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Post by paulbyrnex on Nov 14, 2019 12:29:45 GMT
Do you have a link? I can't find that announcement. -Ralph On the Facebook Page Marvel Collectors' Editions one of the comments on the post for the latest issue states "Marvelites.
We’re sorry to report that this will be the last issue of Mighty World.
Thanks to everyone who supported the title. We’re sure it’ll be back someday!
In the meantime, why not check out one of the six other awesome Collectors’ Editions, packed full of mighty Marvel action!
Excelsior!" |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 14, 2019 12:36:38 GMT
 Via subscription it was an affordable way for me to keep up with Marvel stories outwith 'the big titles'. I also liked the variety and was exposed to titles I otherwise would not have seen. I'll be reading less now as single issue US comics are too expensive to follow many titles and I don't like digital. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 14, 2019 12:49:48 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 14, 2019 13:07:35 GMT
Very sorry to see MWOM go, but I don't think it' continual changing of strips, somewhat at the whim of which Marvel title currently has a film out, has helped. Ironically it gets cancelled just as it's returning to it's Panini roots by bringing back one of the launch characters, The Hulk (the other was Daredevil). Indeed Hulk going off to it's own title might partially be where things went wrong.
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Post by paulbyrnex on Nov 14, 2019 13:28:08 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 14, 2019 17:06:31 GMT
I had wondered if 7 titles could be sustained when they went to a fiver an issue but still sad that when Marvel is more popular than ever that comics just can't be sustained.
-Ralph
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Post by paulbyrnex on Nov 15, 2019 14:08:27 GMT
The Marvel brand is more popular than ever but that hasn't really triggered into comic book sales.
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Post by blueshift on Nov 15, 2019 14:49:41 GMT
Better than the US as comics are actually sold in supermarkets here still, but yeah. It's a real missed opportunity. Partly down to how complex and expensive the US comics are now. You should just be able to go out and buy a cheap comic about the adventures of, say, Iron Man who looks like the guy off the cinema screen. But instead you have to buy £5 issues which include lots of random issues of stuff and it's all glossy and long storylines and multi-part crossovers and mega events blah blah blah
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 31, 2019 17:23:35 GMT
Marvel Legends has dropped price to £4.50 and the page count has went from 76 pages to 52 pages. No longer squarebound. Not long for this world?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 31, 2019 17:31:28 GMT
Evolving?
For a few years Panini titles have been 3 and a bit US issues per issue, the downsize probably brings them back to the 3 US issues they always used to be.... actually 52 is less than 3 per issue. Hmmm
VERY pleased to see the square bound go, one of the factors that pushed me away from buying them. Made it impossible to fully open the issues.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 31, 2019 21:40:32 GMT
Same for me. The spine and the price eventually stopped me buying. Was a hard decision with X-Men because the collection goes back a long way.
£4.50 for 52 pages sounds like it's masking another price increase. That equates to £6.58 for 76 pages.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 1, 2020 10:18:07 GMT
Jings. I do feel I am getting less than I paid for as a subscriber though.
We shall see if their other titles follow suit.
I find it interesting to see US comic reprints decline at the US newsstand (less Panini and Titan DC gone) as Rebellion ramps up the amount of UK originated content they're putting on shelves.
-Ralph
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Post by paulbyrnex on Jan 2, 2020 12:39:15 GMT
The have the following post on facebook regarding Marvel Legends as said above its now £4.50. 52 action-packed pages reprinting Thor #8 & Captain America #6 This issue we launch our new-look format for the Marvel Collectors’ Editions. We’re committed to delivering the very finest adventures from the House of Ideas: we promise to keep providing you with the very best Marvel action at a great price!So New Year new look I'm guessing its a cost reason (save money on printing and binding) EDIT: Link Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarvelCollectorsEditions/posts/3627828063895841 (Phil) |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 2, 2020 12:46:31 GMT
That suggests they'll all go that way in time, like the binding change took several months to bleed through all the titles. So they're now going to be two US issues per UK issue. I wonder if that means Iron Man has been dropped, or whether they'll print them in rotation. I seem to recall last time I checked, Iron Man was some way ahead of the other two titles, so it could afford to be rested and not get behind.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 2, 2020 12:54:07 GMT
Hmmmm. I think the line will die now. Just two US issues in each comic doesn't feel as value for money and they'll fall further back from Marvel US time-wise. Sad. Trades seem like better value now. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 2, 2020 13:10:41 GMT
Indeed. It is sad. I was a stalwart purchaser of Essential X-Men from the start of 2001 up to the middle of last year, but the square binding and the price were enough for me to switch to Marvel Unlimited instead, with a view to buying trades of the better stories as needed.
