Breaking down the numbers

[Spriggan]

the name is the same, Zach Weiner.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Well, I went to review Shaw Island. But I realized the EUOL has all these category designations under each aspect he reviews. I don't see a delineation of these aspects. It seems kinda silly to categorize the art in a web comic as "Web Comic" since that's obvious, but maybe i'm missing some subtlety. EUOL, do you have more detail?

[Entsuropi]

THere should be an article somewhere where he mentions all the various classifications.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

ok, I found it. I will proceed.

[EUOL]

Sorry I didn't respond here earlier, SE.  Personally, I don't mind if you just write your articles straight through without any breakdowns.  In my mind, it really helps me fill out a review if I consider each aspect of a comic.  Otherwise, I find myself focusing only on story and characters.  Occupational hazard.

Anyway, if you feel comfortable following all my categories and what not, go ahead.  However, don't feel that you have to.  I personally think they make a review more readable, but if you're going to do a whole series of webcomic reviews, there's no reason why you can't just determine your own criteria and do block-text reviews instead.

Of course, we'd probably want to post up an article on your personal review criteria as opposed to mine.  Just a thought.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

which in turn would give us more material, eh? An article on my theory of Web comics (which is connected to comics as a whole). It's been recommended before. I'll have to write something. Then maybe I can send it off as a proposal for elsewhere.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Here's something I came across while hoping one or the other had press/media contacts. I like DC graphic novels better, but aparently:

Spider-Man outsells Batman and Superman COMBINED (i figured with his movies, he'd outsell, but combined? I'm a little surprised, though I wouldn't be too surprised if they were comparing ALL Spider-Man titles -- including Venom--  against just the self title Supes and Bats)

Marvel also has numbers showing that more of their readers play console video games than DC comic readers. Which is weird, but shows there's more crossover interest potential there.

SO it seems more advantageous to run Marvel related content than DC content. Weird, huh?

[Spriggan]

marvel's a hot comadoty right now.  They've acualy worked out a deal with Pixar for them (pixar) to make CG moves based off the characters.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Yeah, it's because of two things: they finally started to find a balance between comic book and film for their adaptations, and they're actually working on movies.

DC keeps talking about making movies. Talking about who to cast as batman or Superman or Wonder Woman, but they never actually DO anything. Unlike Marvel, which has at least THREE films coming out this year.