All right, this is my last post aout this.

[michiru42]

To some extent this has already been covered, so I apologize in advance if people here feel like I'm spamming or anything; I just wanted to post a few new quotes from DC execs, and after that, I'll stop until there's something more concrete like a new book.

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Here we have an analysis of DC, and how WildStorm had to go because "It became redundant":

Comments

[kiev4am]

Not spamming at all! Thanks for posting. I don't know what I think about the various snippets of information we've seen; mostly they seem like typical management-speak, they can't give any guarantees and are trying to do this with a 'nice face' when in reality we know all the decisions have been made. I read a CBR article that said they're layoing off 80 people which is almost a third of the DC workforce. Lean times.

I still can't write properly about the Wildstorm closure, all my thoughts about it are really childish and ragey at the moment - it's such a waste, and a betrayal of creativity, and a cynical DC endgame. They never really promoted the imprint; they may have pulled back a bit from the overt censorship they shoved on books like Authority but you could see DC never really acknowledged or wanted to build on the ideas of those books. It was like the stepchild they didn't know what to do with that needed to be kept in its place. I don't think a Wildstorm advert ever got put in a DC book more than once or twice, for instance. When you think of the difference a bit of cross-promotion would have made, and then look at the sales, it seems so avoidable. But I think DC wanted control more than it wanted to promote WS; they just didn't value it.

I'm especially upset at the total death of the imprint. I actually, fully expected Authority and Wildcats to get cancelled and mothballed at the end of this year, with sales like that it was inevitable. But wiping out the brand (especially when it was doing OK with game tie-in books and creator-owned stuff) seems unnecessarily destructive. That's saying there'll be no new work in the Wildstorm universe, that's saying the existing books, even titles like Planetary and Authority, aren't even guaranteed to stay in print. It's awful.

Hm, that was a bit of a rant. Sorry!

[michiru42]

No, by all means, go ahead. You're not the only one annoyed. I'm hopeful for the future, since a good writer can still do something with the characters, but the total disrespect shown the fans is really annoying--this new Jim Lee signing you mentioned above is just another showing of it. >_