On the latest DC Reboot

[dewline]

I think I'm done for the foreseeable future with Action and Superman, owing to the announced plan to retcon away Lois and Clark's marriage.

Not sure about the rest of the DC Universe line right now either. And I know that dropping those books will hurt friends and friendly acquaintances currently under contract. The whole reboot, Superman-related matters aside...?

More on this anon.

Opinions?

Comments

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

I think that the reboot will hurt retailers badly, regardless. They either have to stock 52 titles all being released at the same time, and take losses on some of them (since they feature characters that couldn't support their own titles before), or not stock all of them and potentially lose sales to same-day electronic publication, which completely by coincidence *cough cough* DC is starting at the same time. DC gets to bypass the distributors and retailers and not have to worry about producing a physical product (sure, they'll keep producing a physical product... for a while... then there will be a highly-publicized e-pub-only title, or one that's published ahead of print... then more). If you're a comics shop proprietor who has helped promote their product decades, well, too damn bad.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

A fair concern, especially for those of us who've had very good relations with our respective retailers.

In Ottawa, for examples, those people who deserve a bit more respect than "market forces" and "technological convenience" might otherwise allow include Kin Jee at Silver Snail Ottawa, Rob Spittall at Comic Book Shoppe Bank Street and Murray Sudletsky at Entertainment Ink. I want to see guys and gals like this survive and prosper in the coming years. They and the people they hire onto their businesses do good work.

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

Just to clarify, they aren't all being released at the same time, and DC currently has more than 52 monthly titles.