No; My zine-fu is strong; a much delayed contest link is given; I sell comics; did you know that fan fiction can be nutty; this title is too long.
No, I haven’t seen the Sin City movie yet.
So I was processing some old issues of The Comics Journal at the shop yesterday, and I just happened to flip open an issue (#110, from August 1986) right to an article on the cancellation of Marvel’s Star Wars comic…which I just happened to have been discussing on this site that morning. A couple choice quotes from the article:
“…An unnamed Lucasfilm official [said] that the book was not terminated: rather, ‘We’re just putting it on hold until the next film is released.’ […] …A Marvel spokesperson [said]: ‘If there’s another movie, we’ll be publishing tomorrow morning.'”
Of course, as it turned out, it was a few years before there was another Star Wars series, Dark Empire from Dark Horse Comics. (And it seems to me that this particular project was in fact originally announced as being from Marvel…can anyone confirm?)
Another quote, detailing the release date snafu I mentioned yesterday:
“The 1983 adaptation of The Return of the Jedi was marred by the early shipment and placement on sale of the issues, revealing the plot twists and surprises of the film before it had opened. Despite Marvel’s attempts at retrieving the shipping books, tens of thousands of the issues were bought and circulated, with the advance story of the film even being read on the radio in one instance, scooping the film’s opening.”
Clearly, things are a lot different now…probably with the realization that the prime time to sell the comics is before the film is released, since demand will almost certainly dip as soon as the movie is actually in theatres.
Hey, you! Yeah, you, readin’ the website. Go enter The House of the Ded’s mighty Bluesman contest giveaway…there are two copies being given away, and they’re both autographed by author Rob Vollmar. It’s free, free, I tell you, so you have no excuse to not enter.
Something I did on Friday that no other comic shop in the country did that day: I sold a full run of Impact Comics. All 112 issues. Yeah, that’s right, you heard me. No, that didn’t include the looseleaf Who’s Who booklets, but I could have provided them had the customer wanted them.
I liked the Impact line, myself….The Fly was the best of the bunch, and I think we’re all in agreement that The Web was…rough going, to say the least. I always had a soft spot for The Comet as well.
