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| Posted by: Jake Bell |
Monday, March 26, 2007 11:31 AM |
 Every Friday, Newsarama slaps on a fresh coat of chapstick, buys a new dress and sidles up to Marvel's E-i-C for a little "Q & A". On Mondays, Chris of 2 Guys Buying Comics will translate some of the pandering hucksterism interview for you good people. Some text has been edited for brevity's sake. You can reference the actual article at Newsarama here.
 NRAMA: Avengers Classic? As we asked this title's editorial team, the strength of a franchise can really be measured by the interest in “classic material” right?
JQ: Yup, as our market starts to expand, we can do projects like this that appeal to our readers that like the occasional retro style story from an earlier place and time. That's the beauty of an expanding market, it frees our hands to do more and more stuff that we weren't able to do in the past because of the many constraints and limitations placed upon us.
Translation: We're sick of hearing about how we screwed up the Avengers, so in lieu of righting the ship and fixing what's broken, we figured we'd just reprint the good stuff! There, fanboys, are you happy now? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??
Commentary: I'd like to believe that constant Internet bitching was what caused the creation of this title, but I'm far too cynical for that. Quite frankly, I'm all for the idea of classic Avengers stories with smaller backups from the likes of McDuffie and Parker. Plus: how effin' funny would it be if in six months this was the top-selling Avengers title? Answer: Really effin' funny, with a smidgen of sad.
 NRAMA: Endangered Species?
JQ: This is the place to be, the ground floor, where the groundwork will be laid for this November's X-Men event. It will run across 17 consecutive weeks and it leads to, yeah like I'm going to tell you yet, but let's just say that Endangered Species and the event it leads into will be the thing X-fans (and comic fans) will be talking about in way they haven't since the days of Mutant Massacre, Inferno, and Fall of the Mutants!
Translation: Can't you just feel the money being squeezed out of every X-fan already? I mean, my God, I even came out and said that the "Endangered Species" event is a LEAD-IN to a bigger event! It's like printing money for 17 weeks straight!
Commentary: Well, the good news is that I have no particular love for the X-Men these days, so I'm completely not the target audience here. Also: I vaguely remember Inferno --- wasn't that the one where demons made Wolverine an evil baby-eater? I seem to distinctly remember that panel.
Bonus Commentary: the best sentence from the Wikipedia entry describing Inferno is by far "Despite all of the destruction and death, many human Inferno survivors were convinced it was all a shared hallucination". That would certainly make it easier to live with.
Bonus Bonus Commentary: I adore the fact that I live in a world where there is a repository for information about Inferno that may be accessed worldwide at any time.
NRAMA: Okay, one last one before we turn you over to the readers. The New Avengers #31 solicitation. “The most important LAST page of any Marvel Comic this year.” First off, how literally should fans take this? Throw out the modifier and tell readers how important just the page is in the grand scheme of things.
JQ: You know I'm not going to tell you much, so why do you ask [laughs]. Let's just say it's the beginning of some major changes in the Marvel Universe. What those changes are will become very clear on that last page.
Translation: Hype hype hype hype hypety-hype-hype-hype hype.
NRAMA: And given House of M, and Civil War, and Captain America #25, and the upcoming World War Hulk and the X-Men event, and the “Year of Spider-Man”, what would you say to readers who might say, “Oh, here we go again”, or wonder how many turning points one Universe can have in a year?
JQ: I've said it once and I'll say it again - the Marvel Universe is the most unpredictable universe in comics. I think our creators have done an amazing job keeping fans on their toes and delivering knock out punches when called for. I'll say this - sure makes my job fun!
Translation: I like pie!
Commentary: Seriously, did he even read the question? This sounds like one of those standard "Joe Quesada Press Quotes" that get repeated ad nauseam at cons.
Q: freedom fry 03-17-2007 12:29 PM: I remember reading that you wanted Spider-Man to only appear in appropriate, all-ages kind of stories. How then does a project like Spider-Man/Red Sonja come to be?
JQ: Because it isn't going to be any edgier than any other Spider-Man title we currently publish, freedom fry.
Translation: Come on, it's not going to be any "edgier" than our current series, the ones where Spidey got his eye plucked out and eaten, or Aunt May caught a bullet in the ol' breadbasket, or Peter kills MJ with radioactive semen! If that's not all-ages fun, I'll eat my hat!
Commentary: He makes it so easy sometimes.
Q: Willowhugger 03-16-2007 05:24 AM: This is a Sentry question. General and Void aside, does the Sentry have any villains from his past or a Rogue's Gallery?
JQ: Willowhugger, we've seen a couple so far, including Xeniac, Danny Boy, The Blue Buffoon and the Hippy.
Translation: Hey, Paul Jenkins in the house! Love the new screen name, Paul!
Commentary: Xeniac? Danny Boy? Blue Buffoon? The Hippy? These aren't supervillains, these are today's starters in the 5th at Del Mar. Also: This is reason #4,566 the Sentry sucks.
Q: RunawayMouse 03-17-2007 10:43 PM: It was announced that the Endangered Species one-shot will be followed by a 17-part back up story in the various X-Men titles. Are there any plans to collect these stories or will we have to buy all of those books to read it?
JQ: While we're still working on how it will all get collected, RunawayMouse, it wont be until after the events that the back up stories lead to.
Translation: Why worry about it now? By being deliberately vague on the TPB policy, we assure more copies sold of the actual monthly issues! BWA HAH HAH !
Commentary: A 17-PART BACK-UP STORY?!? 17??? Go to hell, X-Men! |
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Re: New Joe Mondays |
By kelvingreen on
Friday, March 30, 2007 11:12 AM |
I know, it's like he didn't ream the question. I think he's in a terminal state of denial now.
The Eagle Awards final nominations are up, and Iron Man is up for Best Villain. Given that the official company line is that he was the good guy, I wonder what the response will be if Iron Man wins. Will they be big enough to accept the implicit criticism? Will they ignore it? Or will they try to spin it as some kind of positive comment on how clever Civil War is? |
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