Comments on: Read all of Omega the Unknown #1 free online http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:43:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: STWALLSKULL » Interesting Links: February 25th, 2008 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-948012 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:00:49 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-948012 [...] Read all of Omega the Unknown #1 free online from THE BEAT [...] […] Read all of Omega the Unknown #1 free online from THE BEAT […]

]]> by: Al http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-947104 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:04:58 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-947104 I have had trouble finding copies of this title in my city's LCS. So, I added it to my pulls. It is the only Marvel comic I purchase, which I suppose tells us all more about me that I care to normally volunteer, ha ha. I have had trouble finding copies of this title in my city’s LCS. So, I added it to my pulls. It is the only Marvel comic I purchase, which I suppose tells us all more about me that I care to normally volunteer, ha ha.

]]> by: Alan Coil http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-943808 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:58:38 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-943808 Might as well put it online for free. Nobody is going to read it otherwise. I read the first issue, or rather, tried to read it. Might as well put it online for free. Nobody is going to read it otherwise. I read the first issue, or rather, tried to read it.

]]> by: Paul O'Brien http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-942522 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:56:56 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-942522 Sales have been pretty dire throughout, but in fairness, I would expect the book to do better as a trade. Sales have been pretty dire throughout, but in fairness, I would expect the book to do better as a trade.

]]> by: Marcus Lusk http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-941999 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:24:44 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-941999 Has there been a drop-off in sales after #3? Maybe they're trying to boost interest at this point because they'd like the final issues to not lose money. They're committed to 12 issues after all (which surprised me.) I want to see it do well, if for no other reason than perhaps that would increase the likelihood that Marvel would ask Mary Skrenes to complete the original series as she and Steve Gerber had planned back in 1977. Does anyone know if she'd consider it? (Or more importantly, if Steve Gerber would have wanted it finished?) Has there been a drop-off in sales after #3? Maybe they’re trying to boost interest at this point because they’d like the final issues to not lose money.
They’re committed to 12 issues after all (which surprised me.)

I want to see it do well, if for no other reason than perhaps that would increase the likelihood that Marvel would ask Mary Skrenes to complete the original series as she and Steve Gerber had planned back in 1977.

Does anyone know if she’d consider it? (Or more importantly, if Steve Gerber would have wanted it finished?)

]]> by: Paul O'Brien http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-940559 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:34:16 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-940559 Wouldn't it have made more sense to do this when issue #2 came out, or alternatively when the trade came out? And not when the series was halfway through? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to do this when issue #2 came out, or alternatively when the trade came out? And not when the series was halfway through?

]]> by: R. Maheras http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-935237 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:46:57 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-935237 For continuity's sake, I'll have to get one for my cat... http://home.comcast.net/~russ.maheras/omega1.jpg For continuity’s sake, I’ll have to get one for my cat…

http://home.comcast.net/~russ.maheras/omega1.jpg

]]> by: Matthew Craig http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-933662 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:12:26 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-933662 Honest to goodness, no foolin', but the book I'd like to see in this vein (and by see, obviously, I mean write, but everyone has their pipedreams) is RAVAGE 2099. Remember? Binman superhero of the future? PTSD soldier from the Great Environmental War? Imagine THAT, but with Ladronn/Metabarons-style art. Obviously, you'd have to lose all the stuff past the end of issue...4... YYyeahh. Mm. //\Oo/\\ Honest to goodness, no foolin’, but the book I’d like to see in this vein (and by see, obviously, I mean write, but everyone has their pipedreams) is RAVAGE 2099.

Remember? Binman superhero of the future? PTSD soldier from the Great Environmental War? Imagine THAT, but with Ladronn/Metabarons-style art.

Obviously, you’d have to lose all the stuff past the end of issue…4…

YYyeahh. Mm.

//\Oo/\\

]]> by: Rakarich http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-932817 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:51:38 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/02/23/read-all-of-omega-the-unknown-1-free-online/#comment-932817 I'm really enjoying this book. I hope Marvel will continue with other books in this vein. I’m really enjoying this book. I hope Marvel will continue with other books in this vein.

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