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@GiveUpNed said:

@lorex: @satanmode: It doesn't work like that. Comicvine is contingent on it's readership to stay afloat. Premium memberships is what keeps Whiskey Media in business. If you want to see more indie coverage, shell out the $50 a year and pay for a membership. More writers = more content. You can't do more with less.

While I understand your point, I respectfully disagree. I think there are other voices in this thread (some with Premium memberships, some without) that would agree that increased coverage of non Marvel/DC titles would add value to this site. In my opinion, dropping a tiny 3 paragraph article like "Should Villains Have Their Own Ongoing Series?" and replacing it with a review of a great indie title (that was also promoted at the top of the CV homepage) would not hurt their bottom line. And if that happened once a week, it seems like it would make a lot of people in this thread happy.

In regard to memberships, CV has let a number of things fall by the wayside that I enjoyed most about it when I first discovered it. I don't know the reasons why it has happened, but it has. No disrespect to the CV staff or affiliated people, but I won't pay $50 in hope of a return to greater days. To me, a membership payment means you approve of the direction of the site, not that you wish it to reverse its course. If CV could improve the scope of its coverage, that would be a return to something I could get behind.

@inferiorego said:

I feel like we do a decent job of giving you guys big indy news and editorials about the world of indy books, minus webcomics, which we've never touched, but when it comes down to it, most people just gloss them over... it's a bummer.

To me, a partial solution to this problem is higher visibility on the site. They should periodically be the featured article at the top of the page.

@lorex said:

Hate to say this G-Man but you are part of the system that focuses most the attention onto the big publishers leaving the indies out in the cold in terms of press coverage and attention. Marvel or DC will announce their next big event, whatever it may be and shortly there are numerous articles on this website about that event and what that will mean for their respective universes. The indies cant match the hype machines DC and Marvel have available to them thus they get less attention. Also every Wednesday there will almost always be a review of a comic with Batman in it and another with Wolverine. The rest will mostly be reviews from other Marvel or DC comics with the occasional indie thrown in. Some might say the site is covering the titles the fans are most interested in. That may be true but how are we the fans that are not in the know suppost to find out about the good indie comics out there if the comic news site they go to does not prominently display that info. Generally I think the staff of Comic Vine does a good job but you need to spread your focus around more to the entire comic book industry.

I completely agree with Lorex.

G-Man, I understand that it's necessary to cover what's most popular, but if you want to have more articles on CV about Indie Comics, write more articles. It's as simple as that. You have a keyboard, you have a soapbox, you have an audience. Laud them, criticize them, whatever; bring attention to them by talking about them. Your article is one step in the right direction. I hope to see more like this.

@Nova`Prime` said:

And to all complaining about the lack of clothing. In the original books all the characters were naked, all the time.

I don't remember him being naked the entire time, I seem to remember him eventually obtaining a gun & holster, sword & scabbard, and some sort of other attire (albeit limited) that those weapons were attached to. But it's been a while since I read it so perhaps I'm wrong. And, of course, I do tend to remember John Carter as Frazetta painted him.

Where have all the quests gone? Long time passing Where have all the quests gone? Long time ago Where have all the quests gone? Gone to graveyards every one When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Batman Arkham City was a perfect opportunity to do a real-world event based quest about some Bat-villains. Yet... nothing...

@uniform: Glad to see you tried out AH's Yahoo Group. Hopefully the link Terry provided is the solution to your problem.

If you reallllllllly want it, you could post the same message to AH's Yahoo Group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hughes-fans/

His wife (Allison) posts there regularly (though she had a medical procedure performed recently). The group is pretty vibrant so you may have some success there. Good luck!

I concur, please add a quest