DC's New 52: Reviews and Discussion (Spoilers welcolme and likely)
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New readers? No. New readers are myths.
Old/current readers branching out because of curiosity/nostalgia/because they are there? Much more likely. It is a minimal bump to be sure, but enough to shift the swing towards Marvel.I dunno... I believe there's a pretty big DC-propetry movie coming out this Sumer too.
Doesn't quite compare to Marvel's offering with multiple characters to market.
DC's 52 brought in a bunch of new readers so it's not exactly a myth. It's just that movies isn't the avenue for building a new readerbase.
Really? I thought he was playing the Ultimate Version of the High Evolutionary rather than the FF.
Really? I thought he was playing the Ultimate Version of the High Evolutionary rather than the FF.
While just on this board we have anecdotal proof of that with a few members I think it's not broadly true enough to support the spike.
The biggest thing it seems is they got existing readers of comics to try them again and/or try new titles. I know that is the case with me and most people posting in this thread, at SHH, at my LCS etc.
I had never encountered HE in my readings, but you seem to be right. I still tend to think of it as a bit of a mashup.
The High Evolutionary was the featured villain in the recent Silver Surfer mini-series. Which I found enjoyable even if it was one of those stories that did nothing to drastically alter the status quo.
We do have a Marvel based thread to talk about Marvel related books guys 
DC may be owning Marvel in the film department but comics sales wise they will come around and take it next year at some point. "The Dark Knight Rises" doesn't have any tie-ins as far as I know and most likely won't. The previous two films didn't really have tie-ins. "Avengers" will have tie-in mini-series....Bendis is writing one of them. Not to mention Marvel has a ton of offerings already for next year while we still don't know what the New 52 will hold next year in terms of well...anything yet. We're not sure about the second arc for books or any events. The only thing we're aware of is Multiversity. The "second season" of Grant Morrison's Batman, Inc starting. DC has yet to talk about the finales of the first wave so far. We'll probably get information as we enter the new year.
DC may be owning Marvel in the film department but comics sales wise they will come around and take it next year at some point. "The Dark Knight Rises" doesn't have any tie-ins as far as I know and most likely won't. The previous two films didn't really have tie-ins. "Avengers" will have tie-in mini-series....Bendis is writing one of them. Not to mention Marvel has a ton of offerings already for next year while we still don't know what the New 52 will hold next year in terms of well...anything yet. We're not sure about the second arc for books or any events. The only thing we're aware of is Multiversity. The "second season" of Grant Morrison's Batman, Inc starting. DC has yet to talk about the finales of the first wave so far. We'll probably get information as we enter the new year.
I'm sick of every year needing a huge crossover event. If anything, DC's proving you can sell comics without that crap.
I mean, at times I've read nothing but the main event, which proved the tie-ins are completely useless (Fear Itself). At other times, I'd entirely ignore the main event and read some of the better tie-ins, like the Day of Vengeance of Infinite Crisis fame, which led to the fantastic Shadowpact, and Final Crisis: The Legion of 3 Worlds.
I mean, at times I've read nothing but the main event, which proved the tie-ins are completely useless (Fear Itself). At other times, I'd entirely ignore the main event and read some of the better tie-ins, like the Day of Vengeance of Infinite Crisis fame, which led to the fantastic Shadowpact, and Final Crisis: The Legion of 3 Worlds.
I wouldn't say DC is proving that when we don't know what they're offering will be...and we know they're doing Multiversity which is a major "event" type books. They've also had a major event every summer for the last several years. Don't let them off the hook just because some of the New 52 are doing what they're supposed to do and sell right now.
As for events...I think Newsarama and Comic Book Resources recently did an excellent article on fan fatigue regarding events. If I find it...I'll post it.
As for events...I think Newsarama and Comic Book Resources recently did an excellent article on fan fatigue regarding events. If I find it...I'll post it.
I think people go for events 'cause they wanna see if the status quo will change in a way that would make the regular monthly stuff more interesting. That article makes a good point, let the aftermaths play out, instead of switching everything up again so soon. As for me, if ever I wanna jump on a particular series and am afraid that an event made the universe unrecognizable, there's always wikipedia.
That's my biggest gripe...is that the so called status quo changes are always almost immediately altered or changed shortly thereafter rending the event irrelevant and pissing fans off. So I can understand fans being upset and tired with events. I like them though when they're written well and are entertaining.
Considering where DC was relative to Marvel in sales prior to the reboot, it's going to be quite a while before they've got anything to feel badly about.
Feel badly about what? Taking over sales? I don't think anyone was feeling sorry for Marvel. I think that the point of the link I posted is that despite the early success of the relaunch, Marvel is starting to catch up and close the gap.
This might have been inevitable but it would seem that DC is interested in developing video games for the new 52. As posted maybe earlier in this thread or in the previous thread the first wave of toys are coming out sometime next year so it makes sense for video games to follow at some point.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/10/warner-bros-to-make-dc-video-games-around-the-new-52/
This might have been inevitable but it would seem that DC is interested in developing video games for the new 52. As posted maybe earlier in this thread or in the previous thread the first wave of toys are coming out sometime next year so it makes sense for video games to follow at some point.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/10/warner-bros-to-make-dc-video-games-around-the-new-52/
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An update on what I'm still following:
Action Comics
Aquaman
Batman
Batman and Robin
Batman, Inc (Leviathan Strikes in two weeks folks!)
Batwoman
Justice League
Superboy
Supergirl
Superman (barely)
Stormwatch
Wonder Woman
The new Batman Beyond is supposed to debut next year at some time I think...unless they've gone and cancelled it. My top three favourite books so far are Action Comcis, Batman, and Wonder Woman.
Action Comics
Aquaman
Batman
Batman and Robin
Batman, Inc (Leviathan Strikes in two weeks folks!)
Batwoman
Justice League
Superboy
Supergirl
Superman (barely)
Stormwatch
Wonder Woman
The new Batman Beyond is supposed to debut next year at some time I think...unless they've gone and cancelled it. My top three favourite books so far are Action Comcis, Batman, and Wonder Woman.
Did they? Or did they just get old/current readers interested who drifted away from DC? My money is on the latter.
Yeah it'd be actually interesting if there were some kind of stat to prove new readers were actually brought into the fold. A jump in sales really doesn't prove that to me...it only means people were buying them.
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