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Marvel's scheduling has been horrible for a while. They put out all their X-books in the same week, a ton of Wolverine stuff at once, all their Avengers stuff at once. I'll go in one week and have 8 books but only 1 the next. I think they have a monkey in charge of scheduling.

Semicolon! Score!

I laughed.

Somewhere in panel #4 should have been the punch line...then it just kept going never bringing the funny.
Do these guys write for SNL?

"Marvel’s scheduling has been horrible for a while. They put out all their X-books in the same week, a ton of Wolverine stuff at once, all their Avengers stuff at once. I’ll go in one week and have 8 books but only 1 the next. I think they have a monkey in charge of scheduling."

They changed it around the time when gas prices went up to save people money, things havent settled down.

We discussed Marvel's scheduling a bit in a different column a week or so back, but I'm really having a hard time agreeing with Brian and Greg that scheduling all the books of a certain family of titles the same week isn't intentional. It keeps happening. If it's unintentional, it's a lot of coincidences happening month after month.

HA!

Well, checking Marvel's website, there aren't actually 8 Wolverine comics coming out in one week. Unless you count all the "Wolverine Art Appreciation" covers. I still don't think it's all unintentional, but it seems to be a moot point, here.

That said, I liked the comic this week. I'll stop threadjacking with my bitching about Marvel's scheduling policies.

Somewhere in panel #4 should have been the punch line…then it just kept going never bringing the funny.

Yeah, those two last panels were a real killer to get through.

Marvel's site is poorly maintained; the majority of the April 1 releases were later rescheduled throughout the month.

At the store where I work, people come in all the time looking for things listed on marvel.com that virtually every other source has listed as delayed. I usually have to send them to Diamond 's release list or try to find them the amended release date.

Re: a family of titles on sale the same day: I'm pretty sure it's intentional; the guy whos does our ordering told me recently that the reason IDW's Star Trek books tend to all come out on the same day is that their research (?) showed that the sudience for those comics visit their local shop an average of once a month (i.e. not weekly), so the publisher tries to get them out at the same time for purchase. I don't think that applies to something like the X-franchise, which has something out seemingly every week, but there might be a similar principle involved. Plus, our ordering guy might be full of it.

Considering I only buy about 5 or 6 titles total from Marvel, I could care less what they do with their schedule.

Just SO as LONG as they COME out ON time!!!

Exiles by Jeff Parker and She-Hulk by Van Lente. This week is going to be ridiculous...LY AWESOME!

Indeed, it seems that either Marvel is unaware that the economy's in the toilet and is continuing with esoteric material that I can't imagine selling even within the direct market, or that Marvel's fan base moves hell and high water to make sure they can keep up with all this stuff. I'm picturing a stereotypical slovenly comic book fan eating his lunches out of the dumpster behind McDonalds for a month so he can afford the Secret Wars 2 Omnibus...

This is a good one.

I actually have a soft spot for Secret Wars 2, because it was currently coming out when I first started buying comics, and the idea of all those heroes in one spot was amazing to my young mind. Granted, I haven't gone back and re-read it, becuase I'm sure it sucks. ANd I'm not about to buy any current reprint of it. But at the time, I at least didn't think it was the worst thing known to man.

"Unless you count all the “Wolverine Art Appreciation” covers."

Wolverine... art appreciation... covers? Reeaally?

I wish I was kidding.

Hey! I really hate this comic! But I keep coming back every week to snark about it! Because even after fifty! Issues! I! Never! LEARN!!!

But seriously: I like it.

That strip had 3* punchline panels!

Nicely done.

*I started laughing at the list of books I knew Marvel was actually releasing.
Fantastic Force?
In the 90's when I was 12, I brought and read the first ish of the 'go-getters who never say die' and thought it was shit - And I thought Domino was cool at the time!

Last week's product updates had a bit informing us that, although it wasn't solicited as one, Fantastic Force was a limited series.

We didn't really need to be told that.

Hey, I just noticed Josh has a poster of the Morrison/Quitely Batman and Robin in his room.

That was supremely funny.