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2007-03-22 09:05:03

Wow. Blogs have completely taken off. Look for some tweaks in the design in the coming days, based on some feedback we've gotten from you guys (and Tom). (A lot from Tom actually.) (Ok, Mostly from Tom.)

On to the questions:

Does any one have any suggestions for a new [comics] reader? I just started last week.
Posted by Bettastyle

This is a question I get a lot from my non-comic-reading friends. We publish lots of books that are new-reader friendly, but here are some of my favorites (These are just my personal opinions. I don't claim to be an exhaustive expert on comics, just a fan. These picks are not endorsed by Marvel in any way except that all Marvel books are critical successes and well worth your time). I'm linking to trade paperbacks and digests here, but for the most part, these books are being published as monthlies as well.

Runaways: Pride and Joy - Runaway teens, evil parents, and a genetically engineered dinosaur! What more can you ask for? I let one of my interns read this during work one day and it pretty much shut down her productivity for a day. (I still gave her a good grade though.) (also available in Hardcover).

Civil War (currently in stores) - It's our big event going on right now and well worth the hype. Issue #2 was out yesterday and issue number 1 can still be found at many stores. It's accessable even if you aren't familiar with our characters, so see what all the talk is about and just read it.

Fantastic Four Vol. 1: Imaginauts - Writer Mark Waid shows us why, despite some naysayers, the FF are still cool, relevant, and some of the most original characters in any genre.

If you're one of the many people who just saw X-Men: The Last Stand and are looking for more ways to find out about our beloved mutants, here's three X-books that even my comic-phobic significant other has enjoyed.

Astonishing X-Men: Gifted - This is a book I will often usually give to people who say they don't like comics, and when they're done with it they beg me to read more. Written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer scribe Joss Whedon, this book manages to pack emotional storylines, great fights, and some of the funniest one-liners you'll ever read into every issue.

New X-Men: E is for Extinction - A sometimes weird and heady but accessible take on our favorite Mutants written by Grant Morrison. Microscopic robots and one of the scariest X-villains this side of Magneto. (Not to be confused with the current New X-Men, which is written by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost and is also excellent.)

Ultimate X-Men: The Tomorrow People - The Ultimate line was created especially for readers new to comics (It's basically a complete reboot of the Marvel Universe). Ultimate X-Men has action, characters, and lots of great art.

If you need to find a comic book store near you can call 1-800-comicbook, and you can even get home delivery of many Marvel titles here. And again, these books are just my opinion. If you guys have ideas on what books would be good as an introduction to Marvel, please write them in the comments.

message boards
When will the message boards be up?
Posted by littleredhat

Heya Peter, great work on Marvel.com.... Someone asked before how the new Marvel Message Boards are coming along. Are they still being worked on, or will these blogs replace them?
Posted by Gokitalo

Littleredhat has a good question, when will the message board be up and running??
Posted by 1webfan

Hang in there. They're coming. We will launch no application before its time! The blog comments are a way of interacting with us in addition to message boards, not instead of them.

How come you guys have advertisements for [a bunch of non-Marvel] Dvd sets while you guys can advertise your own merchandice like the Xmen Evolution Season 3 Boxset or the entire '90's Fantastic 4 Boxset or any other upcoming dvds or boxsets??
Posted by 1webfan

We have those advertisements because Marvel.com is an efficient advertising and marketing vector for reaching our attractive core demographic. To advertise on Marvel.com, contact Joe Maimone at Marvel. (also you can find many of our box sets here).

Thanks, all, and keep the questions coming.

[insert clever sign off here]
-peter

thanx
thanx thats alot of help

Posted by Bettastyle on 2006-06-15 10:51:46

np
Hey I aim to please...

Posted by pete on 2006-06-15 11:09:04

posting
How do you post

Posted by Ghost Rider1514 on 2006-06-15 17:49:27

wat
the last answer made no sence at all

Posted by tarhaun on 2006-06-15 17:54:55

thanks
thanks for answering our Q's Pete!

Posted by 1webfan on 2006-06-15 18:40:53

best
you are the best

Posted by on 2006-06-15 19:40:48

Here is a new question
I have a bit of a wishlist of trades that I'd like to see (I love the essential titles) So is Marvel ever considering the following:

- More Howard the Duck, Defenders & Spider-Woman trades?
- An essential title that reprints (chronologically) limited series that were printed from the 70's & 80's that would never be part of the Essential books (IE the Wolverine & Kitty limited series, Wolverine Limited Series, Vision & Scalet Witch, Marvel Super-Heros, Marvel Comics Presents etc.)

- Any plans on printing the non-marvel univese stories that were featured in Strange Tales, Journey into Mystery and the like?

- Seven words: Secret Wars Two Trade Paper Back. When?

