Slowly recovering from the virus that kind of knocked the last half of last week away from me, I had a slow realization about a mainstream news story from last week. Unless I’m forgetting something, when Time Warner spins out the Time Inc. publishing properties as a standalone company later this year, DC will become the only Warner entity with a significant interest in publishing inside the entire corporation.
This isn’t necessarily a big deal (or much of a deal at all), but it feels like an odd milestone in some ways, nonetheless – And, perhaps, a sign of where DC stands within the larger Warners plan, that it’s the one print property that the company is willing to hold onto for licensing and movie possibilities. It does make me wonder, though, whether this also emphasizes how ultimately un-important that comic publishing really is to DC and Warners these days, in some way…?
March 12th, 2013 at 12:34 am
the only Warner entity with a significant interest in publishing inside the entire corporation.
March 12th, 2013 at 10:10 am
Back were it stood when it was still part of Research and Development as opposed to the movie unit. DC has never been part of Warner publishing in the entire time Warner Bros. has owned them. That’s what no one outside of the industry realizes. It’s the reason that DC doesn’t do any of the print licensing, just provides stock art.