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While I'm not on board with Winnipeg getting an NHL hockey team (let's look at this combination: our last one was too expensive to support, and now we have a smaller arena with more expensive seats. And while I haven't seen any numbers, I would be SHOCKED if the average dispensable income in the city and surrounding communities has increased enough in the last 15 years for an NHL team to be sustainable), I've read that Thrashers fans were burning Winnipeg Jets flags.
THAT SHIT IS NOT ON, THRASHERS FANS. The Jets didn't do anything to you, Winnipeg did. Burn a Manitoba flag or a picture of the MTS Centre or something, because if you're not careful Teemu Selänne's gonna come over there and beat you up, yo. >:(
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I cannot even believe the news about DC's upcoming universe-wide reboot. They say it's because they want to tell stories "where our characters are younger and the stories are being told for today’s audience," but what they REALLY mean is that they want to tell stories about SUPERMAN and BATMAN and WHOEVER THE FUCK ELSE where they are young, because those are the characters that the editors grew up with, the ones that they love and worship and want to be popular. If they wanted to write a Superman story for today's audience, the last couple of arcs would never have happened (they were both terrible and/or offensive! Nice combo, DC).
News flash: people interested in connecting with younger characters (ie: the younger demographic they are certainly doing this in hopes of finding) will be more likely to connect with, say, Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown, both of whom headline comics that are telling great stories and are actually selling issues, than a de-aged, history-stripped version of a classic character that may or may not even be written in a way that is actually appealing! How does it make sense to create a new beginning from scratch instead of working to fix what's broken? How does it make sense to throw away the good with the bad, trading it in for something completely unknown, untried, and unstable?
Batgirl is, hands down, my favourite monthly comic, and from what I hear I'm not the only one. I don't know about you guys, but I've been rejoicing in the fact that Batman is in his late 20s and Robin is a vicious little 10 year old. I've been thrilled to watch the kids from Young Justice reunite as Teen Titans and grow up. I have been utterly disgusted with the majority of the editorial decisions and ~event~ comics that have been released over the last few years (someone deserves a broken nose for killing off 5 year old Lian, and I am more than willing to deliver it, just point the way). I was pretty livid with the de-aging of Wonder Woman, and now they want to do it to the entire universe.
Sorry, DC, but I am not reading that shit.
If they were smart, they'd push and perfect their existing comics that are already geared for a younger demographic (Red Robin, Batgirl, Superboy, Teen Titans; arguably Streets of Gotham, Secret Six, Batwoman), make better use of their younger, relatable and underused or utterly neglected characters, perhaps in their own new titles or as major characters in events (Cassandra Cain, Bart, Static Shock, the Coven of Three, Blue Beetle, just to name a few), and stop telling the same Batman/Superman/Aquaman/Whoeverman stories over and over and over and over again (ie: start fresh with some original ideas! I realize this has been hard for them, but it's why the only people reading Superman vs Brainiac take 5,386 are the ones who read fights 1 through 5,385 and are foolishly hoping that something different will happen this time around).
Why is Dan Didio still in charge? This boggles my mind. My 17 year old brother could run that company better, I'm pretty sure. Maybe even my cat could.
On the one hand, this makes it SO easy for me to save money because I'll be canceling all of my subscriptions when they reboot (from what I've seen, still no list of what's being rebooted, what's not, and what might be canceled, but I am going on the assumption that ALL of my subscriptions have to go). On the other hand, I will never have time to write the fic that will surely come welling up out of me, yearning to be canon.
Things I am hoping for:
- it's a short-term reboot, perhaps for a single arc, just to try shit out and lure people in
- all the titles that I like *don't* get rebooted, and I can then lalala and ignore that anything else is happening
- it ends up being such a shit show that it forces a huge shake up in the editorial team and Dan Didio takes Geoff Johns and JT Krul and all of those other writers that turn things into donkey crap and goes awayyyyy, leaving behind Gail Simone and Fabian Nicieza and Bryan Q. Miller and all of the other good to decent writers (and all of the artists who can actually, you know, draw bodies and fight scenes and have vision in their colouring) so that they can actually make good comics
cross-posted from dreamwidth, please comment over there. existing comments:
While I'm not on board with Winnipeg getting an NHL hockey team (let's look at this combination: our last one was too expensive to support, and now we have a smaller arena with more expensive seats. And while I haven't seen any numbers, I would be SHOCKED if the average dispensable income in the city and surrounding communities has increased enough in the last 15 years for an NHL team to be sustainable), I've read that Thrashers fans were burning Winnipeg Jets flags.
