Beaucoup Kevin invites fanboy comics retailers to STFU
Again, thanks Dirk, for the heavy lifting.
BeaucoupKevin(dot)com | Comics Retailers In “Unable To Stop Being Fanboys” Shocker!
So, somehow I got the mailing list of a retailer who’s based in the same general area as myself. ...Here’s the review of this week’s Astonishing X-Men:
I just don’t believe Ellis has a handle on these characters.... Throughout the issue, everyone seems to feel the need to explain how their powers are going to work, as if this were a brand new team book. ... Also, we had to be told three times that Wolverine is heavy. Why all this extra explanatory dialogue? Let’s move on to the art. Bianchi’s line work is really good. The ink washes are very stylish and the coloring reflects that. The problem is, the art isn’t serving to tell a story. ... This new version of Astonishing doesn’t measure up to the preceding team. Not buy.
Not buy. A retailer, in his newsletter to customers, is telling people to not buy a comic book before it hits stands. He’s telling them in advance that he doesn’t think they should spend their money at his shop, on this comic. This is the stupidest goddamn thing I’ve seen lately from an industry plagued with stupid goddamn things. I don’t want my bartender telling me that I’m drinking the wrong damn thing; I don’t want the clerk at the record store giving me shit because I’m buying some motherfucking Yanni; and I don’t want the guy who’s selling me my weekly comics fix to tell me to not buy a fucking X-Men comic. Also negatively reviewed: Trinity. You know, the weekly comic series that pretty much means $150 per customer over the course of a year to a shop who sells it?