I hate only partially remembering something.

[thebitterguy]

For some reason, US 1 has been coming up on all the finer comics blogs recently (i.e within the past few years).

I remember an interesting story I heard way back in the day. It may have been in CBG or CC or Comics Interview.

Anyway, back in the day, there was the concept of the Marvel Zombie. No relation to the 'turn Marvel characters to actual zombies' trend, this was a class of comics buyers who would buy every comic Marvel produced.

This brand of fans meant that every Marvel comic had a minimum sales number which they'd never go beneath.

Now, the story, as I heard it, was as such. US 1, the comic about a cyber trucker, was released. And it was the first comic that fell below the Marvel Zombie threshold.

Anyway, that was the camelback straw. Apparently, like their legendary namesakes exposed to salt, the Marvel Zombies crawled back into their graves. Or rather, just looked at their pull lists and realized "I don't really like half this crap. And where's Stan, anyway?"

At least, that's the story I remember hearing. Anyone recall anything similar? Or am I going soft in my old age?

Comments

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

OMG I remember US 1. I was never a marvel zombie but if ROM the Spaceknight and Micronauts didn't break that particular camel's back it was a damn sturdy camel.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

How can you say that, considering both series has successful runs for years?

[xyzzysqrl]

ROM The Space Knight is my favorite comic -ever-.

Not sarcasm or irony.

[thebitterguy]

It's a popular book around here.

[crashing-angel.livejournal.com]

I'm unsure about Marvel....BUUTTT, I did get done with CoIE - and I must say, I wished I could have read it when it was released. It had the typical 80s drama that comics were exposed to, but it was, overall, a very moving and presidential. I wished I had read it before Infinite Crisis. And yes, IC is the undoing of CoIE.
History was cleaned up, and it gave way to so many possibilities.
I'm glad I read it.

[thebitterguy]

I think one of my big problems with Crisis in retrospect, I still love the series, is that they decided that the DCU needed to be cleaned up.

I think the mindset that it required cleaning up is kinda wrong. I'm happy with a big mess of a universe, and DC proved that trying to wrangle an entire universe like that across dozens of books and hundreds of characters is pretty much an impossibility.