DC Relaunching Everything? - Part 9

[Anubis]

I'm getting impatient......lol

Be careful what you wish for.

She's likely to be some sort of Demonic Hooker if this reboot has shown us anything.

 

[X Knight]

Be careful what you wish for.

She's likely to be some sort of Demonic Hooker if this reboot has shown us anything.

NNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!

but..........I'd still read it...........

 

[HighFivingMF]

RIP G.I. Combat.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I'm surprised that DC isn't cancelling more books.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Yeah, I'm really glad that Demon Knights and Frankenstein are sticking around for a bit longer. I think those two books are seriously underrated as far as the "new 52" goes.

More people need to be buying those books.

 

[CrimsonMist]

I'm excited for Orion appearing in Wonder Woman #15. I'm really happy I got back on track with that book. 10-12 were incredible.

I'm also kinda hoping DC launches a new New Gods book. It would be kinda neat if Azzarello and Eduardo Risso were the creative team, too. Just as long as Geof Johns and Jim Lee don't touch it.

 

[redhawk23]

Yeah, I'm really glad that Demon Knights and Frankenstein are sticking around for a bit longer. I think those two books are seriously underrated as far as the "new 52" goes.

More people need to be buying those books.

Demon Knights 0 was actually sold out in both shops I go to. I don't know how many copies they had stocked though.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Demon Knights 0 was actually sold out in both shops I go to. I don't know how many copies they had stocked though.

Well, either way that's some pretty good news for that title. I just heard rumors that Demon Knights and Frankenstein were named in a short list of books to get the axe next.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Well, either way that's some pretty good news for that title.

Not really. It most likely means that the shop just orders very few copies of it for the specific people who get the book. My comic book shop does that for books like Dial H (where I was the only person who got it) and whatnot.

I just heard rumors that Demon Knights and Frankenstein were named in a short list of books to get the axe next.

Well look at the sales. It's obvious that there will be a lot of books that will get canned come the next few months.

The sad part for me is that while most of the lower selling books that I've been buying have so far been sparred (the only casualties being O.M.A.C., Resurrection Man, and Justice League International), a lot of my favorites are now on the chopping block where it's very unlikely that they'll be saved again like Frankenstein, Demon Knights, and I, Vampire. Blue Beetle and Hawkman should be on the chopping block as well, but I won't be as sad with those books gone.

 

[HighFivingMF]

I'm sad Hawkman never got to be good.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Yeah, I just try to keep myself hopeful because I'm really liking those books. I'm also digging the heck out of Dial H and I've heard the sales are low for that as well. If those three books get canned in the near future DC is going to be losing a whole lot of money from me.

 

[CConn]

I really hope they have enough wherewithal to cancel the low-quality, low-selling books first.

Granted, they haven't necessarily done that so far.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I would say that so far with the exception of O.M.A.C. and Resurrection Man, DC has been cancelling the low-quality titles.

 

[Cain]

Except that Voodoo and Men of War were not low quality but since I'm the only one here who read them till the end of course I could understand the ignorance.

 

[RoughNTumble]

I liked voodoo until they kicked ron marz off imo

 

[RockSP]

but since I'm the only one here who read them till the end

Nope.

 

[CConn]

I would say that so far with the exception of O.M.A.C. and Resurrection Man, DC has been cancelling the low-quality titles.

The simple fact that they canceled ANY of their high quality titles before clunkers like Blue Beetle, Hawkman, etc. proves that they don't entirely care about quality.

Not that I'm being super-critical of them or anything. I mean, I'm grateful of the titles they have kept on despite their sputtering sales.

 

[Mystirious]

Yeah, I'm really glad that Demon Knights and Frankenstein are sticking around for a bit longer. I think those two books are seriously underrated as far as the "new 52" goes.

More people need to be buying those books.

Everyone needs to be buying Demon Knights right now

It's good stuff

Be careful what you wish for.

She's likely to be some sort of Demonic Hooker if this reboot has shown us anything.

