>Bleeding Cool gets the word on a number of major comic book industry hiring moves coming that may change the face of the direct market for comic books as it currently stands. That's basically it, by the way. But there are all manner of dots and crosses to be added, entire departments to be informed and contracts to be signed before it's okay to spill the names, the faces, the dates, the publishers and the like. Normally this kind of thing seems to wait for the fortnight before San Diego Comic-Con but not this time. We should be looking in the next week or two, just after Wonder Con. But we are talking very familiar names who have been in their roles for some time making moves that should excite all sorts of people.
>Expect all manner of discussion when those job changes happen, debate about what it means, for comics, for comic creators, for comic book publishers and the state of pretty much everything.
>As far as I can tell, no one is being fired. Not yet. Nor from what I have been told anyway. I know this is very much Something Has Happened, News At Eleven. But for now there should be two sizeable shoes dropping very soonish. And then more to come.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/big-comic-book-industry-moves-coming-shoes-are-about-to-drop/
>The Alan Moore being the new DC Comics President is believable.
More gays in charge, less comics anyone will pay for! Screencap this!
Oh boy a preannouncement that's so interesting
Todd McFarlane BUYS Marvel Comics, cancels all ongoing and future projects, turns it into a toy company
Todd McFarlane don't have the cash for that
remember when he was FOX's cinematic universe architect guy for like a weekend before he got himself fired for talking shit? good times
hope it's not Mark Millar getting some high position in any company
are they gonna start writing comics more like the manga model? more wider releases?
What would the weekly sales be of a Shonen Jump esque volume where all the major Marvel issues from that week were in? 300k?
Becoming more like Jump won't save Marvel from the political biases infesting their comics.
Comics shouldn't be blatantly political to begin with as they never actually were.
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Even then I wouldn't trust it. All anyone at Marvel knows about being more like Jump is to make everyone have badly drawn spikey hair, and keep the storytelling exactly as it is right now.
hahaha
It's be probably little over x1.5 of the most middling selling book there, because at that point most people would trade-wait or skip entirely to protest another book by a creator they dislike in the anthology.
>something big is happening
>or not
>whatever
Rich Johnston, everybody, the man who lost his green card and ended up working for a far right guy who collects horse porn on his work computer
Vaush? No, he is one of yours. Don't dump your trash on our side like you did with the ancaps.
>Vaush
whoever the frick that is, it's not Paul Staines
>BleedingJew
Jeff b***hzos is basically the more evil, cringy version of Musk.
>Jeff Bezos cringier than Elon
Wow
Every deviantart user.
that boy is right doe
>none of the homosexuals already destroying comics are being fired
So.......nothing basically?
Who cares? Marvel was always bad and the MCU should have ended with endgame or at least no way home. As for DCEU, If they can't obey an instruction as simple as having Green Lantern or even Green Arrow be a member of the justice league, what good are they?
>B-but the Green Lantern movie was b-
Shut up, no it wasn't. You were just spoiled with the boring realistic nolanverse movies. Besides, if they didn't have Christian Bale be Batman, who says Ryan Reynolds has to be Green Lantern.
Nobody is talking about movies you insufferable homosexual Wrong board
>homosexual
Don't know why you're talking to yourself, but okay. Also, I misread moves as movies.
fricking tourist go away
>Marvel was always bad
frick you
There's no justice in this world, so Bendis will continue to get work.
Bendis is one of like 5 people that can write something that sells
Almost all of his DC work was DOA or crashed within 4 issues.
Didn't his work on Action Comics, Young Justice, and LOS just completely ruin his career?
I don't really know what this would be. I guess just doing more OGNs and shifting around some top management?
man I fricking wish they would keep doing more OGNs
/co you promised me Disney would be owning DC by now, what the frick!
You promised me that DC would be out of business five years ago, what's taking so fricking long!
You GOD DAMN SWORE, you filthy liars!
Tom King doing something at Marvel. Gonna be fun coming to Cinemaphile and seeing people here pretend like he's a genius now.
Not with Brevoort around
Does Brevoort dislike Tom King?
maybe nothing concrete
Here's the current rumours.
