Comments on: MAYHEM! http://www.conventionscene.com/2009/08/07/mayhem/ Where Fans Gather for the Latest Convention News and Schedules Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:28:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Gorga http://www.conventionscene.com/2009/08/07/mayhem/#comment-1896 Jonathan Gorga Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:45:56 +0000 http://www.conventionscene.com/?p=4850#comment-1896 Well... this does all look like brilliant marketing. But for my money "Mayhem" #1 was bad. Not awful. But bad. Bringing people to your comic, or comics in general, and then giving them something with as little plot or character or design and as much gratuitous violence as is found in "Mayhem" #1 is something I have a problem with. Comics are as vibrant and capable a medium as film and television. To go to this much trouble to bring people to an example of the medium only to give them something that is the lowest common denominator of what the medium is capable of is criminal. Well… this does all look like brilliant marketing.

But for my money “Mayhem” #1 was bad. Not awful. But bad. Bringing people to your comic, or comics in general, and then giving them something with as little plot or character or design and as much gratuitous violence as is found in “Mayhem” #1 is something I have a problem with.

Comics are as vibrant and capable a medium as film and television. To go to this much trouble to bring people to an example of the medium only to give them something that is the lowest common denominator of what the medium is capable of is criminal.

]]> By: THE BEAT » Blog Archive » Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 8/7/09 http://www.conventionscene.com/2009/08/07/mayhem/#comment-1554 THE BEAT » Blog Archive » Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 8/7/09 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:48:29 +0000 http://www.conventionscene.com/?p=4850#comment-1554 [...] Convention Scene reports on the Mayhem debuts at Meltdown. Reports from other retailers around the country suggest that the issue wasn’t a sell-out, [...] [...] Convention Scene reports on the Mayhem debuts at Meltdown. Reports from other retailers around the country suggest that the issue wasn’t a sell-out, [...]

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