Year in Review: The Big Picture on The Corner Box S2Ep13

On this episode of The Corner Box, hosts John & David gather round the fire to reminisce about the past year in comics, and get into the reinvigoration of older properties, how different publishers approach existing properties, DC and Marvel’s Absolute and Ultimate Lines, DC’s $10 books, and PRH’s disruption of the industry by purchasing Boom! Studios. Also, most definitely not in the spirit of the Season, David is mean to several people.

Timestamp Segments

• [02:07] David’s thoughts on Prince.
• [04:08] The success of GI Joe and Transformers.
• [05:38] Properties moving to new publishers.
• [09:01] The new GI Joe launches.
• [14:09] ThunderCats.
• [14:47] The changing perception of comics properties.
• [16:08] Relaunching properties out of their time.
• [19:59] Marvel’s Ultimate Line.
• [21:16] David’s take on Donny Cates.
• [23:47] DC’s Absolute Line.
• [27:12] What’s up with Zatanna?
• [28:40] DC’s $10 Compact Comics.
• [36:36] Boom! goes to PRH.

Notable Quotes

• “He was the B-average student in a room of D-average students.”
• “I’m looking forward to seeing how they completely screw it up and dismantle it all.”
• “Marvel movies didn’t start making a billion dollars until Disney started distributing them.”

Relevant Links

David's Fun Stuff!
Did Someone Say Fun Time? Let's GO!

John is at PugW!
Pug Worldwide

For transcripts and show notes!
www.thecornerbox.club

Books Mentioned

• Absolute Comics.
• Absolute Superman
• Absolute Batman
• Absolute Wonder Woman
• Catwoman
• DC Compact Comics.
• Dog Man
• GI Joe: A Real American Hero
• Green Lantern
• Invincible
• RoboForce
• Sectaurs.
• Shonen Jump.
• The Moon is Following Us
• ThunderCats
• TMNT.
• Transformers
• Ultimate Comics.
• Ultimate Spider-Man
• Venom