DC Comics is set to be shut down by first quarter of 2025. Massive company wide layoffs are planned to take place as early as next month (May 2024).
Image has bought publishing rights off Warner Discovery for undisclosed sum.
Negotiations for this quote unquote sell off go back to before Warner Discovery merger (reportedly as far back as 2020).
Image plans to publish a very much slim down version of DC Comics universe with their now only being 8-12 titles per month
Each title will be a giant size issue of 101 pages, made up of one major story, three minor stories and reprints chosen by you the reader (i.e counting down top twelve issues featuring Joker/Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy etc).
The 101 page or "1 on 1" Giant Page DC Comics at Image will all be part of a new company wide relaunch all of DC characters similar to Rebirth or New 52.
A DC V Marvel crossover has already been planned and is being prepared to be DC at Image first event. Called Crisis On An Insane Earth it will be written by Mark Waid. No word yet on what it is about other than it being 40 year anniversary tribute to Crisis on Infinite Earths and 30 year anniversary of DC vs Marvel. The Amalgam universe is also said to return along with fan favourites such as Spider Boy, Super Solider, and Dark Claw.
Image characters such as Spawn and Shadowharwk will also be appearing in pages of this planned DC and Marvel type event.
TODDBROS…. WE WON.
This would be really smart if they could get more heads reading them, but they might not even have the goodwill for that. Hopefully it also means they'll expand into doing new things in new formats with the guaranteed DC money.
>Mark Waid
Dropped if true
I don't hate this. But I get some DC comics through mail subscription because it's a lot cheaper, and Image doesn't offer that. That would be unfortunate for me.
so it's Heroes Reborn with DC?
jesus frickin christ it'll be back in-house within a year
>Image plans to publish a very much slim down version of DC Comics universe with their now only being 8-12 titles per month
sensible if true but the time to do this was New 52, in 2011, instead of publishing 52 titles about Batman for meme energy
>Each title will be a giant size issue of 101 pages,
this would work well in general retail, if priced appropriately, but it sounds like these are launch issues and not the general format going forward
>A DC V Marvel crossover
they really must be desperate
Cutting down the number of issues published in general is a good idea for these shared universes. Comics can be so overwhelming, and people are used to watching every Marvel movie that comes out. A lot of people don't like the idea of missing bits of the story, and nobody's willing to spend enough money to read every Marvel book that comes out.
They're doing the right thing with their Ultimate universe, which come June will have four monthly titles. If you want to read all of them, you easily can. They're doing the same thing with the Energon Universe, Kirkman said they'll never have more than four books going at a time. For the main DC Universe it makes sense to have more ongoing titles. But still at 8-12, you could still buy them all if you really wanted to. And with smaller number like that, that would actually encourage some people to collect them all, whereas now it's impossible so no one feels the need to try.
Yeah, that'd be something like 15-20 an issue, probably. 160 is a lot, but it's within range of a normal addiction instead of the clown show of speculation that only dead people could participate in.
>Ultimate
they brought back the ultimate universe?
yes, but now the main plotter is hickman, is gonna implode badly just like krakoa x-men
I've been extremely impressed with it so far.
>A DC V Marvel crossover
>they really must be desperate
I'll be very disappointed if it's not titled 'Secret Crisis'
I really want this to be true, the twitter kvetching will be sublime, this WILL be seen an as abandonment of all the progress they’ve made left-ifying the milkshaking the industry
>Each title will be a giant size issue of 101 pages
Even page numbers, huh? Revolutionary and stunning.
>Image plans to publish a very much slim down version of DC Comics universe with their now only being 8-12 titles per month
>Each title will be a giant size issue of 101 pages
This makes some business sense but it makes me frown anyway because I don't think it increases the likelihood of me getting things I want.
Cultural consultants and micromanagers go first in layoffs before talent in the arts. It's like how tech companies have been a bloodbath lately. Infinite Juneteenth money isn't real and their projections were way off.
>I don't think it increases the likelihood of me getting things I want.
