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I think most of us know that, it's just that we maybe had the hope that part of the industry didn't do the same crap DC and Marvel does all the time with their overwhelming number of books you have to keep count of. Hopefully Dynamite don't end up doing what DC and Marvel do where you have to buy three random issues of other separate comics to get the full story of the main arc, which they could do with Bond if they wanted. That's why I don't bother with modern comics outside one-shots and trades anymore.
I have to fear for that being true, sadly, where DC and Marvel keep treating separate issues from separate titles having to be read so one could get what's happening in the narrative. The first attempt at that was evident in the first Felix Leiter issue. But, it didn't go as far to enforce the reading of the other issues but rather involved a small subplot.
That's kind of what I was implying. If Dynamite wanted, they could totally have two separate comics running-one for Bond and one for Felix-and have one issue of Felix's necessary to know the full story of the Bond comic because a character or subplot sees its continuation or end in the Felix issue. If you don't buy it, you go into the next Bond issue blind.
I hope it doesn't come to that, as Dynamite have so far been refreshing with how they've handled the Bond license.
I quite agree.
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comics-dynamite-plunging-sales-figures
I certainly hope they don't cancel Bond. I certainly hope they don't.
Me too! I have become quite attached to this series. Dynamite seriously needs to step their Marketing game up! They could do a bigger campaign with the upcoming CR graphic novel, and use the name recognition to remind people of the rest of the already published comics.
This article suffers from some inaccurate info (VERY few if any comics are selling 100,000 copies per issue these days!) as well as a lack of context. (What's the current issue of the average Dynamite title selling these days?) I won't claim that Dynamite is flawless in their actions regarding the Bond franchise...but these bar graphs are not unusual from what I'm seeing in the comics field these days. By all means, support the series BY BUYING THE INDIVIDUAL ISSUES rather than waiting for the compilations...but let's not give up the ship just yet!
@00Agent, I think you overestimate what the marketing department for any non-Marvel or DC comics publisher is financially capable of doing. Smaller publishers depend on word-of-mouth from fans like us to promote the product. I routinely give out Christmas presents composed of GN collections of material I think the recipient will enjoy. Spread the word yourself and become a freelance marketing department of one!
See, it's not only my lack of anticipation that I go as far to buy the individual issues, but I do want to be in a quantum amount of help in regards to helping the sales go well. Last thing I want to see is letting Bond disappear from the world of comics for another 20 years.
If Dynamite have any advantage in the market, it's the Bond brand, which you'd hope would support them and bump sales. I feel bad for smaller publishers and indies that don't have any form of that marketability. With how horribly ubiquitous digital sales are, I worry for a day where people don't bother printing tangible issues of any comics.
http://www.cbr.com/interview-kieron-gillen-james-bond-007/
I certainly don't know much about comic sales @BeatlesSansEarmuffs,
and i agree that the article should have included sales figures from other popular series just for perspective. They did say that Bond dropped out of the top 200 of monthly sales Though. But i do understand that Bond comics have to be build from the ground up and no one should rely on the brand name alone. Bond hasn't realy been part of comics for the last almost 30 years.
Thats what quality writers and reviews, and as you said word-of-mouth are for.
it just boggles my mind why the series is dropping issue by issue. you would think at some point the numbers become stable, no? I hope that this will change in the not too distant future, for example i would hope that the Hammerhead Hardcover would do as good as Vargr did. And i hope that CR can bring some attention as well. We will have to see.
I certainly won't abandon the series and i continue collecting everything i can. Also i promote it to my friends (got one hooked already)
A Silent Armageddon and GoldenEye. Those are the only two incomplete Bond comics.
Comics deadlines are brutal on writers and artists, that's just how it goes. Money has to be made, product needs to be pushed. In a perfect world people would be able to take all the time they needed to make things perfect, but that's not a world we live in.
We can't say Minute of Midnight have an ending too. They try to compress 3 issues in one and in the result, no end.
If Dynamyte start to publish comics who are not yet finish, there is a chance that one day, one of their serie can be strongly delayed or cancelled before having an ending (proper ending or not). That just dangerous.
If the writer or artist can't meet a deadline (which Ellis is apparently infamous for) that's not on Dynamite. They have to sell their issues on the agreed period, and it's on the creative teams to meet their dates successfully as contracted. That's all there is to it. It's not dangerous, it's just how the industry works.
That rogue agent planned the abduction of M and they were obviously related to the notorious organization called Cerberus. Midnight was released before Shattered Helix (if I recall correctly) and that was when Bond finished Cerberus off for good, so you'll have to assume their plans have failed and they don't exist anymore. Kind of like the SPECTRE stay-behind leftovers in Eidolon. The heads are cut off, and the few remaining tentacles have become useless.
For Liight of : like I said, the comics issue is done, I can't claim otherwise, but the story have no conclusion and nobody can't claim otherwise too.
Minute of Midnight was officially done. There was no issued announced that was to be released afterwards. It was given an end and that was done. Obviously it 'seems' (note the keyword) the intention was to set up a bigger story arc, but Minute of Midnight is given its 'End'. There were no further anticipated issues scheduled to come out, unlike the remaining two issues of A Silent Armageddon.