Posted by nausiated on 2006-06-15 20:32:00

hey nausiated
The trades department will be starting a blog soon, and you can ask them directly. keep checking back on the main blog page...

Posted by pete on 2006-06-15 21:40:29

Yes I love this! I know you can answer my que
I asked this in another blog by mistake, but I'm guessing this is where I should have asked. Do you know if the X-Men 1990 cartoon series is going to be released on DVD any time soon, I mean isn't it way past due? Fantastic Four and Spider-Man have cartoon DVD sets. ... >o>;; ..... I really hope so......please say yes.....humor me. Lol. :o)

Posted by TwilghtDragon on 2006-06-15 22:43:27

assuming...
...you're the one designing the message boards since you're the senior architect: will we be able to have avatars? Sigs with pictures? Forums about stuff OTHER than just the gamut of Marvel characters, like creators and stuff?

Posted by meestercheeser on 2006-06-16 04:45:44

Hero points
Hi Peter,

First I want to say you've been doing a terrific job. Marvel.com has improved greatly over the last year or so and keeps getting better.

My question is about hero points. Next to my login name is a little notice saying I have zero (0) hero points. This makes me feel inadequate. How do I earn hero points? I'm pretty sure I earned beaucoup hero points in the old James Bond roleplaying game. Are they transferrable?

Thanks!

Posted by Jeffers on 2006-06-17 00:47:51

hero points
Hero Points here won't help you on a 1d20 saving throw against Jaws, so the transfer won't really help.

Currently you can earn hero points by posting in the Marvel Universe and getting your post approved. As you earn more points, you can gain extra priveleges there. We'll be expanding the program as we add features to the site as well.

Posted by pete on 2006-06-17 10:47:46

Question
Can regular members here make thier own blog? Or at least like a mini-blog? Just wondering.

Posted by Bearpod91 on 2006-06-18 17:42:12

Do we not have a forum?
All I see is blogs, no regular forums?

Posted by Revolver Dark on 2006-06-18 22:17:40

Suggestion
Maybe a area where fans can put there ideas about future comics, either with existing comics or coming up with new ideas. And not just for comics but video games.
Also I know I may be out of line for saying this but how about making a fighting video game where DC and Marvel fight? I know this seems impossible but imagine seeing Captain America take on Superman or Wolverine take on Batman and Spider-man can beat anyone but it would be fun to see them come together on a Video Game. And also imagine all the bad guys too. It would of course have to be a great built game but for one time Marvel and DC come together. Imagine seeing Spiderman swing through Gotham or Metropolis. I am a major Marvel fan but I do like some of the other comics and it would be great to see the comic companies come together for one big video game series to combine all the possible superhero or villian fight. It can't happen in the comics or movies but could it happen for a video game. I know combining games together has always been good. And this would one big comic fans dream.

Posted by spidey0402 on 2006-06-19 19:40:58

CIVIL WAR
WHAT IN SPIDER-MAN'S NAME IS GOING ON WITH SPIDEY UNMASKING?!?!?!?!?!?

Posted by KISS1994 on 2006-06-20 00:12:43

Feeds and archives
Are you going to put up news feeds for the individual blogs? A better archive system would also be a good idea - I had to click on each individual post to read Tom Brevoort's blog from the start. The blog front page is also a tad counter-intuitive; it would be much more helpful to have a list and links to all the blogs right there on the page, instead of having to click through to another page.
The blogs are a great idea, I'm looking forward to reading.

Posted by Karuben on 2006-06-20 02:19:19

SUGGESTION
Bring back the threaded web. No, seriously. I miss reading user-created online stories.

Sure, there's plenty of them on other webpages, but having someone from Marvel read your story and then post it on the official Marvel page is a proud moment.

It's like the difference between going to a Japanese massage parlor and going to a Japanese massage parlor and having the massage girl walk out with you and shout on the streets of Tokyo: "This man has an elephant trunk".

Posted by TheDeacon on 2006-06-20 11:20:47

and also
The ability to make paragraphs would be nice, to avoid the appearance of drunken ramblings and run-on thoughts.

Okay, maybe that wouldn't change, but I have a dream that, after reading my thoughts, you will all declare to the world: "Sure, he sounds like a drunk with run-on thoughts, but that chap has a mastery of the King's English like no other!"

So how 'bout it?

Posted by TheDeacon on 2006-06-20 11:23:21

deacon:
done

and

done

Posted by pete on 2006-06-20 11:54:14

Avatars
Hi Peter,

Your blog is great. You guys really seem to be working at making this more of an online community (and it's pretty darn cool!) Will we be able to choose avatars soon?

If so, I want Spider-Ham!

Posted by kuyu001 on 2006-06-20 13:18:23

OMG I LOVE YOU
Paragraphs are a good thing, even though many don't bother.

