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November 4, 2004


How (Some) Comic Books Are Done Right Now

imageThe mainstream comic book industry-focused news site Newsarama offers up six penciled sketches from a forthcoming Marvel Comics projects that provides a quick object lesson in how some publishers are doing business right now.
* New Avengers #1 is a re-launch, where the old Avengers title was brought to a conclusion of sorts and revived with this title, hopefully with beneficial sales as a result.

* The drawings are intended for variant covers, a strategy whereby a company offers a variety of different front covers on the same comic book in order to appeal to a collector's desire to have them all. Many feels this creates an unecessary strain to place on the comic shop retail system and distorts actual interest in whatever project at hand.

* Finally, the characters depicted here by Adi Granov are of interest because one, Spider-Woman, is related to the most important general license Marvel has (Spider-Man), and the other, Luke Cage, is scheduled for an upcoming movie adaptation. This may or may not indicate a way in which movie and licensing decisions have an effect on comic book content.


All rights to Marvel Enterprises for this drawing and the characters.
 
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