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Batman: Europa #1
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"I don't think I've ever treated [Batman] the same way when I've written him. I always look for something new, and in this one he's got to rely on the Joker to stay alive." -- Brian Azzarello
( Part 1: Berlin )
icon_ukHaving let Bob Harras go as part of the restructuring that happened alst week, DC have announced that replacing him be Marie Javins and Michele Wells!
In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, Jim Lee revealed the names and the focus of the new DC and discussed their leaving Diamond.
“We are still in the business of publishing comics,” Lee adds, saying that there is no work being halted.
Yes, there will be more Batman — John Ridley, who won an Oscar for penning 12 Years a Slave, is writing a Batman mini-series (“It will have a huge impact on the rest of the line,” Lee says) — and there will also be the return of Milestone, a label that features under-represented heroes and creators.
Is DC still publishing comics?
Absolutely. One hundred percent. It is still the cornerstone of everything that we do. The need for storytelling, updating the mythology, is vital to what we do. The organization leans on us to share and establish the meaningful elements of the content that they need to use and incorporate for all their adaptations. When we think about reaching global audiences, and we see comics as helping drive that awareness and that international brand, it’s very much part of our future.
That said, we will be reducing the size of the slate. But it’s about looking at everything and looking at the bottom 20 percent, 25 percent of the line that wasn’t breaking even or was losing money. It’s about more punch for the pound, so to speak, and increasing the margins of the books that we are doing. It was about aligning the books to the franchise brand content we’ve developed and making sure that every book we put out, we put out for a reason.
You now have two interim editors-in-chiefs, Marie Javins, who headed digital strategy, and Michele Wells, who headed the YA imprint. How is that going to work?
We thought it would be a great pairing to bring them together to help draft and organize the content we’re doing along these lines. Across digital, across global, we want to make sure we have diversity and inclusivity, and making it in a way that we have authenticity to the storytelling that we’re doing.
It’s really about consolidating all of our efforts and having every editors involved in all these directives and also organizing, broadly speaking, in content that is for kids 6 to 11 and then 12 to 45. It’s about consolidating format and oversight to a smaller, more concentrated editorial group.
DC in the spring broke away from Diamond as its distributor and signed with two new companies. Some people said at the time it would be a mistake. How has it fared?
Not only has it exceeded our initial expectations, but the size and strength of the business is that same level or higher than pre-COVID. There was a lot of fear mongering out there about another Heroes World type of debacle that occurred decades ago; there is nothing further from the truth. Things have transitioned very smoothly — that’s not to say there aren't kinks that need to be worked out. UCS and Lunar, they’ve done an amazing job transitioning all the content we produce and putting it into new pipelines and getting it to retailers.
What is going to happen to DC Universe?
The original content that is on DCU is migrating to HBO Max. Truthfully, that’s the best platform for that content. The amount of content you get, not just DC , but generally from WarnerMedia, is huge and it’s the best value proposition, if I’m allowed to use that marketing term. We feel that is the place for that.
In regards to the community and experience that DCU created, and all the backlist content, something like 20.000 to 25,000 different titles, and the way it connected with fans 24-7, there is always going to be a need for that. So we’re excited to transform it and we’ll have more news on what that will look like. It’s definitely not going away.
The full interview is in the link. It's a bit of a puff piece, but interesting nevertheless.
In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, Jim Lee revealed the names and the focus of the new DC and discussed their leaving Diamond.
“We are still in the business of publishing comics,” Lee adds, saying that there is no work being halted.
Yes, there will be more Batman — John Ridley, who won an Oscar for penning 12 Years a Slave, is writing a Batman mini-series (“It will have a huge impact on the rest of the line,” Lee says) — and there will also be the return of Milestone, a label that features under-represented heroes and creators.
Is DC still publishing comics?
Absolutely. One hundred percent. It is still the cornerstone of everything that we do. The need for storytelling, updating the mythology, is vital to what we do. The organization leans on us to share and establish the meaningful elements of the content that they need to use and incorporate for all their adaptations. When we think about reaching global audiences, and we see comics as helping drive that awareness and that international brand, it’s very much part of our future.
