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漫威电影能吸引真正的漫画读者吗?

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Ijoked recently on Twitter关于漫画媒体边缘最糟糕的声音的荒谬，他们把他们的欺诈都变成了“漫画的死亡”。当我看到漫画书在娱乐和流行文化中的绝对主导地位时，这种文化战争的末日预言尤其可笑。那些高呼“漫画正在消亡，我们必须向边缘群体尖叫，直到他们得到拯救”的人群是一个充满错误信息和错误愤怒的黑暗巢穴，但就像如今的大多数话题一样，它在很大程度上也是一个“错误信息的平台来源”。所以当漫画迷——尤其是新手——对现状感到困惑的时候，嗯，我能理解为什么会这样!

Now, there are experts in the field much better suited to tell you about the state of comic book sales over the past decade, and moving forward. I highly recommend John Jackson Miller withComichron, and David Harper’sSKTCHDfrequently compiles some of the most insightful digs into the subject. The long and short of analysis from these kinds of experts is thatcomics as a medium arebooming, just not necessarily from the single issue floppy serial comics that have been the mediums pulp-in-trade since the 1930’s.

Nonetheless, questions about comics’ longevity remain, particularly in regards to whether the likes of the MCU actually drives comics readership. To answer this in my way, I turned to the one unique thing I have no one else does: Comic Book Herald’s analytics.[Read more…]about Do Marvel Movies (MCU) Lead To Actual Comic Book Readers?

When the White Ranger Leads: On Whiteness in the Tokusatsu-Comic Trend

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纵观历史，短期(作为一个概念)和漫画产业有着难以置信的复杂关系。短期推动短期收益，短期押注的长期损失，以及短期趋势催生长期经典，这些都只是冰山一角。对于短期趋势，尤其是有长期后果的趋势，人们会有一种内在的冲动，把它们归类为“好”或“坏”。The post-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesblack-and-white comics boom? Bad. Buying five copies ofYoungbloodto try and put your kids through college? Bad.The Ultimate Comics imprint? Depends on who you ask. But as I write this, the comics industry is in the midst of yet another trend, one whose far-reaching consequences are difficult to discern.

There’s been a recent jump in the number of comics — mainly indie comics — that can be categorized as “tokusatsu,” a genre commonly associated in the West with Japanese costumed heroes and gargantuan monsters. With this trend at play, some questions arise surrounding the usage of the aesthetics as well as the creators who are currently using them. Is this trend bad or good? Should it be categorized as bad or good? What is lacking from this trend? Whose voices aren’t being heard, and who is being left behind as a result of this trend? So many questions, and so few easy answers. But in trying to find an answer, I only found myself asking more questions about the relationship that Westerners have withtokusatsu.[Read more…]about When the White Ranger Leads: On Whiteness in the Tokusatsu-Comic Trend

What’s Going On with Marvel’s Avengers Continuity?

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A Hypothetical Case Study of How Not to Handle Continuity

让我们假设你正在一个更大的共享宇宙中编写一个很大程度上独立的正在进行的漫画标题。Let’s call your book…Sergeant USA! During most of your long-running story, Sarge’s lost his superhero identity and his place in the…Revengers. How do you mesh that with the universe’s continuity? Cleverly, at the start of your run you don’t allude to anything else going on in this comic universe, so that you can go on with your long-running story for as long as you like, and when you DO have to link back to the universe’s continuity you get to choose when all of it fits, start to finish. You can have your thirty-part, two-and-a-half years-running self-contained story while justifying Sarge’s absence from the Revengers in-between any two Revengers issues of your choosing, in retrospect. Damn you’re clever!

And then someone else comes along and messes with your simple but genius plan.

*Some spoilers for Sarge…Captain AmericaandAvengersfollow*

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The 10 Most Disappointing Comics of 2020!

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I tend to keep it pretty darn positive here on Comic Book Herald, but let’s face it, not all comics hit the mark. And some arehugeletdowns, failing to live up to hopes and expectations and proving just how special a thing it is when a creative team fully clicks on a story.

请记住，这不是“2020年最糟糕的”，因为有一个明显的例外(来吧，三个Joooooookers!)，我真的不讨厌阅读任何东西(如果我没有感觉，有太多的好漫画可以探索，浪费时间!)相反，这些是我(和评论家肖恩·狄龙，他很慷慨地加入了我的漫画!)thoughtwould be good, even contenders for my favorites of the year, and instead fell into the category of comics I like to call “I wonder if the library will take these as donations?”[Read more…]about The 10 Most Disappointing Comics of 2020!