If they do it right and actually provide a greater value, you should still be paying the same amount for the stuff you want, plus getting other stories you didn't want/weren't interested in trying. That's how the anthology model should work. It should be cheaper for them too, because individual low-selling comics are money sinks that lower the total expense-per-page at a publisher.
If these rumors are true, this is something they should have done a long time ago, if they had only cared to work out the math.
Are these rumors actually posted somewhere other than this thread? First I'm hearing of it.
It's the first I've seen of it, so I'm not personally too optimistic. It would make too much sense. That said, such drastic course corrections are plausible if DC really is shut down, and everyone from top to bottom is fired.
I think the industry definitely needs a change, and some people say go all digital but I don't think that would work for comics the way it works for other forms of media. That idea makes some sense to me and I think it would at least be worth a shot. I like comics and I like the DC universe and I'd really like for them to be successful. I'm the only person I know who reads comics.
I should also add, the only party who does not benefit from anthologies becoming the norm are direct market retailers, who thrive on the collectability of multiple covers. But the DM is currently so diminished that they may no longer hold any kind of sway over DC. DC has to place its own survival above everything else, and square bound magazines would open up bookstores to comics in a way floppies cannot.
This is true. We all love comic shops, but if comics are going to survive, you have to be able to get them in more places.
And if comics could get more popular, maybe the shops can benefit from that. But physical stores aren't as popular as they used to be, and that sucks for the store owners and the people who enjoy them, but if the market just isn't supporting that anymore then it's foolish to try and force it.
Direct market retailers only thrive on variants so long as they have pigs and whales to keep buying them. They ignored the regulars who habitually bought smaller amount of comics for those groups to their own detriment.
There's been times I've been in the shop and considered buying a new DC book, but all that's left is the card stock variant covers and I didn't want to pay an extra dollar for it. I hate variant covers and I told my guy not to put any in my pull list. I like my collection to look consistent throughout the run.
To be fair to the comic shops, they think the way they do because they live in constant starvation mode. Animals in starvation eat everything in front of them. They don't save because there's no guarantee of anything tomorrow.
Comic shops and publishers operate on different scales of time. Individuals only think for as long as that individual's career. They plan for decades. A corporate publisher needs to think in centuries. So despite the many times retailers have shot themselves in the foot, be it floppies, loyalty to one distributor, obstructing digital publishing, or all the crab-like behavior during covid, it's ultimately the fault of the publishers for acquiescing to them. They should have known better.
>A corporate publisher needs to think in centuries.
Publishers are still individuals with their own selfish objectives. Ike's strategy of stiffing the X-Men wasn't some far sighted strategy, but short sighted in that X-Men still hasn't recovered from what's been done to them in the 2010s when Marvel was pushing MCU/Avengers adjacent shit and stiffing FF&X-Men.
You're thinking of the position of publisher. I'm talking about the company as a whole. The entity of Marvel will outlive Perlmutter or any of its publishers. Until the last one, I suppose.
Same but it's not a complete out-of-left-field thing, there were rumors a couple years ago (around the time 5G got cancelled I think?) that Todd was part of a consortium that was wanting to buy the publishing rights to DC, WB has been doing a lot of restructuring/cost cutting shit lately, the Marvel/DC crossovers getting reprinted after 30 years, and it's not the first time DC has tried to outsource its publishing, in the late 70s/early 80s they tried to outsource to Marvel but the head israelite there was like 'well if they don't sell as well as Marvel they must not be popular/worth the effort'
I could see this being a thing HOWEVER Image isn’t really a single publisher it’s a publisher made up of a bunch of studios so I’d assume it’d be Todd’s studio who’d do the publishing?
Yuck, woke versions of Spider Boy, Thorion, and Dark Claw.
>Image plans to publish a very much slim down version of DC Comics universe with their now only being 8-12 titles per month
How many of those will be Batman books? And which ones will be Bat-adjacent books like Penguin, Poison Ivy, that other one with Poison Ivy or whatever flavor of the month Gotham hero they are peddling this time around?
The number of people with nothing better to do to start their weekend than waste time at a Mongolian basket weaving picture puzzle site to Seriously and Intentionally comment on a shit post in a click bait OP thread.
