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      CommentAuthorindysleaze
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    And with no idea whether already solicited and announced books will be released. This is a serious downer - The ReGifters and (especially) The P.L.A.I.N. Janes were fantastic books, and excellent gateway comics to new, especially hot female, readers.

    We were promised a P.L.A.I.N. Janes sequel, dammit! Waaaah!
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      CommentAuthorremotepush
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    Janes In Love is out, I picked up a copy in my LCS on sunday.
    this is indeed bad news, despite being not a new or female reader, i have been thoroughly enjoying this series of books.
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    Ah that's a real shame! I think they were just marketed wrong though. Instead of teenage girls liking them, it was older people buying them, but they didn't have the right level of exposure or marketing :(
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    I never really got what the imprint was about or why it existed in the first place. Nor did I read any of the books that came out on it, I barely knew they were even out.
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    Sad news.

    I really enjoyed THE NEW YORK FOUR that Brian Wood/Kelly Ryan did, plus other titles from the line.
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      CommentAuthorfluffpot
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    I remember that imprint starting off oddly.

    "COMICS FOR GIRLIES"

    "Why is the starting line-up all dudes?"

    "NO COMICKING GIRLIES TO BE FOUNDD"

    It wasn't that big a deal, but it was still strange. I aldo didn't understand the need for an imprint for girls. I guess if Minx ever did get off the ground, the brand would have been guaranteed "girl-friendly" reading. It seemed forced to me.
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      CommentAuthordswood
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly's New York Four was the only MINX book I picked up, but I really enjoyed it.
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    How is this the Worst News Ever? DC Fails To Support New Publishing Strategy is hardly news.
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      CommentAuthorindysleaze
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    How is this the Worst News Ever? DC Fails To Support New Publishing Strategy is hardly news.

    Only in the sense that I wanted cute titles to read a few times a year. The news that Janes In Love has made it out is warming, however.

    Warren, would you ever write a comic for teenage girls? Notwithstanding that all your comics can be enjoyed by teenage girls....
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      CommentAuthorvrbtm
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    HELIX redux.

    The whole Minx line seemed half assed to me. And then a bit condescending on top of it.

    Loved Plain Janes, but I think that property may live on elsewhere.

    Also, CBR's coverage makes it out like Minx was only incidentally targetting women, which I think is untrue.
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    Warren, would you ever write a comic for teenage girls? Notwithstanding that all your comics can be enjoyed by teenage girls....

    I write comics for people. Lots of teenage girls read them anyway.

    Don't get me wrong, I think Minx was a good idea at its core.
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      CommentAuthorScribe
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    I was late to the Minx bandwagon. I only discovered it after Brian Wood announced his book The New York Four, which I greatly enjoyed.

    I believe DC's attempt to only market to women was a huge miscalculation on their part. I'm a thirty-something male and found most of the books they offered to be of interest.
    • CommentAuthorbuzzorhowl
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    Yeah, I'm also a 30-something male who enjoyed what they were publishing. This does suck, just because a good graphic novel line is stopping. Won't call it worst news ever.

    That'll be if I wake up on 11/5 and John McCain is president.
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    Hmmm. Part of me is bummed because they did release some fun stuff - I got the PLAIN JANE books and the New York Four. On the other hand, none of it really grabbed me. It was nice but...

    I was 16 when I read Dark Knight Returns because one of my teachers was a comics nerd (a cool one, interestingly) but it didn't do much more than intrigue me (and it slowed me down which also fascinating - I couldn't devour it as quickly as with novels). It wasn't a story that really interested me, though the medium was intriguing.

    I was 18 when I was introduced to the Sandman series and Planetary and some others by a friend. And let me tell you I was addicted from that point on.

    The Minx books that I've read are nice, but they never grabbed me and made me need them. (A good story will do that, I personally believe.) So I can't be that upset that those stories won't continue. The writing was ok, the art was ok, and that was it. Meh.
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      CommentAuthorAgitpunkt
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    I never read any of the titles (though, I must admit, I was tempted to buy the New York Four); I just assumed they weren't for me and moved along. Could I have been wrong about that? Either way, I thought it was a good idea, so it's sad to see it go.
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    they werent for us...i read NY4 and i liked most of it but the tone was kinda weird. like i could tell i wasnt the target while i was reading it.
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      CommentAuthorFerburton
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    I never read any of the books, like Joe said, it didn't look like it was meant for a guy to read the Plain Janes, I liked the art on the cover, but it looked like I'd be reading a chick flick, kind of deal. Like a graphic version of The Mean Girls.
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    i would just like to clarify that NY4 is worth reading if you are open about it. not as good as mean girls though! that movie rules hard.
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      CommentAuthordiello
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
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    I read it on Ross 'waterbaby' Campbell's blog. I was sad :(
    I've collected them all so far (except Clubbing, which I didn't like) and I'm sad to see that my collection of them will no longer grow.
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    I feel bad for the creators affected by this as well as the lost potential the line had. But I still think the concept was good enough and some of the books were strong enough to continue to stay in print and the DC backlist for years to come. You'd figure they would have learned a lesson from canning Paradox Press before it's time. The 'failure' of that line didn't stop the 'Big Books' and the Max Allan Collins' books from becoming standards in most box bookstores.

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