Marvel does something right!

[yendi]

Hey, it happens!

Joe Q announced that all Marvel books will have a synopsis page. Frankly, any comic should, in my opinion. And a real one, giving the backstory. Not the bullshit synopsis that Jeff Smith has been using for years (hi -- here's the synopsis for what happened before issue one, in issue 48!). I like it.

And yes, Crossgen did it first. And I'd bet money that Jemas was against it.

Comments

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Speaking of trivial complaints about Bone, would it kill Smith to give us page numbers?

[morenasangre.livejournal.com]

and it's about time Marvel started doing it. Wish all the publishers would do it...and do it intelligently. Comics are, for the most part, like soap operas - jumping into them in the middle is really daunting; reading them long enough gets you hooked; sooner or later you'll figure out what's going on. But for a curious, possible-new-reader, a summary would work wonders.

And, yeah, CrossGen has been doing it since the beginning :P

[gallowglass.livejournal.com]

heck, if its been long enough between deliveries, even regular readers can do with the summary just to get back up to speed.

[yendi]

Agreed -- I have a memory like one of those things with holes in it, and in the month or three (or thirty, if it's Ministry of Space) between issues, I've likely read a few dozen other comics, lots of magazines, and twenty or thirty books. The lack of things like summaries is one of the reasons I've switched to graphic novels whenever I can.