1) Love Ravenface's analysis. Very good points all the way around.
2) Digital comics will do several things: it will save and grow the independent titles (because it's so costly to break into the print medium), it will close Diamond Comic distributors (the primary comic book distributor in the country), which will then close most local comic book stores in the country, and it will put Marvel and DC in a tailspin (until they can get their revenue models straightened out).
Initially it will cause more chaos in the comic industry before a new digital comic book landscape emerges. I'm guessing Marvel, DC, Image, and Dark Horse will still be major players in the digital frontier. However, there will probably be a few new digital pioneers that will be successful and will join the ranks of the "big" companies.
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Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Re: Batman and Superman to be rebooted
by Johns and Straczynski in 2010
From: James Peluso <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, December 08, 2009 12:04 pm
To: [email protected]
So if they are out of ideas and comics is slowly becoming a dying industry does this mean that E-Readers will be the savior and new medium for comic distribution?
http://mashable.com/2009/12/08/magazine-publishers-unite/
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group.I can see the bind THEY'RE in
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Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Re: Batman and Superman to be rebooted by Johns and Straczynski in 2010
Like Shag, I think this is mostly a format experiment but with "top" talent to try and goose the numbers. The pamphlet format is dying, so they're giving it a shot, just...way late in the game and foolishly close to recent reboots.
The Ultimate universe worked for a long while. The Ultimates was awesome awesome and I sure loved the first several years of Ultimate Spider-Man. It was good comics. They blew it all to hell, though.
This DC trend of following the leader is just lame, though. Hey, Marvel Zombies was cool, let's do Blackest Night. Hey, Ultimates is kicking our butt. Let's do All Star.
When they innovate, (weekly comics) they drive it into the ground. 52 worked but it was a total accident that it did, and then they followed up with horrors! Shuddering horrors!
I can see the bind their in, though. It's like, "We need to try a new revenue stream, since pamphlets are drying up. Graphic novels are the way to go, but we need new customers to justify the expense, but new customers won't buy them unless it's characters they know!"
It's super hard. What do you do that hasn't been done? No one will try a new character and it won't seem special if it's not a new start, but they've been playing the "new start" too much too recently, so...they're kind of over a barrel.
Good luck to them. I'm sure there will be a few good yarns in there, but it will fail like everything else and they can just keep circling the wagons.
I agree with Bailey that it's a good thing to pull the Big Guns off of the main titles. Johns is great but too straight. Let's get some weird 70s style nonsense into the dead format and let him have the trades.
Now, cough up that lunch money, Serv!
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From: Jason Service <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 7:06 am
Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Re: Batman and Superman to be rebooted by Johns and Straczynski in 2010
and we say Hollywood is bankrupt for ideas...
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Erika <[email protected]> wrote:
I love Gary Frank's art, so I'll probably be a big sucker (and
hypocrite) and buy the Batman arc. On the other hand, how many more
Batman/Superman origin stories do we need? Even though this takes
place apart from established DC continuity, I feel like these two
stories have been done to death. A re-imagining every decade or so
makes sense from a business standpoint, but this seems like overkill.
On Dec 7, 10:07 pm, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote:
> Link:http://www.examiner.com/x-19312-Columbus-Comic-Books-Examiner~y2009m1...
> (via shareaholic)
>
> Opinions?
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