Marvel: Your Universe Thread

[wyokid]

All I know is that as someone who is getting to go to NYCC this year I am VERY excited.

 

[Ice]

 

[wyokid]

 

[Lithium]

So are these all brand new monthly series or what?

 

[E]

So are these all brand new monthly series or what?

Exactly.

Going back to my long-standing gripe with Marvel's idiotic teasers: they aren't teasing anything. It's horrible marketing.

 

[DIrishB]

Exactly. Going back to my long-standing gripe with Marvel's idiotic teasers: they aren't teasing anything. It's horrible marketing.

I agree with your sentiment, but also disagree in a sense. It's not horrible marketing if it gets fans talking and discussing it like is happening here, wondering what it is, etc. Whether that translates into sales remains to be seen, but it's certainly working in terms of people wondering.

 

[Ice]

So are these all brand new monthly series or what?

We'll find out during NYCC, hence the "All will be revealed" part.

It's not horrible marketing if it gets fans talking and discussing it like is happening here, wondering what it is, etc. Whether that translates into sales remains to be seen, but it's certainly working in terms of people wondering.

Yup. Exactly what I've said before.

 

[Zombipanda]

Exactly.

Going back to my long-standing gripe with Marvel's idiotic teasers: they aren't teasing anything. It's horrible marketing.

No it's not. Not at all.

They're clearly waiting to announce the books themselves close enough to release that people won't forget about them before they come out.

These teasers are intended to encourage speculation before that release, and if the other message boards are any indication, they're doing a good job of it. I think the combination of the one word with distinctive coloring and the names of the creative team is a clever way to encourage conversation without showing their hand just yet.

It's fine marketing, and a substantial portion of the fanbase is latching on to it. I honestly don't get your gripe, man. If you don't care, you can perfectly well ignore it.

 

[Ice]

 

[Lithium]

No it's not. Not at all.

They're clearly waiting to announce the books themselves close enough to release that people won't forget about them before they come out.

These teasers are intended to encourage speculation before that release, and if the other message boards are any indication, they're doing a good job of it. I think the combination of the one word with distinctive coloring and the names of the creative team is a clever way to encourage conversation without showing their hand just yet.

It's fine marketing, and a substantial portion of the fanbase is latching on to it. I honestly don't get your gripe, man. If you don't care, you can perfectly well ignore it.

Personally I would prefer if they didn't release any of these teasers and just went out at NYCC and said "Here is a list of the new books..." rather than almost completely unsubstantiated rampant speculation.

 

[E]

I agree with your sentiment, but also disagree in a sense. It's not horrible marketing if it gets fans talking and discussing it like is happening here, wondering what it is, etc. Whether that translates into sales remains to be seen, but it's certainly working in terms of people wondering.

No it's not. Not at all.

They're clearly waiting to announce the books themselves close enough to release that people won't forget about them before they come out.

These teasers are intended to encourage speculation before that release, and if the other message boards are any indication, they're doing a good job of it. I think the combination of the one word with distinctive coloring and the names of the creative team is a clever way to encourage conversation without showing their hand just yet.

It gets people speculating to a point, but it's extremely limited and I would argue it does next to nothing for sales. What are we discussing? Most of the conversation around these teasers consists of wild, baseless speculation which probably only serves to get people's hopes up only to be disappointed.

There really isn't any discussion. None of what is being said really consists of any excitement of any kind. The argument for this confuses this baseless speculation with excitement, and that is clearly not the case, at least not in any meaningful amount.

It's fine marketing, and a substantial portion of the fanbase is latching on to it. I honestly don't get your gripe, man. If you don't care, you can perfectly well ignore it.

It has much more to do with being a moderator at a discussion board having to scroll through meaningless chit chat about it than anything to do directly with the images or campaign itself. There are good books that I know we are reading but no one is talking about, and instead of that we get this garbage. So no, I can't really ignore it.

And that's not to say that the discussion shouldn't exist here. Obviously it's something that is happening, so it's not out of place. But I'm frustrated that this is what the discussion is revolving around.

 

[Ice]

 

[wyokid]

 

[Zombipanda]

Ales Kot. Yum.

 

[Ice]

 

[Zombipanda]

I can never have too much Ales Kot!

 

[wyokid]

 

[ProjectX2]

WORD, Writer, Artist

 

[Ultimate Houde]

Photoshop that

SOMEONE PLEASE

 

[Zombipanda]

I think you guys are being histrionic about something that's not that big of a deal.

It helps that so many of those teams being teased are fantastic.