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Gatsby77

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  1. Gatsby77
    Right? Wasn’t Paste Pot Pete’s first appearance Strange Tales 110?
  2. Gatsby77
    So...45 million subs in its first year? Be interesting to see the numbers next month, post-Friends reunion. Meanwhile, Netflix announced yesterday that Army of the Dead has been watched by 72 million households in just its first week...
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    I don't know, but it looks like they pull from same data (although ComicChron now pulls from Diamond and DC). For example, checking both for Aug. 2011 (the month Ultimate Fall-Out # 4 was released), they list identical numbers for the Diamond orders for the first five books.
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    Best source for estimated modern print runs is ICV2 - which compiled them monthly based on Diamond orders from March 2001 - March 2020. See here:https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/1850 Gets a lot fuzzier after that, both because the publishers stopped publishing last spring due to the pandemic and more recently with DC pulling out of Diamond. The other caveat are their sales figures are only for first month, and don't include re-orders - so presume actual orders shipped to stores are 3-5% higher. For Ultimate Spider-Man # 4, see here. https://icv2.com/articles/comics/view/21030/top-300-comics-actual-august-2011 It was the 5th most-ordered book of the month, with just under 74,000 copies shipped. Which means the full print run is likely ~80,000 copies.
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    Umm...yes. Do you remember the pre-release buzz once the trailer came out? It was insane. Snakes on a Plane is one of the best case studies in internet and media virality not translating to a good (or financially successful) movie. The trailer sold the film - to the extent that it instantly went viral, late night talk show hosts made near-nightly jokes about it, they ordered re-shoots to better match fan expectations (i.e., changing it to Rated R & adding a few more Samuel L. Jackson "m-f-kers"), etc. And yet, the film grossed only $15 million opening weekend.
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    Relevant:
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    Fair. I consider Thor 2 to be *by far* the worst Marvel film (and that includes The Incredible Hulk).
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    This. Plus - it ignores that *superb* trailers can translate into garbage movies, and/or mediocre-to-poor box officer performance. Examples off the top of my head include: Suicide Squad Watchmen Matrix Reloaded Spider-Man 3 Snakes on a Plane And while I think it was a *great* film, I'm willing to bet many on this site would say the same about Iron Man 3 - that the trailer was far better than the finished product.
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    Bwahahaha But fun fact - I picked up Ms. Marvel # 1 only by mistake - part of a full run I bought in a collection 12 years ago just for the Mystique appearances. only read 1-4, 17-18. All of them were...underwhelming,
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    Yeah - but when we gonna' get Hillary Swank?
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    It'd be one thing if Gaiman et. al. seemed to be bending over backwards to seem woke / politically correct, etc. by 2021 standards with the pronoun identifications & such. But this is The Sandman - you simply can't tell a huge cross section of the (now 25+ year-old) stories without featuring characters who are lesbian / bi / trans, etc. And It's not just a Game of You. Issue # 6 features another parent who can't deal with her daughter's being gay. Issue # 30 features Augustus Caesar being raped / sodomized by his great uncle Julius Caesar. It feels a bit like criticizing Preacher for making Catholics look bad.
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    Let me be more specific: 1) I looked it up. I learned the word / concept of a "hermaphrodite" by reading Sandman # 36 when I was 14. Had to ask my mom about it. 2) A key plot point of the whole A Game of You storyline is the lack of acceptance of a teenaged transgender woman by her conservative parents. There you have it. Whatever your views on the issue, this isn't pandering - Gaiman was writing about the difficulties facing non-binary / transgender teens in The Sandman back in 1991.
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    I'm looking forward to this.
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    How so? I literally learned what a non-binary / hermaphrodite was from reading Sandman. Forget the exact issue number but it was part of A Game of You (# 32 - # 37). This was an integral part of Sandman characters in stories told literally 30 years ago.
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    Well, not exactly. But Batman wasn't exactly burning up the charts in 1965. https://www.comichron.com/yearlycomicssales/postaldata/1965.html # 9 in monthly sales (~450,000 copies), behind literally all six Superman family titles, Archie and even World's Finest (ouch!). And Detective Comics clocked in at # 19, behind such tiles as The Flintstones, Tarzan, Metal Men and Betty & Veronica. Interestingly, the only Marvel that hit the top 50 was Journey Into Mystery. By 1968 (the TV series' cancellation), Batman had risen to # 3 (~533,000 monthly copies), behind only Superman and Archie. And Amazing Spider-Man had crept up the charts to # 12.
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    Also - is Gemma Chan the first actor to play two different roles within the formal MCU? She previously played Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel... I mean sure...Chris Evans as Johnny Storm & Steve Rogers but just two years apart (three with the pandemic delay)?
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    This. It’s been 30 years, but didn’t they show up at the end of Infinity Gauntlet # 4? After all the usual superheroes had been defeated?
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    Just sayin'. They are thematically similar. And Marvel announced The Eternals movie *six weeks after* Warner Bros. announced the New Gods movie back in 2018. Just seems to be a perfect metaphor for the relative success of the two studios. #WaitingForTheFlash
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    If the leaked -script synopsis is legit, this film is a *huge* risk, as it functions as a world-building prequel, with little action, and instead simply sets the table for future installments.
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    The New Gods look amazing! DuVernay really knocked it out of the park. Oh...wait...
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    Damn! It's long gone now, but I bought a boardie's 9.6 copy back in 2012 for just $550. It was good price at the time (the book was worth more like $800 then and slipped through the cracks on eBay) but not in the same universe as today.
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    I'd like that too. Kilmer was fine - it was the rest of the film around him that sucked donkey toes. Clooney, however, looked like a deer-in-the-headlights the whole time he was in the suit. And that's in addition to the wretchedness that (again) surrounded him.
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    Umm...both Edward Norton and Terrence Howard had films left on their MCU contracts too.
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    According to my Netflix account yesterday, this was the # 1 most-watched Netflix show in America (not sure if that means for the day or for the week). Per this article, for the week of May 5-11, it was the 4th most-watched Netflix show and 10th most-watched show across all streaming services. https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-most-watched-shows-on-netflix-this-week
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    Sure...and his arc in Iron Man 3 was he needed to prove he was worthy without the suit - and (for a time) without access to his wealth or resources. Who was he as a man, stripped of all his trappings, with nothing but his intellect and will to survive? But you're conflating two separate things - Tony Stark's "character" (arrogant - consistent throughout) with his "character arc" (plot / growth / redemption journey). And you're *woefully* misreading his character in the first film. He wasn't lazy - or a slacker - by any stretch of the imagination - total opposite, really. He was simply bored. And in terms of character arc, the period in the cave catalyzed a mid-life crisis - he realized he could be more than just a military industrialist and reach a potentially higher calling. This mirrored the brief scene in Batman Begins when Bruce Wayne is subsisting as a young man in SE Asia and is arrested for attempting to steal weapons from Wayne Enterprises - so when he returns to Gotham he engineers the hostile takeover to take back the company and help move it out of the military contractor business. And no - MCU Tony Stark was not the world's "first Generation X slacker superhero." That title overtly belongs to Will Smith's Hancock, a film which (by the way,) came out the same summer as Iron Man and made nearly $50 million more worldwide.