These are very good points. (And by the way, the new Ultimate Comics Spider-Man book is pretty great.) And yet, I can't understand how a corporation with access to so much talent can be this creatively bankrupt. I don't know anything about business, so it's possible that none of my ideas (like doing fewer and better books) are viable. There are a lot of underused characters in the DCU who might lend themselves to some interesting storytelling, so why not get a top-tier writer/ artist team to try something daring with them? Doing more of the same in a slightly different format, while following an it-worked-for-the- competition format, seems desperate.
On Dec 8, 11:45 am, [email protected] wrote: > 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! > > > > -----Original Message----- > 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? > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
