Questions about DC's relaunch

[anarky]

But it was arbitrarily picked to be that number because of the marketing stunt that was 52, correct?

[Rollo Tomassi]

I imagine that was the limit of Didios creativity. "52 weeks in a year?! Hey guys, I've got an idea that's so crazy it just might work!!"

[Rollo Tomassi]

Here's a query. If this whole shebang is to encourage new readers to head into comic chops and not be intimidated by series in the 700s, 800s , and 900s (like Batman, Superman, Detective, Action).

Would somebody be more or less intimidated by ONE Batman book on issue 720 or by TWELVE Batman books all on the first issue? And now what makes that Batman series the "flagship" Batman series? Before it was obvious which was the main Batman title. But now they're all the same.

[Diabolical]

I wish DC and Marvel would have the balls to give each character only 1 title.
Batman, Superman and large member team books (like X-Men) would be the few exceptions, as long as they were discernibly different and didn't interfere with each other.
And those select few were limited to only two titles.

Batman would be the easiest one now with two guys under the cowl; one title for Bruce (Batman, so the original Batman is in the namesake title) and one for Dick (Detective, which is kind of funny as the nickname for detective is dick).

Superman should have one title for the basic Superman family stories (Superman) and the other for Superman in the wider DC universe (Action).

With so many characters X-Men should go back to the two team dynamic (Gold and Blue). Same goes for titles like Avengers and Justice League.

I'd also like to see rotating stories in anthology "family" titles, like Superman Family, Batman Family or X-Men Family (not my actual suggested title). This way we could get stories from characters that really don't need their own title, like: Catwoman, Robin, X-whatever, Supergirl, Superboy, etc. 44 pages every month, with overlapping stories to keep you coming back. For example, issue #8 would have Catwoman part 2 and Robin part 1 and #9 would have Robin part 2 and Batgirl part 1 and issue #10 would have Batgirl part 2 and whatever comes next and so on.

I understand this would never happen since characters like Wolverine are too popular to have only one title. And why have two Batman titles when you can have five?

[jjreason]

I'm with you on the fewer titles - big time. We were actually blathering on about the same thing in the other thread. Sales would be there for sure if folks only had top quality books to choose from - seeing the raft of Marvel shit that comes in is overwhelming for me, and I've been reading for over 20 years.

[Diabolical]

I'm with you on the fewer titles - big time. We were actually blathering on about the same thing in the other thread.

Yeah, I saw that. This post could have gone in either thread.

[jjreason]

The only place your post wants to go is in Rollo's mouth. Thread nothing.

[Diabolical]

I asked today at my local comic shop if people were pissed about the reboot and dropping their titles. He said a few have been pissed and dropped everything, but they've had a lot more people adding the new stuff.

[jjreason]

I got a preview freebie of the 52 new #1's last week. Looks like I will be buying dc comics for the first time since Hush (and just after Hush, I hung around for like 2 issues of Azzarello on Batman before I gave up):

JLA
Action
Superman
Batman
Detective Comics.

So I guess it WILL work - for a month anyhow.

[Diabolical]

There are a few I'm considering checking out, but I'm 100% sure if I will.

[anarky]

I can't be the only person to see this and say, "That fucking whore is cheating on Superman!" Can I?

It's bad enough to end the Spider-Marriage and Super-Marriage through questionable means. Worse to show everyone involved in either marriage (except Clark, who's, of course, a loser) fucking around at every possible moment.

[jjreason]

I read an issue of ASM last night where Flash Thompson observed PP and MJ having a coffee and he came up with some thoughts about how PP was going to screw it up with Carlie Carter or w/e the hell her name is if he wasn't careful. Then he went on a special ops army mission using the Venom symbiote.

No, I'm not kidding.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Where've you been? Flash has his own ongoing Venom series written by that shithead Remender. Its on issue 6 I think.

[Diabolical]

So, Lois is also a tv reporter rather than a newspaper reporter now?

[vynsane]

Justice League Dark? really? do they not recall "Dark Avengers" and the fact that their concept is basically "Secret Avengers"? also, it sounds like a candy bar with dark chocolate instead of milk.



the new Hawk and Dove proves that liefeld has not grown one iota as an artist in 25 years. he's still using that same screaming/yawning mouth template two and a half decades later.

a cover depicting superman in the electric chair with the quote "[...] they’re utterly unprepared for the rage of a Superman cornered!" - um... what?

god, i hate DC comics.