You say that like its a bad thing 'Nubs

 

[HighFivingMF]

So, how about this Sword of Sorcery book?

 

[JewishHobbit]

Not read it, but Batwoman #0 was amazing. I'm back on the Batwoman bandwagon That scene in her room on the day of her mother and sister's funeral got to me.

And man do I wish I could just get a Shazam book by Johns and Frank without it being in the Justice League. I want to drop JL... but I want to continue Shazam. I can't do both

 

[HighFivingMF]

Look who showed up in Justice League #0.

Spoiler

 

[Anubis]

Not the Question.

 

[CConn]

I have to say, despite some of the stupidness in some of the 0 issues, I really wish they had just done like 6-issue mini series to retell all of these characters origins, rather than try to cram all these little facts and tidbits into one issue.

Or if they were going to do it in one issue, that they would've written them in the classic compressed style where you could actually tell a pretty massive story within the span of a single issue.

 

[chamber-music]

So looks like Greg Rucka has got tired of the big two as well now.

I’ve reached the end of my Work For Hire rope. I’m enjoying The Punisher, but that’s not mine, it’s Marvel’s, and l knew that going in. I have spent a lot of my comics career in service of other masters, – and I’ve had enough of that for now. I’m sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.

I gave seven very good years to DC and they took gross advantage of me. That’s partially my fault, but not entirely. At this point, I see no reason why I should have to put up with that, I can sink or swim on my own.

You are seeing a grotesque Hollywoodisation of the two main companies. There was at least a period where I felt that the way they wanted to make money was by telling the best story they could; now the quality of the work matters less than that the book comes out. There is far less a desire to see good work be done.

Dan DiDio has gone on record, and this is the same man that said Gotham Central would never be cancelled as long as he was there, telling people what a great book Gotham Central was, but it never made any money.

Well, take a look at your trade sales! That book has made nothing but money as a trade. What I’m now being told is, ”lt was never worth anything to us anyway.”So, you know what? They can stop selling the Batwoman: Elegy trade and stop selling the Wonder Woman trades and everything else I’ve done, because clearly I’ve not done anything of service and those guys aren’t making any money off me.

Right now, where the market is, I have no patience for it.

My run on Punisher ends on #16, and we are then doing a five-issue mini called War Zone and then I’m done. That’s it! The Powers-That-Be at Marvel, without talking to me, decreed that he’s going to join a team on another book.

That’s their choice, they own him, but I don’t have to be happy about it. I am glad I had the opportunity to work on the character and I’m proud of the work I’ve done.

Despite what the publishers say, their interest in the talent is minimal now, the interest is only in promoting the financial worth of their properties. That was not the case as of two or three years ago, when there was an ‘Exclusives war’, but that’s all gone by the wayside now. Ultimately, they are saying, “We don’t need you,’ because they can get a million more just like you.

For every person who passes on the opportunity to write Spider-Man or Superman, I guarantee there are 5000 hungry writers who would give their eye-teeth to do it. But just because they want to do it, it doesn’t mean they are capable of doing it. It comes down entirely to Warner Bros. realising what they owned but had not exploited. At the end of the Harry Potter franchise, they went “Oh, crap, we need something else fast’, looked over at Marvel’s very very successful film program.

DC are playing catch up with Marvel, because of things like The Avengers breaking six hundred million domestic. That’s a lot of money, I don’t begrudge Warner Bros wanting to make bank it would be like blaming a shark for eating, but l do think that the pursuit of that financial windfall bears a detrimental effect on the creative and artistic side.
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[Mystirious]

Not read it, but Batwoman #0 was amazing. I'm back on the Batwoman bandwagon That scene in her room on the day of her mother and sister's funeral got to me

Batwoman issue zero was the best comic book of the month

Absolutely loved it and I loved getting to see more details of her origin story without changing it

Can't wait for next months issue going to be so fab seeing her and Wonder Woman teaming up to take down Medusa