Here's two tears in a bucket for DC Comics. Let's see what happens
with "Watchmen" before we start calling DC "Dying".
On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:09 PM, gwashin...@aol.com wrote:
I agree with him. But for different reasons. Mostly because DC is
still trying to hold on to that fanboy comic book fan/element to
keep itself afloat. One that's seems to be decreasing yearly.
Mostly by going backwards instead of forwards. And much of what
they have character-wise doesn't click with todays audiances (after
all this group is not interested in going backwards). In many ways
at least Marvel is doing the same thing but at least they are
trying to go past the fanboy base to (with some success) get at
todays audiances. Another factor to this is their core audiances.
Marvels will at least give new ideas/heros a chance. DC's doesn't.
Anyway that's my .02 cents on this.
-GTW
In a message dated 2/6/09 9:42:34 PM, truthseeker...@lycos.com writes:
Grant Morrison seems to think so.
They haven't posted the article from Wizard that I read this
afternoon on the web site, so it falls to me to quote it. When
asked about his work on "Final Crisis" (the ending in particular,
and what he hopes fans will take away from the conclusion of the
story), he says, "I hope they''ll take away a sense of how much
they love the DC universe. Because there are the two camps... and
Marvel is a colossus right now. To me, the DC Universe dying is
almost how it felt to be at DC. There was just a sense that Marvel
was just getting bigger and bigger and bigger."
I don't agree with that at all.
IMO, Marvel has al but sold out its readers, with cheap and
gimmicky plotlines that aren't likely to last more than two years
before being retconned right out ! of existence, leaving nothing
short of a continuity mess. DC, on the other hand, is bringing
about "Final Crisis", almost to the letter as it was destined to
happen thirty-odd years ago.
I put my brain to the task of remembering exactly what books I'd
picked up in the last six months, and they've been 95% DC, only
Fantastic Four as a Marvel representative. But that's just me.
Thrash on this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
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