DC Relaunching Everything? - Part 9

[Mystirious]

In that case all the Titans should have light cycles

They are the best way to travel

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

I would actually support the Tron suits if that happened

 

[Mystirious]

Daft Punk would be the newest members of the team

 

[Motown Marvel]

here's a pretty interesting article on "how much" the new 52 has boosted DC's sales.

http://comiksdebris.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-52-and-dc-comics-month-to-month.html

it concludes that when comparing the sales since the relaunch to sales over the past ten years, the relaunch sales are good in comparison to the bad years, but low when compared to the good years. so, it's kinda just stabilized DC right in the middle.

 

[CConn]

I really wish they released sales info regarding digital comics.

I'd be interested to see how much of a boost digital lends publishers' sales.

 

[Mystirious]

I'm betting a lot of people are buying comic books from DC digitally right now

Especially people who live in places where there are no comic book shops nearby

 

[Mystirious]

Birds of Prey was pretty neat this week

Starling got all the best lines of course and I'm interested to see what Ivy is up to right now

And I loved Legion of Superheroes this week

 

[RoughNTumble]

anyone try ravagers?

 

[hippie_hunter]

No. It's related to the attrocity that is Lobdell's Teen Titans so I avoided it like if it were a plague.

 

[RoughNTumble]

me too lulz

 

[Saint]

No. It's related to the attrocity that is Lobdell's Teen Titans so I avoided it like if it were a plague.

Now he's going to be on Superman, too.

I don't understand how someone could make Red Hood book boring, or write a story where I don't care about a single thing that happens.

 

[SuperCereal]

Now he's going to be on Superman, too.

I don't understand how someone could make Red Hood book boring, or write a story where I don't care about a single thing that happens.

I havent been following RHatO lately but has it really turned boring? I thought most people loved it.

 

[Mystirious]

New issue of Teen Titans this week it looks like this issue will be more fun than the grim and gloomy Harvest story at least

 

[Saint]

I havent been following RHatO lately but has it really turned boring? I thought most people loved it.

I may not be a good gauge, because I think it's been pretty boring since day one. I think the humour is sometimes effective, but otherwise it's stale. If Jason Todd wasn't in the book I'd have absolutely no reason to read it.

 

[CLARKY]

No offense Clarky, but you're really not making any sense.

Oh. Sorry, I thought I did. About what precisely? About my dislike of the DC books right now or about the **** they make?

Honestly, the minor titles that don't stand a chance of succeeding actually being given the chance is one of my favorite things about the relaunch. I don't read much of them but I think it's awesome that they're giving such minor characters the chance to strive, or at least to get some recognition so that they mean something later in team books or guest appearances. I mean, I've never cared a lick about anything Wildstorm but here I am enjoying Grifter a great deal. Animal Man and Swamp Thing are years past their prime and they've been given another shot and have shined.

Yeah, I got that, and I agree with you, it's great to see minors characters published, but my main problem is the general direction of the publisher. I mean, Animal man is out, that's cool, but it is stupidto announce an ongoing, when it is sure to fail, and when it does, they just cancel the serie! This is pretty dense! Why don't they just do a mini serie? or a maxi, whatever, I think it would work better to do 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 minis rather than a single big ongoing... failing few months later!
And what about this ***** with Hawkman? I'm not fan of the character but I don't hate him at all, but come on, a new ongoing? Liefield?? Since years I keep saying that they should do Hawkman in mini-series. and when I keep talking about *****, what about the JL first arc? Was this a satisfying story? The best I can say about it is "popcorn". Due to the great art, that's all.
You know, reading your comments, I noticed that I was in fact alone, bothered by DC new 52. It seems I am the one with the problem but it goes fine with everybody else.It does not matter that much, but I thought everyone had a problem with that. I'm stunned to see, I'm the one bringing it to a huge problem kind of thing. But anyway, no need to scream further in the water.

Do you think Marvel will ever make a big push for Malibu or Crossgen comics? They barely even tried with the Crossgen minis. It's like they just did it to get more numbers of titles on the shelf for quantity sake. That's about the only way they can beat DC overall.

I don't give a ***** about who beats who actually, but I thought Marvel was "beating" DC almost all the time, didn't they?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Marvel generally has more of a market share. The New 52 allowed DC to overtake Marvel for a few months, but things are evening out now. I suspect Marvel will overtake DC again eventually and things will be back to the way they were. The comic-buying audience just seems to prefer Marvel in the long run.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Marvel generally has more of a market share. The New 52 allowed DC to overtake Marvel for a few months, but things are evening out now. I suspect Marvel will overtake DC again eventually and things will be back to the way they were. The comic-buying audience just seems to prefer Marvel in the long run.

Marvel does usually always have an event with tie-ins and like 7 issues of every book a month.

 

[Mystirious]

Though personally Marvel's event books are my least favourite of Marvel's stuff. Especially if Bendis is writing them

I'm enjoying most of their X men stuff right now though and Avengers Academy

And Mark Waid's Daredevil is fun on a bun

 

[HighFivingMF]

I like Captain America. I have Daredevil, but haven't gotten around to reading it. I keep meaning to get into Winter Soldier. I look forward to when Fraction's off Iron Man.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Marvel generally has more of a market share. The New 52 allowed DC to overtake Marvel for a few months, but things are evening out now. I suspect Marvel will overtake DC again eventually and things will be back to the way they were. The comic-buying audience just seems to prefer Marvel in the long run.

But DC has typically been dominating the best selling comics over Marvel though. Marvel's market share lead nowadays comes mostly from double shipping, the $3.99 price point, and variant covers.

 

[Mystirious]

I'm still enjoying Cap though not as much as I did during Brubaker's first few arcs

You totally should read Daredevil its lots of fun

Thunderbolts is pretty amazing right now too

 

[hippie_hunter]

Thunderbolts ended Mysti.

 

[Mystirious]

Oh right its called Dark Avengers again now isn't it

I need to catch up on those new issues

 

[TheCorpulent1]

They read just like Parker's Thunderbolts. The second issue doesn't even feature a single Dark Avenger. So it's essentially the exact same comic with a new name--just the way I like it, 'cause Parker's Thunderbolts was awesome.

But DC has typically been dominating the best selling comics over Marvel though. Marvel's market share lead nowadays comes mostly from double shipping, the $3.99 price point, and variant covers.

The $3.99 price point isn't as bad as it used to be, it seems. I was looking through my comics from both Marvel and DC the other week and they each had a relatively low, relatively similar number of $3.99 books. $2.99's back in, somehow, even on stuff like Avengers and Winter Soldier at Marvel. Maybe because of the double-shipping.

 

[CConn]

Doesn't Marvel also release more books than DC? Which helps them with the market share.

At least I think they did before the New 52.