and i don't know if marvel noticed, but our generation doesn't really have money to spend on 6 month super events with tie-ins
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every adaptation to take a shrinking market and exploit it harder shrinks the market more
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i dunno what's more unbelievable, that Marvel took until this year to realize they should leverage the movies for promotion
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or that they ever realized it at all
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i think they always knew, but none of these people know jack shit about business? they know West Coast Avengers canon, not marketing
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yeah, the resentment over having to do marketing is best addressed by having somebody whose entire job is marketing
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they're so out of touch? with everything? awhile back an avengers editor had to ask for recommendations of black women talent in comics...
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bc she was editing multiple books and just didn't have time to find any? how don't they have dedicated talent scouts? or just one?
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why make your editors triple up on work like that, it doesn't help anyone
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it's not like they aren't awash in people who will work for peanuts in exchange for Being In The Industry
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and being a comics talent scout is super rough, you have to follow like a few dozen people on twitter and watch for the word 'kickstarter'
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oh my god you might have to wander into the dangerous world of [THUNDERCRACK] ...webcomics
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i want to wander into marvel headquarters and say "anyone who doesn't know what homestuck is in 2017 is fucking fired"
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