The New DCU and You!...Not Me

In the attempt to reinvigorate the dying medium of monthly comics DC Comics is relaunching their entire line with new #1’s. This attempt may be too little too late, but some would say, “You gotta try something.” This isn’t checking to see if the spaghetti sticks are done by tossing them against a wall, this is a business. They need to start acting like it.

With a single issue costing as much as $3.99 for little over 20 pages of story, the time has come for a revolution at DC. DC Comics should be taking the initiative to do more Original Graphic Novels, that are a complete story under one cover. Price points, and accessibility aside considering that they look great on shelves, for those that actually want to own a story, and not just digitally rent it, as you do when you buy a comic via a online store such as Comixology.

DC has a stable of creators that are established, and up and coming, these rookies and veterans could work together to give DC Comics weekly/daily web comics that could bring in web traffic. Some stories could be serialized tales from all over the DCU, from the times of Anthro to that of DC One Million. Every character could be touched upon, the only limitations are the creators imaginations.

DC could easily get ad revenue from these “free” online comics, like any site does, particularly how Youtube has gone. But unlike videos such as a guy getting hit by a Ice Cream truck, these web comics can be collected, and sold online, or at physical stores. There by making some a profit off this free endeavor.

Now I will admit, there are probably flaws with this. I don’t know one single thing about running a comic book company, marketing, accounting, etc. But I do have a vision. I can see the writing on the wall. Prices are going up, content is much more scant, and the fans, even life long ones, are fading faster than tears in the rain. But of course this all makes too much sense for them to do, and thus they will rather take the easy way out and attempt to temporarily boost sales instead of actually changing their doctrine. Change or die people. It’s evolution.

Note #1:

When it comes to these character redesigns that every character in the New DCU will receive, for better(haven’t seen much of this), or for worse(or in some cases eye bleedingly worse). These characters are iconic. Creators have riffed of most of these costumes for decades. These generic redesigns are just that, generic.

They are not iconic, and most of them seem unnecessarily busy. Adding lines just for the hell of it, making it overly detailed, and in the case of the entirety of the Teen Titans, just outright 90’s Image ugly. The Teen Titans scream quarter bin, and I will hate to say this but, the Liefeld Hawk and Dove book looks better than Teen Titans.

Note #2:
I haven’t read, nor will I read any of these 52 #1 issues when they come out. My last DC comic book will be Flashpoint #5. That’s it. Why should I be spending my hard earned money on stuff that won’t mean nothing 18 months down the road? This crap is killing my bank account, and all I have to show for it is a pile of once read comic books. Also, out of principal I will not pay the same price for a digital comic as I would pay for a physical one. No way, no how. So long DC. Wake me up when you get your act together.