This is true. I just don't get DC's constant obsession with death, horror, and grimdark. It's just...tired.
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Because Didio thinks grimdark sells.
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Well sadly... Grimdark Melodrama is what took DC to their high
Its a fairly simply answer to the Question
Why does DC keep trying to go back to the late 90s through the 00s
"Cause it made them the most money!"
As much as we like to rag on that era... a large chunk us of stupidly bought the issues
We caved to the event comic craze , 52, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis
Blackest night and its fifty billion tie ins... and then all of Brightest days shit cause we wanted answers to Blackest Nights lingering question... Boy did we strike out on that one.
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Rebirth also sold quite well, didn't it? I just think DC's books are made by and for the people who run the place, that's all.
It should be pointed out that DC was at their most optimistic in the 90s. Hell some of their legacy characters were more herioc than their predecessors.
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52 and FC are legit straight-up good.
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Being good wasn't the problem cause they succeeded you had inferior follow ups that also sold due to hype even if they got panned later
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That's what Black label is supposed to be.
Batman: Damned is Black Label.
Also, Batman: Last Knight on Earth looks pretty awesome. And did The Other History of the DC Universe ever come out? Wasn't it solicited for January?
Is there a modern version of the old letters column? Where the editors would reply to reader comments?
Marvel still has their letters column in a lot of their comics. DC, I believe, doesn't.
fuckANN
Funny isnt it. Just as soon as things start to look up for the film side of DC the comics side decides to basically throw away the good deal they have and jump the shark so hard that they jump the Atlantic
Edited by Invincibleasshole on Feb 20th 2019 at 12:40:36 PM
You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price.
'The Other History of the DCU' has been postponed indefinately, last I checked... 
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...holy fuck. What is going on at DC?
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
Damn, it's like the DC Implosion all over again.
I mean, a reduction in 10% to 15% is better than cutting back to only 22 comics a month, but it doesn't imply good things — Warner Media might see DC Comics as not making enough money to justify their existence other than as IP.
Edited by alliterator on Feb 21st 2019 at 9:50:14 AM
Why was the book postponed?
Edited by PennyDreadful on Feb 21st 2019 at 11:56:05 AM
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Is there really any idea how this crash happened? I can't see it being just because Johns left.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
I'm waiting for the online petition to remove Dan Didio
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Is there actual evidence Didio is the responsible party?
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No but I'm blaming him anyway.
Having a reduction in the number of books they are publishing has nothing to do with Didio or with the EIC at all. It probably has to do with the fact that Marvel has been consistently outselling DC
and the gap between them has been growing larger. DC might have the backing of Warner Media, but Warner Media won't back them if they don't actually make any money, hence the cutting back of books. This saves the money it would take to make them and means that they are pretty much only selling the books that they know will make money.
Don't the Diamond numbers just account for physical floppy sales? That said, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that overall sales numbers including trades/digital/bookstores/etc. reflected the same thing.
It might also be due to the fact that Marvel has Marvel Unlimited, while DC has DC Universe. True, DC Universe has more than just comics, but it doesn't have all the comics that Marvel Unlimited has, only comics that it's "curated." So fans of the comics might not get DC Universe. (Also, DC Universe is relatively new anyway, so it might not even factor in yet.)
Alternate universes are entirely valid. Like, I like the shared universe but if they want to do something radical (e.g. kill of a popular character, make a big setting change) it's just easier to do a stand-alone. And hell, if you want some characters from it to appear somewhere else, multiverse travel exists.