That said, we will be reducing the size of the slate. But it’s about looking at everything and looking at the bottom 20 percent, 25 percent of the line that wasn’t breaking even or was losing money. It’s about more punch for the pound, so to speak, and increasing the margins of the books that we are doing. It was about aligning the books to the franchise brand content we’ve developed and making sure that every book we put out, we put out for a reason.
You now have two interim editors-in-chiefs, Marie Javins, who headed digital strategy, and Michele Wells, who headed the YA imprint. How is that going to work?
We thought it would be a great pairing to bring them together to help draft and organize the content we’re doing along these lines. Across digital, across global, we want to make sure we have diversity and inclusivity, and making it in a way that we have authenticity to the storytelling that we’re doing.
It’s really about consolidating all of our efforts and having every editors involved in all these directives and also organizing, broadly speaking, in content that is for kids 6 to 11 and then 12 to 45. It’s about consolidating format and oversight to a smaller, more concentrated editorial group.
DC in the spring broke away from Diamond as its distributor and signed with two new companies. Some people said at the time it would be a mistake. How has it fared?
Not only has it exceeded our initial expectations, but the size and strength of the business is that same level or higher than pre-COVID. There was a lot of fear mongering out there about another Heroes World type of debacle that occurred decades ago; there is nothing further from the truth. Things have transitioned very smoothly — that’s not to say there aren't kinks that need to be worked out. UCS and Lunar, they’ve done an amazing job transitioning all the content we produce and putting it into new pipelines and getting it to retailers.
What is going to happen to DC Universe?
The original content that is on DCU is migrating to HBO Max. Truthfully, that’s the best platform for that content. The amount of content you get, not just DC , but generally from WarnerMedia, is huge and it’s the best value proposition, if I’m allowed to use that marketing term. We feel that is the place for that.
In regards to the community and experience that DCU created, and all the backlist content, something like 20.000 to 25,000 different titles, and the way it connected with fans 24-7, there is always going to be a need for that. So we’re excited to transform it and we’ll have more news on what that will look like. It’s definitely not going away.
The full interview is in the link. It's a bit of a puff piece, but interesting nevertheless.
cyberghostface
DC has released some of the variant covers for The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular.
( Covers under the cut... )
icon_ukDC have released most of the variant covers for the upcoming 80th Anniversary of Robin special, each representing a different decade of the Boy/Teen/Girl Wonder.
UPDATE- Jim Lee has released the pencil's for his 1940's cover.
( These are pretty cool )
UPDATE- Jim Lee has released the pencil's for his 1940's cover.
( These are pretty cool )
Tags:
- char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon,
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: robin/catgirl/carrie kelly,
- char: robin/damian wayne,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: robin/red hood/jason todd,
- char: robin/red robin/tim drake,
- char: spoiler/batgirl/robin/steph brown,
- creator: dustin nguyen,
- creator: frank miller,
- creator: jim cheung,
- creator: jim lee,
- creator: kaare andrews,
- creator: yasmine putri,
- genre: previews
Detective Comics #1000
May. 11th, 2019 05:10 pmcyberghostface
"Each time you smoke a joint you just don't know what's going to happen next, you're like 'Oh my god'. One time I smoked a joint, wrote this fucking issue of Detective Comics that's coming up on issue 1000. They've had a thousand issues. I think it must have done more, but in their numbering their coming up to Detective Comics issue 1000. So, they asked me 'Will you write a story for, an eight-pager, Jim Lee will draw it?' I was like fuck yeah, Jim Lee? Holy shit, man, I'd let him draw my death. Like, he's so fucking good. So, I smoked this fucking strain. It's crazy. I'll never know what it was. It was like we're passing like two ships in the fucking night and shit. I don't know what it was, so I can't be like 'You must get me this'. It made me write honestly the best Batman story I'll ever write." -- Kevin Smith
( Manufacture For Use )
