I understand that comics will be released online on the same day comic shops get their hard copies. Combine this with the what the general fan — the Tony Bs of the world — and this doesn’t look that great for comic shops.

I can understand why my local shop just had a 90% sale off all DC graphic novels. Seems like wasted space, doesn’t it?

On a side note, I wonder if this means Grant Morrison and his revamp ideas are out at DC?

I think having every character looking like a dated 90′s take or wearing a costume with collar implies Jim Lee and co were the wrong people to put in charge of a permanent reboot.

I think this suggests strongly that a leadership change is needed at the top. There is only so much lipstick you can put on a pig before it looks like a dirty hooker.

Hope DC revokes all new exclusives from newsarama including interviews.

Female man-children serving as journalists need to be fired and no this isn’t “objective” as all comments are negative and posted by an idiot.

And why would you post opinions of “disabled folk” here? Am I missing something are are you being deliberately obtuse. Considering you listed your email as “jillsucks@aol.com” I think I know where your opinions lie. But thank you for taking the time out of your day to comment and add to the discussion in whatever way you could.

Also, for the sake of being objective, mind if I submit the opinions of some disabled folk who just put in their order for a third printing of Batgirl #1 and think it’s awesome? Yeah. Thought not.

1) I have all but given up on hero comics. This has brought me back in to the industry. Now it will be up to them to keep me with creativity and story telling. This was one of the points of the reboot.

2) Jill is an authority.

3) So is Alan

4) I am fairly certain people from Newsarama go for walks regularly and will still ignore your rant.

But, in all seriousness, quoting the comments sections of various internet articles isn’t really a reflection of the public opinion. I read through the Deadline comments: the overwhelming majority was current or lapsed comic book nerds.

But the point of most blog entries is to foster discussion (or, for the more cynical, generate hits), which this entry accomplished.

Thank you, sir, and thank you for telling the world you still read our stuff on a regular basis. It’s very big of you. Namaste.

“It’s true, I didn’t post comments from the people on those sites who knew what they were talking about because they’re “us” and they already knew about the relaunch. I tried pulling the ones that didn’t, i.e. the non-comic reading public, and this is what they were saying.”

This quote sticks out:

“The world doesn’t want superheroes anymore, not inanimate drawings of them on paper anyway. Now they want social relevance, politics, gender neutrality…there’s enough of that in real life. The soul of comics has been lost, along with the soul of our very culture. Sad. If I worked for DC I’d be looking at China, not the spoiled brat kids of the US who can’t live without electronic toys and media.” – J Wolfe

Isn’t that Joe Wolfe a.k.a Rev O.J. Flow? Doesn’t he blog here?

The real problem here is that a lot of the bloggers on this site are NOT good authority figures on this medium. All they know how to do is blog and snark via this site. Hell, this chick who posted this remark goes into business for herself on a regular basis asking companies to hire her in her articles she posts! Try reading her Twitter feed sometime! It’s PATHETIC! She’s totally trying to smile and wink her way into a job without doing any real work! BLOGGING ISN’T REAL JOURNALISM!

Someone from Newsarama needs to go for a walk outside and actually talk to non-comic book geek people about the DC relaunch. Sadly, I only read this blog because it’s a friggin’ train-wreck every damn week. This site has really tanked since Brady left.

(This post will probably be deleted pretty quickly.)

Film critic David Denby loves Rise of the Planet of the Apes. So much so that he twice shows how much he loathes superheroes.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2011/09/05/110905crci_cinema_denby

He is dismissive and snarky, and basically implies that anyone who likes superheroes is an overgrown child. And I don’t think he is alone.

Personally I was invested in about 14 different DC titles before the reboot. Now I’m looking at 4-9 titles total from the New 52. I wonder how many other longtime readers did the same. I’m by no means anti DC or even anti reboot, just that I was invested in a bunch of titles that are no longer available and starting over means I have to pick what I want to read again. There just wasn’t enough compelling titles for me to get back to my pre-reboot purchasing levels.

So just looking at this from my own personal view DC made a HUGE gamble. Personally I don’t think it’s going to pay off in the end. Obviously they are taking the long view on this since they are currently losing money based on year to date numbers (less titles means less money), but if they can build momentum and garner new readers as they roll out more titles in the coming weeks they may come out ahead. I just don’t see this getting them many new readers, some yes, but not enough to offset the all the titles current folks were invested in. I could be way off though and most people aren’t like me and are actually buying more titles with the relaunch then before.

From the msnbc article: “Comic characters have been changed and histories re-written too many times to count. It’s the nature of the industry.” which I believe was quite popular at the time. It allowed the writers to tell their story without being constrained by continuity. For the most part the characters did not differ greatly from the originals but allowed for some originality in the stories.”

From the Times Article: “Oh go ahead. Do It! Start at #1. Reinvent. It’s a STORY. Make new stories. Old guard…. its gonna be ok really. If it doesn’t work one can always get a new hobby.”

I don’t expect anything better from a lot of the public.

You can’t use the comments on an internet article and claim that is what the PUBLIC is thinking. Go read a Yahoo story…they manage in every one to make racist comments about President Obama. You honestly think that is how the public is reacting…or that it is a bunch of internet trolls that get off on whining.

Yes, you say at the end that this is only a small helping. Too little, too late. That should have been at the very beginning of your article, and the title should never had the word PUBLIC in it.

If you want to say this is how the INTERNET is reacting, go right ahead. But don’t call it the public.

Plus, most of the commenters at those sites seem to know what they’re talking about when it comes to comic books.

52 new issues they are not all going to make it. I am having fun trying to guess which one gets canned first. Justice League is safe no matter what but some of the others…..