Death's Head 3.0's writer is...

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:03 pm

Simon Furman.

The line starts to the right, yes?

Linkage! http://www.silverbulletcomics.com/news/story.php?a=775

Be warned tho.. since the page at Silverbulletcomics contains not just this, but mucho other Marvel-news it has apparently overloaded, yes?

Great difficulty to load page, insufferable amount of time, yes?

Like something took it out, fast and hard, yes?

Here's the relevant text:

"Amazing Fantasy will introduce new characters, including the new Death's Head 3.0 by original creator Simon Furman (#16-20). Each issue will have 22 pages, plus an added 8 page backup story."

The pencil-artist? Doesn't mention at all, so who knows? Joe Quesada knows.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:25 pm

Yeah, been trying to get through to check this out for a while now.
SBC is a sluggish site (for me anyway) at the best of times. That this is taking ages to load up is well pants.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:59 pm

While I think this is GREAT news (looks like I'll be picking up Amazing Fantasy soon), I wonder what the point of having the original writer doing a complete revamp is? Surely if they wanted to get some freshness into a dead and buried character, they'd get someone new. Ah well. WOO! FURMAN!!!

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:04 pm

cool, furman's on board, should hopefully be a good DH story then... now just to worry about his appearance...

Post by **Denyer** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:34 am

Wow. I'll actually be buying this, most likely. That's a turn-up for the books... when's it coming out?

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:19 am

James Raiz is doing the art! Woo!

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:51 am

Awesome.

edit: I was going by December for release but don't know if that is accurate...

Post by **Best First** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:41 am

uh... what's going on? People are exhisbiting common sense.

This is wierd. Like when Denyer tries 'witty'.

Anyway, me thinks this hsould be News forum fodder.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:16 am

Its all good!!

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:00 pm

Found the solicitation:

AMAZING FANTASY #16

Written by Simon Furman, penciled by James Raiz, cover by Lucia Parillo.

The fans have spoken in Marvel's second online pole for which character will get revamped in Amazing Fantasy. Introdcuing Death's Head 3.0. A new 5-part storyline written by the creator of the original Death's Head, Simon Furman, kicks into high-gear right here.

32 pages, $2.99, in stores on Dec.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/ ... veldec.htm

Neato.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:06 pm

Its a good time to be a TF/DH fan these days innit?

Post by **Best First** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:21 pm

now i know Furmy's on the case i even like the Design better...

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:33 pm

Fickle like that aren't we?

Lest we forget, Raiz is also the man. Wonder if Furman got him the gig? Was Hitch tempted?

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:39 pm

what the hell??

that's mind-boggling. who'd honestly have thought after all these years something actually goes right??

have to purchase this too

if the sales go well the character might even get a semiregular slot back, and who knows where he might go from there!

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:00 pm

Best First wrote:Anyway, me thinks this hsould be News forum fodder.

Aye. Ti's only logical. The reason me didn't put it in there, was cause I checked what it says under news. Transformers news, looked emphatised to me mind, so I's put it in general.

KingMob wrote:Found the solicitation:
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/ ... veldec.htm
Neato.

Good find sir!

So Raiz on art eh? Sweetness. He's one of me favorites from ye ol' DW. I'd say he was second in me eyes, only to da Don.

EDIT: @#&$! That page messes up my beautiful Firefox-based Netscape8 royally, causing it to slow-down and crash.

I'm viewing it from bloody IE nows, working correctly. Why be that site both evil and good at the same time?

Post by **Best First** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:35 am

as a genarl rule things associated with TFs, e.g if Furman was announced as the writer on, say Iron man or something is fine for this forum.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:35 am

It doesn't matter what he looks like anymore!!!!!! Furman's on the Job. That means it IS Deaths Head, Yes? Not some imposter...

Oh, I dreamed this day would come!!

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:35 pm

Brave new world, yes?

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:32 am

http://www.comicbookresources.com/colum ... ticle=2266

MARVEL NEXT IN TROUBLE?

[Yellow Light] Amongst the recent sales estimates of comic books, there's one line that seems to be suffering the Tsunami-style brunt - that of the "Marvel Next" books. "Amazing Fantasy" crashed from 24000 for issue 6, the last with Arana, to 12.7k on 11, the second to last Scorpion issue. "Machine Teen" crashed from 16k to 6k in four issues. "Spellbinders" and "Livewires" have had similar patterns. And the expectations of trades, even in digest sizes, are not stellar. Almost like those titles Bill Jemas used to hype up, that would then fall flat on their mainstream faces after a few issues.

Shame, because there was some nice stuff in there. But I understand from people close to the company, that Marvel will soon be saying "Next!"

Before or after?

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:52 am

I was expecting AF to be cancelled after the DH story. I was figuring on that being the swansong.

