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Here's the problem with this idea. Sure, it's fairly clever and the blogsphere will pick up on it for a few days. But do I care enough about the Platnium comics staff to buy a comic that will have an interior of a staff member getting killed? Nah. And that's the bottom line, to get people to buy comics.

Now if they did a contest where I could be killed in a comic, that'd be something.

Nah, the bottom line is they want people to talk about Platinum Studios. I don't think they believe it will increase sales of said book they're pushing. Plus, it finally puts faces to Platinum, gives them a more personal feel. Up until now, you only had one face to match with Platinum and that was Rosenberg's, but now you see it's a whole bunch of people and not just one dude buying up IP rights. Interesting marketing move.

Is it a coincidence this happened right after hiring Sean Oreilly? Maybe he's landed with boots on the ground as far as real marketing for Platinum, instead of stuffy corporate press releases that seem like robots.

Didn't Eric Larson (or somebody) have a promotion where you could get your butt kicked in an issue of Savage Dragon. Not quite death but still cool.

Who are these people?

Does anyone give enough of a shit about Platnium to begin with?
It's a terrible idea for a company to begin with - if you're a creator, just get an agent - and to date they don't seem to have been too successful at achieving anything.
Their whole business model seems to be like Marvel's work-for-hire contract, but without any actual work.
Anyone betting on them succeeding is in for a shock.

They put out Hero By Night, I like that book.

Yup Dragon beat the shit out of James Quentin Manning in issue 36.

It was great.