Correct me if I'm wrong
Sep. 12th, 2011 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficBut it seems like the DCnU can be sorted into three categories.
1. The actual reboot. Your Batman, Superman, and Justice League. Completely different characters, origin stories.
2. Direct carryovers from the old continuity with new costumes. Animal Man, Hawk & Dove, Batwing.
3. The same stuff as before, but with arbitrary changes. For instance, Teen Titans is still about Kon, Tim, Bart, and Cassie, but now Tim is the Swan Queen.
So, my thinking is, wouldn't it be simpler to take category 1 and launch it in a separate imprint? Half those titles seem to take place in the same "Year One" time period that you just know will be impossible to coordinate with "present day," so why not start a new universe from scratch, Ultimates style, with as much a cue as possible taken from the Nolanverse and Man of Steel. With only a dozen or so titles, it would be really easy for the average consumer to keep up on the entire universe.
Plus, you could go the manga route, bundle them all into cheap black and white magazine format, and release them aimed at younger customers. Sort of a "This week in the DC universe" thing, with a rotating selection of titles based on one-shots. So if Batman that month is a done-in-one issue, that goes in the magazine.
Let's call it, say, DC Iconic as a little in-joke. People who might like Batman but not want nine comic books about him and his buddies could still afford to keep up with Batman Iconic and Batgirl Iconic. Two purchases and they'd have the entire Batverse covered. And it would be very easy to keep the DC Iconic line in step with the cartoons, even ones as continuity-fucked as Young Justice. You could advertise it right during the cartoon. Kids, want more of the adventures of Dick Grayson Robin, Wally West Flash, and Kon-El Superboy? Ask your parents for Young Justice Iconic and get downloaded it straight to your computer.
Meanwhile, mainstream continuity can keep going on with titles like Birds of Prey that just wouldn't fly in a "younger" DC universe. If it worked for Marvel Adventures, it can work for DC Comics.
1. The actual reboot. Your Batman, Superman, and Justice League. Completely different characters, origin stories.
2. Direct carryovers from the old continuity with new costumes. Animal Man, Hawk & Dove, Batwing.
3. The same stuff as before, but with arbitrary changes. For instance, Teen Titans is still about Kon, Tim, Bart, and Cassie, but now Tim is the Swan Queen.
So, my thinking is, wouldn't it be simpler to take category 1 and launch it in a separate imprint? Half those titles seem to take place in the same "Year One" time period that you just know will be impossible to coordinate with "present day," so why not start a new universe from scratch, Ultimates style, with as much a cue as possible taken from the Nolanverse and Man of Steel. With only a dozen or so titles, it would be really easy for the average consumer to keep up on the entire universe.
Plus, you could go the manga route, bundle them all into cheap black and white magazine format, and release them aimed at younger customers. Sort of a "This week in the DC universe" thing, with a rotating selection of titles based on one-shots. So if Batman that month is a done-in-one issue, that goes in the magazine.
Let's call it, say, DC Iconic as a little in-joke. People who might like Batman but not want nine comic books about him and his buddies could still afford to keep up with Batman Iconic and Batgirl Iconic. Two purchases and they'd have the entire Batverse covered. And it would be very easy to keep the DC Iconic line in step with the cartoons, even ones as continuity-fucked as Young Justice. You could advertise it right during the cartoon. Kids, want more of the adventures of Dick Grayson Robin, Wally West Flash, and Kon-El Superboy? Ask your parents for Young Justice Iconic and get downloaded it straight to your computer.
Meanwhile, mainstream continuity can keep going on with titles like Birds of Prey that just wouldn't fly in a "younger" DC universe. If it worked for Marvel Adventures, it can work for DC Comics.
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Date: 2011-09-12 11:47 pm (UTC)