| d21lewis said: @The Fury, I don't think anything was wrong with DC before. Comics on the whole were doing poorly. Movies are more popular than ever but the books themselves were selling pretty bad. DC made the Flashpoint story (pretty similar to the House of M story but the things in Flashpoint really happened) to streamline the universe!, I guess. I've read some of the New 52 comics where the JLA is meeting for the first time and it's not too bad. It feels like the DC version of Ultimate Marvel except this is the real DC. I guess it got too tough for them to explain why/how so much stuff happened and these characters are still fairly young so they just started over. I'm not a fan of these reboots since it feels a little cheap (like a new artist remaking old hit songs) but I'll give it a chance. Batman, JLA, Deathstroke, and Superman are all I've read so far ($3-$4 each!) but I like what I see. |
Books have been selling bad for a fair few years but are we comapring them to early 90s numbers?
This steamlining of the Universe is why I never get the DCU, when I try to read some of it, I get lost in it's complicated history and characters. This whole Green Lantern rings thing lately just confuses things even more, what are there now? 50 characters in with different emotion based powers? Batman has 8 or other 'bat people'.
Issue comes from over exposure, like Wolverine, he's in Uncanny X-force, Avengers, X-men (newest series), Astonishing, his own title and Uncanny as main series. He's in a few minis too as well as guest appearences. This is too much and can't be maintained. Soon to have his own X-men book (which is grossly out of character I might add). He should be in 2, a team book and his own book, to create development of the character and not stall him into a role he's been in for years. But that's his character, the go to guy, the backup. He's always been happy with that role and being lead and really, even sadder, the best characterisation of him I've read is in Avengers. ... Basically, Schism is bullcrap in characterisations.
Books are too expensive at the moment. That's true and writers could do with being less bald and/or having a beard.
Fear Itself... not sure what it is about and I'm reading the dang thing, it's not easily defined like Siege was. An ancient Norse god has arisen and is causing fear by making people who the general populace feared anyway more scary by giving them giant hammers. I don't think it's that well thought out.
Hmm, pie.