It's one guy. He's been doing this for like a year now. He writes these big elaborate fakeposts claiming they're DC/Marvel leaks about new directions and they never actually come true because they're clearly ridiculous.
"This is Victor Von Doomwiener, the future ruler of Earth..."
"...Bob Iger"
"...Kathleen Kennedy"
"...Lou Diamond Phillips"
"... Stay Angry !!!"
>Crisis On An Insane Earth
Seriously?
this is not believable at all for so many different reasons
>Image bought...
Image doesn't have any money, and lacks the classification to make such acquisitions. Fake and gay.
Removing IP counter has really damaged things because this post is mostly same gay responses. Cinemaphile is dumb but not that dumb.
I do think there's smoke to the fire of DC getting outsourced to MacFarlane Studios
But it seems like there are plans in place with the production of new Elseworlds, Black Label and YA graphic novels which are still selling well in non comic shop markets.
Also the comics are starting to lean into James Gunn synergy
The only question marks with DC getting "Heroes Reborned" is
>what happens to Jim Lee? Do he and MacFarlane get along? I could see him getting moved into some kind of vanity title helping design the aesthetic of DC across video games and merch.
>what happens to the trade department? Watchmen probably still brings in a lot of money along with other perennials.
Idk I think DC/Big 2 have evolved past the need for floppies. I would prefer OGNs with a variety of Elseworlds flavor and manga/webtoon adaptations.
I would prefer my floppies big 2 capeshit to be contained to the size of an imprint like Ultimate or 2010s Valiant, Energon U or Spawn U.
>Watchmen probably still brings in a lot of money along with other perennials
You know what would be really funny? If Moore decides one day to cash all of those DC checks at once, DC's bank account becomes overdrawn, a check to a printer bounces, an entire month of books don't ship, and that's what causes DC to go bankrupt. Revenge is a dish best served cold, as they say.
A man can dream.
If Moore was clever enough to do this I might start respectiNg him again.
McFarlane is already absolutely ruining the action figure line as one of the worst retail lines out there so him taking over the comics too would be a horror show
How so?
overreliance on variants and artificial scarcity, hiding versions of characters people want behind limited distribution methods, overuse of bucks (including bucks that don't fit,) refusal to follow industry trends (sculpting things into gay little preposes or making figures out of scale with every other retail brand,) still doing NFTs aka "Digital Collectibles," the list goes on.
Most DC figures clock shelves and get clearanced out soon because they're wave after wave of Black Adams and Zombie Batmen
Todd basically sounds like he never left 1995 but in a bad way.
It's not that far off to assume if any company is going to have major trouble, it's DC. Since WB has remained in a state of bankruptcy for a few years now and eventually if they cannot turn things around the wolves are going to come out and start selling off assets.
And a modern day major media company is not going to see the need to keep an antiquated thing such as printed paper comics alive, and they are not going to care how old and traditional it is. They just want the IPs to use any time later if it appears profitable.
So it is semi believable when someone appears with news that DC is in trouble, or will roll back nearly all production, or fall under some other label for prints.
How much money do Marvel and DCs comics make a year anyway?
The comics, not stand alone graphic novels
I heard combined they make like 300M a year, that's without counting the costs to make the comments and that at least 1/3 of that money goes to Shops and shipping trucks
Neither Warner nor Disney would have any trouble shutting them down if they actually wanted to, they probably just keep them around because it's nice to have an extra 100m just in case
>I heard
You lost all credibility right there
He has more credibility than
It's also not too hard to assume you are a company wars homosexual making up bullshit about the company you don't like might go under any minute now...for the last 5 years.
And the announcement will be on Monday, right?
>We have breaking news that news might happen soon
I wish they'd stop writing news stories like teasers for movie trailers.
Unless it's an announcement they're firing everyone and starting fresh, it's a nothing burger.
More claimed big changes where nothing changes.
So that rumor that was posted on here about DC being in trouble/shutting down true?
