[gurps] Slightly off-topic, but a correction

[midnightwind at comcast.net]

Crossovers are not handled well.  The Uncanny X-Man DVD is JUST Uncanny X-Men and associated annuals.  So Crossovers to New Mutants, X-Factor, even X-Men cannot be followed at present-- you only get the Uncanny X-Men portions.

GIT Tech or whatever the company name is that is doing this are planning, it seems, to gradually do this with a lot of titles.  So far, Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spider Man, Avengers, FF, and Ultimate X-Men (apparently a separate quantum reality where the original X-Men remained together...) are out to my knowledge.  Upcoming include Daredevil, Captain America, and rumors on Amazon and elsewhere speak of combined packages with X-Men, X-Factor, New Mutants and such-- eventually.

Crossovers would have killed me, too, especially since it looks like, atleast for X-Men, that they divided up the team in two separate ones for the different titles.  That was a mistake that would have stopped me buying, if I hadn't stopped, already.

Hard to predict what these DVDs will do to the value of our collections... probably they will drop.  I don't have the energy right now to try and sell mine, so I guess I'll just eat the loss.

Sorry for no GURPS.  I'm glad some people on the list found this somewhat interesting.

-vk


-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Kurt Feltenberger <kurt at blazenet.net> 

> At 06:34 AM 11/9/2006, you wrote: 
> >On 11/9/06, midnightwind at comcast.net wrote: 
> >> 
> >>Just got those comic DVDs in the mail today. Looks like they only 
> >>go through 2005, not 2006. 
> >>Boy, those early comics were goofy... strange reading some of them 
> >>as an adult. Interesting to see how the world politics and issues 
> >>and tech levels influenced the stories, too. Anyway, just wanted 
> >>to correct previous info. 
> >> 
> >>It sort of goes to Powers... at least I intend to look at some of 
> >>the comic characters and model them in GURPS. 
> > 
> >The thing I wonder about with those is how do they handle the numerous 
> >cross-overs? While I was still collecting the X-Men, they seemed to 
> >have at least one cross-over per year. Any chance they also include 
> >spin-offs, like X-Factor, New Mutants/X-Force, eXcalibur, etc? 
> 
> The crossovers were the last nail in the coffin that got me out of 
> comics. When they started changing the X-Men every few months, 
> changing the name, etc., that was bad enough, but when I started 
> spending almost three digits to keep up with all the lines I was 
> following, their crossovers to lines I couldn't care less about, and 
> the special limited run series, I realized that it was time to 
> bail. I still have a lot of the comics stored and will likely dump 
> them one of these days. Probably when I start liquidating to buy a 
> couple more ARs and magazines in preparation for the new gun bans 
> that are sure to come down the pike now that the D's have Congress 
> and we have a spineless President who won't use his veto powers. 
> 
> 
> Kurt Feltenberger 
> kurt at blazenet.net 
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