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>2015

>Milestone 2.1 announced to the world. Milestone is back! One of if not the biggest comic book stories of 2015.

>I find out on that day I was no longer a part of it.

>Since then, little has been heard. No press, interviews and no books.

>I have no knowledge of the inner workings at DC or Milestone, nor has anyone at DC or Milestone ever told me ‘why’ I was excluded.

>That said, here’s my two-cent conclusion.

>Milestone 2.0, in my opinion, is dead for four reasons.

>Except for Denys Cowan, comics are not a priority for the partners.One partner runs a filmed entertainment empire, the other oversees a mainstream financial news publishing juggernaut. You think making comics is more important than interviewing the head of the Federal Reserve or producing the most famous award show in the world? Of the four of us, only Denys and I would answer yes.Comics is where we live and dream and have all our lives. Denys and I were more than just fans of comics we chose that as our life’s work and pursued it. There’s a massive difference between the other M2.0 founders and us.That’s not a dig, that’s a fact.

>The second reason Milestone is dead and why I wrote the events of 20 plus years ago is corporate bullshit like what happened to me. Someone at DC or Milestone is holding fast to a way of doing things and because of such everything stops until the problem is resolved or made to go away.Who do I think is holding up the deal by insisting things get done a specific way? Looking at the playing field, it’s obvious DC does not need Milestone that’s a fact. So much of the fact that DC just announced another push into diversity with Dark Matter.And the way they are doing it is gangsta.I may be wrong, but DC seems to be going after that diversity dollar with a wee bit of help from those who have come before and know how to do it.

>Milestone has no infrastructure. There’s no central hub no office no staff. Two of the partners have nice big spaces they work from, with employees but the work done there isn’t Milestone unless something has changed since I was involved.Also, one guy is doing movies; another guy is running a magazine, and he’s doing that from New York. DC is in Los Angeles, so any face to face must wait until they are all available.Denys Cowan’s is the only person whose business is creating comics, but with no central Milestone infrastructure behind him and his partner’s crazy schedules, there is no way in Hell he can do all that needs to get the deal done by himself.

>January 2018 will mark three years since DC and Milestone made that historic announcement. That’s a long time, right? No. Not really. Not if you’re making movies and putting out magazines. But to the fans?

>It’s a fucking eternity.

>It’s also not correct. Milestone 2.0 formed in Feb 2011. The first meeting with DC was a few weeks after that.

>January 2018 will mark SEVEN years since DC and Milestone had their first meeting. My thoughts on why Milestone is dead is conjecture. Those dates are real, and yes that’s a long time.

>But to the fans?

>It’s a fuck you.

>I don’t think any Milestone partners feel like that. But with silence from Milestone, it may seem so. I haven’t talked to Denys, but I know this is killing him.

>Hell, it’s killing me.

>The fourth reason I think Milestone is dead can also be the reason they don’t have to be.But that will have to wait until next time.

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I guess that explains the lack of digital reprints of Milestone books.

What happened to Babs?

>>92580442
Assuming Starfire is his age in this universe. In Static Shock, Bruce mentioned that Tim was the Robin that was on the Teen Titans' team.

>>92580458
She cucked Dick with Bruce.

>I want women
>But eh kinda not really

I'll never get this

>>92580569
I don't want women. I want to see it be okay for a man to be LIKE a woman if they so choose.

>>92580425
Make your own comic, stop bothering /co/ with your very niche subject.
OP is a metaphorical and literal fag

>>92580365
Making more Adam Sandler vehicles.

Whatever happened to that imagination movie he was making?

>>92580585
He made season five of Samurai Jack and realized he didn't have an imagination.

Ahh yes, our reguarly scheduled samurai jack gay thread. Well carry on as usual lads

>>92580592
Series finale just happened, thought it'd be a fun OP post

What is your OTP, /co/?

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>>92580746
Definitely a sucker for Halkyle.

>>92579440
14 hours ago.

When the Mary Sue redeems herself by no longer existing.

>>92579440
I don't know but you'd need to be a fag to not like the first 3 episodes of S5

>>92579361
I don't.

>>>/tv/

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>>92579361

>>92579361
Hot chicks

Is there really an emo girl smiley?

>>92579487

No, they invented it for the movie I think

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It helps girls with no personality get into the movies.

Which causes a chain reaction inside of them to manifest or develop their own. Once this happens their personality has about 60% chance of being something close to what you're talking about now, the other 40% is being neutral as if they do not choose such a personality they become enriched by the want of having a personality which causes the chain reaction of becoming the quirky girl who likes art and the like, I.E your average tumblrite/deviant artist.

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The digital sales are once again pretty close and more or less heralded this outcome.

>Incredible sales for DC books this week resulted in DC taking the top nine spots in our store, followed by Secret Empire #2 in tenth place. The biggest disappointment was the very poor performance of Generation X #1 and Luke Cage #1, with both titles barely cracking our store’s Top Twenty. Star Wars sales continue to flatten as well, leaving Marvel struggling for a winning book.

>Affordably priced Marvel and DC books from the 80s and 90s remain popular; readers can get solid storytelling and art for about the same price as a new comic today.

