Originally posted by -Pr-
This is the same company that let Bendis make decisions about Superman continuity. The inmates are running the damn asylum.
Yeah, you’re right.
Why not just make Grant the defacto head honcho for all thing Superman related?
Better yet, why not put an add asking for fans that knows comics, specifically characters continuities? Imagine someone that worked for you, and he/she knows the characters full continuity? Imagine how much better and smoother story lines would end up being.
Originally posted by SquallX
Yeah, you’re right.Why not just make Grant the defacto head honcho for all thing Superman related?
Better yet, why not put an add asking for fans that knows comics, specifically characters continuities? Imagine someone that worked for you, and he/she knows the characters full continuity? Imagine how much better and smoother story lines would end up being.
Probably because he doesn't want the job, and the likelihood that more people at DC itself see Superman as a commodity rather than a character nowadays.
Lots of reasons, I imagine, but it comes down to comics just not being the way they used to be. And people will say "times change", but good stories will always be good stories. The change in culture, the shift in targeting the comics towards what they believe is this new untapped audience (that doesn't exist).
They don't want people like you or me. The people in their twenties and thirties who, as kids, dragged drawer boxes to their friends houses and sat on the floor reading some obscure issue of Daredevil or X-Men. The nerds that can tell you that Professor X once had telekinesis, or that Aquaman once tried to **** a dolphin.
They don't get that comics are a niche, they always have been. Or they refuse to see it. It's like pro-wrestling. Remember how big wrestling was in the late 80s and 90s? Today, because of WWEs refusal to see the forest for the trees, the viewership of the guys who grew up with Hogan, or Bret Hart, or Stone Cold, is down by a good fifty percent. And that's only in the last five years.
You can market to all kinds of people. You can market to the smallest of minorities (whether it's racial, sexual, gender or whatever else), but every market, every single one, has the die hards. Look at the CW. We all ***** and moan about the quality of the shows, but they ARE successful. Why? Because they appeal to their market, which is women in a certain age bracket. They add in the stuff for the comic book nerds like crisis, sure, but those shows are always going to cater primarily to the women watching them.
With comics? It's teenage boys that like ninjas, **** and explosions. You can make the most diverse X-Men comic with the most unique ****ing characters, but if you don't have Wolverine stabbing people in the face or one of the other fan favourites doing their thing at least semi-regularly, the majority fans aren't going to pay money for the book.
Originally posted by -Pr-
Probably because he doesn't want the job, and the likelihood that more people at DC itself see Superman as a commodity rather than a character nowadays.Lots of reasons, I imagine, but it comes down to comics just not being the way they used to be. And people will say "times change", but good stories will always be good stories. The change in culture, the shift in targeting the comics towards what they believe is this new untapped audience (that doesn't exist).
They don't want people like you or me. The people in their twenties and thirties who, as kids, dragged drawer boxes to their friends houses and sat on the floor reading some obscure issue of Daredevil or X-Men. The nerds that can tell you that Professor X once had telekinesis, or that Aquaman once tried to **** a dolphin.
They don't get that comics are a niche, they always have been. Or they refuse to see it. It's like pro-wrestling. Remember how big wrestling was in the late 80s and 90s? Today, because of WWEs refusal to see the forest for the trees, the viewership of the guys who grew up with Hogan, or Bret Hart, or Stone Cold, is down by a good fifty percent. And that's only in the last five years.
You can market to all kinds of people. You can market to the smallest of minorities (whether it's racial, sexual, gender or whatever else), but every market, every single one, has the die hards. Look at the CW. We all ***** and moan about the quality of the shows, but they ARE successful. Why? Because they appeal to their market, which is women in a certain age bracket. They add in the stuff for the comic book nerds like crisis, sure, but those shows are always going to cater primarily to the women watching them.
With comics? It's teenage boys that like ninjas, **** and explosions. You can make the most diverse X-Men comic with the most unique ****ing characters, but if you don't have Wolverine stabbing people in the face or one of the other fan favourites doing their thing at least semi-regularly, the majority fans aren't going to pay money for the book.
It won't let me edit, so I'm going to add this point:
Comics should be inclusive. You should be regularly adding new and interesting characters from all walks of life. If a kid from Puerto Rico googles "Puerto Rican superheroes", he or she should be able to get page after page about them.
But the companies don't care about that. The companies instead listen to a bunch of wealthy white women with multi-coloured hair who have the arrogance to believe they can speak on behalf of the people who aren't as well-represented in society. Like they have the first ****ing clue what some kid from public housing goes through on a daily basis.
They're a bunch of bigoted moral cowards who want everything to fit in to their tiny little box. And it's why minorities at large can't ****ing stand them.
Originally posted by -K-M-thanks. that should be interesting lol
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.comicsbeat.com/dcs-generation-zero-to-tease-publishers-future-on-fcbd/amp/https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbr.com/generation-zero-dc-not-done-with-watchmen/amp/
i thought the chair already knew everything.......but now it knows MORE? 😕