>DC You>Creator-driven initiative with an emphasis on variety>FailsWill Next Level follow the same path?
>>152100091>emphasis on varietyIt's all superheroes.
>>152100130You had Prez and Gotham Academy
>>152100161>Gotham AcademySuperheroes.
>>152100091dcyou didn't fail, liar, there were some really good titles
>>152100308Sales were lower
>>152100324I don't care about sales, I care about good comicbooks or at least interesing comicbooks, and most of the sinestro issues are run under dcyou flagship, from issue 12 onwards.
>>152100324The audience is stupid.
>>152100091Dc you failed for a few reasons>the writing was mostly terrible>the stories were just the same as n52>nothing interesting ever occurred
Here's my solution to fix DC:just bring back the bronze age, with the same costumes and canon.
>>152101975The Bronze Age largely sucked.
>>152100225It was a story about kids, no superheroes. It took place in Gotham and had guest spots from Gotham to try to get sales.>>152100359Well DC's parent company does and when the sales aren't good enough they start firing a bunch of people like they did in 2020.
>>152100091Did it really fail?You had the two big proto-DC You titles with Grayson and Burnside Batgirl, which both saw success and critical acclaim.Omega Men was critically acclaimed, and got the large fan campaign that got it un-cancelled so the full 12 issue story could be told.Martian Manhunter, the Damian Robin book, Starfire, and Cyborg all had decent sized runs given the characters involved./co/ still obsesses over Gotham Academy, despite it being shit.
>>152103032Burnside Batgirl's legacy has aged HORRIBLYThe kids today dislike it
>>152103032Saleswise, yes. All these big reboots/relaunches that DC keeps doing don't happen on a whim.
>>152103032>Did it really fail?Sales fell, so... yesHOWEVERThey had a two month filler event before it which was... a really retarded idea. Everything can be done online these days, so moving offices shouldn't require a two month break from everything and that filler event was underwhelming.When mainline did return, it saw weird directions for their major titles, mainly Batman, Action Comics and Wonder Woman and when the top struggles, the bottom half struggles too.The comics were mostly good though, in terms of Big 2 initiatives, it was probably the best one of the past 15 years.
>>152103194Surprisingly enough, Snyder and Capullo's BatGordon never dropped below 100,000, those guys finished nearly as strongly as they started.
>>152103405There was a 15 year gap between Knightfall/Prodigal and Batman Reborn.Doing BatGordon just 4 years after DickBats was regarded.
>>152100091They changed too much too fast. Didio himself remarked on this after a convention. Don't ask me to find it but I remember reading an interview he did about DCYou's failure. There's also the stink from Convergence. It cannot be understated how badly the whole thing flopped and its lingering effects on DC until Rebirth.
>>152101975Pre Crisis or Post?
I got into DC with Rebirth, seeing Next Level discourse and it's mostly people crossing fingers for their favorite B-Lister getting a new bookWas DC You anticipation like that?
>>152100091I enjoyed that Starfire run
>>152103933Not really, I think people knew it was always going to be smaller scale, just a push with a few new books
>>152103032It feels like "creator-driven" and "handling the mainline continuity of the most popular established characters" is already a contradiction explaining why this didn't work out well for half the titles.The best creator driven stuff is the stuff where the writer gets to go insane with a character who hasn't been very well established or developed to the audience
>>152100091It failed because you can only read these comics with a microscope.
