New Aliens series by John Layman/Sam Keith

Started by vikingspawn, Jul 28, 2011, 05:04:14 PM

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vikingspawn

Comics sales and print runs are in the toilet these days.   Dark Horse has been sending alot of their series to the recent 80 page Dark Horse Presents monthly lately.  It's probably cheaper for them to include it inside an 80 page anthology than spending money on print run for a regular Aliens 4 issue mini-series that'll probably sell even lower than the last 2009 series.

 

Xenomrph

A foolproof way to keep it from selling lower than the 2009 series is to make new Aliens/Predator/AvP series that don't suck.

Xenomorphine

Quote from: predxeno on Feb 14, 2012, 04:27:26 AM
The new comics can always ignore the old ones, but they can never wipe them out of canon unless they say that those stories were actually dreams, etc.

If they refer in any meaningful way to the third or fourth films, then they're following the movie continuity, not comic continuity.

vikingspawn

Quote from: Xenomrph on Feb 15, 2012, 11:17:36 PM
A foolproof way to keep it from selling lower than the 2009 series is to make new Aliens/Predator/AvP series that don't suck.

The best parts of those books were the Raymond Swanland covers.    They really fumbled the ball with that mini relaunch.   Horrible blotchy computer inking on the art pages.   It's like they inked over the pencil art with sharpie markers.  Or lipstick. 

:-\   

Xenomrph

Quote from: Xenomorphine on Feb 15, 2012, 11:37:16 PM
Quote from: predxeno on Feb 14, 2012, 04:27:26 AM
The new comics can always ignore the old ones, but they can never wipe them out of canon unless they say that those stories were actually dreams, etc.

If they refer in any meaningful way to the third or fourth films, then they're following the movie continuity, not comic continuity.
This isn't accurate, especially since it's all one continuity. :P

SM

 :D

Not sure a continuity with myriad irreconcilable contradictions can be accurately referred to as "one continuity".

Xenomrph

And yet I just did it, and FOX does it too. :P

RagingDragon

Quote from: Xenomrph on Feb 16, 2012, 07:09:37 AM
And yet I just did it, and FOX does it too. :P
Just because it can be said...

Doesn't mean it makes sense.

Xenomrph

Everyone's entitled to their own opinions. :)

SM

You didn't DO anything.  No one has reconciled the contradictions because they can't be reconciled.

SiL

And retconning =/= reconciliation.

Least not how it's done on this forum.

Xenomrph

Quote from: SM on Feb 16, 2012, 09:21:35 AM
You didn't DO anything.  No one has reconciled the contradictions because they can't be reconciled.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

Quote from: SiL on Feb 16, 2012, 09:24:01 AM
And retconning =/= reconciliation.

Least not how it's done on this forum.
By definition retconning can be a form of reconciliation.

SiL

"I'm going to ignore this because this other thing said something different" isn't reconciliation. Which is what retconning on this site amounts to.

Xenomrph

Xenomrph

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Quote from: SiL on Feb 16, 2012, 09:34:21 AM
"I'm going to ignore this because this other thing said something different" isn't reconciliation. Which is what retconning on this site amounts to.
If reinterpreting something results in fixing the problem, that certainly is reconciliation. :)

Also the users on this site don't retcon - retcon would imply we were actually contributing something official to the franchise, and we're not. We're interpreting things other people have officially created, that's a pretty important distinction.

'Aliens' retconned the existence of a Queen into the (off-screen) backstory of 'Alien'. The fans making up explanations for incorporating egg-morphing anyway is not a retcon. The AvPR blu-ray mentioning egg-morphing, however, could be seen as a retcon since it's officially licensed material.

SiL

Quote from: Xenomrph on Feb 16, 2012, 09:37:16 AM
If reinterpreting something results in fixing the problem, that certainly is reconciliation. :)
True.

But ignoring something isn't the same as reinterpreting it.

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