Comments on: The new ImageComics.com launches… finally

By: Freak Comics » Fear Agent

Freak Comics » Fear Agent — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:32:17 +0000

[...] Games Recnetly I’ve made some fairly pointed comments about Image Comics, and I’m not going to apologize. Their new site sucks almost as bad as their last one. I wish that Molly would review it like she did the UK Disney Store (I’m sure it would put my review to shame)… they deserve it. [...]

By: Freak Comics a weblog with original comics

Freak Comics a weblog with original comics — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:26:47 +0000

[...] Recnetly I’ve made some fairly pointed comments about Image Comics, and I’m not going to apologize. Their new site sucks almost as bad as their last one. I wish that Molly would review it like she did the UK Disney Store (I’m sure it would put my review to shame)… they deserve it. [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:48:54 +0000

I thought we had exhausted this subject until just this moment.

I subscribed to the RSS feed of the imagecomics.com blog and clicked on a link to visit the blog page… lo and behold: none of the images work. Months in development and they couldn’t link the images correctly? check it out:

http://www.imagecomics.com/2005/11/ringo-and-lawrence-cover-lions-tigers.html

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:11:15 +0000

Daniel My thoughts exactly. On top of that they’re using it simply to showcase new artwork, aka: advertise.

I realize that the blog is just getting on it’s feet so they could improve their content in the future, however I doubt that will happen. I would really love to see some interesting content from the various comic book creators, topics such as where they got their inspiration or their thoughts on the comic book industry… things like that.
Artwork is nice, but boring as a standalone.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:05:01 +0000

So, what you’re saying is that a major player in the comic publishing market—as anemic as the US comic publishing market might be—is using freakin’ Blogger for their blog? If it’s taken months to develop this, couldn’t they have taken another two days and whipped up a WordPress installation or something?

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:45:07 +0000

I just visited the Image Comics weblog and it seems that it is going to be a mere marketing ploy as I feared. Worse than that however, I was unable to leave a comment because I don’t have a Blogger account.

Very foolish of Image indeed.

By: khaled

khaled — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:34:52 +0000

I’ve got to agree, the site layout leaves a lot to be desired. It’s that old story where people who did a website 5 years ago think things have stayed the same, not realising the web is one of the fastest changing mediums out there.

It’s a shame really because like you said they could have set the bar. Unfortunately I’m completely underwhelmed by most comic book websites.