Comments on: DC to publish THE SPIRIT SPECIAL #1; other title change http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:36:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: rich http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2481472 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:34:16 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2481472 Then again, the SPIDER-MAN Sunday sections from last summer evoked the same reaction from me and a friend. The Stan Lee/Steve Ditko stuff is great, but so far removed from what's in the current comic books. I wonder what the reaction would be of someone seeing the Sunday stuff, then decided to schlep into the comic store and discovering the Bland New Day storyline. Then again, the SPIDER-MAN Sunday sections from last summer evoked the same reaction from me and a friend. The Stan Lee/Steve Ditko stuff is great, but so far removed from what’s in the current comic books. I wonder what the reaction would be of someone seeing the Sunday stuff, then decided to schlep into the comic store and discovering the Bland New Day storyline.

]]> by: Steve Taylor http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2479070 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:56:05 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2479070 Maybe they never considered it because the two seem so stylistically different. The images and trailers from the movie look very little like the Eisner comics, maybe DC felt that people would be turned off, one way or another. Besides, didn't they just release a trade paperback of Eisner's Spirit stuff gleaned from their archive series? Couldn't they just rerelease that with a reproduction of Mr. Miller's shi,...uhm,...black and white poster design from the movie, as a cover? Maybe they never considered it because the two seem so stylistically different.
The images and trailers from the movie look very little like the Eisner comics, maybe DC felt that people would be turned off, one way or another. Besides, didn’t they just release a trade paperback of Eisner’s Spirit stuff gleaned from their archive series? Couldn’t they just rerelease that with a reproduction of Mr. Miller’s shi,…uhm,…black and white poster design from the movie, as a cover?

]]> by: Cary Coatney http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2478365 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:48:31 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2478365 And since it's Frank Miller's the Spirit- maybe the books will sell like hotcakes and THEN get recalled because of multiple printing errors that has Denny Colt referring to all the women cast members with names that begin with the letter C... ...unless that kind of language is actually in the movie itself. ~ Coat And since it’s Frank Miller’s the Spirit- maybe the books will sell like hotcakes and THEN get recalled because of multiple printing errors that has Denny Colt referring to all the women cast members with names that begin with the letter C…

…unless that kind of language is actually in the movie itself.

~

Coat

]]> by: rich http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2476915 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:54:47 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2476915 A better tie in would be newspaper Sunday supplements, similar to what Marvel did with Spider-Man, leading up to the release of SPIDER-MAN 3. It would be a natural, since the SPIRIT stories were originally published in newspapers. 7-pages each, with room for an advertisement promoting the movie and/or the DC series. I liked the SPIDER-MAN newspaper supplements, but those were full-length stories, and the eight-page format resulted in some peculiar "chapter-breaks" each week. A better tie in would be newspaper Sunday supplements, similar to what Marvel did with Spider-Man, leading up to the release of SPIDER-MAN 3. It would be a natural, since the SPIRIT stories were originally published in newspapers. 7-pages each, with room for an advertisement promoting the movie and/or the DC series. I liked the SPIDER-MAN newspaper supplements, but those were full-length stories, and the eight-page format resulted in some peculiar “chapter-breaks” each week.

]]> by: Charles Skaggs http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2476749 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:56:09 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2476749 You know things are bad at DC when retailers have to "pressure" them into releasing a tie-in product for one of their titles that has a feature film playing in theaters. I can just see it now: "Please, DC...May we have a movie tie-in to sell in our stores? Pretty please? We'll be ever so grateful and promise to stop asking so many questions about why BATMAN and those delightful FINAL CRISIS books are running late." You know things are bad at DC when retailers have to “pressure” them into releasing a tie-in product for one of their titles that has a feature film playing in theaters.

I can just see it now: “Please, DC…May we have a movie tie-in to sell in our stores? Pretty please? We’ll be ever so grateful and promise to stop asking so many questions about why BATMAN and those delightful FINAL CRISIS books are running late.”

]]> by: Al http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2476574 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:44:10 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/10/15/dc-to-publish-the-spirit-special-1-other-title-change/#comment-2476574 We have a Spirit movie coming out. It is based on a comic character. We publish the Spirit comic. Maybe we should publish a movie tie-in? We have a Spirit movie coming out. It is based on a comic character. We publish the Spirit comic. Maybe we should publish a movie tie-in?

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