Marvel: Fresh Start

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1. Unfortunately it seems to be more about money, than fans. First issues sell more than any other number and they can charge double or triple because it’s a special issue.

2. Anyone seen my eyes? I rolled them so hard, they popped out and and rolled away.

3. “Fresh Start: Because We’ve Got Nothing.”

4. Definitely excited, with a new writer for ASM, some of the new directions sounding genuinely fascinating, I am cautiously optimistic.

5. A “Do Over” then another “Do Over” then “Legacy”, then..another “Do Over” because “We just needed a fresh start.”

   Yes, that makes …… NO SENSE WHAT SO EVER!

   You can HAVE a “fresh start” staying with the constant numbering. In fact, if you kept the constant numbering, your “fresh start” will have more significance. Having ANOTHER #1 will just confuse people. “1” isn’t the loneliest number in the Marvel Universe apparently..he’s got a bunch of buddies with him.

6. Coming directly off the heels of Marvel Legacy’s pomp and circumstance, renumbering yet again would be another disaster. My Marvel pull list is threadbare as it is, going from a regular pull of twenty-some titles several years ago down to five currently. And I’ll be dropping Jessica Jones and Defenders after BENDIS! leaves (these are the only two books of his I ‘ve enjoyed recently). The constant restarts, new creative teams, everything you knew is wrong, universe shattering events have destroyed my interest in Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, you name it.

7. I wonder if market research is properly made with youngsters at schools, shopping malls, comic shops and movie theater entrances or even though social media if they are somehow interested in superhero comics, and how they feel about the monthly numbering and how old the characters are.

   Comixology could lend a hand; Marvel Studios could also present a single line before the final post-credits scene to encourage more comic book reading.

   There’s always a solution.

8. As long as the stories and art is good the numbering really doesn’t matter. When asked about your favorite stories people usually remember the writer instead of the issue number.

9. More Marvel restarts. Make mine DC if this is the new direction

10. Dan Slott is probably going to kill off the whole bunch of them in #801. Everybody.

11. I notice Spider-Man, not Iron Man or Captain America or Miles is at the foresront of this. Does this mean we’ve finally come out of the woods and reinstated Spidey as the flagship guy at Marvel instead of pretending it’s literally anyone else.

12. Er this isn’t a reboot is it? As in a continuity reboot I mean?

13. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ab/fb/11/abfb1107080c6dbb9aba11a1a8c291b8.jpg

14. Let’s be honest, a new Amazing Spider-Man #1 would sell better than Amazing Spider-Man #802. Now the question is, would ASM #803 sell better than an ASM 3? I think it’s a wash after the first issue.

15. The more things change, the more they stay the same. How long will it be before they decide to go back to the regular numbering once again?

16. I am getting fed up with all these restarts. There’s nothing wrong with the old numbering!!

17. This is such an overplayed card at this point that it’s hard to even care anymore. If Marvel wants more long-term readers, the answer will as always be to start writing better stories! Hopefully these new creative teams can do that.

18. ANOTHER “start”? How many do these guys need?