THAT SHIT IS NOT ON, THRASHERS FANS. The Jets didn't do anything to you, Winnipeg did. Burn a Manitoba flag or a picture of the MTS Centre or something, because if you're not careful Teemu Selänne's gonna come over there and beat you up, yo. >:(
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I cannot even believe the news about DC's upcoming universe-wide reboot. They say it's because they want to tell stories "where our characters are younger and the stories are being told for today’s audience," but what they REALLY mean is that they want to tell stories about SUPERMAN and BATMAN and WHOEVER THE FUCK ELSE where they are young, because those are the characters that the editors grew up with, the ones that they love and worship and want to be popular. If they wanted to write a Superman story for today's audience, the last couple of arcs would never have happened (they were both terrible and/or offensive! Nice combo, DC).
News flash: people interested in connecting with younger characters (ie: the younger demographic they are certainly doing this in hopes of finding) will be more likely to connect with, say, Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown, both of whom headline comics that are telling great stories and are actually selling issues, than a de-aged, history-stripped version of a classic character that may or may not even be written in a way that is actually appealing! How does it make sense to create a new beginning from scratch instead of working to fix what's broken? How does it make sense to throw away the good with the bad, trading it in for something completely unknown, untried, and unstable?
Batgirl is, hands down, my favourite monthly comic, and from what I hear I'm not the only one. I don't know about you guys, but I've been rejoicing in the fact that Batman is in his late 20s and Robin is a vicious little 10 year old. I've been thrilled to watch the kids from Young Justice reunite as Teen Titans and grow up. I have been utterly disgusted with the majority of the editorial decisions and ~event~ comics that have been released over the last few years (someone deserves a broken nose for killing off 5 year old Lian, and I am more than willing to deliver it, just point the way). I was pretty livid with the de-aging of Wonder Woman, and now they want to do it to the entire universe.
Sorry, DC, but I am not reading that shit.
If they were smart, they'd push and perfect their existing comics that are already geared for a younger demographic (Red Robin, Batgirl, Superboy, Teen Titans; arguably Streets of Gotham, Secret Six, Batwoman), make better use of their younger, relatable and underused or utterly neglected characters, perhaps in their own new titles or as major characters in events (Cassandra Cain, Bart, Static Shock, the Coven of Three, Blue Beetle, just to name a few), and stop telling the same Batman/Superman/Aquaman/Whoeverman stories over and over and over and over again (ie: start fresh with some original ideas! I realize this has been hard for them, but it's why the only people reading Superman vs Brainiac take 5,386 are the ones who read fights 1 through 5,385 and are foolishly hoping that something different will happen this time around).
Why is Dan Didio still in charge? This boggles my mind. My 17 year old brother could run that company better, I'm pretty sure. Maybe even my cat could.
On the one hand, this makes it SO easy for me to save money because I'll be canceling all of my subscriptions when they reboot (from what I've seen, still no list of what's being rebooted, what's not, and what might be canceled, but I am going on the assumption that ALL of my subscriptions have to go). On the other hand, I will never have time to write the fic that will surely come welling up out of me, yearning to be canon.
Things I am hoping for:
- it's a short-term reboot, perhaps for a single arc, just to try shit out and lure people in
- all the titles that I like *don't* get rebooted, and I can then lalala and ignore that anything else is happening
- it ends up being such a shit show that it forces a huge shake up in the editorial team and Dan Didio takes Geoff Johns and JT Krul and all of those other writers that turn things into donkey crap and goes awayyyyy, leaving behind Gail Simone and Fabian Nicieza and Bryan Q. Miller and all of the other good to decent writers (and all of the artists who can actually, you know, draw bodies and fight scenes and have vision in their colouring) so that they can actually make good comics
cross-posted from dreamwidth, please comment over there. existing comments: