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Hi! I’m Kas and I have too much shit, so I’m hosting a giveaway! I would prefer that you be following me, just so you can know who wins, but it doesn’t matter, honestly. Likes and reblogs count. You can reblog as many times as you want, I don’t care LOL. I can ship anywhere.
This ends on April 30th
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Wow DC, not only do Black readers get the message that we’re mostly monsters from the way your creative portrays us in your works, but now we’re not good enough to actually write your books?
What the fuck?
Way to be diverse, assholes. I guess you really don’t want to give money to or get money from POCs. Dicks.
(This is just cementing my desire to ruin Dan Didio’s experience at Megacon next month. And I am going to head butt anyone who dares to tell me that this shit isn’t racist. Because it fucking is and I am fucking pissed off.)
Write a bad, non-selling comic like Mr. Terrific, get it cancelled. That’s how it works bruh. DC and Marvel don’t have money to toss around when shit don’t sell, sadly. You want a certain book to stick around for any reason at all? Buy it, get others to buy it. You’ve def got an internet connection, blow the series’ horn all over tumblr and message boards.
Mr Terrific while good just didn’t sell well enough even Dido’s own book OMAC (which was fucking fantastic) got canceled. Its just bad luck and poor sales
Yeah, I’m not really upset about this.
It’s more like they were not well known enough or popular enough to take on a big book that’s guaranteed safe, consequently the books they were on weren’t big sellers and most of them were mediocre-to-bad. They just wiped the lowest selling books to make way for new ones, since it seems like at least for a while they’re trying to keep it to 52 books which means a constant changing of the guard.
Also they’re not really firing anyone, because that’s not how it works? :\
I’m sad about Mr. Terrific but REALLY sad that Virgil’s book didn’t catch on. I had hugely high hopes for it, and I love Static so much. It would have been a lovely tribute to Dwayne had the book been a hit. Marc and Eric are talented, lovely guys. Hope they get new assignments right away. :(
My big confusion point is that there are other books that sold just as poorly as Static and Terrific…Hawkman sold worse, as did Voodoo, and those books are still going.
Why not switch up the creative team, and the direction of the book? Green Arrow got a new creative team. Why not Static or Terrific? It gives off the impression that they don’t want these books around.
I guess I just don’t get it.
I don’t know the exact reasoning and don’t want to try to answer for DC on this. Honest to God, I know that they were genuinely hoping to have more POC leads in books. Not sure why Voodoo and Hawkman would get a second chance if what you’re saying is correct, but there are often other factors than just sales that go into cancellations. Increasingly, books are being looked at for whether or not they have the potential to increase in sales. If sales are low, but someone has an idea or the creative team has a workable plan, DC and Marvel will try to take a shot on that. But if a book doesn’t seem to have any immediate way to turn around an eroding readership, then it’s more likely to be up for cancellation.
There were creative team changes on Static Shock, that may have been a factor. Or maybe the books just didn’t get the audience response DC was hoping for.
I’m talking out my ear, really, I don’t have a clue what went into the decision. But it is often more than just the sales of the latest issue. Sorry I can’t be more illuminating.
It’s a bummer. I’m excited about the new JSA book because I think we’re going to see those two creators do something fantastic. Haven’t heard much about the rest yet.
A few things to notice from outside the inner workings:
First, not all books get canceled just because of bad sales. Flash got cut right before Flashpoint, even though it was doing fine. The Bat-titles were pulled and relaunched multiple times between RIP and New 52, and sometimes they had the same creative teams picking up mostly the same characters in the new schema. It may be possible that they canceled those titles in place of others that are low-selling because they have something in mind for those characters, and think it may boost the sales more in doing that. Similarly, they may not have had a place for the other characters just yet, and are waiting for such a place to open up to put them. One thing on Newsarama was the fact that Mr. Terrific was about to debut on the Justice League - perhaps they thought it better to keep his story concentrated in one place rather than splinter him. Not giving a character his or her own book doesn’t mean the character is forgotten or isn’t being served in the best way. Perhaps they would rather let a different author carry the character through so as to breathe new life into him, and then use the momentum to revive the character. And perhaps the others will be canceled later, to make room for something else that’s a better replacement, in the minds of editorial.
Second, since the announcement, I have seen a lot of discussion about the minority characters being dropped. An interview on Newsarama asked EiC Bob Harras, repeatedly and in a row, questions about what this meant for DC’s efforts to diversify and what it meant that three minority-character-headed books were canceled. Not ONCE has it been mentioned that Batwing, also helmed by a “POC” character, is continuing strong. Not ONCE. Yes, losing three representatives is a big blow. But there are other factors at work other than just the race of the characters.
Third, I’m sorry to say, but I didn’t even know OMAC was supposed to be Asian American. That’s a flaw of the ad scheme, I suppose, but that wasn’t made into a big point. I avoided the book because it just wasn’t an appealing concept (and because I don’t care for Dan DiDio’s work).
On Liefeld getting new work
Me, chatting with a worker at the comic store: I was so happy when Hawk and Dove was cancelled, I thought it meant Liefeld would be out.
Other worker: And then they gave him four more books.
Which of these things is true?
1. Rob Liefield was just announced as joining three books at DC.
2. This is the new logo for DC Comics
The logo isn’t so bad. I prefer the current one, but whaevs. It’s not a big deal, it’s simple, it’s still identifiable as DC… give it five years and I may well forget about the one they have now.
As for Liefeld getting more work… so much for my hopes that Hawk and Dove’s poor performance indicated that he was a liability.
I actually had a discussion about this at my local comic shop, the gist of which I will be posting after this.
Salutations and Second Waves
I decided to start off this blog by discussing the event that triggered/inspired its creation - DC’s recent announcement to cancel six of its “New 52” titles, and put six new ones in place.
If you’re a fan of the following comics, my condolences:
- Mr. Terrific
- Men of War
- Static Shock
- O.M.A.C.
- Blackhawks
- Hawk and Dove
In their places, six new books are rising from the ashes:
- Batman Incorporated gets relaunched; Grant Morrison (of course) will be writing, while Chris Burnham will be illustrating. This is interesting, since previously this was only supposed to be a 12-issue run, and would end Grant’s tenure on Batman (his words, and I suspect said ending would last as long as a typical comic book death, the average length of which may be measured in months now, rather than years or, you know, eternity);
- Earth 2, with James Robinson and Nikola Scott, an apparent expansion on Robinson’s slated miniseries JSA book;
- The Ravagers, written by Howard Mackie, with Ian Churchill as the artist;
- GI Combat, a war anthology with some familiar story titles, where “The War that Time Forgot” will be backed up by the likes of “The Haunted Tank” and “The Unknown Soldier,” and a variety of familiar names (including Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti writing that last one);
- Dial H for Hero, being written by one China Mieville (yes, that one);
- and Worlds’ Finest, an Earth 2 companion written by Paul Levitz with a variety of artists, supposedly to be about the Earth 2 versions of Huntress and Power Girl being stranded on the prime Earth (and that apostrophe is apparently in the right place).
The above information came from Newsarama, at http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-new-52-new-titles-120112.html.
Now for the fun part - speculation:
