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Topic: In This Day And Age, A Comic Book Deal For Ron Moore Is As Meaningless As Ever (Read 80 times)
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languatron
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Life could be this beautiful without NBC-TV in it.
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I remember when "Dark Angel" had just completed its second season. Confidence was high that it would return for a third season. Not only that, but merchandising deals were in place that yielded a calender, a Jessica Alba action figure on a motorcycle, paperback novels, and a "Dark Angel Dossier." In less than 24 hours, the WITCH at the FOX network CANCELLED "Dark Angel" for the "Firefly" TV series....And all of those merchandising deals were left hanging.
Though Sci-Fi Channel has CLAIMED a 20 episode second season for Ronald D. Moore, all we have seen on the Internet are plot descriptions for 5 ADDITIONAL EPISODES. By coincidence, this just happens to coincide with what the original episode order was beyond a first season. I have no doubt that Ronald D. Moore's series will never get past those 5 additional episodes, just as I have no doubt that the MODEST merchandising efforts representing Ron Moore's series will NEVER get beyond his "Star Trek-esque Companion Book", and little wittle comic book deal.
What does a comic book deal mean in this day and age? Not a damn thing. With the cover charge of comic books nowadays hovering around $2.50 an issue, and the only place you can find comic books today is in comic book/specialty shops; the only people on this planet who will buy Ronald D. Moore's comic books are those Universal executives specifically seeking them out, or adult comic book collector's who are notorious for blowing their money on CRAP. Do kids read comic books anymore? No, they're too expensive. Does the coveted demographic group which Sci-Fi Channel CLAIMS they snagged with Ronald D. Moore's series read comic books? No. Everyone is too busy nowadays living their lives and having a life. Rest assured however, that Stallion_Cornell and his "Moist Boys" (who never had a life) will be buying ALL 5 ISSUES of Ronald D. Moore's comic book before it gets SHIT CANNED.
Since Ronald D. Moore's series NEVER had a distinctive and visually unique identity, how do you translate this into the printed comic book page? How do you translate a tv series that for all intent and purposes, has been a RIP-OFF of everything broadcast on network tv since the 1950's, into some form of coherent storytelling? One thing is certain, this comic book will be a SEX BOOK. With "Six"-(cough-"Seven of Nine") crossing and uncrossing her legs, and humping anything that moves all over the comic book page. Who is going to buy this CRAP? Thank goodness Universal executives ARE EASY CONSUMERS TO PLEASE!!! 
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