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>The Button closes out at Famous Faces by continuing the trend of the previous issues and absolutely CRUSHING everything else that came out this week. Flash 22 sold more issues than the next three top sellers combined and outsold the top selling Marvel book six times over.

>The first Marvel book in the Top Sellers is Secret Empire at #11, immediately followed by X-Men Gold at #12. Secret Empire has already begun to lose reader’s interest. It has already dropped almost ten spots in our Top Sellers and it only just started. I don’t see it selling much better for 8 more issues. X-Men Gold is still doing relatively well and should keep healthy numbers as long as the title maintains a sense of direction that all of the X-Series post-AVX have lacked.

>On the Indie side of things, after God Country at #5, Image’s Curse Words and Aftershock’s Animosity round out the Top Twenty at #19 & #20 respectively. Curse Words has done well and we’ve been pushing it since issue #1. Animosity is usually in the Top Ten, so it’s kind of (after)shocking to see it so low on the list, but a lot of the copies we sell are to customers with pulls who haven’t stopped by this week. We are excited to hear Donny Cates hinting at working for Marvel later this year and early next year, so we expect to see that boost up our Marvel sales quite a bit. That guy is on fire. We can’t wait for Babyteeth and somehow every issue of God Country is even better than the last.

>On the back issue side of things, we’ve still been selling a lot of Guardians of the Galaxy and related titles like Rocket and Groot and Starlord (by Humphries). We’ve also sold a noticeable amount of various Wildstorm titles from the first relaunch in the mid 2000s. On top of this we continue to sell early Rebirths issues as well as older Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men, Walking Dead, Spawn, and some 1990’s Superman.

—–

>FLASH #22 unsurprisingly ran circles around everything else, outperforming maybe the best single issue of the year to date, BATMAN #23. It takes a Batman tie-in to unseat Batman, weirdly enough. Secret Empire is lagging way behind at #9, most people just aren’t into it. Marvel’s downward sales have had a measurable impact on our shop at this point, and I don’t know if they’re really ready to understand why sales are bad or do what it’ll take to fix it. Just waiting it out at this point.

>Anything with Adam Warlock in it is going nuts, especially Jim Starlin related issues. On the DC side, early jason Todd and Tim Drake stories and Watchmen singles have had strong showings.

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>Not a bad week. I thought with Wizard World coming into town this weekend people would try to save their money for it and spend less here. Flash 22’s 3D cover of course was the number one selling title.

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>Secret Empire #2 was our top seller this week, with very little drop-off from #1, possibly because of that reveal at the end. I’m interested to see how Nick Spencer has written himself out of the “this is the real Steve Rogers” trap, and a lot of readers seem to feel the same way. American Gods continues to sell well, still drawing interest from novel readers/tv show viewers that otherwise might not pick up a comic. The Star Wars Poe Dameron comic also did well this week, which, honestly, is always worth picking up to look at Oscar Isaac’s likeness for a while.

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>It came as no surprise that DC dominated sales this week, with the final chapter in “the button” storyline in Flash #22.
God Country continues to gain fans, with reprints of the first 3 issues out selling most Marvel titles this week. Secret Empire has gained a little traction, but most customers still talk about it as gimmick instead of a cross-over. The “best of the rest” from Marvel, included Deadpool Punisher and Generation X barely missing the top 10.

>Other indie books from Image, Boom and Valiant did well this week, but not good enough to crack the top 10. But as readership picks up on those titles, and customers depart from Marvel titles, I expect we will be seeing more of those indies making it on thelist.

>Copper age back issue continue to be strong, and recent “hot book” back issues (within the last few months) also continue to be strong sellers. Silver age books have seen a slight slow down, with the exception of anything Kirby. Kirby books have seen an increase this past week, especially moderately priced series like Kamandi and New Gods.

>>92578755
Going back to the past was to save literally every life Aku has destroyed since Jack left including both of his parents

>>92578755
>Letting the world be ravaged for a thousand years cause of your own desire.
Im glad Jack didnt browse 4chan

>>92578755
Up to your own interpretation

What if they ended up screwing the ending like Jack?

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>>92578748
Pretty cool looking production art so far

>>92578780
it was great, go whine somewhere else >>>/out/

by being himself, he's always been charismatic

By the average cape movie fan having the IQ of a roasted potato and thinking the humor in these movies is actually good

>>92578736
He was serious about the part and took extra acting lessons once he learned he got the part.

0 unless the US Government does it themselves

There were stories about a Valve/Titmouse collaboration on a Megas game, but that was five years ago and Valve is far too busy making games that will be completely shelved once completed.

It's fucked.

>>92578647
It would be incredibly easy to do that. >>92571536

>>92578678
But is it worth it?

>>92578647
>every Marvel series
why would you do that to yourself?

That would have been a cool twist, if a philosopher or something explained to Jack that in order to save everyone he had to beat Aku in the future and THEN go back to the past and beat him there too.

>>92578575
I like to believe the people Jack helped are living in a much better future.
But if you can bitter the ending a little more you can think everyone died.

>>92578575
I'm more surprised that nobody on /co/ realized this was where the show was going despite the intro's narration and the "back to the past, Samurai Jack". It's like you guys start watching the show on S5