Ok. So I've come to truly realize that nothing matters anymore.
And this is especially true in the realm of Transformers for me.
The club exclusive figure expected to ship at the end of May. Oh goody. My $40 repainted Energon basic exclusive will be coming. I can barely contain my excitement. I'm pretty sure that joing this "club" was the biggest waste of $40 I've spent in 2005.
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IDW Publishing obtains the Transformers comic license. Yet another big fucking deal.
Practically every company that licenses stuff from Hasbro ends up failing. And the major reason is not because it is Transformers-related but that it is collector and bad business set-up related.
Dreamwave fucked up the TF license by having horrible business practices and putting out product that collectors really didn't want. I mean a Micromasters series that was practically unreadable about characters no fan knows??? What the fuck?
And not paying your creative talent didn't help.
It also didn't help that there was zero advertising and marketing for the Dreamwave product outside of comic shops. This of course is a comics industry problem more that only hurts everybody in the business.
And did they have to reprint the same issues over and over with different fucking covers??? This is what killed comics in the early 90s. Don't you fucking people learn??? Ever??? History is history. It is what happened! (Of course, a lot of dregs like to try and alter history and/or disregard any lesson that it teaches.)
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And now that 1/2 of my collection is packed up I realize that I've really wasted a lot of money on an absolutely useless hobby. Totally and utterly useless. Boxes upon boxes of toys that serve no purpose other than for me to say "I have this!" or "I managed to get that!".
What the fuck is wrong with me???
I am not just a retard I should be known as the Retard!
Dreamwave died because Pat Lee took a page from John Romero and lived like a Rock Star even when the product stopped backing him up. (So I have heard from my own Comic Book Guy. Apparently Lee was sinking money into cars and crap like that instead of looking at the bottom line, all based on the fact that he had the #1 book for about 6 months several years ago.) I love the MM toys, but WHO CARES ABOUT THE CHARACTERS?!?!? This is the reason most of my comics buying has shifted to D&Q and Fantagraphics. The cover might not be as shiny but, well, there's actual CONTENT inside. Well, that and my everlasting love for Love & Rockets (The comic, not the band.)