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Everyone has been wondering what DC would do to shore up its line, and now Bleeding Cool has a rumor that is sure to heat up the hot stove league: a June relaunch with a focus on more media-centric titles: And the new line even more dominated with Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn/Suicide […]
Thanks for the link, Heidi.
Throwing lots of money at Hickman is still one of the coups I’d suggest.
I do think Hickman would be a steal. He just rebuilt Marvel-U over the course of (FF start….. 6 years?)
But the bigger issues has been pointed out – DC has just announced an exciting new jumping off point.
That ain’t good.
I talked to Oliver Sava from AV Club about who else DC (or even Marvel) could hire on my podcast a while back, but I like the idea of them going REALLY outside the box on hires. Back up a mack truck to Raina Telgemeier’s house and get her to write a real teen/young person oriented Teen Titans book. Oliver had an even better idea: Shonda Rhimes writing something. Granted, there’s no reason for either of those people to do it, but could you imagine Shonda Rhimes tackling an Amanda Waller-led Suicide Squad book? Could be pretty rad, and would certainly garner mainstream attention.
I’d say it’s about as viable as BKV or Ta-Nehisi Coates, but mostly in the sense that it’s SUPER unlikely.
If you look at Dan DiDio’s Facebook page, I think he just confirmed this.
I thought of Hickman as well. I thought of some other things too but I’m exactly 2 books deep into DC’s superhero line these days and those are unofficial miniseries at this point…DC can only pretty much improve for me.
That assumes DC warrants doing anything other than observing at this point.
“So you have only a few options:
1) Hire BKV. Unlikely.
2) Hire Ta-nehisi Coates.
3) Have Scott Snyder oversee his writing students as “The Snyder-verse”
4) Put the emphasis on artists again — which would require a totally realignment of editorial thinking.”
1) I’d check that out
2) Too soon to predict my interest until I read BP#1.
3) This feels kinda low rent for $4 comics but writing sweatshops must be an irresistible idea.
4) I’d be interested in new editorial voices having more influence at DC.
so this is three relaunches in 5-6 years?
new 52
dc you
and now this one
the final insult
Here in the UK, Titan Comics reprint a number of DC comics for newsstand distribution but only focus on the characters kids and retailers will know from the movies, games, and TV. So we have Batman, Flash, Green Arrow, Batman/Superman (a solo Superman comic failed) Justice League, Supergirl and, from next next month, Wonder Woman and Gotham Central titles. Perhaps DC are looking to return to the American newsstands by adopting the same plan?
That said, Warners will probably still want DC to publish about 50 comics, and I doubt we’ll see 8 titles for each main character, so I’m sure some of the B-listers will still get a shot. We’ll soon know.
That said, Warners will probably still want DC to publish about 50 comics, and I doubt we’ll see 8 titles for each main character, so I’m sure some of the B-listers will still get a shot. We’ll soon know.
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Lew, I sure hope you’re right. I’ve usually found that I enjoy DC (and Marvel) books starring second an third-stringer characters more than I do the A-listers.. I’d love to see their “Legends of Tomorrow” anthology title work. But herein lies the problem, one I’ve always had with DC: the absolute refusial by them to promote ANYTHING other than their A=list character-starring titles–books, by the way, that really don’t need the extra publicity to be successful. Look, I know Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and the JLA (and related characters)are the alpha characters, no problem there. BUT—-Hey, DC, there’s room at the table for more! Promote the living hell out of your second and third-tier books, see what they can do once they’re under the same spotlight as the A-listers.
Each day DC and Marvel make comics, they show how irrelevant they are in the 2010s. They have no idea how to find new readers and get real sales and this isn’t going to do that.
But milk existing readers? What a cop out.
All their DC You “catering to reader diversity” spiel was all BS, right? But copy Marvel’s sales failure with their relaunch, cool.
I’m tired of DC now, and I’m new to DC thru the New 52.
Creator comics all the way.