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Possibly some bad DC Comics news

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I think to a lot of people it's idea that DC comics, which for better or worse has been around decades longer than anyone here has been alive, is going away that's a bit sad. It's like when the Simpsons inevitably reaches its final episode, yeah it's been around for way to long... but you're always gonna be sad that something that's been a mainstay goes away. Humans always get sad when something that's a constant in our lives, or something that's just common occurence, finally ends. Maybe it just reminds us that nothing is permanent and we're all on borrowed time, I mean if something as timeless as DC can't last... what can?

... that came out way more depressing than I intended.
 
UsernameMan12 said:
I also dont get why you guys are sad DC is closing if you all seem to not be into it. I'm only sad cause there's a lot of more potential for these characters but DC keeps ******* up.
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Because we love what DC and Marvel once were, and still hope that somebody will save them somehow. Sadly that does not seem likely to happen.
 
@CursedGentleman

"Justice League Action" was pretty good as well.
 
I've been in love with DC characters since I was about 6 years old, because my older brother was a geek and always imported western comics. Yes, I was looking at comics I couldn't even read because of the pretty art and iconic characters like Superman and Wonder Woman. DC comics sparked my interest in learning to read English. Before I got into anime, I was into DC comics. I'll always have a special place in my heart for DC, even if their verse has become a very messy, constantly rebooted mess over the years. These characters have stood the Test of Time, and are timeless icons I'll always cherish.
 
@Ant, Jared, and Js250476 Proabaly my favorite song is "Drive Us Bats". I really love the take on DC's earlier and whimsical side.

@Sera EX

Regardless of how bad it gets for DC, I can't really see them getting canned from the face of the earth. Supes and Bats are basically the faces of superheroes into the point most superpowers and quirks are based off them.
 
Antvasima said:
@Stalker Maggot
Well, not yet, but the American superhero comicbook industry has been largely confusing and of poor quality recently, so probably eventually.
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pretty much this, yeah. i have seen a lotta this lately. like, a lot. i watched one video on it awhile back, and like, 25 billion channels with pretty much the same content are now popping up all over the place. it died out now, but still relevant regardless. the quality has really, really dropped, and its not going up. new good stuff is being put out of course, but the amount of bad stuff that the customers dont like is just pilling up currently
 
@Dino

I loved the Emperor Joker episode, some of the most creative animation I've seen in a cartoon from that era, and the Joker song was pure ham.

The Darkseid and Inbetweener-esque episodes were awesome as well.
 
sorry for this but, with all of this "editors sucking the life off DC" reminds me.

the thought robot won the battle, but mandrakk is winning the war.

i hope this isn't completely true, and if it is, be downsizing (dunno what that is but sounds like weakening the production instead of killing it).

being honest, if they are able to comeback from this situation, this would make a great battle between thought robot and mandrakk.
 
Industry has been up and down for a while now. Years, even. What has been good has been really good. But you have to sort through all kinds of crap just to get to it. Which is a shame because in recent years, that come up with some very good and interesting ideas. Hell, the Dark Multiverse alone is great just for all the potential in it.

But the cracks have been growing for both Marvel and DC. Marvel, there's too much political agenda going on. The heroes have become self-righteous jerks. DC, I just feel like they don't know when they have something good. They just keep starting something, then stopping like a bad car.

It's a shame. Really. DC is such a part of my childhood and as an adult it has/had things that I can only apperciate now. When I was growing up, I was a big Batman fan. I liked Superman but only in a general sense of a power fantasy. Wonder Woman, I was more neutral about. I didn't know what to think about her and as little boy lacked a connection to her. But as time went on, I started to like other things about Batman's universe, not just the caped crusaser himself. Honestly, I like Nightwing and Red Hood more nowadays. I love their spin on the legacy of the Bat. Superman, I've come really to respect and like the fact that he's a big blue boyscout in a world that can be so cynical and cruel. Wonder Woman, I really admire that she's always willing to fight for what's right but also knows when put the sword away and talk. To reach to the heart of the conflict, the people behind it.

To see that dangle on a knife's edge...hurts in a way I can't really express. Like I'm losing friends that I didn't even know where there.
 
Well, the writers should start writing the finale for the comics, so they won't be rushed at least.
 
