kayuucee@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) (11/04/85)
> form. Of course, we all know the reason why they didn't, don't we --- no one > would buy a detective comic, but lots of people will buy a comic with an > alien in it. Bah. Your second statement is correct. Put an alien in something and just about anyone will buy it. However, your first statement is something I disagree with. It appears that many people bought `NATHANIEL DUSK I' from the sales reports and hopefully even more will buy `NATHANIEL DUSK II'. It also seems that MS. TREE is doing reasonably good business. I enjoy a good detective book, but there don't seem to be very man around. If you do want to read a good detective comic try either Nathaniel Dusk mini series. They are 30's detective stories and are done very well. Another good mini series was the Mike Mauser/Ms. Tree team-up which took many well-deserved shots at the comic industry and a few a p.i.s named Mike. Star-Lord
boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (11/07/85)
> From: cvl!kayuucee >> form. Of course, we all know the reason why they didn't, don't we --- no one >> would buy a detective comic, but lots of people will buy a comic with an >> alien in it. Bah. > > Your second statement is correct. Put an alien in something and just > about anyone will buy it. However, your first statement is something I > disagree with. It appears that many people bought `NATHANIEL DUSK I' from the > sales reports and hopefully even more will buy `NATHANIEL DUSK II'. It also > seems that MS. TREE is doing reasonably good business. When I said that "no one" would buy a detective comic, I didn't mean literally *no* one. Yes, sales figures on both DUSK series and MS. TREE are good, but they're good *for a non-superhero comic*. They still don't sell anywhere near what superhero comics sell, even restricting the latter to direct sales. > I enjoy a good > detective book, but there don't seem to be very man around. Exactly! If detective comics sold as well as superhero comics, there would be a hell of a lot more detective comics being published. The fact that I was trying to get across is that, for all intents and purposes, THE BOZZ CHRONICLES is the same as a Sherlock Holmes comic. But BOZZ will sell more than a Holmes comic would, just because the main character is an alien. Likewise, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference between HEX and the old JONAH HEX, except that the former has a science fiction background and the latter a Western one. I'll betcha 10 to 1 that HEX is selling much better than JONAH HEX did. > If you do want to read a good detective comic try either Nathaniel > Dusk mini series. They are 30's detective stories and are done very well. > Another good mini series was the Mike Mauser/Ms. Tree team-up which took > many well-deserved shots at the comic industry and a few a p.i.s named Mike. Sigh. I sometimes get the feeling that no one reads my reviews. I've reviewed both DUSK series (I thought the first fair to middlin', the current one excel- lent), THE P.I.'S (middlin' to fair), *and* MS. TREE (which I like a lot). --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM