Seek and ye shall find! Yesterday we talked about Heidi Meeley’s efforts at consolidating links to reports about the recent Emerald City Con. Today we find two more comprehensive ECC link posts, from Laura Gjovaag and Tom Spurgeon, Tom calling his contribution "Collective Memory" which was just what we were hoping someone would start. We’re sure somewhere on CR Tom has gathered all his Collective Memory posts, but we can’t find them in a cursory glance at his resources page. Then again, we couldn’t find ComicMix listed either.
Yet.
DC Comics April 2012 Solicitations
PREVIEW: “Jim Henson’s Tale Of Sand”
DC Comics March 2012 Solicitations
Preview: “Darkwing Duck” #18 — Like A Fenton From The Ashes!
Preview: “Daredevil” #6
Preview: Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes #1
MIKE GOLD: Satan’s Retro-Review
MICHAEL DAVIS: David
MINDY NEWELL: Great Books! And 1 Movie!
JOHN OSTRANDER: 101 Mistakes
MARC ALAN FISHMAN: Justice League Light Vs. Justice League Dark
MARTHA THOMASES: George Lucas, Black History, and African-American Comics
Dennis O’Neil – Sick, Sick, Sick
REVIEW: “The Apartment”, by Robert Greenberger
REVIEW: “Wally Wood: Strange Worlds of Science Fiction”, by Glenn Hauman
REVIEWS: “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan”, by Robert Greenberger
REVIEW: “In Time”, by Robert Greenberger
REVIEW: “Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume One: 1980-1982″ by Berkley Breathed, by Andrew Wheeler
MARC ALAN FISHMAN: Justice League Light Vs. Justice League Dark, by Marc Alan Fishman
Primeval Volume Three, by Robert Greenberger
Busting, by Robert Greenberger
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Robert Greenberger
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, by Robert Greenberger
I like what I see thus far…
Wow! Here's a compliment: I was a tiny bit disappointed to see that this was "Book Two." I had missed "Book One" entirely! Oh no! So I bought it. I just ordered "Hammer Of The Gods Volume 1: Mortal Enemy" through Amazon. There used to be 14 Used and New copies available and now there are only 13. People had better hurry. Oh, I can't wait for 2-3 business days to pass!I love the clean drawing style. Just these few images and bit of back-story promise for a great read. I'm hooked. Rock on!
Yeh – we really need and want a new edition of MORTAL ENEMY. I think I'm down to just 4 or 5 copies myself. I'm not sure if Mike Oeming has any at all. I mean – short of printing a new edition – how the hell could we get MORTAL ENEMY out there for readers? Seems like there should be an easy way and maybe I'm just not thinking of it.
Why didn't ComicMix start out with Book 1?What if nobody wants to locate Book 1, and they're annoyed that they're reading Book 2 to beginwith?
I think that's why Book 2 started out with a brief synopsis of Book 1. Mark Wheatley implies (or I inferred) that he and Mike Oeming are thinking about putting Book 1 on ComicMix. ["...how the hell could we get MORTAL ENEMY out there for readers? Seems like there should be an easy way..."]If you make Book 2 good enough, people won't NEED Book 1 to know what is going on. They will just WANT Book 1, which can still be found at very reasonable prices at Amazon.com (but down to 12 copies, HURRY!)What's the point of selling anything if the expectation is that everything should all be free to begin with?My guess is that ComicMix PAYS more for NEW, UNPUBLISHED material, versus reprints. (I know I would.) If the Mike and Mark waited for Book 1 to get handed out in 10 page segments on ComicMix before publishing Book 2, they would have to put off publishing new material for 4 to 6 months! That might hurt their budget. Besides, NEW material is just intrinsically more exciting. It's NEW!