I Told You So
by Joey Manley
From my “Webcomics Predictions for 2007” post, almost a year ago:
6. Marvel and/or DC will do something interesting and meaningful in the webcomics space [in 2007] which will not be very exciting to webcomics insiders — their projects will probably be fairly analogous to what the leaders from that other “comics industry,†King Features and United, are doing with their sites.
I was dead wrong about some other things, though, especially my number one prediction (further entrenchment of the A-list at the expense of newcomers). While it’s true that the popular comics a year ago are still very popular today, there’s been a couple of amazing break-out hits over the past 11 months, including XKCD most especially. This is a good thing to be wrong about.
Just like # 6 above was a bad thing to be right about. Or at least a sad thing to be right about. Ha! Then why am I not really sad?
November 16th, 2007 at 4:38 am
[...] [Commentary] T Campbell reacts to the rollout of Marvel Comics’ new online comics-rental initiative, while Joey Manley says “I told you so.” [...]
November 16th, 2007 at 9:38 am
What the heck happened to Rocket Pirates, anyways? Lots a talk and then poof!
The interesting thing, at least from my perspective, is while there seems to be a growth in new popular comics and webcomic readers I think the number of webcomics really has grown all that much. At least if you only count comics that actually update, since the graveyard of abandoned comics is always huge. Maybe I am wrong but I think we make actually be hitting the point where the newcomers simply replace the people quitting the game.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Make new predictions now.
My Prediction for 2008: Box Brown will take over the world.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I have spent the last few months making predictions for the next three years, on a month-by-month basis, in collaboration with some very smart people.
Those predictions are the private property of Comicspace, Inc., now, I’m afraid.
Ha!
November 16th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
November 16th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I’ve been operating under the assumption that Warren simply got busy, and will be back in touch when he’s ready to launch.