It really insults the intelligence, although in a marketing sense I can somewhat understand (Although don’t get me wrong, personally I still absolutely loathe it and I agree with you guys), Making something profitable would mean taking advantage of a formula that would bring in the green. Comics tend to play on People’s Completist-syndrome to the point that they know that some people buy comics to collect them (The 90’s overhyping sundrome is coming back again… i hope not), Just like what that guy Tizoc indicated, he’s interested in character development, nothing wrong with that in hindsight but if we look at the bigger picture getting people more and more interestied about recurring plot threads and “Development” is continuity in full throttle.
So what if I didn;t know (or give a SH***) If The Hulk’s ever say got colored-Pink, if it’s a good story it’s a good story, if it’s bad, it’s bad, I won’t worry about how the pieces came together because in the end these characters don’t exist anyway and i’d rather waste enthusiasm with something more important with my life.
HA! If someone ever got me started on “Why I hate the proliferation of Decompressed Storyline (AKA storyarced based storytelling that reaches for months)” it would have to be another thread altogether…
Infinite and even Final Crisis is the PERFECT set-up to swipe everything clean much more so than the first Crisis, but a format in which they are just folding and padding old storylines that make no sense just to make everything tight would really squeeze creativity and good storytelling.
Problem with DC is that they ARE CONTENT with being number 2, that should not be the attitude of any sompany, Marvel’s stories in potential are the same as DC’s (heck Writers go back and forth) their main advantage is that Marvel does BETTER MUCH MUCH BETTER Marketing, they use characters and position them in various media to get in the sub-conscious of people better.
DC should focus on finding benefits…
Why would we read Booster Gold (which IMO is a good book BTW) than say anything with an “X” tagged on it
Why would Batwoman in Detective comics equal “Dark Reign”
Bottomline MAKE US CARE!!
LOL and Dwayne McDuffie… This guy knows more about JLA than say Brad Metzer but his hands are so tied (which is a big no no for creative people) that every single story in his JLA arc sucks… as opposed to his run as the writer of the JL TV show which is pure gold.
) and they have actually physically prevented him from getting some good writers like Waid or Rucka who would’ve killed to write him or have NW do anything major like beat up Deathstroke. If it takes putting on Batman’s costume to get Dick Grayson to kick some ass then I’m all for it. [/details]