Nicki
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DC tired of turning the other cheek?
08 months ago
DC’s official blog posted a letter this morning from John Rood, VP of Marketing, as a precursor to the New 52 launch this week. In it, he takes a rare shot at Marvel:
Many in the industry are under the wrong impression that we want to “win the month” at all costs with sales of DC Comics – The New 52. Sure, we’d love to get our books into more hands than ever before, profitably. But it’s most important that any industry growth comes in an additive manner, so that all publishers may succeed. To be clear – DC is not a market-share-chaser. If we were, we would not be creating a quality lasting direction across a controlled number of titles. We would instead be flooding the market with over 200 titles a month, changing your prices with abandon, killing off a character every quarter or so, and/or randomly announcing decimal-pointed event-ish thingies. We haven’t.
Ouch.
Fantastic Opinion Piece on Women in Comics
0Comics Alliance has published a fantastic opinion piece by Rachel Edidin, who is an editor at Dark Horse, entitled “The Problem of Women in Comics: Where They Are (and Aren’t)”.
I started trying to pick an excerpt to post, but it’s all so damned true and deserves to be read in its entirety.
Go. Read it.
Read Comics in Public Day 2011
0This Sunday is International Read Comics in Public Day. The idea is simple: share your love of comics publicly. You can submit pictures of yourself or a loved one celebrating the day to the official Flickr photo pool.
Sue at DC Women Kicking Ass is once again encouraging female comics fans to participate in the festivities with Women Read Comics in Public. It’s a great way to show your love of the medium and to reinforce to publishers, creators and fans that female fans exist and support what they love!
I will be participating again this year. I hope you will as well. Maybe you will encourage a loved one or a complete stranger to give comics a try.
Me @ Read Comics in Public Day 2010
Our first look at the Man of Steel
0Via Entertainment Weekly.
“Meh” was my initial reaction. I’m not fond of these crazy textures they are using on the superheroes.
It could be worse. At least it is not this:
My Pull List Post-Flashpoint
0The dust seemed to have mostly settled after the DCU relaunch madness of the past few weeks. I began thinking about my pull list last night, and here’s how it seems to be shaping up for the post-Relaunch.
Definites
Wonder Woman - I’m not convinced that Brian Azzarello is the right choice for Diana, but I’ll give anything a chance after JMS’ horrific run. I wish DC would have given Phil Hester a shot at the book without being handcuffed by JMS’ story.
Batgirl – I’m still torn over seeing Babs as Batgirl again, but there’s no way I’m not buying this.
Batwoman – Slam-dunk no-brainer.
Probables
Nightwing - I’m really enjoying Gates of Gotham, which is co-written by new Nightwing scribe Kyle Higgins.
Batman - I really wish DC had left Scott Snyder on Detective Comics, which he is knocking out of the park. My only hesitation on adding this to the “Definite” category is Greg Capullo’s art.
Birds of Prey – This is a book that should be a no-brainer for me, but I’m not sold on any book that calls itself Birds of Prey that doesn’t star Barbara Gordon. I also don’t like the absence of Huntress and Lady Blackhawk. I’ve never read anything by Duane Swierczynski, so I don’t have full confidence in the creative team.
On a Short Leash
These titles have 1-2 issues to convince me.
Suicide Squad – This title would have been an automatic buy for me if it was being written by John Ostrander or Gail Simone, but I know nothing about the creative team. In addition, I loathe the new costumes that they have thrust upon poor Harley and Deadshot. I want to love this book, DC, but crap like this doesn’t help.
The Fury of Firestorm – I don’t give a squat about Firestorm, but I’ll give anything written by Gail Simone a chance.
Action Comics – I’m not a big Grant Morrison fan, but I did enjoy All-Star Superman. That’s enough for me to give this a shot.
Catwoman – I don’t generally like Judd Winick as a writer, but I’m hoping for the best.
Justice League Dark – Giving this a try for Zatanna.
Justice League – I’m not a big Geoff Johns fan, but it has Wonder Woman.
I’m going from about 10 definite purchases a month to 3. Not good, DC.
