After following Marvel since this class started, I wasn't aware so much was going on in the comic community. To start off, Marvel completely took the idea of Twitter and ran with it. They post several times a day just to update on new episodes of 90's comic cartoons that are newly streaming on their website, Marvel character movies that are coming out i.e. Iron Man 2, and just fun posts like Top 10 Lists of best heroes of 2009, best pairs ever in comics, best villians, etc. etc. It's all good.
One of the biggest things they twitter about is either their Marvel Character of the day, or the comics that are being released that week. They also link to articles in almost every single post except when they get back to fans.
On an anecdote...I went comic book shopping with my friend Reva this past week and after spending almost an hour in the store, we go up to pay for them. All the comics I bought were backorders. The reasoning of buying them was because I want to decoupage a night stand I have with comic hero strips. I know...I know...blasphemy for all the Comic book lovers...but it's a project that I want to get going on, and I'm not cutting up the really good books. So anyhow...Reva buys a library of comic books, pays and then it's my turn...so of course the first one that was checked out, the guy looks it up in his pricing book and goes, "Whoa..." and I said, "What?" and he goes, "Yeah, you picked a good one..." Now...mind you I went through the boxes and literally just grabbed whatever wasn't in a plastic sleeve already. So he says, "yeah...you picked out a better one then I even thought...This one is worth about $120..." Needless to say, I didn't want to tell him all I wanted to do was cut them up after reading them. It was a 1983 The Amazing Spiderman: Now Strikes the Hobgoblin. He gave it too me seriously cheap...like...I only paid I think $18 for it. ha! Alright...anecdote, fin.
Alright, that'll be all.
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A small $90 library later..
ReplyDeleteThat was pretty awesome for the price. Though I do think the humungo discount you got on that was cancelled out with charge of the other back orders. It was probably a good thing we didn't accept the lifesavers, they might've upped the price or something.
agreed. We would have had to pay for those lifesavers. That was indeed rediculous that backorders were more expensive then new releases. What the hell.
ReplyDeleteNice post - interesting to see so much happening on Marvel's Twitter account. Do you think there will be a Twitter bird superhero any time soon? They seem like they will be fun to follow and probably have a lot of interaction with fans. As an aside, you may want to follow my friend @theotherjeff - he's into that stuff and a very seasoned Twitterer. Nice anecdote, too about the nightstand project (very cool idea!) and surprise comic book find - what are you going to do with it? Resell it?
ReplyDeleteyou know...you could totally do a super-bird deal and then make the villian the fail whale. Ohh...that would be fantastic haha. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the comic...keep it for awhile I suppose? ha.
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