{"id":7814,"date":"2005-08-07T04:52:24","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T11:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/07\/bt05-my-publisher-my-enemy.html"},"modified":"2005-08-07T04:52:24","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T11:52:24","slug":"bt05_my_publish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/bt05_my_publish.html","title":{"rendered":"BT05 &#8211; My Publisher, My Enemy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numeric analyses of the &#8220;Current Crop of Comics&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>DC = 25 (+ 6 Vertigo + 3 Wildstorm) = 34<br \/>\nMarvel = 19 (+ 2 MAX) = 21<br \/>\nImage = 7<br \/>\nDark Horse = 5<br \/>\nand then Dork Storm 2, and Abstract, Oni, Kenzer, Dynamite with 1 each.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, is DC better?  Well, if I look at just my Top 25 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>DC = 4 (+ 2 Vertigo + 2 Wildstorm) = 8<br \/>\nMarvel = 9 (+ 1 MAX) = 10<br \/>\nImage = 2<br \/>\nDark Horse = 3<br \/>\netc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, arguably, DC is overall drawing more of my custom, but I think best (marginally) of Marvel.  That might be further influenced by some extra DC I picked up as part of their summer brouhaha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numeric analyses of the &#8220;Current Crop of Comics&#8221;: DC = 25 (+ 6 Vertigo + 3 Wildstorm) = 34 Marvel = 19 (+ 2 MAX) = 21 Image = 7&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15416,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/bt09-hey-kids-even-still-some-more-comics-blogathon.html","url_meta":{"origin":7814,"position":0},"title":"BT09 &#8211; Hey, Kids! 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