05-13-2004, 08:24 PM
At least those franchises that have been used as collateral we might have a chance of seeing at another publisher - what's a bank going to do with a comic franchise after all! I really really hope Alessi has the good sense to sell off the books that he hasn't already hocked to the banks.
I managed to catch up on the early issues of Sojourn that I had missed (my local comic store was selling off it's catalogue of Crossgen Forge Compendiums cheap so I bought them) and I have to say it is indeed one of the consistently best written and drawncomics i've seen. That was (and still is to a degree) always something you could rely on at least from Crossgen - high quality product. Unfortunately they didn't have the necessary knowhow to market their books effectively. They sold their mostly fantasy books on the direct market which is dominated by superhero books and totally ignored the RPG/fantasy game shops where they could have made an absolute killing. It's criminal incompetence really. ah well, hopefully other new publishers will learn from these sorts of mistakes.
I managed to catch up on the early issues of Sojourn that I had missed (my local comic store was selling off it's catalogue of Crossgen Forge Compendiums cheap so I bought them) and I have to say it is indeed one of the consistently best written and drawncomics i've seen. That was (and still is to a degree) always something you could rely on at least from Crossgen - high quality product. Unfortunately they didn't have the necessary knowhow to market their books effectively. They sold their mostly fantasy books on the direct market which is dominated by superhero books and totally ignored the RPG/fantasy game shops where they could have made an absolute killing. It's criminal incompetence really. ah well, hopefully other new publishers will learn from these sorts of mistakes.
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