William Bruce West settles into the fourth chair this week as we attempt to formulate a strategic plan for DC Comics' movie franchises. We delve into DC's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for success, and threats to putting together a successful run. We debate how much DC should crib from Marvel, the much rumored JLA movie, crossing [...]
Actually, this post really isn't about the DC Reboot/Relaunch at all, but it is inspired by it. Stealing a topic idea from Comic Book Resources, I decided to do a little creative exercise. Essentially, the question is, "What Would Be My 'Marvel 52'?" The key word here is "my." What I have detailed below is [...]
Now here's Exhibit A in support of the argument that DC Comics should be doing a full-scale Year One reboot: the original Teen Titans, everybody's favorite sidekicks. While the sliding timescale does tend to . . . slide around, and confuse things, the general assumption in current continuity is that these kids got started at [...]
Well, that bit about DC being better off with a clean slate, Year One approach? To clarify, I think they need to say, Superman and Batman are brand new, it's 2011, and here are their first adventures. But I love the whole history of comic book superheroes, and so I'd like to see the DC [...]
CT has more of a dog in this fight than I do. He was mainly a DC Comics fan growing up, while I was strictly into Marvel Comics. But around the time we started hanging out, post-college, I started reading DC and quickly came to realize there was some great stuff. In particular, I appreciate [...]
It's been a few days since the big DC Comics announcement that they would be rebooting their line in September. Giving it time to digest and get the full scope of their initial plans for the reboot, I want to finally throw my two cents in about this whole thing.To those who don't know, here's [...]
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