Marvel has gone and done it again! I was looking through my weekly ComicList mail, and to my joy I noticed a new X-Men tpb, X-Men: Divided We Stand, that will be hitting the stands August 20th. Yea, this sounds great, finally I will know what happens after Messiah Complex, the X-Men event that...hey, waitaminnut! I haven't heard of any solicitations regarding any Messiah Complex tpb's, so I look it up and it turns out that a trade will be out October 29th.
[Thinking hard while staring at the screen...]
But, October comes after August. But, Messiah Complex comes before Divided We Stand. This doesn't make sense, I must be mistaken. Surely Marvel wouldn't publish their books in the wrong order! That would be stoopid!!!
But they will. And not for the first time either. The exact same thing happened with X-Men: Supernovas (collecting X-Men #188-199, published February 27th) and X-Men: Blinded by the Light (collecting X-Men #200-204, published January 16th).
What the hell are they thinking?!? Is this some new weird business plan? Not only are they published more than a year from the original date of publication, the trade paperbacks are published in the wrong order! WTF!!! Is Marvel deliberately pissing on that part of their readership which likes to read their comic books in collected soft cover formats? But they're so nice! Aren't they?
Marvel seriously need to take a look at their tpb publishing strategy and tighten it up. Maybe they're afraid they'll be losing money, if they start publishing the tpb's sooner. This is understandable, since they're probably rather dependent on their monthly revenue as it is now.
But Marvel, you should not piss off those of us who prefer the tpb format. Because in the future this will be _the_ main physical format of your books, and you will need a lot more of us than there is now, to make the big move. So start treating us better, and we will steadily increase in numbers, until we reach that day where there are more people reading tpb's than there are people reading the magazines. The books are pretty good as it is, they look nice and the content is good, but you need to publish them sooner! And in the right order!!!
Ok, that's enough ranting for now...
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Messiah Complex was collected and published in April but it was in hardcover.
I know, but I would really like for the publishing of the HC's to not mess up the scheduling of the SC's. I think it's great that Marvel publish the HC's, I just prefer the SC's.
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