Orbital Top 10

    Orbital is a great little comics store on Charing Cross Road, which has a top 10 board, usually full of vitriol...

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    1. aksu [deleted] (94 months ago | reply)

      1st thought - game industry, 2nd thought - movies, 3rd thought and certainty - comic books... (#7 was the only item that narrows it down)

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      Kelly Sue added this photo to her favorites. (94 months ago)

    3. jem (94 months ago | reply)

      11) Get the latest bright young thing to do a "dark version" with all sorts of taboo stuff in it.

    4. hugovk (94 months ago | reply)

      Works for anything, from computer games to accounting software.

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      jkottke and Joe Crawford (artlung) added this photo to their favorites.

    6. re-ality (94 months ago | reply)

      funny

    7. david (94 months ago | reply)

      If this were for weblogs:

      1) Shut down your Weblog
      2) Restart your Weblog
      3) Put an X in the title: "Hello, X TYPEPAD!" or just XHTML?
      4) Not sure where this would apply.
      5) Get Dave Shea to do your redesign
      6) ping technorati as part of Live 8/Election promotions
      7) create alternative CSS skins
      8) Keep switching blog engines (?)
      9) see oliverwillis.com/
      10) hire a guest blogger

    8. UltramanAgul01 (94 months ago | reply)

      #11 - Have a supporting character be gay

      #12 - Have a supporting character / main character contract/be exposed to HIV

      #13 - Do a time travel segment

    9. UltramanAgul01 (94 months ago | reply)

      #14 - get Peter David to write about a dozen issues

      #15 - Demote the comic to a "limited series"

    10. ryan christopher (94 months ago | reply)

      #16 Restart the series from "Issue #1" [alternately, shut down series and restart with "New" in the title]

      #17 Have a major character switch sides [alternately, in team books, have a character "leave"]

      Everything I know I learned from Bendis...

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    12. Seldo (94 months ago | reply)

      #16 - Do a special "origin story" miniseries about any/all characters.

    13. Mike Monteiro (94 months ago | reply)

      "out" a minor character. Hello, Northstar.

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    15. sabadash (94 months ago | reply)

      Great list and a powerful
      statement about using Flick-off
      (or any other viddy site) to
      communicate.

      Which you have done
      rather well.

      Hats off.

      "-"

    16. MetaGrrrl (94 months ago | reply)

      David, #4 for weblogs is "Change your tagline".

    17. ryan christopher (94 months ago | reply)

      re: #10

      whedon's first arc on "astonishing" was great. it seemed to go crap once marvel re-upped. sad.

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    19. Sharii [deleted] (93 months ago | reply)

      I'm a comic artist who never had life drawing classes or any proper art education for that matter...

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    21. jasonrallen (93 months ago | reply)

      My addition: Say a character is dead and they're staying dead, then announce plans to bring them back, then actually bring them back but in a different form, kill them again, announce they are dead permanently again, and finally bring them back in their original form.

    22. gregsmyth (93 months ago | reply)

      Say a character's dead giving fans a knowing wink that they don't stay dead. Invent cool new character, giving them a cool new backstory. Reveal that cool new character was old dead villain in disguise all along. Leave title. Get really annoyed when new crap writers invent stupid, long and convoluted reason why fake cool new character actually existed all along despite never really existing in first place.

      Or am I the only one other than Morrison riled by the Magneto-Xorn-Magneto-Xorn fiasco in New X-Men?

      Okay, just me then...

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    24. ryan christopher (93 months ago | reply)

      IPJ - I had no idea there was a fiasco. As far as I'm concerned, Morrison's work on New X-Men was cannon. He stopped writing, I stopped reading. Just read the lowdown on Wikipedia... it reinforces every bias everyone holds against Marvel. Just stupid.

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