Since there was no Round Robin this year it is most likely dead. Which is probably for the best since it was a bad idea, but I did enjoy some of the shitflinging they produced. Were there any pitches in the Round Robins that you liked and are bummed never got made?
Here is a chart I quickly slapped together in paint to show what pitches got made.
I don't think any of these were ever successful
Questions might have been good depending on the team
Blue Beetle was, kind of
But that's also synergy at play so it's hard to tell
> firestorm: fourth world problems
was this any good?
It lost in the first round, so all we know about it is the short description. We don't even know who the creative team would have been.
Here are the 2021 pitches too.
All of these seem tailored toward an LGBT or POC audience. Why make any of them?
>only options for GL was between Gay Lantern and Black Lantern
Frick
the first year was worse, there was a kyle book pitched by the guy who did all the terrible gay iceman solo books.
>there was a kyle book pitched by the guy who did all the terrible gay iceman solo books.
DOA, Kyle does not deserve this.
Everybody turned on it as soon as the writer was announced.
What was his pitch?
Frick I immediately take it back that Questions pitch sounds terrible
I really wanted those Capt Carrot and Jimmy Olsen/Super Pets books
I also would have liked to check out Suicide Squad Dark
Jimmy Olsen and the Super Pets was the one I liked the most. We need more modern Jimmy adventures, and the Super Pets are underutilized aside from Krypto.
Why couldn't DC just make an anthology book for all the books that lost Round Robin? Some of those looked like interesting ideas.
1. Anthologies don't sell. 2. They would need to pay the 15 losing creative teams. There is a reason they always waited until the last round to get a few comic pages made to show off.
>Anthologies don't sell.
Thought Batman Urban Legends (2021) and the current Brave and the Bold (2023) books sold well in DC's eyes. Just make this Round Robin anthology book have some connection to Batman in the title and it will sell.
how is that any different than the pride/holiday/voices anthologies the Big2 already do? Nobody reads something like those shorts with the expectation of seeing a full book or mini.
Those anthologies are throwaway and usually used as a testing ground for new talent. It's why they are almost always full of people you've never heard of. They get propped up with a few variants by big artists drawing popular characters.
Shrinking the Round Robin pitches into a short 5 page story would suck, like the ones at the back of Superboy Man of Tomorrow. Plus there are almost no big characters in most of the pitches to use as variant bait for collectors. If you reduce the pitch to a 30-page one-shot or go all in and produce the full 6-issues there is no reason to put them in an anthology. Just release it as a one-shot or stand alone mini-series.
>here is a reason they always waited until the last round to get a few comic pages made to show off.
Didn't one of the losing writers go full scorched earth recently and reveal that most of the titles got further into production than they should've considering they weren't getting made? Think it was the JLQ writer but it might've been a different one.
Because you people who say this don’t buy comics let alone pre-order them and so it isn’t worth the risk.
Obviously it would be awful if it’s using cutesy social media language like First World Problems. Also makes no sense to have a fourth world book about firestorm.
>you people who say this don’t buy comics let alone pre-order them
Hey homosexual, only a dumbass would buy floppies. Omnis, OHC and TPBs are the most logical way to enjoy this stupid ass hobby.
This was always a bad idea.
>hey fans, look at all these great comic ideas we WON'T be making because there's also a Bat related book in the competition
>look at all these great comic ideas
Let's be honest, most of them weren't that good. For a lot of people, they were just excited their favorite C-lister was remembered, then disappointed when they lost in the first round.
>it’s a bad idea because god forbid lazy woke creators and gays on Twitter lose a poll and find out nobody likes their garbage ideas
What is this?
In 2021 and 2022 DC had a contest where people on social media voted from a list of comic pitches which one will get made into a 6 issue mini-series.
A contest of sorts