Marvel goes weekly?

[kid_flash]

Check it out:

http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=000872

Apparently some of Marvel's top titles could be shipping a little more often. Personally, I would love to see Marvel's top books ship monthly. But if they can push it to bi-monthly, or even WEEKLY, I'd be in Heaven. They just gotta lower the cover price, which I think can be done. The U.S. WAR MACHINE title for MAX was $1.50 an issue, and that shipped, I believe, three times a month.

Thoughts?

[Watagashi]

That's cool how they're making it come weekly, but it makes me wonder if they're gonna have the same quality in it if they're gonna be sorta rushed like that. Plus, I don't think I'd be able to spend that much money in one week. :p

[James Harvey]

Unless they slash the price, this is a bad idea. I can't afford 24 issue sof s single title a year. I barely have enough room in my current budget. And making them bi-weekly or weekly would just be a bad idea. I couldn't afford 52 issues of a comic a year. No way, no how. It's nice that they have ideas, but I can't see this one working. I think this is more of Marvel trying to push all of their titles to the top. They focus heavly on the top 100, and if they make alot of their titles weekly, then the whole top 100 would be Marvel...but it'd be sort of cheating. I think it's a bad idea. I can wait 4 weeks for an issue.

[CadaverousEyes]

How long would they be able to keep this up until all the writers and artists burn out?

[Sugar Daddy]

I dont see this working out well

[mookie75]

If it happens at all, I really can't see it lasting very long. There have been times over the years that I've been reading comics that Marvel had a hard time keeping up with a monthly schedule.

I think any attempts at going weekly would last about as long as those brief stints where books came out in (for example) "early August" and "late August."

I agree with Jim Harvey too...there's no way I could afford all my books if they came out fifty-two times per year. If that happened, I'd be doing some serious cutting.


:rolleyes:

[William C. Maune]

[indent]Besides the money issue wouldn't the quality of the books drop? I'd much rather have quality over quantity.

[James Harvey]

I agree 100%. Quality would definatly drop. There's no way a regular art team could do an issue a week, no matter how ahead of schedule they are. I could understand rotating bi weekly art teams, but not weekly. Bad idea, Marvel. Sometime less is more.

[kid_flash]

I think a twice-a-month schedule could work on a few comics. I'm just interested to see whether or not it works. But, yeah, unless there are serious price cuts (even $1.50 an issue would be fine), I would have to reconsider my options.

[halinar]

The only way this could work is to kill all the multiple books for the same group (x-men) and make just one book. If extreme and new x-men were dropped and everyone moved over to uncanny then it might work. Uncanny needs a lot of help anyway. Or should I call it Chamber and his x-friends now?