And how many three-time losers are you giving a fourth chance to, DC? Aquaman? Hawkman? Green Arrow? Animal Man? Captain Atom? Blue Beetle?? C'mon, these schlubs couldn't hold there own titles before (multiple times before for most of them). What would make you think that this time will be any different?
No, DC really missed the boat here, a prime chance to really shake up the marketplace!! They should have taken an example from an old competitor, long-since absorbed by the DC Borg Collective:
Hells yeah!! Back in 1971, Charlton was publishing 11--that's right, 11--different romance comics. And the number being published now?? ZERO!!Shouldn't DC have have taken some of their new output and, instead of wasting it on still more super-hero titles, given us romance comics??
Can you believe that they wouldn't want to protect trademarks like Career Girl Romances or Teen Confessions or Love Diary?!?
Oh, DC, it's still not too late...enough with the Wildstorm revivals and multi-colored Lanterns and rebooted Titans--give us some romance comics!! If you're going to roll back the clock, let's really roll it back, to a time when the market wasn't all super-heroes, and publishers actually aimed at demographics other than males 18-34!!
Please?
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But..but..but....girls don't READ COMICS!!!
If they'd been serious about enlarging their demographic, they'd have genre-busted the damn DCU. And gone "no-monthlies, all-trades". And priced the downloads way lower.
@siskoid...so true. The very least they could have done was go with a digital unlimited model like Marvel and then had a pay per book for newer titles. DC has a marketing and merchandising problem they need to fix, and simply dropping the price and starting over is not going to fix it.
And Snell, DC kinda did try to market more to girls with their uber trendy I, Vampire. I am sure that somehow Didio and Lee will find a substance that is light enough to lift that lead balloon off the ground, but they are going to need a ton of the stuff with Omac and all the other stinkers they have coming.
The average comic buyer is a 41 yr old dude. DC needs to print some comics about divorced guys who have to live in a little apartment cause their wife has their old house and all the money. Or maybe a new Batman book.
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