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DC Comics: Rebirth

Yeah, I really don't see enough people buying two issues of a Cyborg solo title each month. Or Aquaman, or Nightwing. Not that these characters aren't popular. Just not popular enough. Deathstroke and Suicide Squad look like pretty wobbly titles, too.
 
theenglish said:
But Guy, have you seen the number of bi-weeklies? Basically, every major DC character now has a bi-weekly title and Superman, Batman, and Justice League have four issues a month.
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No I haven't.

I watched the youtube about a message and direction without seeing anything about the nuts and bolts.

New idea.

This is not about paper.

There's a discount for buying digital, and an even larger discount for buying older comics before they enter the subscription deal, but what if there are subscription deals for promising to buy a year of digital comics (24 books) at the same price as 9 or 10 paper comics.

In theory if, they can get every bugger to stop buying paper comics they can save a mint in distribution and sundry resources to make the buggers.
 
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Kai "the spy" said:
Yeah, I really don't see enough people buying two issues of a Cyborg solo title each month. Or Aquaman, or Nightwing. Not that these characters aren't popular. Just not popular enough. Deathstroke and Suicide Squad look like pretty wobbly titles, too.
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How many people buy two titles of any book? I've been reading some of Cyborg but I'm behind by probably about two issues now. I would subscribe to the series to get it mailed to me but DC doesn't offer it for subscription. Beyond that though I don't buy two titles for any book, unless there's the rare occasion that I'm buying a book as a gift for someone.
 
Suicide Squad is the only DC Book I enjoy.

Your local comic book shop will post/courier you your books if you ask them nicely, but unless you are ordering a lot of comics, they will charge you, so maybe the question should be "Hey Nerd, how many of these funny books do I have to buy before you give me free shipping?"

It was easier for me at one point to have my comics posted to me once a month (for free) from an entirely different city, rather than to sit on a bus for a couple hours to get to my local and and back once a week.
 
If you want to make them really work, you can ask your monkeys (all clerks are monkeys until proven otherwise) to board and bag your comics before sending them... Which will effect weight, which might effect the freeness of packaging and delivery if they don't forget that bags and boards cost 10 cents each. With my shop it was 1 free delivery per month, additional deliveries were on my head.
 
The more I look at what DC is doing the less likely it seems I will be keeping up the current number of DC titles in my pull list. Two issues a month is just too much. I'll probably pick up Action Comics and Detective comics, possibly a few other titles, but I think Rebirth has pretty effectively killed my interest in picking up DC titles . I'd rather spend my money on independent and creator owned books these days.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
Yeah, I really don't see enough people buying two issues of a Cyborg solo title each month. Or Aquaman, or Nightwing. Not that these characters aren't popular. Just not popular enough. Deathstroke and Suicide Squad look like pretty wobbly titles, too.
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I doubt that many characters besides Batman and Superman could support two issues a month.
DarKush said:
How many people buy two titles of any book? I've been reading some of Cyborg but I'm behind by probably about two issues now. I would subscribe to the series to get it mailed to me but DC doesn't offer it for subscription. Beyond that though I don't buy two titles for any book, unless there's the rare occasion that I'm buying a book as a gift for someone.
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Do only certain books do subscriptions? I had assumed every comic had subscriptions available.
 
Better to use another service than to go through DC itself. Much better deals out there. When you can save 40% on new issues it allows you to experiment with titles that would ordinarily get the chopping block.
 
JD,
I thought there were subscriptions for every book as well until I went to the DC website to order Cyborg and found out it wasn't offered for that service. Certain books were available for subscription. I can't remember the titles, but it was more than likely Batman, Detective, Superman, Action Comics, etc.
 
The twice a month thing bothers me a lot. How long will it last of course is the question.

I limit my comics to thirty dollars a month. With just DC titles, that would be Action, Batman, Superman, Detective, Justice League, Green Lantern, and the Green Lantern Corps title taking away valued spots from other comics.

I love those characters but I am going to wait to see who is actually writing the different series. I hope that Earth 2, Hellblazer, and Titans all have good writers.
 
For years now comics have been printed to order.

Previews goes out, comic shop monkeys full out their orders, and then Marvel and DC print exactly that many books, plus maybe a further 2 percent wiggle room for just in case some thing weird happens with reorders and backorders down the line.

It's easier to have a second printing, than to have 40 thousand copies of Cyborg issue 3 waiting in a warehouse, for interest spike.

Comic Shop owners are also (each moth) given a clearance list of comics that are only a month or two old, at insidiously discounted prices. Seriously there used to be poorly selling copies of Superman for 10 cents when I was allowed to look on it, and buy from this special list. I got every book that was ten cents (or less). Which was foolish of my ShopMonkey for letting me do that since the freight would have fucked him.
 
Batman #51 was a small story but a wonderful epilogue to Snyder's run. I recommend re-reading #1 beforehand as it's a mirror of that issue. This Tom King fellow has some big shoes to fill.

Justice League #49, like the entire DW, I felt was good but nothing earth shattering. It's just hard to feel any sense of drama or consequence in this story when it's being completely ignored in every other title, and the characters in it don't even reflect the characters in the other titles. This should have been a big summer crossover and not exist in its own weird little world like Final Crisis.

Master Race #4 was good. Obviously it's no DKR, but it is a bizarre hybrid tonally and story-wise between DKR and DKSA. It's weird how Batman has almost nothing to do with this story.

So, something just occurred to me... Darkseid War showed Darkseid alive and well, therefore Final Crisis didn't happen. But in the Batman comics, the whole Death and Return of Batman Morrison story appears to be intact. So if Final Crisis didn't happen... how did Batman "die" and get lost in time?
 
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But I want it to work as an emotional piece and have consequences :wah::wah::wah:

We didn't have these sorts of problems before the kinda-not-really reboot of New 52 :brickwall:
 
Mr Light said:
But I want it to work as an emotional piece and have consequences :wah::wah::wah:

We didn't have these sorts of problems before the kinda-not-really reboot of New 52 :brickwall:
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Corporate owned comics are something that I don't recommend getting too emotionally invested in, lol. Creator owned comics are more reliable - they even have endings rather than awkward mid-story reboots.
 
ancient said:
Corporate owned comics are something that I don't recommend getting too emotionally invested in, lol. Creator owned comics are more reliable - they even have endings rather than awkward mid-story reboots.
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I generally find Creator Owned characters and comics to be pretty lame, and thats when they're not just copies of already established characters that were changed just enough so the writer wouldn't get sued. Don't get me wrong, there are some good Creator owned books, and compared to current DC there are probably many that are generally higher quality then current DC. But, overall in my opinion DC/Marvel has the superior characters, and usually the superior books (well, at least when it comes to Marvel and pre-reboot DC).

I certainly have never been invested in a creator owned book, even the few decent ones I've read. Give me a character with a legacy or who is at least an established character any day of the week. Even new characters from "corporate" comics tend to be better and get better development, even if it takes awhile (like DC's old Vertigo line, Sandman, for example, would never have worked as well if it was creator owned). This doesn't just apply to superheroes, or even DC/Marvel. IDW, Dark Horse and Dynamite have all had good licensed books, and Marvel's Star Wars books are pretty cool, too.
 
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