The four projects come from Kelvin Yu, creator and showrunner of “American Born Chinese”; Alison Tatlock, a writer and executive producer on “Pluribus” who previously worked on “Better Call Saul”; Ben H. Winters, who developed “Tracker” and previously worked on “Legion”; and “For All Mankind” and “Star City” creators Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, who are developing their project with “WandaVision” and “The Marvels” writer Megan McDonnell.

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Genuinely curious as i’m very disconnected from current marvel ongoings. I haven’t read anything of Moore’s or heard him talk much but my loose impression of the issue is that the big comic companies will revive any IP, even if it’s fairly disconnected, to make some money. Was Miracleman very relevant in the first place? I feel like he was not at the level of Watchmen in popularity. How come people are so upset about him coming back?

i literally got into comics a month ago and I'm OBSESSED. I'm reading a bunch of stuff at the same time (the marvel Ultimate universe from the 2000s, the absolute DC and the rebirth era, the walking dead and some other stuff). it's been so much fun but the excitement is making me read a lot and idk this makes me feel that i shouldn't be doing this bc maybe i would "run out" of stuff to read pretty fast, like i said I'm new to comics so I'm still getting a grasp on the amount of possibilities comics present to us (and boy oh boy am i having a good time). how bout you? do you read your comics everyday? how many issues do you read?

(sorry for any typo, I'm Brazilian)

Let me preface this by saying I am a huge Marvel fan. X-Men is what got me into reading comics and my pull list and collection have always been hugely dominated by Marvel. This has unfortunately changed over the past couple of years and I’ve found myself jumping ship to DC for most of my current reading.

In terms of numbers, Marvel is currently publishing 17 ongoings compared to DC’s 34 - literally half the number of current ongoings titles (and that isn’t including DC’s Vertigo lineup).

This means there’s significantly less variety in Marvel’s current slate than there is at DC right now. I feel like the two areas that it’s really impacting are Marvel’s female characters and their young, next-gen characters.

The only female character with a true ongoing at Marvel right now is Black Cat. Characters like Spider-Gwen, Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, Black Widow, She-Hulk etc are all without solo books at the moment. Even the few female heroes that do receive books like Scarlet Witch, X-23 and Magik are being constantly cancelled at #5 or #10 and then rebooted some time later with a new #1. It seems impossible right now for Marvel to crank out a long-running ongoing for any of its female characters.

DC currently has 9 mainline ongoing series with a female lead and 11 including the Absolute Universe. What’s more is that they’re actually letting these series run too. Aside from Barbara Gordon: Breakout, Batwoman and Zatanna which all launched recently, every single one of these titles has been allowed to run way past #10. Catwoman is about to hit #90, Harley Quinn is approaching #70 and Poison Ivy is almost at #50. This is alongside series like Supergirl, Batgirl, Wonder Woman and the Absolute titles which are getting into the 20s and 30s.

It also feels like Marvel aren’t doing anything with their next-gen characters. Miles Morales is the only one with an ongoing series and none of the young hero teams have had books for a while. Young Avengers, Runaways, New Champions and even the New Mutants are all beloved teams that feel like they’re stuck in limbo right now. Meanwhile, DC has just launched a new Teen Titans book alongside the existing New Titans series, is giving us a teenage Legion of Super-Heroes and is about to launch a new Static ongoing alongside the existing Cass Cain book.

I know people will argue that sales is the key factor here and that’s why Marvel has cut back their roster and isn’t letting as many books reach past #10, but DC seems to be taking the complete opposite approach and is still beating them sales-wise. It seems as if it’s become a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. People aren’t picking up as many Marvel books because they’re worried they’ll cancel at #5 or #10, sales therefore drop and then Marvel decides to publish even less.

Do we see this changing any time soon? Do you think Marvel will see the success DC is having with All-In and opt for a similar line-wide initiative/relaunch? Or is this the new norm and we need to get used to not seeing these characters in our pull lists?

"In-Verse" feels like Alex Ross gave marvel a gold mine to play with

(The fact it took so long for us to get a Earth 3 for marvel is wild)

I had heard a lot of amazing reviews about Ed Brubaker's Captain America run, so I decided to start getting into his works by reading Scene of the Crime. I just finished reading Scene of the Crime and thought it was great. I'll read Criminal after this, because it seems like Brubaker writes the kind of stories that are really up my alley.

Due to this, I genuinely wanted to ask people's opinion on Brubaker as a writer, because depending on how good Criminal and his Captain America is, I can see him becoming a must-read author for me.

Is the praise and acclaim deserved? Is he one of the best comic book writers ever? Or maybe he's overrated? What do you guys think?

I'm also aware that Batman was influenced in part by The Shadow and that Superman was influenced by Philip Wylie's Gladiator. I do think Thin Man may have inspired Elongated Man and his wife but not too sure about this one

I was just thinking about my introduction to comics and I was wondering & interested in hearing everyone else's journey.

Preface: I am an old.

Some of my earliest memories are "reading" the Spider-Man newspaper comics and trying to draw them. I was maybe 4 at the time. I watched the 70s Spider-Man live action movies and TV shows. My mom would buy me bagged 3 packs of comics from the grocery store, Whitman and Marvel, mostly

In 7th grade (maybe 8th) I met a couple nerdy friends, Drew and Dave. We played D&D one summer, talked about sci-fi stuff & fantasy stuff. One day Drew introduced me to comics. His favorite was the Fantastic Four.

Drew was a really fun and interesting person. He was the DM when we played D&D, he had a real knack for storytelling (especially for a time teenage friend group).

Anyway, that led me to start reading comics. I started buying X-Men on the newsstand (primarily from the local grocery store, a Food Lion). My first ever comic that I bought on my own was X-Men Annual #5. It was an early Kitty Pryde story that I absolutely loved. (Chris Claremont may have been the best writer for new readers. He explained everything so clearly in every issue. I loved it.) Kitty was the central character and the other X-Men had to explain everything to her, a great proxy for a new reader. (The Han Solo of X-Men comics in that way.)

Longer story slightly shorter, I became an X-Men fan, then I started reading everything I could get my hands on. I fell in love with the medium as much as the characters. I found a local comics shop, things progressed from there. I've been reading comics regularly since then. (Different comics shops but still the same enthusiasm.)

I could go into a lot more detail but this already so long.

What is your story?

I'm going to be in London for a few days and wanted to check out some comic shops that might have some older comics to browse through since my lcs only has post 2021 comics. Any suggestions?

I’m reading some classic 80s X-Men and it got me thinking - JRJR has enjoyed acclaimed runs with:

• Claremont on X-Men
• Stern and Straczynski on Spider-Man
• Nocenti and Frank Miller on Daredevil
• Mark Millar on Wolverine
• Jurgens on Thor
• Pak on Hulk

Over at DC (more contentious, I know) I even love his All-Star Batman with Snyder and Superman work with Yang and Johns.

Which other artists have produced as many iconic stories over as many decades with as many different writers?

I loved Wolfenstein, and I would love to have a comic that captures the heart of what made a Nazi occupied planet so grungy, I enjoyed seeing the story from an underdog resistance, and I feel that some comics featuring WW2 or the aftermath of Germany winning would be an enjoyable read. Thanks in advance!

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