I've loved a great many of DC's works, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, especially. It makes me shudder with dread & sorrow to think of them dying off....

Perhaps here would be a good time to promote the Discussion Thread for Young Justice: https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/3275762

Young Justice's Season 3 is on their streaming service, DC Universe, & it's hard to say just how excellent I think Season 3 is without spoiling.

(Also, I'm reminded that I probably need to continue doing those Brave and the Bold edits/revisions & such. Darn lazy me.)
 
Honestly, it could be a lesson for the industry if those both companies were to throw the towel.

Buddies, you brought this on yourselves
 
TheMonsterKing56 said:
DC is owned by Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers is owned by AT&T AT&T owns RoosterTeeth RoosterTeeth owns Death Battle ƒñö
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I guess that explains Goku VS Superman
 
Honestly all I've read from DC recently was the WildStorm Relauch (which is now on hiatus) and would have read the DakotaVerse Relauch (if it ever comes out). I just recently began reading Marvel again after a long break and am only following Hickmans X-Men Relauch and Fantastic Four. I need stories to carry some weight and I feel most mainstream comics fall short here these days. On the upside I'm reading more manga/light novels/ and just novels than ever before.
 
What an awful paradox; while general audience's are more interested in the films, the foundation of those said films aka the actual source material "THE COMICS" is collapsing!.

Even downsizing isn't a good omen at all, that said like others have mentioned already on this thread; it's not surprising at all considering how "meta" or "woke" many comic books in general have become, to the point they beating a dead horse (that was already re-animated via nercomancy) not to mention the countless retcons/reboots too...

Whelp... time to read some more Sandman, at least in my dreams DC is still going strong!.
 
I read comics for a while now, yes, Japanese reading comics, surprise, and this is really sad. I love comics especially the ones that are meta like Grant Morrison's Flex Mentallo, though even if it isn't there are still pretty good run like Geoff John's Green Lantern. Flex Mentallo was masterpiece and I wanted to read comics ever since I finished reading it. Unfortunately, the various political statements within comics damaged it's reputations, and they're not making anything creative enough to pull my attention, which is a shame. One of the best of comic's strength is it's huge potential in creativity. Comics currently is just making bad name of itself, and this made the newcomers not want to get into it, which includes me at the start, though I overcame it and saw really good comics. The confusing lore doesn't help either.

This is also the reason why Manga is getting more popular. Japanese doesn't care about political statements out of sheer apathy, and they don't want it from a medium made for escapism, which comics nowadays apparently forget, it is for escapism. Manga doesn't have pillars either, so the crash of one franchise won't even scratch the medium itself. Thus it is more easier for huge investment, not to mention higher-ups usually won't even touch your work meaning you can do whatever you want. And some of the mangas are inescapable after you entered. Like let's look at JoJo. I'm not escaped from JoJo. I can't escape from JoJo. If you want to escape JoJo, you need to at least sell your soul to Satan. And I don't know if it'll work.

Some nonsense speaking aside, I'm sad for this news. This is one of the medium I thoroughly enjoy as an otaku everybody will get a broken heart when something they honestly enjoy just breaks.
 
I appreciate all of the sentiments of affection for these characters, but let's please remember that these news are not definitive yet, nor do they necessarily mean a full cancellation, at least going by the article.
 
Imagine if we had as many comic universes as Japan had manga universes. That'd add some security to the genre in general, and it's open the doors for so many new stories told in new ways, and from an American view as well (as in, there'd be no cultural misunderstanding through translation like there sometimes is in anime). So many different stories to explore, and it could possibly be even more relatable to westerners considering they'd be written and drawn by western artists.
 
Another issue with Western Comicbooks is that Marvel and DC kind of overshadow every other comic book series ever. As such, people who don't wanna get into Marvel or DC because they are way too long or confusing end up not picking any other western comic book either.
 
The only Comic Book companies even half as big as Marvel and DC are Archie and Image, to my knowledge.
 
Visual Novels don't count I think because those are games, their western counterpart would be the point-and-click games such as TellTales'.
 
Visual Novels are often seen on PCs and have also appeared on Nintendo Handhelds. So they do count as video games.
 
Manga maybe but I don't see light novels and visual novels coming close to comic's quality, especially with the isekai oversaturation of the LN medium.
 
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