I actually started reading a lot more DC books when Dawn of DC created a bunch of new jumping on points, which was the goal, but I don't think sales have improved much overall sadly. I'm liking DC a lot more than Marvel now, but I'm sure sales aren't what they wanted.
I did too, but then I eventually dropped it because I didn’t like the stories. I just kept losing interest.
I really like Green Lantern a lot. I think Jeremy Adams has become one of the best DC has, and I think they were foolish to take him off Flash (he's said on X that it wasn't his call and he wanted to stay on the book). I think Action Comics and Superman have been good, although they can't seem to figure out what they want Action Comics to be. They also put out some really great miniseries', like Doom Patrol, Jay Garrick, and Wesley Dodds. They're doing some good stuff, but I guess they're not getting what they were hoping for.
Also I know he's controversial here but I like Taylor's Nightwing and Titans. And I've been reading Tom King's Penguin and it's not everybody's cup of tea but it works for me.
Holy shit taste.
They don't really know what they want, but if they did they'd be unstoppable. At this point they need to expand massively in the big issue or even a manga magazine style model of cheap density over quality model, or get off the pot so somebody else can get their marketing space.
>At this point they need to expand massively in the big issue or even a manga magazine style model of cheap density over quality model
I actually really liked in 2023 when Action Comics was an anthology. You had the ongoing A-story, the ongoing B-story, and a third story that was either a one-shot or a smaller two or three issue arc. I think it really did increase the value you got.
Of course, the problem was that the third story was usually from someone who absolutely sucked. I'd like them to fix that if they try it again. But if the stories were all good to great, I think it's a good format.
I'd go even further than that. No more variant covers (artificial racket), up to five stories an issue, plus extra content in single pages. Bring on two or three of the American webtooners and you'll slay the Koreans eating our lunch there, and you can get plenty of people to write interesting articles to make it as thick as possible. You want their eyes to be swimming.
And the best part is that due to these mega mergers, they already have expertise they can go off of: Time magazine kicked ass until 2016, and if they move away from the false pivot to video they can have that again.
>manga magazine style
To really compete with manga they need to do weekly issue releases.
Opposite. It made me read more Marvel and I usually hate Marvel. But Marvel had a decent back catalog and they are at least trying when right now DC is being run into the ground. Williamson's big start on Superman and GA is turning out to be a big nothing.
I think even those who don’t read rumors could tell DC was in trouble. Just look at the content they’re producing that has no audience and no chance of growing one.
There were shills on here claiming that DC was doing great.
It was just one shill (this guy
) who spams Dawn of DC threads (and was spamming Knight Terrors shill threads with the same image and filename every single time).
Most people have given up entirely on DC Comics. To the point that only Batman and Nightwing is keeping DC afloat while most of their comics don’t even make it to the top 100 anymore.
Look
Here’s another one.
>no one is allowed to enjoy what I don't enjoy
Give more tears please dc will die any day now
Remember EVS threads you sissy?
Yeah but if dc collapses that's w third of the direct market wiped out. It would just erode confidence amongst speculators and bigger publishers would take an hit.
A lot of people would assume the format itself is outdated and dying in general and would just assume not bother with all publishers if Superman and Batman still go under.
You want change? Get rid of all these untalented hacks and replace them with people who actually give a shit.
I'll wait for Rob Liefeld's take on whatever this is.
Please create a character bibles this time. And stop with the deconstruction.
I seriously wish they could make comics feel like they batter again. I feel like things are improving a bit. Ultimate Spider-Man has a lot of excitement around it. A lot of people are really liking the Energon Universe. I just want comics to thrive. I'd love to not be the only person I know who reads comics.
USM has Hickman on it and he's Marvel's top writer.
Likewise Energon has Kirkman overseeing with Williamson doing half of it and he was DC's go to writer during COVID.
These companies have their top guns on these projects. It's not so easy as it seems.
>USM has Hickman on it and he's Marvel's top writer.
Geez that's so sad
>Ultimate Spider-Man has a lot of excitement around it.
All hype died in February, everyone loved (or at least pretended to love) #1, and then no one cared about #2 and 3.
I'm pretty sure it's still the bestselling comic.
