step out of the norm...do something inventive...silly rabbit, trix are for kids
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Erika <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<theuniquegeek%[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]<theuniquegeek%[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]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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