juvenil como Mr. Stuffins. No hay novelas gráficas para este segmento del público y Ritchie cree que es una locura ya que es el momento en que se debe empezar a leer comics. Serán tomos de 128 páginas, a color, por un precio de 10 dolares.Boom! también habló de otras dos licencias que ya os presentaramos, Gears of War y El Padrino (...
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Mark Waid may have set the path for Flash ruin?
2007-07-13 07:35:00 In this replies to this preview for All-Flash #1, I made a discovery via one of the replies that tells that Mark Waid may have led to the Rogues' tarnishing:Back during Waid's run, he killed the Rogues off once, restored them when Rogue Fandom begged the point, then inactivated them all with the Replicant storyline. In interviews he was always vocal about not feeling the Rogue's Gallery was a worthwhile enemy for Wally.Waid's use of the Rogues Gallery during his run was certainly minimal, and this could explain why. But while it's not like William Messner-Loebs used them much either, he didn't disrespect them. Here's an example of an early form of writer's disdain for what made a book like this entertaining when it first began.Waid may not have tarnished the Rogues, but he certainly may have set the path to its happening.Is Rogue Fandom going to beg the point again? Come to think of it, is Impulse fandom going to do something similar?
Why is Mark Waid doing this now?
2007-05-15 23:26:00 Either Waid actually believes what he says in the following interview (via The Roar of Comics), or, he sees the audience as easier to blame than the publishers who may not give his book the same promotion they're giving to World War 3:MW: Oh, I'll say it. I hope that proclamation doesn't doom us, though.The moment all the reviews started coming in they all said, "It's fun." "It's fun." "It's fun." I started to sweat, because "fun" is a death word in comics these days.RT: If you kill off Hawkeye, people are going to hate it, but at least they are going to buy twenty of it.MW: That's just it."Fun, fun, fun" being our rap makes me worried. Sales were strong on the first issue, but the second issue drop-off was a little steeper than we'd predicted. And I honestly think that was because every reviewer said it was "fun.""Fun" automatically kills off a lot of your sales. Don't get me wrong; the book's still a success in the current market, and no one at DC has expressed anything ...
Mark Waid, too, begins to lose my respect
2007-05-03 07:09:00 I looked at this interview done for the closing of 52, and to be quite honest, I think that Mark Waid really blows it here.As we look back on 52, Waid sat down with Newsarama to talk about the project and give some insight into how the mysteries of 52 evolved. And as we chatted about detectives and mysteries, we delved into the world of Ralph Dibny -- and how the idea to make him and Sue into "ghost detectives" was one of the first 52 endings the writers decided upon and solidified.Without any real humor, I would have to figure. Regardless, the whole notion of making them into "ghost detectives" reeks of sensationalism - certainly as written here - and that's not what I asked for as a reader either.Next:MW: [laughs] It's just that Action Comics Weekly was one of the most ironically titled comics in history. That was a production nightmare from the get-go. That was where everything had to stop on a Friday afternoon at DC Comics so that we could get Action Comics Weekly out. It was ...
Does Mark Waid have responsibility in messing up the Flash?
2006-12-02 15:12:10 That's what I'm beginning to wonder after recalling this page on the Flash fansite about Cobalt Blue that talks about the "evil twin" storyline that Waid did, taking an earlier story and character written by Cary Bates and using it as an excuse to "turn and loop everything upon itself." I'm not going to quote the text, since what the drunken doctor did is something that even I have a limit to putting on this website, but having mentioned the drunkeness of said doctor, I must say that that is one of the most forced-sounding storylines I've ever heard of. It also sounds very contrived. But the main problem is that it's...violent.People can justly argue that the violence featured in Geoff Johns' comics, Flash included, was uncalled for. But at the same time, they'd be advised to bear in mind that Mark Waid may have ruined the Flash long before Johns did, as was decidedly the case in the latter part of his run on it. |
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