>All hype died in February, everyone loved (or at least pretended to love) #1, and then no one cared about #2
why did Thundercats do so well?
Liefeld covers.
These charts aren't accurate btw.
i just read 3 and i liked it
So why is this happening? I thought they were content with failing.
Because God forbid the leftists admit thier wrong
Cool
does that site still exists?
A lot of people don't even live near a comic shop. How hard would it be for some kind of program to exist where they mail comics to your house and they're delivered on release day? Subscriptions are so in right now, and comic shops are growing fewer and fewer.
They do that already; they're just bad about advertising it.
>subscriptions.marvel.com
>subscriptions.dccomics.com
It's perfectly saveable, they just decided not to because 0 percent interest means they can kick the can forever.
I am aware of those, and those are good to have, and the discount you can get is really nice, even though they don't necessarily offer every one-shot there. But, it becomes an issue if you want to discuss comics online, which I think a lot of fans do, because the comics you get from these sites don't show up on release day. You typically get them a week or two later, which for a lot of people might not be a big deal, but for some people it is. I'm trying to figure it out, but I'm sure faster shipping would mean not getting the nice savings, which is important because comics are so expensive now. It's tough.
Funding the post office would solve that problem, weirdly enough. What we think of as Amazon's logistical skill is really just them abusing the post office. Besides that, I feel like letting people know where in a state they can get comics would help, because that way if you're super far away from the stores you can work something out or they can as well.
Image probably thought subscriptions were a thing of the past a la Grit.
I also wish subscription options were available for all the limited series so you could get every issue without worrying about them running out at the store. (mostly an aside but I enjoyed picrel today)
Yeah, I think they should offer everything through the mail. My guy at the shop forgets stuff from my list all the time too. Marvel seems to be a little better about it, like you can get every Blood Hunt tie-in subseries on their site now. But even still there's been little one-shots that weren't on there. I don't know why some are and some aren't.
Why doesn't Image have something like this. I'd have bought so much more from them if I could just get them in the mail with a discount.
what's an ongoing at either that's worth it?
Green Lantern, Batman/Superman, Ultimate Spider-Man, Moon Knight
Is this new Ultimate DC going to kill the main universe and replace it?
Yes anon just like All-Star, New 52, Earth One and all the other clean slates that DC had to walk back on. They are all here to stay and replace the old just like the advertising claims.
What killed All Star? Lee and Miller?
No. It will fail like all the other attempts at a DC Ultimate universe.
If it is good then it can, but it won't be good. DC isn't able to create things like that and make them stable.
Shit has gone off the rails moronic. DC needs a hard reboot. The very concept of the characters have been destroyed.
Frick no.
DC cowers and reboots too many fricking times.
Just keep going same continuity please.
>Just keep going same continuity please.
No it’s complete ass and needs to be deleted.
>a whole paragraph to say nothing
This is the same guy who was insinuating Ike was worse than Jimmy Savile, but Rich didn't want to narc him because of muh industry jobs.
He has absolutely no credibility and is just a rumor monger.
That's Stan Lee. Ike's just stingy and insane.
Stan Lee was retired by then. So no it wasn't.
>Here comes the shills
Why don't they just adopt the WSJ or MSM model?
would not appeal to LCS who are the only places willing to stock any comics these days not in a trade or larger format, to sell in petrol stations or grocery stores or super markets the big two would also need to allow returnability which will just show how many of their comics they are not selling
the problem is distribution, it's way too expensive for the big 2 to put them back in the mom and pop stores. previous guys like shooter have all said as much.
>dc is dead for the 15th time
LOL keks keep crying I guess
All editors should be arrested
Friendly reminder: the mortality rate is 100%
Everything dies, you included.
>bleeding cool
Stopped reading there
Are they going to fire Jim Lee?
Are they going to fire all of their editors who do jack shit and allow autistic morons to shit all over their characters?
Are they going to get rid of the Tom Kings and Chip Zdarskys and tini howards and Leah Williams?
if not then I don't care
Keep Zdarsky. What the frick. His dd was baller af. Keep Leah for her fat breasts.
zdarsky's batman is so terrible he should never be hired again.