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Post by paulbyrnex on Jan 2, 2020 13:11:43 GMT
That suggests they'll all go that way in time, like the binding change took several months to bleed through all the titles. So they're now going to be two US issues per UK issue. I wonder if that means Iron Man has been dropped, or whether they'll print them in rotation. I seem to recall last time I checked, Iron Man was some way ahead of the other two titles, so it could afford to be rested and not get behind. From facebook Iron Man will be returning to Marvel Legends. We have had to give him a rest as the next issues in his series are War of the Realms tie-ins. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 2, 2020 17:34:00 GMT
Indeed. It is sad. I was a stalwart purchaser of Essential X-Men from the start of 2001 up to the middle of last year, but the square binding and the price were enough for me to switch to Marvel Unlimited instead, with a view to buying trades of the better stories as needed. Yup. I will not renew my current subs. Cancelling MWOM and dropping the others (I read Avengers and Legends) to 52 pages means the selling point of catching a lot of US comics cheap no longer applies. When the subs run out I will switch to trades in sales or libraries. I had planned to go back to X-Men when they reached Hickman but it won't be worth it now. Marvel Unlimited is good but I don't do digital comics as I don't want to increase the time I spend staring at screens. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 3, 2020 13:35:36 GMT
It's an odd decision, I get the reduction of pages, but when did you last see a publisher reduce the price point at the same time. I can't help but think the sales have been dropping across the board and this is a bit of gamble.
X-Men is nearly upon the Age of X-Man/Cyclops and Wolverine in the grimdarkest of grimdark tales.
Still can't believe MWOM was binned just before Immortal Hulk was serialised.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2020 14:14:42 GMT
The new format knackers Marvel Legends. The selling point of the titles has been that you get three strips - one each for Thor, Captain America and Iron Man. Now it will only have two strips so they will have to take turns and either skip a lot or lag very far behind the US. While FB confirms Iron Man will return, most readers will not see that online post and vote with their wallets.
A shame. This smacks of decisions from above rather than Editorial. It's still better than how Titan handled their DC reprint line though!
I think we'll see a very different UK newsstand for comics this time next year.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 3, 2020 14:20:15 GMT
Like I said I think sales have taken a hit over the last few years and this is them pulling a hail mary.
I wonder what titles will survive the year.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 3, 2020 14:25:32 GMT
KILL DEADPOOL UNLEASHED.
Spider Man, ASM and Avengers should survive.
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Post by paulbyrnex on Jan 3, 2020 15:42:47 GMT
Deadpool appears to be the biggest seller given the amount of comics he appears in. For awhile he was near weekly with strips in ASM, W&D and DU.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 5, 2020 20:23:36 GMT
I wonder, also, with partwork GN's really taking off in recent years if this has hastened Paninivision problems. For some readers, why pay £5 for newsstand floppies when you can get nice thick HC's of collected editions for a tenner in the same newsagents? The readership for US material is still there at the newsstand: it's just consuming it differently?
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2020 20:47:39 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 3, 2020 22:21:34 GMT
Rather a shame they are launching with White Knight as one of the two strips.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2020 22:27:49 GMT
Interesting to see Panini pick up on DC after Titan farted it into the ground. While following the new 52-page format at least it will come out more often than Titan's mad bi-monthly etc schedules. More of a chance of building an audience. One also wonders if Panini are trying to stay on newsstands in case the rest of their Marvel line goes belly up.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 4, 2020 14:42:01 GMT
Pretty sure there's been ongoing rumblings for years about Panini and Marvel not always having the best relationship. Panini do reprint DC stuff overseas as well, so maybe just a realignment across territories.
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Post by browny87 on Mar 10, 2020 13:48:21 GMT
i cancelled my spiderman, xmen and wolverine subs, just cant justify buying a 2 story comic, for £9 i get 4 stories, thats the same price as buying a 6 issue trade, just cant justify it anymore!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 28, 2020 19:15:28 GMT
I felt duty bound to pick up #1. -Ralph |
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