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The new number 1, 52 issues with DC Comics are selling like hot cakes. My local comic shops are sold out. I think we need to think about making some Mego like figures with new costumes. Maybe it is time to move beyond Retro and think about making some current incarnations? Would that be such a bad thing?
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Last edited by drogge; Sep 22, '11, 5:48 PM. -
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No, thanks. We need to let the new 52 die a quick death without giving it any false hopes.Comment
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I just happened to read about this yesterday by chance. I'll stick with my Curt Swan era Supeman....blue jeans and a t-shirt is a stupid idea. DC Comics is doing a great job ruining their best heroes in my opinion.Check out my website: Megozine Covers - HomeComment
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Yeah. I wouldn't gauge the first issues as anything other than a novelty that many bit on. As subsequent issues come out, the stories will have to sell themselves. And I have already heard plenty of criticisms. It won't be long until this "new look" is eliminated for the "real thing". Coke classic anyone?Comment
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Good point. This whole thing may be just a smart marketing ploy to recreate the appreciation and support for the classic product.Check out my website: Megozine Covers - HomeComment
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The four Green Lantern exclusives will always be remembered by many of us here as the ******* children of the Retro Heroes that killed the line. Let's hope Mattel doesn't add to that mistake by giving us a bunch of modern versions of the DC characters. Really bad idea. According to Paul of Emce in another thread they are trying to work something out to get us more Retro Heroes. If they are not going to be TRUELY retro characters I for one would prefer the line stay dead.Comment
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by the time Mattel would get new 52 figures done, the comics will have tanked. That first month of sales of the comics won't hold up for a lot of the line.You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. -Ernie BanksComment
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Too sexy!?!
I read a disturbing article yesterday or this AM about the New 52 and the emphasis on sex in several of the issues. Not funny. I hope they die a painful death if half that article was accurate.
This was the main link I followed
Shortpacked! by David Willis - Math
And this was the story that I was particularly disturbed by, but I haven't read comics in years, the movies seem to support my notion that no comic has more than a handful of good stories in them, Superman used to irritate me something fierce as a kid, so hard to tell a new/different/interesting story after perhaps the 9th try...
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/0...-superheroine/-
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Message, Spock?
- Admiral Kirk
"...surely, the best of times."
- Captain Spock
https://youtu.be/tOtKcJtahKQComment
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^^^ Yeah I have to agree. I might be old school, but I have never thought it a good idea to push the sexual themes outside of modest undertones. These days, it's a freakin' splash page of a girl getting out of bed. I think that contributes to the delinquency of kids. It caters to all the wrong ideas that honestly heroes are NOT suppose to represent. Being "real" doesn't mean you act like a sl*t. That's overshooting the mark by promoting the extreme. Kids are very impressionable and will feel pressure to own up to these kinds of images because their in a comic book. It's wrong. We as adults can easily place it in it's proper context. Not so, for a kid.Comment
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Pandering
I had to look it up, but they are pandering.
They are obviously targeting teen boys. I believe their current market is Adult males. Middle-age maybe.
So they are trying to get teens hooked to set up a 30yr addiction/run for their money.
I quit collecting shortly after I first tried to sell some or all of my collection. Most of which I still have but I did gut it and get my money back I think.
If we have a suitable thread here I can post what I have left for sale.
I have not encouraged my kids to read comics in any way. And if that article holds up, I may not even go see Batman 3 even though 1 and 2 were in the Top 5 movies of all time I think.-
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Message, Spock?
- Admiral Kirk
"...surely, the best of times."
- Captain Spock
https://youtu.be/tOtKcJtahKQComment
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That's a very good article. Loved this quote.
"I have long maintained that to bring in more female readers, superhero comics don't even need to specifically target women as much as they need to not actively offend them."
My Mom got me into comics as a kid and she read comics as a child. They don't even have to make "girl comics" to get female readers. My Mom's favorite comic was Superman. All they have to do is just stop trying so darn hard to alienate female readers.
And I posted that Short packed cartoon in the comics section. I had missed it in this thread.You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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no moderns please. the target audiences are completely different. i really dont even think the greenlatern exclusives were a good idea. I would much rather have a retro hawkman, joker, batgirl, robin, etc. i wont even as much as take a peep at the new comic line.Comment
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Most of the people buying the new 52 stuff could care less about Mego style / retro style figures. DC is alienating most of us older long time collectors. I told the guy at my local comic shop to stop pulling all my DC titles once they ended the original numbering. I will stick with back issues of my favorite DC titles now.Comment
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except for the Byrne, Perez, and a few others, i only read pre crisis now
those new designs just dont hold up to the classic, IMOComment
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