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Jeff Ryan's avatar

Thanks for another year of behind the scenes knowledge, Tom!

Sweet Christmas to all, and to all a sweet Christmas!

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Craig Byrne's avatar

That Captain Marvel series that Peter David did - especially the first volume of it - was SO GOOD. Loved all the meta comics jokes. I don't even remember the snark about the Hulk Chapter One annual but considering how quickly that was forgotten I'm not surprised that I have forgotten it too.

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JV's avatar

Merry Christmas Tom - thanks for the newsletter - it is always a nice way to end the week!

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Duane Swierczynski's avatar

Whoa! Thanks for sharing this, Tom... though it sort of feels like having a relative dig out baby photos. I also have no idea what happened between Rob and Marvel; I was pretty much just told, hey, we have a new artist for you! (Writers: always the last to know.)

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Alex Segura's avatar

Happy Holidays, Tom!

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Kevin F.'s avatar

Merry Christmas, Tom! I just finished reading Timeslide and was wondering—do you have any thoughts on the Captain Britain Corps? Their whole purpose is to patrol the multiverse and timestream, yet they’re often absent from events that seem tailor-made for them.

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Caleido's avatar

unfortunately PHOENIX is such a disappointment, the writing is mediocre and lacks ambition, the art is low budget and was a disaster from the beginning with all that tracing. its a shame that Jean a literal entity was turned into a Capitain Marvel 2.0

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Charles E. Brown's avatar

Man, did not know Marvel was doing anything with Ultraman... Need to get a better source of income (still missing a few issues of DCs Godzilla vs. King Kong vs. Justice League - lost job halfway through the series...)

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Robby Earle's avatar

Tom, I think you’ve indicated that Marvel doesn’t really care whether readers buy comics in physical or digital format. Does that same rationale apply to trades?

There are plenty of books I buy every month like clockwork. On the other hand, there are some books that I think actually benefit from being read in the context of a collection. For example, growing up, I read all of the original Ultimate Spider-Man in trades because I didn’t have anywhere near me to grab single issues. And with Brian’s decompressed storytelling, I really enjoyed getting it arc by arc. But while I’m guessing USM was never in any danger of cancellation, my fear these days is that holding out for a trade could be initially interpreted as lack of interest.

Does Marvel ever wait to see how first trades sell before deciding whether to continue or discontinue a particular series? Or is that decision normally made by the time issue 3 or 4 comes out? (I’m thinking now of Ewing and Kirk’s Avengers, Inc., which I know has been discussed here before.)

Thanks as always for any insight you can provide!

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