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Sunday 23 May 2004, by Anonymous : This guy has totally hit the nail on the head. As a general rule I don’t order Marvel titles unless I like the writer. Which means that I order maybe one or two of their books at most. But their decision with the variants is just preposterous. How can anyone justify shelling out $100 for a title which has no redeeming feature except for the fact that it has a variant cover. It’s ridiculous. DC definitely has the better idea of a 50/50 split, plus they use two of the hottest artists ever. Cassady may be good but he’s nowhere in the league of Lee or Turner. Plus these guys sell books based on their art alone. When you team them with a superb writer, which is what DC has done, then you have a book which will probably retain its value if not increase it. Whedon is an unknown quantity. He’s only ever written one book before and that was plagued by delays and inconsistencies. There is no way in hell that I as a collector would shell out such an exorbitant amount of money for something which may get canned within 12 months or which most likely won’t retain its collection value. That kind of money I reserve for writers who can actually write. People like Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, JMS etc. Not some TV hack. Marvel should get a clue and try and entice its readers into buying other lesser known titles instead of trying to swindle them out of their hard earned cash. These comments are an anwser to this article : Joss Whedon - "Astonishing X-Men" Comic Book - Marvel’s marketing
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