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Old 03-29-13, 06:45 PM
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Originally Posted by fujishig
Reading back on some of the past posts about plugging their comic (which is, IMHO, terrible, btw); I wonder why DC or Marvel don't at least put up a commercial for their comics, considering both have had recent reboots and efforts to get people back into comics. I don't think they even advertise on their cartoon shows. Heck, does Image ever advertise during Walking Dead? If not, why not? The audience for these shows are much broader than the comic book buying audience, and at least some of the people watching are probably lapsed comic book fans.
Comics isn't really a big enough industry to warrant television advertising. Ad space on national television programs is probably way out of the advertising budget of even Marvel and DC.

As far as Image goes, Image isn't really a publisher in the traditional sense. They publish creator-owned books by taking only a publishing fee and the creators take the profits of their books off the back-end. As such, any outside advertising would be the responsibility of the creators. Image Comics itself isn't a profit-generator and doesn't make a lot of money, so there's no advertising budget to buy commercials.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

...and a little more Frank Frazetta, just because...





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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Here is one fine example of George Perez's stuff, one of the best since his 1980's peak.

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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Walt totally butchering the pronunciation of Cthulhu as CH-LU-THU pissed me off
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Anyone following the ratings for this?
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

To be fair, that Crisis poster is Perez/Alex Ross...

Maybe it's not in the budget of Marvel/DC to do advertising, but I'm still surprised they don't sponsor the show or something... not that I want it to become one-sided, and they must give their blessing to some of it, but even just a little bit of a hook. I mean this is their target audience, I would think.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Originally Posted by fujishig
To be fair, that Crisis poster is Perez/Alex Ross...

Maybe it's not in the budget of Marvel/DC to do advertising, but I'm still surprised they don't sponsor the show or something... not that I want it to become one-sided, and they must give their blessing to some of it, but even just a little bit of a hook. I mean this is their target audience, I would think.
Hmm... I agree.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Originally Posted by madcougar
Anyone following the ratings for this?
It's ratings have crashed since it stopped following The Walking Dead. I wonder if they'll get a third season or just pair it up with TWD again.
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Originally Posted by mcfly
It's ratings have crashed since it stopped following The Walking Dead. I wonder if they'll get a third season or just pair it up with TWD again.
How AMC ever thought their trashy reality shows could survive on the most competitive viewing night of the week is beyond me. I said before the ratings would fall off the map for this show once it lost the Walking Dead lead-in.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

So did the guy selling the illegal Megatron figure get busted lol?

I have the original Megatron with the box though it was opened since I was a kid back then in 1984.

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Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca
So did the guy selling the illegal Megatron figure get busted lol?

I have the original Megatron with the box though it was opened since I was a kid back then in 1984.

That dude would have made an awful drug dealer.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
Comics isn't really a big enough industry to warrant television advertising. Ad space on national television programs is probably way out of the advertising budget of even Marvel and DC.
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GI Joe was pretty much the only time I've ever seen advertising for a comic on TV. Of course it helped the fact it had a TV show and popular toyline.

Otherwise, I don't really know how they'd advertise Marvel or DC stuff. Maybe just make a 30 story of a superhero and say 'See more _____ action in _____ comics'. I'm sure the leadtime on comics & advertising wouldn't match up to sell the current issue. Maybe for an upcoming big event but they'd have to advertise before it starts selling so customers can get the 1st parts of the story.

You figure Comic Book Men serves as advertising since it does show both Marvel & DC comics so a viewer will know comics exist for a certain character.
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Originally Posted by resinrats
GI Joe was pretty much the only time I've ever seen advertising for a comic on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHmk_IfrJHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnL7oW--6O0
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

I think there was a reason they had commercials for the G.I. Joe and Transformers comic books; I think it was because they couldn't advertise the toys during the programs themselves. Did those commercials ever run outside of the G.I. Joe/Transformers cartoons?

I also recall commercials during the afternoon block of cartoons (GI Joe, He-Man, Transformers, Thundercats, Silverhawks, etc.) for a local comic book store. One of them mentioned the new "X-Factor" series.
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You are correct, I believe the whole reason the GI Joe and Transformers comic books even existed in the first place was so they could run ads for them which totally were NOT ads for toys, they were ads for comic books, not toys, at all. Then the introduce the new GI Joe character "Loophole"
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
I think there was a reason they had commercials for the G.I. Joe and Transformers comic books; I think it was because they couldn't advertise the toys during the programs themselves. Did those commercials ever run outside of the G.I. Joe/Transformers cartoons?
Per the FCC, they couldn't advertise GI Joe toys during the GI Joe cartoon. The cartoons themselves were not considered commercials as long as the products were not advertised during the breaks. They could advertise He-Man toys during GI Joe and vice versa, however. Before He-Man came along, there were regulations about cartoons to promote a toyline in general -- He-Man was the first to take advantage after that initial ban was lifted.
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The whole ban just reeks of parents not having the backbone to say no to their kids. "I don't want to tell my little Johnny NO so show him stuff he'll want"
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Ming has a groupie?

I guess Walt knows what he is doing. Almost sold the Giant Size X-Men for $425 and then was able to get $550.

If it comes back I hope it gets re-paired with TWD either shorten Talking Dead to 30 minutes again or add another half-hour show for a 3 hour comic block.
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i cannot stand Walt, he's an arrogant turd

and that long haired hippy dipshit isn't much better

If the show was just Ming, the other guy and Kevin, it would be tolerable
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I hope it comes back though the hockey segment was boring but the rest of the show was good.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Missed the last episode. I wonder if it will be the LAST episode.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

Originally Posted by madcougar
Missed the last episode. I wonder if it will be the LAST episode.
The show is dirt cheap to make. It will be back in some form. It's apparent that AMC wants to get in on the wave of cheap reality television to fill some holes in their schedule. The problem is that those other reality shows were not a good match for the Comic Book Men.

I am really surprised we haven't seen more episodes shot at a comic con.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

I didn't realize that was it for the season.
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Re: Comic Book Men - New AMC reality show set in Kevin Smith's NJ comic shop

I am really surprised we haven't seen more episodes shot at a comic con.
They did that convention hall in Jersey.

You would think they would have a good following and have a lot of fans if they did Comic Con.

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