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Date: 2011-06-03 01:05 am (UTC)Beautiful
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Date: 2011-06-03 03:36 am (UTC)ANyway, it can't be as bad as people put it... we might not get Robin OYL story again.... or they can just continue to ignore past continuity of characters, like Bart and Conner, while having a so called "legitimate" reason to do so, time went wanky and those events didn't happen as the time, paper, ink, and money that went into publishing at the time...
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Date: 2011-06-04 06:59 am (UTC)I saw a mix of goosestep and regular march in this vid of their entry into Paris.
By that point I think it was for ceremonies only.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3aOvjTR
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Date: 2011-06-04 08:41 am (UTC)That's practically line dancing, isn't it?
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Date: 2011-06-03 08:13 am (UTC)I love the fact they actually got German people to talk German in this movie. Or make them SOUND like actual Germans. without crazy accents.
oh the flaming monkeys, you never cease to amaze me <3
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Date: 2011-06-03 08:18 am (UTC)Oh god this is awesome. and sooooooooooooo true.
"Superman is super strong and can fly, what more do you need to know?"
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Date: 2011-06-03 08:33 am (UTC)...did I just write that??
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Date: 2011-06-03 12:14 pm (UTC)I wish I could agree with you 100%, but I can't. Well written comics alone don't sell themselves, much as I wish they did. One of comic's biggest problems is that they've been ghetto-ized. The only place you can even BUY comics outside of a comic store is the occasional couple of issues on a shelf at a bookstore...maybe.
The days of impulse buying comics at the drug store or 7-11 are long since gone...and the casual buyer with them. Now they're a boutique item sold to a limited audience. That's the main thrust of this movement with the day-and-date digital releases...for comics to survive, they MUST find a broader audience. Hell, more people bought the Wonder Woman animated DVD than bought Wonder Woman's comic in the space of a year, for example.
Consider that. The Wonder Woman DVD sold about 435,000 copies. From issue 600-610, including variant covers, Wonder Woman sold 386,000 or so. Now, you may be thinking "Well, that was the JMS run! Everyone hated that!" But that would ignore the fact that JMS run actually sold 10,000 more copies per issue than the previous year of WW. Hated or not, JMS improved WW's numbers significantly (and that number is also outbalanced by issue 600, which sold 63,000+ copies, way beyond what a normal issue sells). The point being that Wonder Woman hasn't sold more than 100,000 copies for an issue since her reboot at #1 in 2006 (which immediately dropped off in a matter of months back down to the 30s).
You might say, well, that's Wonder Woman...sure, she the pre-eminent female superhero of all time, but comics are more a 'boys' medium and the numbers are different for Superman, Batman or Spiderman. But really, it's not much different. The numbers are higher, but still weak. In 1967, at the height of the TV show, Batman was selling nearly 900K a month. It was a long, slow slide from there. By 1977 he was only selling 168,000. Then in 1987 he had a bump from Frank Miller's 'Year One', then again in 1989 from movie interest and more recently from Grant Morrison's work. So how well is Batman doing today, a title that pretty much sets the index standard for Diamond's numbers due to it's stability in sales? In April it ranked #17 for the month, selling around 56,000 issues. The more successful Batman, Inc. sold...62,000 copies.
Hell, the 'Summer Blockbuster' for April, Fear Itself #1, was the only title to break six figures...at 128,595. Comics have survived by raising prices and playing to their market, but that's a strategy of diminishing returns. Even the DC Universe Online MMORPG has more monthly subscribers than the best selling comic on th stands (as of February, it had 200K+...but that was before the whole Sony thing).
I don't know if DC's move will work or not...but I'll give them props for trying SOMETHING, at least.
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Date: 2011-06-03 12:31 pm (UTC)They never, ever let anything remain long enough to consolidate and BUILD UPON whatever these events do. Now, granted, once upon a time that led to all the missteps from COIE. But, in this case? This just looks like SON OF ZERO HOUR to me. But DC lost me again at least a Crisis or two ago.
I just call it the Permanent Crisis, Commissar.
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Date: 2011-06-03 12:28 pm (UTC)*giggles* what you said
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