Wait, Veronica was the better ending to Life with Archie? What a crock of shit! She's an awful, spoiled cunt even in her best days.
Veronica was the better ending for the one who ended up with her. The whole premise of the series is that the characters, including Veronica, grew the hell up. The Archie (or Reggie) who married Veronica was generally more grown-up and better adjusted than the one who paired off with Betty.
Betty+Archie was generally a better Riverdale. (For example, that Dilton did not go bad.)
Yeah, that's why I didn't like the Marvel books back when I was a kid, too much stuff like that where it goes far beyond the movie-verse and feels exploitative of the brand rather than representative.
I am talking about the modern series.
I thought the old series was good about not treading on the movies. (For example, Luke would be trying to hide from Vader in general. But, Vader was never "right there".)
Look at the huge hits RID and Joe took! Not remotely surprising to me, although I'm actually disappointed at how little fanfare Empire of Stone came to - that's some bad marketing right there.
RiD sucks. That is why it is falling. It is just a generic book. It is possible to read that sort of thing without saying "I read TF" (which still carries something of a stigma).
TF/Joe is a pile of shit. The joke is obvious and not worth more than an issue's worth of content. The Cambridge types who would read it are not reliable fans. Frankly, I am suprised it is not dropping faster.
It gets some of the regular fan market AND the hipster market AND the "comics r fun" market. What amazes me is the lack of a more significant decline from the missed deadline on issue 3, it means that a lot of people were keeping an eye out for its release.
How many are in-store subs? The fan market is also probably cushioning the fall. The hipsters are going to drift in and out of the stores. Might not be the same people buying the book month to month.
The intent is to tone down the armor-ness of it, because WHY THE FUCK DOES SUPERMAN NEED ARMOR???
Because of the movie. (It was never a problem before. But, Warner Brothers wanted it to be a problem now.)
Batman '66 One Shot - Two Face The Lost Episode - Harlan Ellison's writing is included in the back of this book along with a sampling of the pencils (to justify the inflated $10 pricetag for an issue and a half worth of actual content) and Ellison's raw writing is shit, I don't know how he can stroke his ego so fucking hard for so long with this being the outcome.
Notations and such count as content. They are part of the book, and thus part of the price. (Inversely, the compilation for "the Wicked + the Divine" only cost $10 for 5 issues worth of content. But, there was no back-matter.)
DC's just running away from past explanations. We already had either indestructible cloth (Silver Age) or biological aura (Byrne revamp), both of which worked pefectly well. Not to mention that skintight costumes are that way so they can be worn under ordinary clothing, ostensibly.
There are really not going to be any good explanations for Superman's power set and other "rules". The character started off reasonably, but has appeared through decades of poor writing and editorial standards (mostly the 40s in to the early 70s). The more DC wants to keep, the less defined the character is going to be.
Are there a lot of clothes made out of nanotech in comics? Nothing really magical about it, seeing that Krypton was a highly technologically advanced society.
Pym particles, unstable molecules......
Sounds like a fight book. Not impressed.