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Recently I posted a news item about the new Badger book from Devil’s Due having low orders. Writer/creator Mike Baron reached out to me about it, and I presume he reached out to some other folks who remember the Badger from his 80s run. Part of the Capitol Comics/First Comics indie era, The Badger was […]
The Badger looks like the last kind of comic that would interest me, but comparing it to lost golden age IPs as to why it failed feels like rubbing salt in a wound.
Baron was obviously hoping this would get him back in the game (and probably back to making a living with comics).
Pointing out that he has failed seems like insult to injury.
Comics fail all the time, no need to point a spotlight when an older creator stumbles.
Almost everything fades with time. Don Winslow was a very popular character in the ’40s, featured in a radio show and two movie serials. But how many people under 70 have hard of the character today?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Winslow_of_the_Navy_%28comic_strip%29
For that matter, how many people under 40 have heard of Lil Abner (a comic strip that ended in 1977), or know Dick Tracy as anything but a Warren Beatty movie?
Maybe Baron should create something new instead of trying to relive past glories. (That goes for the entire industry, not just Baron.) How many people who bought comics in the ’80s are still going to a comic shop today? Some, but they’re outnumbered by younger people who may have never heard of Badger.
Without passion or prejudice, Heidi, you have stated the facts.
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“it’s obvious that all kind of comics were being published in multiple genres, and the styles are more like what you’d find on tumblr today than the “house superhero style” that many think is essential to the form. A lot to parse.”
You’re right. If Will Eisner, Jack Cole or Jack Davis had come along 30 years later, fans would have rejected their styles for being too “cartoony.” And they might have rejected Kirby and Ditko. Heck, they DID reject Kirby and Ditko in the ’70s and ’80s. They didn’t draw enough like Neal Adams.
Five 80s comics I’d rather see brought back than ‘Badger’:
The Ballad of Halo Jones
The Elementals
New Statesmen
Thriller (the DC Comics series, not the album)
Video Jack
I think the better strategy would be for Baron to get back in the scene with a title from the big two and then bring back The Badger. He was the go-to writer for the Punisher. Wish there was a way to get him back on that title with a hot artist to raise and reestablish his profile.
I have always looked his works, Nexus and the Badger are two of my faves, but I almost missed the book in the solicits because it’s from such a small publisher.
I enjoy the artists attached to the project, but they are not hot artists at the moment. That’s another obstacle to getting attention.
I would love to see First comics make a comeback, but fusing them with Devil’s Due, a publisher that has a slightly sorted history, doesn’t seem like a partnership that offers First much.
All in all, First’s reappearance in the field feels slight and timid.
Looked his works should be loved his works.
Oliver C: I’d also go for a Thriller revival. That book was about a decade ahead of its time — a Vertigo comic before Vertigo existed.
I seem to see this phenomenon more among fans than creators, but it does all seem to be focused on the same time period (generally 25-30 years ago, so right now the mid-80s to early ’90s). In the cases I’ve observed, the fans really liked Comic, and want Comic to come back so they can have more Comic, and they’re dead sure it’ll be a hit because, well, it’s their favorite comic ever. Sometimes it even does come back (usually if it was a Marvel/DC book and they’re interested in preserving the trademark, or there was a toy line/cartoon attached and the owner of that is), at which point it either has middling success before limping towards cancellation or tanks right out of the gate, and the social media babble is full of protestations that it would have worked if They Had Just Done It Right. Never during this process will the notion that the rest of the world just isn’t as enthused about their favorite thing from when they were eight enter their minds.
All of which is a very roundabout way of saying I’ll be eyeing the fortunes of IDW’s ROM revival with some interest.
(There’s also an interesting permutation of this where a fan-turned-pro will try to make their favorite mid-list character or concept into the new superstar, despite decades of evidence indicating that very few people give a damn. Geoff Johns has done this at least twice, with Hawkman and Cyborg.)