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Post by The Doctor on Jun 26, 2008 22:56:53 GMT
According to Furman on his blog: 'the originated page count per issue stays at 11 from now onwards' in Titan TF-UK.
Hurrah!
I feel strangely excited to see the UK comic back at 11 pages again. It always seemed the 'proper' length for a comic when I was wee.
Well, we all have our little foibles.
-Ralph
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Post by elliotthopkins on Jun 26, 2008 23:50:10 GMT
It's not a foible. It's like the use of six sided shapes in nature.
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Post by Nigel on Jun 27, 2008 8:44:06 GMT
I had pondered a little on the absence of any mention in the next issue slot of either the IDW movie adaptation or Reign of Starscream. That'll explain it, then.
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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 27, 2008 10:16:00 GMT
Hurrah! The budget for original strips must have been increased!
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Post by Bogatan on Jun 27, 2008 11:36:41 GMT
A Golden Age!
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 27, 2008 12:12:38 GMT
Excellent!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2008 9:29:37 GMT
I had pondered a little on the absence of any mention in the next issue slot of either the IDW movie adaptation or Reign of Starscream. That'll explain it, then. Does that mean Titan aren't going to reprint the movie adaptation comic and / or Beast Wars The Ascending? |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 3, 2008 17:57:11 GMT
They're reprinting Ascending (they specifically say Beast Wars is in #14 and that's the only thing that'd fit) but I dunno about the third strip. Teletran-1 wiki has it down as Megatron Origin, but I dunno where that's from.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 4, 2008 21:52:16 GMT
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jul 5, 2008 11:09:06 GMT
It's a new Golden Age (hail Harriet Jones!)!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2008 20:46:03 GMT
Speaking as someone who stocks the comic and ships it (mainly to fans in the US) I really wish they'd ditch the free gifts. Primus knows how much it must add to the production costs and it sure bumps up that postage. Do away with the free gifts - most are meh anyway.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 6, 2008 20:51:48 GMT
Alas, the current newsstand market (which is where this title is aimed at) for kids comics seems to be geared towards every issue having a covermounted gift. Just seems to be the way it is now.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jul 6, 2008 20:58:18 GMT
Alas, the current newsstand market (which is where this title is aimed at) for kids comics seems to be geared towards every issue having a covermounted gift. Just seems to be the way it is now. -Ralph Really it is just following a model from elsewhere in magazine publishing. In some areas of publishing more thought is put into the covermount than into the actual content of the magazine - as the covermount is seen as the thing that actually decides what sells. Karl |
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Post by Rich on Jul 6, 2008 21:46:25 GMT
I'm pretty sure Steve White said that it was simply impossible to release a younger kids' comic in the UK and not have a gift - no kids would buy it.
That said, with so many versions of TF on TV I can't help but wonder how a TF style reprint book of the type that Titan already publish for Batman would sell. Admittedly, I wouldn't buy it as I'm already weaning myself off the US reprints despite Nick's frequent covers, but a book that led with an IDW g1 story (and occasionally printed two issues per book to boost their pace and create an 'event' feel) and then supported it with something else from the DW / IDW archives and a classic g1 title would make an interesting prospect. To be honest, it probably wouldn't do that well (the reprints we do get from Pan and Titan are of books that the lead title of which sell between 5 and 10 times as much as TF in the US), but it would be interesting.
It just occurred to me that maybe TFUK should give away a little decoy quality TF with each issue (or maybe parts to PVCs or some other collectable TF figure); there was a thing in the paper yesterday about how the current primary school craze is collecting some horrible little plastic people.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2008 22:54:40 GMT
Surely though, if every kids comic comes with a free gift each issue then it won't be long before the novelty wears off. The gifts may become almost invisible because every title is giving something away.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2008 9:59:33 GMT
We would need to ask a kid to find out! Remember, the Titan comic isn't aimed at us (adults) for the most part. When I was a kid I always got excited about free gifts with comics, even when they were crap (like the 'be a robot in disguise' tattoo).
-Ralph
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Post by Nigel on Jul 7, 2008 12:03:42 GMT
A part of the reason that comics use covermounts is that the parents hold the purse strings and they look for extra value in the purchase.
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 7, 2008 12:41:04 GMT
I suppose it's a sign of the times.
Still, at least novels are free from cover-mounted gifts. For the moment, anyway.
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Post by primenova on Jul 7, 2008 13:15:22 GMT
But look at it from the newsagents point of view - trying to get all those comics, you can only get 5 on display where you could have 20 without the cover & then you find the comic ripped & gift stolen later on. The UK Spiderman comic has free gifts every single issue [didn't used to]
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Post by Nigel on Jul 7, 2008 13:20:56 GMT
Isn't it the Spiderman & Friends preschool comic that has gifts, the "proper" Spider-Man comic being printed in the US size format?
I don't imagine that the newsagents generally mind much about the clutter caused by the gifts, if they improve the sales.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 7, 2008 13:22:26 GMT
Panini also prints Spectacular Spider-Man as well, with a UK originated spidey tale every four weeks.
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Post by Nigel on Jul 7, 2008 13:50:52 GMT
Oh, that one seems to have passed me by. Any good?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 7, 2008 14:10:10 GMT
The stories aren't always the best but the art is generally pretty good. Jack did an issue of it not too long ago.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2008 16:23:47 GMT
I'm not sure if it still is, but it was coming out on a 3-weekly schedule last time I looked (sometime last year).
There is a digest of some of the UK originated strips. I flicked through it in Waterstones once. Buggered if I recall the title.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2008 16:25:42 GMT
We would need to ask a kid to find out! Remember, the Titan comic isn't aimed at us (adults) for the most part. When I was a kid I always got excited about free gifts with comics, even when they were crap (like the 'be a robot in disguise' tattoo). -Ralph I too was the same as a nipper. I would pester my mother for a particular comic book if a free gift was on it no matter how rubbish it was. I rarely got my way but when I did I was ecstatic. The same goes for breakfast cereals. Kids don't want Brand X breakfast cereal because it doesn't have a little plastic toy hidden deep inside the cereals - they want Brand Y breakfast cereal because of the free gift. In the 80's Coco Pops did this free gift offer - they included in every packet of cereals a small plastic toy of an animal (donkey, horse, cow, sheep etc) and each individual model came in about five different colours. I must have got fat eating Coco Pops so that I could collect every toy in every colour. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2008 16:27:25 GMT
To this day I still select breakfast cereals on the basis of the free tat within!
-Ralph
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