scans_daily: WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??

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@ 2011-10-04 02:45 pm UTC

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WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??

Tom Brevoort has a Formspring and he's actually pretty good at answering questions.

In his most recent batch of replies, he tackled things like the recent CATWOMAN/STARFIRE controversy and why Gambit isn't invited to more poker games.

(If you don't remember her, go here.)

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wizardru
2011-10-05 12:25 pm UTC (link)

Except that's exactly the problem. Didio himself said so: the 18-35 comics reader market, which the industry has been increasingly cater to for the last 15-20 years, has become smaller and smaller. The only way they managed to stay profitable to that demographic was to continue to raise cover prices and now that strategy has finally played out.

You say that there is little evidence that DC could have attracted a significant part of the cartoon's fan-base...but DC stated that this was a part of the point of the whole exercise. DC was trying to broaden it's market, appeal to lapsed readers and attract new readers. Didio claimed they needed to do something 'drastically different'.

Starfire highlights an opportunity that DC missed. She didn't have to be the animated version....but she could have been a version that incorporated some of the more popular elements of her most famous incarnation that would have, if not attracted at least not repelled potential new fans of the character. If they really wanted a sex-prop for Red Hood, why use Starfire, specifically?

It all just seems a massive missed opportunity.

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richardak
2011-10-05 02:14 pm UTC (link)

What DC says and what they actually believe may not be the same thing. Ask yourself which DC is more likely to state publicly: we are looking to attract a whole new group of readers to comics by relaunching a more diverse DCU; or, we are looking to get Marvel fans to start buying DC titles and to get people who are currently buying a couple of DC titles to buy more. The latter is a much better business strategy, but the former sounds much better for public consumption.

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