Technically, that is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil
- Le Messor
"If I had had more time, I could have written you a shorter letter."
~ Blaise Pascal
Technically, that is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil
- Le Messor
"If I had had more time, I could have written you a shorter letter."
~ Blaise Pascal
IMHO...It's crime that this series was shorter than Volume 3 (bleh).
On the more positive side...I'd love it if Fregale pushed for another mini for next year or something.
Dana
i'd love the whole team back. this is by far my favorite alpha flight issues. great everythingQuote:
Originally Posted by cmdrkoenig67
I second everything that you just said.Quote:
Originally Posted by DelBubs
Fregale rock?Quote:
Originally Posted by cmdrkoenig67
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The first issue numbers were really, really good. Much better then expected. The drop after that though, was even worse then expected. Retailers abandoned this series in droves. The demand wasn't there.
With the numbers trending they way they are, I cannot blame Marvel for cancelling it. I mean, they gave us everything the fans have been asking for YEARS... and it still tanked, sales-wise.
I am grateful for this very nice mini. If the team had the opportunity to revisit this property, I would happily join in. Even more of a shame to lose this after losing Herc. At least they didn't pull an All-Winners Squad on us. I am very thankful for that.
Issue #1 was double shipped by Marvel, to stores that ordered a certain number of the books, ie. 25 copies ordered = 50 copies received. That makes it impossible to determine the drop off from issue #1 to #2. However -7.4% (#2 to #3) and -6.5% (#3 to #4) are not percentages that show a retailers and collectors abandoning the series. This is rather a normal decline from issue to issue. The numbers from #4 to #5 are what could be telling.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMK
Based on a conversation I had with my LCS this week, it looks like the Ultimate Universe could be suffering from extreme overprinting and lack of community support. He said that he's been able to order #1s of each title every week since the relaunch, something typically unheard of when dealing with Marvel. Also, whenever he's reordered additional copies of #1s, #2s and #3s he's received 5 free copies of Ultimate Fallout #4 (Introduction of the new Spider-Man). He has so many copies that the store is giving them out for Halloween. That would tend to show that maybe the numbers for these other titles aren't quite as they seem either.
After cursing MARVEL for canceling an 8-issue maxi-series that is concluding after 8 issues,
give them some suggestions that can help them compete, because it's obvious that DC's revamp has caught MARVEL flat-footed.
DaVeo suggested something in another thread that MARVEL go the same route as DC. I think MARVEL should go to a 7-times-a-year publishing schedule for most of its line; I really would like to see an ALPHA FLIGHT series that has the time to develop and tell great stories.
Chaos War: Alpha Flight turned lemons into lemonade, and Dale, Greg, and Fred brought the original characters to a new generation of comic readers. That is worth remembering.
Which let's face it, if you put it that way, technically we can't be mad about...Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry/Al-Fan
I completely disagree. In a way it's helped Marvel.Quote:
because it's obvious that DC's revamp has caught MARVEL flat-footed.
Marvel are very closely looking at DC is a very clever way, and their digital plan is a better way than DC have marketed theirs.
I'd hate that personally.Quote:
DaVeo suggested something in another thread that MARVEL go the same route as DC.
If Marvel were to suddenly completely disregard 70/50 (depending on whether you look at Timely/Marvel) years of history I'd no longer bother reading.
There I agree. frequent maxi-series' seem to be the way to go.Quote:
I think MARVEL should go to a 7-times-a-year publishing schedule for most of its line; I really would like to see an ALPHA FLIGHT series that has the time to develop and tell great stories.
Very well put.Quote:
Chaos War: Alpha Flightturned lemons into lemonade, and Dale, Greg, and Fred brought the original characters to a new generation of comic readers. That is worth remembering.
I'm not sure anybody's mad about that part...Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilWhich let's face it, if you put it that way, technically we can't be mad about...Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry/Al-Fan
It's the part where they promised the 8-issue maxi- would be an ongoing, then suddenly went back on that promise unannounced.
That said, I'm not mad at them either.
For reasons of my own.
- Le Messor
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
~ Ronald Reagan
*sigh*
I think I'm gonna go and start re-reading volume 1, one issue a month...that way I'll have Alpha stories to read for about 11 years.
Well, if you hold on a few months time as I've been toying with the idea of starting a monthly re-read from the very beginning when the mini-series is over, and seeing how many people here I can get involved in it.
that sounds like a pretty cool idea.
A group re-read could be cool, especially if everyone here put in their thoughts, feelings on each issue and we can see who liked what and when