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what is wwe doing? did I miss something?

though I wonder if the origins of Byrne’s work as a self published fan fic first meant marvel themselves couldn’t touch it.

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Yup. Because Marvel does not have the mechanisms to stock and sell graphic novels. Thats why when Alex Ross, one of the biggest creators in the medium pitched them a F4 GN, they said no, and sent it to Abrams.

thats the opposite of everything Alan believes.

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Yup. Meanwhile, the fan who walked in and asked for Green Lantern comics was told the Geoff Johns Compendium Volume 1 was out of stock and coming back soon, but in the meantime, they left with a $10 compact comic of Far Sector.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

eh, it's act 1. Sadly, Hickman quit and never finished it. And E is For Extinction is a better Act 1 of an X-Men epic. and Grant finished his.

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Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

but also, asking for "graphic novels" is something you ask of a book publisher. Marvel isn't a book publisher, it's a character holding company and merchandise licensor.

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One weird trick to solve traffic congestion (price it).

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 28/09/2026

A full minute for emergency response travel reductions is considerable. That's great.

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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bsky.app/profile/vita... It’s for the best these books left Marvel, as Marvel under Ike would never have kept a proper backlist, because they are not a book publisher. I mean, Marvel turned down an Alex Ross F4 GN because they can’t sell it. So they sent it to a licensor.

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ICON only existed because Bendis had a falling out with Image after he became top shit at Marvel. They just did him and other creators a solid and did exactly what Image was doing for them.

You get those cuts of sales because you give the creators a good chunk of money at the start. Marvel wasn’t giving them the money, all of the money was coming out of the creators pockets. It’s exactly the same model as Image.

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I heard Saga was ALMOST a DC book, until BKV found out that the contracts were not the same as the ones he signed for Y or Ex Machina, and WB would own media rights. He took it to Image instead.

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Once WB found out DC was publishing things they didn’t own (or at least own the media rights to), Vertigo and DC as we knew it was over.

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and that all died when WB bought the rights to make an Elfquest movie, and then someone at the studio saw they were already publishing Elfquest comics, and wondered why they needed to buy the rights to a book they seemingly owned.

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I once heard Larry Hama tell the story of the time Marvel turned down the rights to reprint TMNT, of course before it hit it big. But, again, it would never be a marvel book, just something they printed.

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Marvel wasn’t making movies then! They were just licensing their characters out to other companies.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 28/09/2026

Marvel was pretty much just the printer and the solicitor, just like the Image deal. They weren’t really getting cuts of Icon books.

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One of these 3 teams is guaranteed a spot in the ALCS. None of them won more than 85 games. This, to me, is a joke.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 28/09/2026

Can you imagine the reaction from The Post if the NYPD did this with literal any other homicide in NYC?

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Perhaps comics was better when I was a child, when nothing was available or in print, and I just had to read whatever was on the shelf. The ephemeral nature didn't have me trying to ask "HOW CAN I READ ALL OF THIS OLD STUFF FROM THE BEGINNING" but rather "WOW ROB LIEFELD IS SICK". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Standing in Forbidden Planet in NYC yesterday, listening to a staff member explain how to read Claremont's X-Men to a customer who said "I'm new to comics, I just want to start reading it" and heard them explain "none of it is in print and what you want will cost you hundreds of dollars".

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Marvel is what it was when Martin Goodman started the company: a dime store pulp mag company looking for that month's newest hit. It's made great art, yeah, but "book publisher" is not what it was designed to be.

The best hope for Marvel? They start licensing out all of these big books to actual book publishers. Their complete fumbling of Moores Miracleman- a book that should have been on the shelves as an affordable one volume edition stocked next to Watchmen and From Hell within a year of marvel's purchase

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DC became adept at doing this because they were a fellow subsidiary of the company that owned Warner Books. It allowed DC to act like a real book publisher for decades (until the people in charge were like "why are we publishing things we don't own").

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