Mike Boze of HawgHead Comics in Fort Smith, Arkansas writes in to share his thoughts on the recent written jabs Marvel is taking against DC's upcoming relaunch.
I received the new Previews catalog yesterday and spent a few minutes looking through the offerings for September. Within the first 5 pages of the Marvel version I chuckled as I read the caption "STILL #16" on the issue of New Avengers. But as I read further it got to be like the pun that gets repeated to Ad nauseam. Then I began to look at it like a very big and epic fail. Who more than Marvel has rebooted it's titles more than Marvel? In this issue of Marvel Previews alone we have yet another #1 of Ultimate Spider-Man and 6 issues under issue #5. Do I even need to mention that the only Marvel title never rebooted was Uncanny X-Men? Or bring up the horrendous reboot of Amazing Spider-Man with stories like "One More Day," "Brand New Day" and "Oh No, Not Another Day?"
Do we even need to wonder how long Marvel will take to reboot the entire Marvel Universe if there is any evidence that DC is successful? Or has that boat already been launched with the Ultimate Universe? Heads up Joe, I have already had customers come in and drop Marvel titles to try out the new DC books.
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'Heads Up Joe...'
Posted by ICv2 on June 30, 2011 @ 1:03 am CT
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