Stuff I Like and Sometimes Stuff I Don't

jordandwhiteqna:

First off, to the start of your question, we’re not “worried”, no. Obviously, we would prefer that we outsell them, and we will definitely try to kick their butts in the coming months. But Marvel’s sales didn’t drop, DCs went up. They didn’t “hurt” us with their sales, they just helped themselves. That is good for them, and hopefully, the competition will be good for us, too.

Now, to your X-Men comment…this is the same conspiracy nonsense I was talking about a week or so ago.

We publish X-Men books. There is nothing stopping the X-Men books we are doing right now from being the top selling books in the industry. We would LOVE IT if they were. Everyone working on them is trying to make the best book possible. If you don’t like the books, it’s a matter of taste, not some sort of sinister conspiracy to make bad or low-selling books. That is silly.

And whether we do Inhumans books has no effect on whether we do X-Men books, how many X-Men books we do, or the “quality” of those books. The same way that doing books about Silk and Spider-Woman does not mean we have fewer Avengers titles.

And if you look at Marvel’s comics in the top 50 comics for September, three of the 10 are Deadpool books, which–as you know–is a Fox movie property alongside X-Men. Is the idea there that we are so BAD at our jobs that we can’t even make a bad book properly and accidentally made good ones?

Everyone involved in our comics–X-Men, Inhuman, Deadpool, Spider-Man, and all the rest–is trying to make the best comics we possibly can. Feel free to think we didn’t do a good job, but do not insult us by assuming we are trying to do bad work.