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marvel universe fancast → katee sackhoff as valkyrie

Most. Awesome. Story. Ever.

Highlight of WonderCon

It was a great weekend in general for me and we all had a lot of fun. We hung out with friends, did some cosplay, saw some great costumes and art and comics and had some fantastic dinners that made my stomach hurt from laughing so hard. But one of my highlights happened after the first day. Steevin, our friend Jeff and I were walking back to our car and I hear a voice shout “I like your costume!”. And I looked down and there was a little girl there with her mom. She was around 7 to 10. I thanked her and told her I was Black Widow and asked her if she ever heard of the character. She told me no so I told her a little bit. I asked them if they had just come from WonderCon but she told me she was there for a cheerleading competition. I told her the con was going on all weekend so she’d probably see a lot more fun costumes. Her mom told me the little girl had wanted to take a picture with me but she didn’t have her camera with her. I offered to have Steevin take one of us and I would email it to her. So that’s what we did. And then she asked if we could be friends and I said of course so we exchanged REAL names and gave each other a hug. We said bye and I was giddy all the way back to the car because it had been so dang cute.

But then… THEN… the next day about 3pm we were walking the floor and taking pictures and whatnot when I feel someone run up to me and grab my hand. It was the same little girl! They had bought tickets to come check out WonderCon because the little girl wanted to see what it was about. We got more pictures together and she was super excited that I remembered her but I was like “No I am so excited you remembered me!”. And it was all very exciting. Steev thinks I made her a comic book fan for life. :D

The problem isn’t just that we have to get folks to buy [Captain Marvel]; it’s that we have to get retailers to order it. The failing of our distribution model is that our customer isn’t really the reader, our customer is whoever places the Diamond order at any store. So if there’s a perception that the book won’t sell, it gets under-ordered and it becomes this self-fulfilling prophecy.
Here’s a thing that happens to every creator on Twitter on one Wednesday or another: an incredibly sweet reader who really wants to support you, writes to tell you that they tried to buy your book at their [local comic shop] and it was already sold out! It’s only noon, they say! The shop only opened at 10! Your book must’ve flown off the shelves!
And then the creator, not wanting to hurt anyone’s feelings, says, “Wow! Thanks for your support — better pre-order the next one!” and then they cry into their coffee. Because, friends, selling out by noon on a Wednesday is not good news. Heck, selling out by Thursday is not good news. That means your book was under-ordered — if it was ordered at all. If the consumer wants the product and we can’t get them the product, our system is broken.
I hate the pre-order thing. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Ten years ago, I was complaining about it on the [Warren Ellis forum] — I’m a shopper. I looooove to shop. I will spend money. But I am not going to buy a pair of shoes that I’m expected to order three months in advance and am not able to try on! And that’s what we’re asking of our readers. It’s the dumbest system. No wonder we have problems! Is there another industry that works like this?
And yet, here I am begging you: if you want to read this comic, please, please oh please, oh please: pre-order it. If you want to see more female-led titles from the mainstream publishers, pre-order this book. If you’re not familiar with how to pre-order, or you’re not sure why it’s so important, check in with me on Twitter @kellysue or on my blog at http://www.kellysue.com — some time in the next couple weeks I’m going to do a step-by-step blog post. Maybe I’ll even do one of those Warren Ellis-style pre-order coupons.

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Kelly Sue DeConnick on the dichotomous folly/urgency of pre-ordering comics, and her new “Captain Marvel” series, in an interview by Albert Ching at Newsarama.com. (via bowtiemoustache)

And this is why it’s so important to embrace digital comics as the definitive way to read comics and combat piracy. We can continue to have nice things. We can get away from this stupidly ridiculous model of pre-orders and have ALL the Nice Things.

(via charmingtillthelast)

sigridellis:

natasha: you’re a good man.
bucky: not really no, but you’re the only one who understands that.

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