What would you guys think of an anthology series of DC stories? I feel like this would be the easiest way to get direct adaptations that people here always ask about(People saying why comics don't get 1:1 adaptations like Invincible or Manga/Anime>Adapts from Golden Age and Silver Age(Cause DCAU already adapted most of the Bronze age and post crisis stuff)>one episode is Batman fighting the Monk, the next episode is The Flash fighting the slowest man alive, the next it's Superman stopping the Purple plague and Ultra Humanite>No overarching story, just like the original comics>The Golden/Silver age difference explained away as Earth 1 and Earth 2 or a framing device
>>154370353>What would you guys think of an anthology series of DC storiessounds good. DC stuff works best as short episodes stories anyway
>>154370353That was basically batman the brave and the bold.
>>154371110>short episodes stories*short episodic stories
>>154370353>1:1 adaptations like Invincible or Manga/Anime
>>154371232I liked that one. Deadman and Nightwing make a good team
>>154370353>No overarching storyIt's not going to do well.
>>154370353No. I want new stories, each with their own worlds and characters, running alongside each other in continuous narratives. They will never cross over and they must end, and the same writer/artist teams remain in their respective titles until they end, and no one picks them up after. I want they very best writers and artists on these books, with a little competition going on between them, see who makes the best comic.Enough of Batman already.
>>154370353No
>>154370353Could be a good way of getting stories for lesser characters
>>154374375>getting stories for lesser charactersWhat's the point?
>>154370353>What would you guys think of an anthology series of DC stories?DC has LITERALLY done this multiple times under multiple formats. You would know this if you weren't a fucking /co/ tourist and actually put your money where your mouth is.
>>154376927Nice art on the left.
>>154376927kek this. DC even put $5 anthologies for all their most popular characters in Walmart back in 2018 next to the Pokémon cards in a desperate attempt to bring young readers in. The result? It was an utter catastrophe. Kids didn't want it, they don't care about 100yo Boomer™ capeshit. They bought the Manga anthologies located in the magazine section instead.DC's response?>"Oh, the kids must want collected stories instead? Yeah, that must be it!!"So then DC adds a good sized selection of TPB's of Batman, Superman, etc. next to the magazine section at Walmart to get kids interested.The result? Another disaster!Kids literally let the TPB's rot on the shelves for months while buying every Manga next to them. DC finally threw in the towel, pulled the TPB's, and now every Walmart has a small Manga section next to the magazines and there are ZERO DC Boomer™ capeshit comics being sold there.DC and Marvel are DEAD. If they hadn't been bought by Warner Bros and Disney they'd both be out of business by now because there are virtually no readers left at this point.
>>154378640Oh, I also forgot to add this part:You see the pic I attached to my post? See the Batman comics beside the anthology editions? When the anthologies tanked DC tried unloading their huge back stock of unsold floppies by packaging them together in a $5 bundle... which also failed miserably.They couldn't give away their shitty books no matter what they tried. The $5 anthologies didn't sell, the $5 bundled floppies didn't sell, the TPB's didn't sell.Nobody wants their shit no matter how cheap it is or how easily it can be found in a grocery store.
>>154377987Of course, it's Dave Gibbons.
>>154378640>Kids literally let the TPB's rot on the shelves for monthsOlder readers didn't buy them either, not for their kids to read or for themselves. The general disinterest in capeshit is multi-generational. This is why they keep constantly resetting every series so they can release another #1 issue, because outside of aging collectors/speculators buying #1 issues to bag and board DC comics don't sell. Think about it, they can't even move comics in comics book stores. That's a pretty bad place from a business perspective.
>>154370353I'm gonna be real with youWhen people bring up animated comic adaptations potentially helping comics and bringing comics and cartoons, Marvel, DC, and licensed stuff should NOT be in the conversationThese are legacy IPs that have already reached a level of notoriety of ubiquity that you're either a fan of these characters or not.People keep raving about animated Absolute Batman but an animated Absolute Batman would barely move the needle in getting people interested in comics as a medium let alone them reading anything past BatmanThe only people who'd watch Absolute Batman are the kind of people who already like BatmanWhich is a lot of people don't me wrong but I fail to see how that would succeed where decades of series' and films' have failed.>>154379283>>154376927I think OP meant as an animated series anthology
>>154379064Hell yeah.
>>154379559>I think OP meant as an animated series anthologyThen I don't care. I don't watch cartoons.
>>154382276damn unc hella based. fuck dem toon ass faggots
>>154382298That's right.
>>154370353Nobody would care, it wouldn’t garner much attention and it would quietly get cancelled. Because despite how much /co/ yaps about anthologies nobody here buys them, let alone read them, whenever DC is publishing a new one. Because they don’t matter when they’re not in continuity or there isn’t an “important” storyline happening. This is the fanboy mindset. You whine about wanting something and never support it because durrr it’s filler or whatever other inane reason you just came up with. The mass audiences especially don’t care.
>>154370353i hate the flash so fucking much. look at that dumb red faggot with those gay yellow ear zaps coming off his head. if i saw that comic in the store i'd rip that shit in half and piss all over it until jim lee started crying somewhere
>>154370353I really enjoyed the DC Nation shorts, but they weren't adapting any particular story
>>154379559This is a good point and one that doesn't get brought up enough. I don't think it's true for entire companies (DC and Marvel both have shitloads of characters that are obscure enough that not everyone who potentially might like them has heard of them), but it definitely applies to the top echelon of both. Everyone on the planet already knows whether he likes Batman, Superman, Spider-man etc. or not, even if they have never read or seen anything with him in it, purely from cultural osmosis.
>>154379559Speak of the devil
>>154383600Yeah?
