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Only 712 postcards? Jeez, I was expecting many more.

Renumbering back for a double zero issue is the new renumbering for a #1.

It’s all pretty damned stupid. I just want good stories drawn by a consistent artist (at least per story). I don’t care if they’re monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, and honestly, I find the monthly format infuriating and generally don’t buy them anymore.

You give people 2 good Wonder Woman graphic novels a year, I bet those would sell more than the monthly books do, make more money, get read by more people.

The monthly format is too much work for most people. It’s like work to read characters like this. Collecting Batman and Superman are practically jobs for some people. Bats and Supes get quarterly GNS, everyone else yearly or twice yearly, you spread it out right and you can have a couple books a month, easy for newcomers to pick up on, easy for the more fannish to slavishly follow while re-reading their 600 back issues.

All I’m saying is the industry needs to truly change, to truly make the leap out of the magazine business into the book publishing business before it dies.

But I’ve been saying this for years(Under other handles). I’m just some boob. No one pays attention to me. And I’m not the only one who sees this as the only way for this art form and my beloved properties (Marvel and DC) to survive. I say this as a lover of the art form and it’s more commercial uses, the comic book is dead, long live the comic book.

The Floppy Magazine/Pamphlet is a dead format. Too expensive for it’s own good, marred by advertising, it’s a 20th century format.

Until Amazon comes out with a Color Kindle, this is the only way comics can survive. Move away from the spinner rock(I know they don’t use ‘em anymore, but it’s symbolic) and back issue bin….

This is an And Yes, I’ll Keep Repeating This Until It Finally Happens And I Can Say “I Told Ya So” Production.

I understand how its Didio’s and Segura’s job to cheer about the decision. But still… the fact that there were less than 1,000 cards total for two months is kind of pathetic.

Yeah, this’ll make people buy WW.

I think the reason there were only 800 or so postcards is that the postcard is too old-fashioned for many people. I can actually see younger readers thinking “what’s a post-card?” Of course if they had solicited response in some form, that would be a different story.

Or maybe sending a telegram.

Regardless, I like the cover.

Oops… I meant “Of course if they had solicited response in some *online* form, that would be a different story.”

That’s great.

Really.

It is.

I just…don’t care for Wonder Woman after the catastrophic relaunch that was headed by Heinberg, followed by Picoult. I just…ugh.

Still.

Here’s to another 600 issues.

I think the fact that actually getting a postcard, writing it out, stamping it, and mailing it requires a little bit of thought and work is EXACTLY why Didio wanted it done this way. Showed how many people cared and were dedicated to the idea.

The ease of e-mailing and texting sometimes negate their validity, when some people will just flood e-mail inboxes because they can do it so effortlessly.

Brooke,
I can understand why you feel that way. I did too after the Heinberg issues. Never even made it to Picoult’s run. But I recently gave Gail Simone’s issues a try and loved it. She’s doing a great job on the book and I recommend you give it another shot.

Ugh, no. Gail doesn’t have the first clue who Wonder Woman actually is. She knows even less about who Donna Troy is. The entirety of the Nemesis debacle shows that. People who think that Gail Simone writes a good Wonder Woman obviously don’t understand who Diana is.

Gail Simone writes one type of woman: the one for whom being a superhero is a joke, a bit of foolishness before they get to the important part of their life: raising babies.

Raising babies is great, but it sure as hell isn’t what Wonder Woman is about. Nor should it be (course, it wasn’t what Dinah Lance was about either, but we all like to pretend Gail is the supreme goddess of Birds of Prey, instead of the woman who messed Chuck Dixon’s hard work up.)