EXCLUSIVE: Rosemann Declares "Game On" for "Avengers Arena"

[Jakerose]

The stuff like the Marvel Apps do have a "Best seller" list and both Issue 1 and 2 were on it.

That's now a fallacy. You have to remember that the people who make these decisions have access to a lot more data than you do. The days of the Diamond figures being an accurate guide to sales are long past.

Thanks guys thats great news.

[Majin Gojira]

The stuff like the Marvel Apps do have a "Best seller" list and both Issue 1 and 2 were on it.

Do you remember what rank they were at. I remember #1 being in the top 10 (like 7 or so) with one of the digital services (I believe comixology). But my memory is crap.

[Captain M]

Do you remember what rank they were at. I remember #1 being in the top 10 (like 7 or so) with one of the digital services (I believe comixology). But my memory is crap.

Issue #3 was 4th. That was really good.

[Mikey Brown]

How does something being "fun" blow your mind? Fun is subjective.

One thing that is pretty consistent on these boards is that everyone thinks their opinion is right. Do they even know the meaning of the word?

Oh, you didn't know that his opinion was the only one that mattered? Come on man, you know better!

[Mikey Brown]

I'll address your points.

So? Issues in the real world don't invalidate people being upset seeing characters they love being thrown into a cannon fodder book and being killed off just because Marvel wanted to piggyback on the Hunger Games hype, or seeing Peter being replaced by Doc Ock and all the hinky, gross stuff with MJ coming out of that.

You don't own these characters, you have no say in what they do. The only way to make any type of impact is to vote with your wallet.

If you think that people can't be invested in fictional characters and upset when they're treated in the way Marvel likes to treat its teen characters, that's pretty pathetic itself.

Nobody is saying this. People are obviously invested or they wouldn't be reading the book and talking about it here. You made something up and now wanna argue about it, that's not a point about the book.

[Mikey Brown]

No but any character killed is not likely to get rezzed.

I see so many complaints about death having no meaning in comics anymore. It does here. That makes this book unique and gives Hopeless a rare opportunity that's not really available in comics anymore. It may be at the expense of someone's favorite character, but again, these characters do not belong to anyone but Marvel. Plus Hopeless is respecting the characters, not just making the title into a big, soulless bloodbath.

[vampiric_cannibal]

Rosemann is handling a lot of the media work. Hopeless only had to answer to the tame MArvel.com guy. Does Rosemann usually do this much press for his books?

[Seresecros]

As long as the literary critics who attack the book keep on buying it, feel free to keep posting! Your money helps keep this ship afloat. Thanks!

[Darkspellmaster]

Just a thought and I'm dead curious about this. Hypothetically speaking, for the moment, lets assume that, for whatever reason, all the characters in this story die, leaving only X-23 due to her healing factor. What would be your honest impressions to that sort of story? Everyone dies, save X-23 due to healing factor, badguys are technically the winners. Or even still, it's connected to Age of Ultron and the kids are just guinne pigs for Arcade to test on and he plans on using it for a more serious group.

As a side note in contet to those that have stated the idea of don't like it, don't buy it, there's one thing that bothers me about that idea. You can test drive a car, and if you don't like that you don't have to buy it. You can look through a book, and since it's a story that has a completion to it, you could say it to that. But comics are weird in that they are serialized so you won't eve get the full story until you get the trade, if there is ever a trade to come out. So how will you know if you don't like a story when the story isn't completed and the chapters are broken up as such that you can't ever have the complete story until it's all finished?

[renne]

So how will you know if you don't like a story when the story isn't completed and the chapters are broken up as such that you can't ever have the complete story until it's all finished?

Comics? Are serialised? Please, tell us more things we know.

So what you're saying is that you've never ever ever ever ever picked up a book, read a dozen pages and realised it's complete and utter drivel? It's pretty easy to decide you don't like something, mate. Even a comic book from only a few issues.

[RobertoDaCosta]

loving it!!

[Jota]

Seeing X-23 involved in this tripe is depressing.

[West]

Seeing X-23 involved in this tripe is depressing.

Seeing anyone in AA in this does it for me

As long as the literary critics who attack the book keep on buying it, feel free to keep posting! Your money helps keep this ship afloat. Thanks!

Good thing I don't pay for looking at Arena then

[Majin Gojira]

Ah, the Glory that is comic shops which let you read things before buying them.

[Mikey Brown]

Just a thought and I'm dead curious about this. Hypothetically speaking, for the moment, lets assume that, for whatever reason, all the characters in this story die, leaving only X-23 due to her healing factor. What would be your honest impressions to that sort of story? Everyone dies, save X-23 due to healing factor, badguys are technically the winners. Or even still, it's connected to Age of Ultron and the kids are just guinne pigs for Arcade to test on and he plans on using it for a more serious group.

As a side note in contet to those that have stated the idea of don't like it, don't buy it, there's one thing that bothers me about that idea. You can test drive a car, and if you don't like that you don't have to buy it. You can look through a book, and since it's a story that has a completion to it, you could say it to that. But comics are weird in that they are serialized so you won't eve get the full story until you get the trade, if there is ever a trade to come out. So how will you know if you don't like a story when the story isn't completed and the chapters are broken up as such that you can't ever have the complete story until it's all finished?

If the story is good then I'm all for it.