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8Ares8

PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:13 pm


Now... just think... comics... online comics? I personally think this could work; because while a t.v. show costs millions of dollars a comic would probably cost less than 500 thousand and printing and selling would be even less than that. I mean look at Starwars comic books. There are at least 30 different series that I can think of. I would presume that they do pretty well considering most stay intact for a decent amount of time.

Also to bare in mind is that a comic only needs writers and artists. Now actors, advanced cgi technicians/designers, camera crew or stage space. No need to worry about actors leaving or legal battles over who gets a raise.

Thoughts?
PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2011 8:32 pm




Well they have talked about this on Gateworld and it seems that Stargate hasn't really sold all that well in Comic Book form, however the next best medium would be novels. At the moment there is a series of novels (whom escape my memory) that's continuing the story of SGA after the event of "Enemy at the Gate." (end of season 5). There has been talk also that what was left of the SGU story wouldn't see the pages of a novel that Brad Wright wants to keep those plot points to himself for a possible movie down the road.

To me I'd rather have more Stargate in the form of novels, I also just wish that more place's stocked those books as I've not found any at my local book stores. I was able to pick up two offline from Walmart, which I think now has a much bigger selection.

I know some people don't consider what happens in the novels to be cannon, that only what is shown on the show and/or movie is canon. I'm not sure if TPTB consider the story's from the novels canon or not, but I do. It's all media from the franchise, the ONLY THING that does not fall into that is the b*****d child Stargate Infinity.


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8Ares8

PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 4:12 am


Now when you say novels you mean Novels as in text for instance the inheritance trilogy?

If so I completely agree with you. Unless they were to try and portray it in the same was as SG1 or SGA because I would find it hard to be entertained reading it from that point of view.

The reason why I said comic books is that in all honesty their would be a greater chance for a fan base. Images along with side-notes and dialog reveal a lot more than books do, to a point I will admit. However if they did comicbooks it would create a familiarity to characters that I love compared to books... My favorite characters were ruined in my favorite series because rather than the scraggly main character I'd imagined; now I forever imagine him as a swedish supermodel.

Maybe if they write novels and expand upon them as if they were a main storyboard or script. They could take it and make it into a comicbook. Another point I guess I failed to say is that I have rarely ever read any starwars novels... the comics are appealing and easy to understand, compared to a 400 page book... I
would choose comics lol

Edit: I would like to add that barely any of the stargate comics have been succesful. Probably none of them have been released after the end of the "Canon" shows and movies, and none have been promoted enough to be noticed... Only exception as of recently is the Vala Maldoran series that just came out
PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2011 9:26 am




When I mean Novels I means all of these: http://www.stargatenovels.com/books.php
 

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