At least
Jason Todd had a fighting chance.

I suggest setting up a fundraiser that pitted pro-continuity, pro-original Spider-man against the others.

No one could donate more than $10 a person to keep it honest and level

The side that raises the most determines the true fate of Spider-man

Yep, its kitchen sink time.

Make mine marvel. I'll pay ya! Honest.

Posted by coolhanddave on 2008-09-08 18:22:36
MATT
WAGNER

RUUUULES!......

Posted by bulgarianyogurt on 2008-09-09 08:08:48
Hrmm...
That sounds like a peculiar idea coolhand.

Why not allow the people to donate as much as they are willing to donate? That way more money would be raised for a charitable cause.


Any competition of the sort suggested above should be kept within good intentions and good taste.

Posted by Aziroth on 2008-09-09 10:18:55
Regarding the success of the 'First Class' series, I propose a new title called 'Marvel hidden years' or 'marvel lost years'. Every creative staff could choose the characters he wants , and the specifical era he wants work into, so with this, we can have 'avengers lost years' , and then we could have 'West Coast Avengers lost years','Defenders lost years', 'Daredevil lost years', 'ALPHA FLIGHT LOST YEARS'...

A flash-back by the Don Heck era by Leinul Yu into 'New Avengers' is the origin of the stuff, plus the fact that even if I appreciate the new 'X-Men : First Class' and despite some interesting cameos, I feel them like suffering a lack of gravity, making me wish for them to reach soon the Neal Adams era, with Havok and Polaris, and maybe the darker hours of the anti-mutants hanger....

Right now I realize that I have maybe opened the Cassandra'box, considering this idea to a SpiderMan fan 'approach...but the latest 'SpiderMan/X-Men' on release, and with an issue planned with the Scarlet Spider...
I don't know...
Tom , are you trying to say us something ?

Posted by notapotatoe on 2008-09-09 10:44:22
Fundraising with a statement
If the fundraising were a competition determined by the side that raised the most funds, there would be an advantage to the side who has an individual with extra disposable income to tip the scales against a majority of individuals who gave less.

$1 equals one vote.

$5 equals five votes.

$10 and above equals ten votes.

I'm flexible on the $10 benchmark.

Rubber-baby buggy bumpers.

Make mine again.

Posted by coolhanddave on 2008-09-09 15:07:36
I want it...
...but I can't afford it right now. I'm sorry!

Posted by DRock1 on 2008-09-09 18:37:55
and,...I'd like to ask you one more thing.
You're maybe aware of this , or maybe not. In the catalogue of your new partner Soleil, there's especially two authors , not very well-known, who had a particular relationship with super-heroes. I'm thinking about Cyrus Tota and Jean-Yves Mitton.
The story starts in the late 70's when Lug Editions was the only one to DECENTLY translate and publish comics-books in France into various magazines containing four different titles maximum, and is the early responsible of the breaktrough of super-heroes in this country. Then they start to launch another magazine with brand new characters that wasn't from th MU, made by french authors but still super-heroes.
Despite being critically acclaimed by fans, this new magazine didn't sustain, but the editors choose to give the chance to these authors to still publish the stories of their own special characters in the pages of the magazines of Marvel Heroes.
Then, Cyrus Tota pursued his run onto 'Photonik' and Mitton 'Mikros',then with 'Epsilon' a futuristic tie-in, and finally 'Kronos'.
They were the only authors who were passionnate about super-heroes and who early understand the full potential of story-telling about it, except that super-heroes is still not very well considered in France , so there are still referenced in their C.V's by critics by having began 'with the writing of obscure super-heroes'.They , in fact, provided , wonderful stories with great characters.
I'm not their agent, I just think that they deserve more than oblivion, because it's surely ain't in France that they'll have recognition. I wanted to know if there's a chance to see them working upon Marvel characters,or some of their early works translated; maybe readers from here could be surprised.



Posted by notapotatoe on 2008-09-10 01:09:49
Tom,

Awesome book. I actually won the auction for this one and it is really great. You guys are really amazing for starting the Hero Initiative to keep struggling artists safe. Thanks very much!

Posted by johnsonrocks2 on 2008-09-26 11:30:41