It separates our fellow man from his philistine brothers and--

WAITASEC!!! You brought back the threaded web? WHERE? I mean, I could search for it, but I'm lazy!

Posted by TheDeacon on 2006-06-20 15:36:48

iron man movie
does any one think that leiv shreiber would play an excellent tony stark?

Posted by andrewespinosa on 2006-06-21 21:47:10

Hero points
What do you recieve when you get alot of hero points

Posted by Marvel75 on 2006-06-24 15:58:31

still no threaded web..
DEACON SMASH.

Posted by TheDeacon on 2006-06-25 02:31:50

Animation
Animation
OK,now seriously,Marvel website should definitely have an animation section featuring the hits such as X-M:E,Spider-man etc.and post news on the upcoming,I know there are fansites for these shows,but there should be atleast one official website too

Posted by rogue100 on 2006-07-04 23:02:27

Marvel DVD's
Will there be a region 2 release of the new avengers movie dvd & complete box sets of old & new marvel cartoons! Region 2 marvel fans have only had the new spider-man series as a full collection, while the other animated shows have been given the random 4 episode treatment! I'm also surprised to find even region 1 is yet to produce box sets of the 90's classic spidey, x-men, fantastic four, iron man & hulk shows!

Posted by madlynchy on 2006-07-05 11:09:15

cool
thanx

Posted by oshyer on 2006-07-14 23:33:30

where did it go?
CIVIL WAR got me thinking and I wanted to share my ideas with Marveldom. So I looked for the Marvel Forum to post in. No Forum. Instead there were blogs. O-Kaaay.

So I posted in one of the comics blogs. I saw the post. I remembered something else and tried to write a second post but suddenly I had to sign back in. I did that and sent the post in but it didn't show up. Instead of waiting for the page to refresh, I went to another blog page and wrote a third post on a different subject and had to sign-in a THIRD TIME. grrrr.

Anyway, I come back to see if anyone responded to my posts and the first one -- the only one I actually saw posted on the blog page -- is missing. Wha happen?

Posted by spyder77 on 2006-07-15 03:11:08

?????????
Right after posting the above, I went back to the blog. My original "missing" post was there -- in a different spot. I know I didn't overlook it because it's in a colored box now. What's going on?

Posted by spyder77 on 2006-07-15 03:17:57

Hero Points
How do U get Hero points

Posted by T Money on 2006-07-20 19:29:25

Stupid Question
Is Luke Cage's old friend Stryker, the same guy as the bad guy from X-men 2, the movie?

Posted by 1gunsnroses1 on 2006-07-20 21:37:25

Please tell me... that´s not true
CIVIL WAR..... I love it!!!!!!, Mark Millar it´s an excellent writer, but.... well I don´t now it´s something that I read a few hours ago... so I looked for the Marvel Forum, email or something to post in. No forum, no email... instead there were blogs.

It´s true that Iron Man and Reed Richards would be Skrulls???, The New Warriors who died in the first AWESOME issue of Marvel Civil War are actually Skrull impersonators????? And that Tony Stark has engineered the entire Civil War in order to get the all the Skrulls currently impersonating superheroes?????? Please, please don´t do that, it will kill the whole event!!!!!!! would be a shame that all the CIVIL WAR plot is actually a Skrull plan?!!!!!

I love the political allegory in the book that makes comics grow up, character and scripts evolve in something more... Those books shows how forced registration of persons would spark a civil liberties controversy, and that´s great!!!! some people (and not only comic book fans) see this as a reflection of the real world and that´s the main difference with others superheroes´s comic books..... so that you tell me that all this CONFLICT it´s a Skrull plot???

Really..... I hope be wrong and please don´t do it.
Take it easy guys...

Posted by austin on 2006-07-27 00:33:47

comic-con
i heard that in the san diego comic-con there was an extended trailer, is there any link to watch this video on the internet?

Posted by JackG on 2006-07-27 05:25:54

Civil and the Future
With Spider-Girl relunching. Will the Civil war change Spider-Girl universe as will?

Posted by Neo Hawkeye on 2006-07-28 14:11:38

Spider-Man Villians
How many villians does spidey have altogether it must be a lot?

Posted by DevonKnight on 2006-07-29 07:55:36

Question!
I've wonder if there is (if any) some Marvel Character vs Predator?

Posted by comic-kazee on 2006-07-29 23:39:19

Questions!!
Will Marvel ever relaunch the Ultraverse line? I wish the Current Exiles team could meet the Ultraverse Exiles! Also any plans to relaunch the Marvel UK titles? The return of Dark Guard or The Knights of Pendragon would be most appreciated!

Posted by boundingwolf on 2006-08-01 13:21:56

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