>zdarsky's batman is so terrible he should never be hired again.
His Spider-man is so good he should take over the book.
Didn’t Liefield talk about consolidating in 2024 and that was the reason so many comic writers are getting defensive?
Unless Jason Aaron gets publically executed, I sleep.
Ed Piskor to work at DC
time for AI comics?
I've lived through so many of these and usually it is: absolute nothing burger or attempt number #236 at fixing things usually with a poorly planned out past strategy with a new name. I'm going for nothing burger this time.
I can't wait until this is nothing like always. They aren't going to change their format or restructure because that would basically nuke their jobs. They have to produce as many series and floppies they do to keep it all afloat.
>gays reading modern stuff
Made myself reading order for Batman that goes from year one to new 52. I hope it all comes tumbling down.
The sales are so fricking ASS, just kill this useless shit company and stop giving jobs to these people.
this
I have no goodwill left
I want them jobless
Anything that's not a deboot is pointless.
>deboot
this, bring back preflashpoint status quo
Why would anyone but Tim fans want that?
Anyone who even heard of Identity Crisis, for one.
Nothing will improve until capeshit stops being glorified status updates instead of actual stories with permanence and continuity.
Why do these comics exist anyways?
why do comics exist? You're asking why comics exist?
Mostly for IP curation. It's a niche industry that is never going to be wildly successful but the IPs are valuable still to these large companies.
They can’t just keep the IPs? Why do they need the comics specifically?
Because then there is the risk of things becoming a dead IP like Lil Abner or a mostly dead IP like Popeye.
Superman the comic is pretty much worthless, but the brand is insanely useful. They do not even need to use a picture of him. Just the S will do. Stick that on a shirt, hat or wallet and make money. They need to do the bare minimum to keep the brand still somewhat alive so they can continue makine merch for it in the future. It's why they still cycle Peanuts comics 30 years after Schultz died, they want that brand to continue existing in the general public so it can still be used or else it would be just as dead by now too.
>Superman the comic is pretty much worthless, but the brand is insanely useful. They do not even need to use a picture of him. Just the S will do. Stick that on a shirt, hat or wallet and make money.
Adults don't get wallets with a Superman logo, they get a sleek black leather wallet.
The only target demographic is kids, and kids are obsessed with anime. Superman is to them what Pope eye is to us. They don't remember STAS, why would they care?
>but the brand is insanely useful.
No one buys Superman shirts or wallets. He is a dead brand.
Rocket Raccoon is more popular than Superman.
I see people wear Superman shirts all the time and I travel alot, what are you talking about?
If no one is being fired en masse then nothing significant will change, so thanks for the nothingburger report BleedingStool.
Is there a good point to jump on current Detective Comics? Just tried the most recent one and have no idea what's going on.
Have you considered starting with the first issue Roger V wrote?
Well, ask a stupid question I guess. I'll look up when that was. Thanks.
>Roger V
Who
That indian guy. They tried shilling him for a while as some incredible new talent but he's really just a diversity hire. If his name was Roger he wouldn't have gotten that attention (which has since faded).
His books are just okay and I see a lot of people on twitter going this is the best thing ever
I liked Laila Starr, haven't read his other stuff.
>If his name was Roger he wouldn't have gotten that attention
Oh so it's a shitty nickname you came up with the dumbest possible explanation behind it
Bloody basterd sir!
good morning sir plese redeem the detective only $4.99 sir
I'm guessing that American comics are in their death throes.
The public isn't made aware of it because the higher-ups don't want the investors to parachute out.
The public isn't aware most comics even exist.
It will finally be announced.
They deserve this for destroying their characters
who's been destroyed irredeemably?
The x-men
Alan Scott
Most of the X-Men
Kamala at this point
Hawkman/Woman/Girl
>JUST TWO MORE WEEKS
>IGNORE WHAT I SAID TWO WEEKS EARLIER
>THIS TIME COMICS ARE DEAD OR I WILL EAT MY SHOES! I PROMISE
Samegayging won’t help your flopping company
which one?