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Sep. 12th, 2011
About the DC notboot
Sep. 12th, 2011 01:52 pmMassive failure? Salvation of the line?
Interviews with comics professionals that feel the need to use the term "death spiral" to refer to sales are probably a bad sign.
I used to have an url for a site that showed the long term sales trends for the Big Two going back at least as far as the 1960s. The trends were not good, especially for DC, and they have not been good for a surprisingly long time.
Interviews with comics professionals that feel the need to use the term "death spiral" to refer to sales are probably a bad sign.
I used to have an url for a site that showed the long term sales trends for the Big Two going back at least as far as the 1960s. The trends were not good, especially for DC, and they have not been good for a surprisingly long time.
One such game company that will be launching a new game is the company partnered with NASA to develop a space-based MMORPG for the space agency. Having raised nearly $40,000 in pledged funding via kickstarter, the company aims to start beta testing their offering some time next year.
So what does this new MMORPG do differently that will attract and retain paying customers? What makes Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond different from say, EVE Online, Star Trek Online, or Star Wars Galaxies?
I am going to go ahead and assume that no readers out there are currently wondering what would happen if aliens invaded ancient Japan, or how time traveling cyborgs would fight them off. Even if the cyborgs had been skipping through time in an effort to block the xenocidal menace and were aided by a snippy, AI-controlled spaceship, this is probably not a question that keeps people up at night. Ogawa, on the other hand, has let the scenario occupy his Seiun Award winning brain long enough to unleash The Lord of the Sands of Time on an unsuspecting populace; Haikasoru then chose this as one of its four launch titles.
We are published authors who co-wrote a post-apocalyptic young adult novel. When we set out to find an agent for it, we expected to get some rejections. But we never expected to be offered representation… on the condition that we make a gay character straight, or cut him out altogether.