Why didn't it worked?

Why didn't it worked?

>American audiences have historically never supported anthologies (Even DHP has been canceled multiple times).

>Brandon Graham's taste run hella niche.

>No big names to draw eyes to the book.

Take your pick.

>some stories weren't serialized chronologically
>got more expensive and stopped being squarebound
>no consistent theme to bring stories under
>it's an anthology

Because comics is sadly an obsolete medium that was originally marketed to being for children so it can't even gain artistic respect like Live Theatre Performances do.
So we just slowly get smaller as our fun stories on $4 magazines get weak sales and ultimately end before it's sold at a loss.

>Because comics is sadly an obsolete medium that was originally marketed to being for children so it can't even gain artistic respect like Live Theatre Performances do.
So we just slowly get smaller as our fun stories on $4 magazines get weak sales and ultimately end before it's sold at a loss.

Nice bate, mate.

furries

Heavy Metal 4 Millennials

You're honestly gonna tell me that comics are a thriving medium?

I mean I love comics, and spend hundreds month on the stuff, but do you think it's competing well with cartoons or videogames or even major motion pictures for the attention of most audiences?
It's a medium that's become niche relying on an audience of a million or two buyers.

>do you think it's competing well with cartoons or videogames or even major motion pictures for the attention of most audiences?

No, I don't. But I'm not certain that comics are supposed to be completing with those mediums. You are literally comparing apples to movies.

Because the anthology format sucks dick, with 2000AD as the sole exception. And that's because of popular stuff like Dredd, the weekly schedule and above average writers.
In comparison, Cinema Purgatorio has an awful schedule and the only thing worth reading is Code Pru.

I'm comparing audiences.
Preteens, teens, and Young adults with disposable income.

Comic books, as an artform, is doing well enough if you look past the US.

But it did work. As in, it was created and distributed. I don't think it's Brandon Graham's goal in life to make a comic that does six figure orders or even 4 figure orders.

The Big Two are struggling because they're tied to the antiquated direct market and are incapable of evolving, either because of their own incompetence or the die-hards that balk at even the slightest change,

Manga is flourishing, YA books are growing, more school are teaching with comics than ever before, digital is improving distribution.

While the the anthology is a nice idea and one of the talking points when people say comics should be more like manga, people don't realize how limited it is.

>Your not going to live every story in it, and without a consistent feature that is there like say a One Piece or Judge Dredd, people are just not going to care right off the bat.

>Some people prefer to read what they like alone and not with other shit they might not care about.

>I worked in a comic store and trying to sell it to the right people was hard unless they were a furry. I only ever found one. Without a consistent appeal the comics have no appeal together.

One of the reason Shonen Jump and other manga anthologies work is that they appeal to demographics and theme the overall magazine to those demographics. This means that everyone is very similar to each other but it means that the reader knows what he get's each week or each month.

Anthology series really depend on one or two flagship strips or creators that appear in every issue. Island didn't manage to produce one.

Bad schedule/management. You get two issues with one particular story then you go two issues with nothing from that story and then it returns for the 5th issue and so on.
Too expensive considering the wialkty of the stories.

Can somebody post the pasta please

Because it sucked. Most stories had shitty artwork, ugly artstyles, and piss poor writing that just meandered around and never actually had anything interesting happen. Then after 5 issues of crap, they start dumping gay furry porn. Little wonder this failed.

>read through this shit
>back cover of last issue
>"We're proud to be publishing a collection of Onta's pornographic work..."
>odds are the issues with Onta's gay furry porn sold better than the rest of the series
>all the 2deep4u artsy shit and poorly drawn stories about being a tranny failed against gay furry porn
Ok, that's funny.

>piss poor writing that just meandered around and never actually had anything interesting happen.

Huh. It's almost as if giving artists complete control over a story is a terrible idea.

But Brandon Graham will say to himself: "Am I so wrong that I'm out of touch? ... No. It's the comics industry that's wrong."

If multiple warheads ran more than once every 5 issues it might have something to carry it.
There was some good stuff though.
My favorite was dagger proof mummy.