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Writer Frank Tieri has confirmed that Marvel’s Black Knight will end with issue #5: Ok, bad news time, folks… I can officially talk about this now and can confirm that yeah, issue #5 of BLACK KNIGHT will indeed be our last. It sucks and there’s a lot I could say about it but in the […]
So sad. One of my favorite all-time characters. Unfortunately the creative team was really not the best for this character. Here’s hoping SOME DAY they give him another ongoing chance…
Launching eight zillion new titles all once means that most of the non-A-list ones are going to suffer. This is definitely the first of many axes to fall.
I agree with Greg. Why don’t the companies do like Marvel and DC did in the Silver Age, and launch titles one at a time (on a bimonthly schedule) and nurture them along? Flooding the market always results in lots of casualties, as the Big Two learned in the ’70s.
As I’ve mentioned before, we seem to have returned to the ’70s, with titles getting cancelled after less than 10 issues.
Greg and George are absolutely correct– George, the reason Marvel and DC don’t handle things that way (logical as it may be) is that having fewer titles doesn’t help make this fiscal quarter better than last year’s corresponding quarter, and with both companies under the corporate thumb more than ever they don’t have much choice but to continue to flood the market with even more titles to make up the attrition.
It won’t be the last. Red Wolf must be on its last legs as well.
One key problem is that they are worried more about maintaining shelf space and not freeing up retailer dollars for other things.
A character nobody cares about, spinning off from one of the worst-selling miniseries from Secret Wars. What brainiac thought this title would sell in the first place?
A lot of these 2nd and 3rd level titles may have had a better chance at $2.99 than $3.99 I imagine. Avengers $3.99, check. Spiderman $.3.99, check. Black Knight and Red Wold at four bucks? I don’t think so.
I did not even know it was being published.
This is the downside of being an intellectual property warehouse instead of, you know, a publisher. Rather than looking around for something new or at least trendy to throw out there and see if it floats, which led Marvel to produce such stuff as CONAN, MASTER OF KUNG FU, ROM, MICRONAUTS, GHOST RIDER and TOMB OF DRACULA and DC to put out ARAK, WARLORD, BLACK LIGHTNING, RONIN, AMETHYST and ELECTRIC WARRIOR.
Now they just keep churning through their backlist of C and D-list characters, most of whom have already demonstrated their limited appeal. I mean, Black Knight? At least El Aguilar would have had the whole Latino angle going for it.
Mike