Dark Horse's editorial blunders are not limited to Conan.

There is enough material for them to produce a 4th Magnus Robot Fighter archive, but how would they brand it?  The first 3 are Russ Manning's Magnus Robot Fighter.  So would a final volume be volume 4?  Or volume 1 of a non-Russ Mannig series?  This problem would simply not exist if these had simply been called Magnus Robot Fighter Archives.  Solar and Turok are branded that way, and can therefore be expected to collect the entire runs of those series'.  So, for a while, it looked like they were not immune to reason and could in fact learn.  But then comes the BWS archives.  An utter failure from a marketing perspective and frankly, if I were the licensor, I'd have pulled the license from them if they refused to cancel, rebrand, and resolicit so this could be done right, comprehensively, from the beginning and make *everyone* involved a lot more money.  But the folks at Dark Horse are unencumbered by the burdens of competence.

That being said, someone seems to have learned that the rainbow spines look stupid, because they dropped them for the Jesse Marsh Years Tarzan and Conan series' and went with something classy and uniform.

They seem to make a point of doing things differently than industry standard simply for the sake of being different.  The problem is that the industry standard is the industry standard for a reason.  Because that's what people have bought, and by voting with their wallets, it's what consumers have told publishers will get them to spend money.

Monkeying around with a fomula that works for everyone else seems to violate the most basic rule in an manufacturing process.  "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."


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