Of course, before the DH promo surfaced I was expecting it to be cancelled after #15...

Unless any more goss comes out, I'm still going with the DH revamp coming out.

152. AMAZING FANTASY
Aug 04 Amazing Fantasy #2 - 37,047 (-40.3%)
Aug 04 Amazing Fantasy #3 - 33,917 ( -8.4%)
Sep 04 Amazing Fantasy #4 - 30,325 (-10.6%)
Oct 04 Amazing Fantasy #5 - 26,349 (-13.1%)
Nov 04 Amazing Fantasy #6 - 23,913 ( -9.2%)
Dec 04 n/a
Jan 05 n/a
Feb 05 n/a
Mar 05 n/a
Apr 05 Amazing Fantasy #7 - 21,802 ( -8.9%)
May 05 Amazing Fantasy #8 - 17,773 (-18.5%)
Jun 05 Amazing Fantasy #9 - 15,606 (-12.2%)
Jul 05 Amazing Fantasy #10 - 14,729 ( -5.6%)
Aug 05 Amazing Fantasy #11 - 12,788 (-13.2%)
6 mnth ( n/a )
1 year (-65.5%)

Crashing ever downwards. Marvel apparently want to keep this book
around as a venue for trying out new characters, which is laudable, but
they really need to do something to attract readers to it.

It needs to limp onto #15, which will presumably get a marked artifical boost due to the Spidey connection, and then I guess they hope the DH revamp will bring in enough readers to keep it worth going until the completion of that story, and the resultant nice set of TPBs.
Unless they just go 'screw it' and drop it after #15, but the DH run's already been solicited and publicised.

Spellbinders and Livewires were both intentional limited series, that reached completion with lower sales figures.

177. LIVEWIRES
Feb 05 Livewires #1 (of 6) - 20,944
Mar 05 Livewires #2 (of 6) - 14,688 (-29.9%)
Apr 05 Livewires #3 (of 6) - 12,581 (-14.3%)
May 05 Livewires #4 (of 6) - 11,089 (-11.9%)
Jun 05 Livewires #5 (of 6) - 9,960 (-10.2%)
Jul 05 n/a
Aug 05 Livewires #6 (of 6) - 9,123 ( -8.4%)
6 mnth (-56.4%)

184. SPELLBINDERS
Mar 05 Spellbinders #1 (of 6) - 20,995
Apr 05 Spellbinders #2 (of 6) - 14,632 (-30.3%)
May 05 Spellbinders #3 (of 6) - 12,069 (-17.5%)
Jun 05 Spellbinders #4 (of 6) - 10,189 (-15.6%)
Jul 05 Spellbinders #5 (of 6) - 9,050 (-11.2%)
Aug 05 Spellbinders #6 (of 6) - 8,578 ( -5.2%)

Two miniseries which completely tanked in the direct market - hardly
surprising considering that they were barely publicised. But, repeat
after me, "there's always the digest."

Meh, time will tell.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:21 am

DHIII will no doubt bring renewed interest to the title. Whether that interest lasts for those 5 issues is another matter.

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:39 am

Pessimistically, we might get an issue or two of DH3.0.

"The Incomplete Death's Head 3.0", anyone?

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:43 pm

BoooH! I've liked everything from AF, except Arana, wich I found rather mediocre. Cancel all the other titles! But spare this one! (wait, wich imprint is Runaways published under? )

Even without DH3 there's some stuff I look forward to checking out in AF, I really hope it'll stay for atleast a 30-issue run.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:25 pm

Gut-wrenching disappointment as the comics are cancelled or discontinued is part of the experience that us DH fans crave, isn't it? And as we've all grown so used to it, there no thrill anymore. This means that Marvel have gone the extra step to satisfy the need: 'Oh yeah, a new DH comic written by Furman. But you wont buy it will you? Meh, Cancelled'

manged to beat DHII Gold - quite immpressive.

Its very good of them really.........if he's got time, perhaps Stan Lee could pop round and kick us all in the bollocks as well.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:55 am

A little bump as I just found some upcoming cover images I thought some people might like to see

Amazing Fantasy #19
http://img198.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... cov6ik.jpg

New A-Z of the Marvel Universe #3
http://img455.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... col7bi.jpg

The a-z has all 3 models of Death's Head on the front, and is in general a completely pimp cover.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:26 am

whu-pah!

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:35 am

Gorgeous.

Post by **Denyer** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:29 am

Five page preview, link courtesy of James Raiz:

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/ ... firsts.htm

And of course there's the Newsarama interview with Furman, which I seem to recall KingMob posting, but that may have been over in General...

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthr ... adid=50003

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:54 am

u see the orginal DH looks the most badd-ass, he has style!

Post by **Best First** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:51 am

agreed.