The bulk of the crowds that made Avengers such a financial success probably aren't comics readers. Guardians is a good calculated move; while it's a lesser known Marvel title it lies a bit outside of the typical superhero story that's saturated the market. It could be marketed as a scifi/space opera story instead of superhero.
On Jul 16, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Jason Service <[email protected]> wrote: > I used to be a reader of Marvel. I quit in the 90's. Most of these names mean > NOTHING to me. Drax the Destroyer and Rocket Racoon are names i have heard > of. Never read a single comic they were even in as a cameo that i can recall. > > This makes me really have serious concerns about this one...I read Marvel for > more than a decade and don't know who these characters are. I hope that > Marvel makes this work, but i am not in any way excited about this group. I > am sure with proper marketing and trailers, they could get my interest, but > this may be a HUGE test for Marvel...getting fans of their more traditional > properties interested in this group, but a more difficult proposition, > getting folks with no comic history/interest to come see this. It'll be > interesting. > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: > The worst kept secret in Hollywood is now official. > > Should be a lot of fun seeing how the hype for this is handled. I forsee a > lot of "Is Marvel crazy?" and "Green Lantern PROVED cosmic heroes DON'T > WORK!!!!!" type of chatter balanced against the True Believers who will be > shouting "I AM GROOT!" and "Rocket Racoon for the win!!" > > On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:23:29 AM UTC-4, cwpreston wrote: > http://www.hitfix.com/news/guardians-of-the-galaxy-will-feature-star-lord-rocket-raccoon-groot-gamora-and-drax > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theuniquegeek/-/cC25IGuRT54J. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
