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Karen Berger, Free To Say What She Thinks About Marvel And DC Comics

Published Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:00:46 -0500

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:23:36 -0500

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Karen Berger took to the podium at the ICV2 Insider Talks event at New York Comic Con today. She talked through her history in the medium, working at DC Comics, as well as her current work, editing the Surgeon X comic book by Sarah Kenney and John Watkiss from Image Comics, the lessons she's learned and her plans for the future.

But she took time out as well to discuss what she sees as utter ridiculousness in the comic book industry, the abuse and extensions of variant comics, and how much of the market they take up. She talked about understanding and accepting the existence of the collectibles market for comics, but spoke out about the practice of using variant covers as a way to bump up sales numbers of comics to levels that entailed won't be able to sell, calling out the 1:1000 variant cover of `Venom, recycling and recolouring and old single panel from an eighties comic as the cover.

It's a not a particularly controversial viewpoint and it received plenty of support from the assembled crowd. But it does signal that Karen may be more willing to speak out about other madnesses…

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