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Originally posted by Trey Strain
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yeah but see people are sick of reboots....................................... i know i am anyway
IonFan says
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I don't know if comparing sales to the false high of a reboot new #1 is really a fair comparison. I would think you would have to give a book at least a year to find it's level and then see where the numbers go from there. Some books it doesn't take as long. Rebirth has been great for the Flash and Detective comics. The other books too early to tell. As for HJ&tGLC while it might not be SCW level of good it outshines the previous Vendetti GL book by miles. That is however a low bar to surpass because that book was awful and I wanted it to succeed.Originally posted by Trey Strain View PostComment
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Green Lantern has never been rebooted. And I guarantee you the sales would explode. This time though they had better not screw it up.Originally posted by IonFan View PostLast edited by Trey Strain; 03-23-2017, 06:47 PM.Comment
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My comparison shows only the biggest drops since Rebirth. The sales of those four titles have taken the biggest hits, and that is meaningful.Originally posted by EmeraldGladiator View Post
All four of those titles have Green Lanterns and/or Superman in them. That's where the work needs to be done.Comment
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trey did you do the calculating yourself or is it somewhere? I am interested to see how all the Rebirth titles are doing.Comment
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I took the most recent month's figures, which are on the previous page of this thread, and divided them by the figues here:
http://icv2.com/articles/markets/vie...tual-june-2016
However, JLA wasn't relaunched till the following month.
http://icv2.com/articles/markets/vie...tual-july-2016Comment
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It's time to make Green Lantern great again.
That entails flushing everything since Kyle's earliest days and starting all four (not six) Earth Lanterns off on an equal footing. Restoring the Guardians and keeping them off-camera. Having two A titles, not an A title and a B title, with one based on Earth and the other in space, and putting the other two Lanterns on teams. Not coordinating the two titles but letting them tell their own stories. Retiring the emotional spectrum or putting it in a recurring mini.
There's nothing complicated about that, and it'll sell. It just requires a long-overdue reboot.
Do it and thrive, or watch the property continue to decline.Last edited by Trey Strain; 03-25-2017, 09:23 AM.Comment
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As long as Johns is apart of DC we're stuck with Baz and Cruz.Comment
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I'm sure they'll be around somewhere. But it doesn't have to be as Lanterns.Originally posted by JohnMc View PostComment
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Make Crus and Baz into the new Peek A Boo and the new Human Bomb.
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The book will have to do terrible numbers for that to happen. I mean so terrible not even Johns will save them.They are his creations after all [and Baz is supposed to be Johns' personal avatar as well]Originally posted by Trey Strain View PostComment
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Just be patient. They'll have to tap out sooner or later and admit that they screwed it all up.Originally posted by JohnMc View PostComment
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It's the sales, John. The sales. Money talks. You can't sell something that people won't buy, no matter how badly you want to sell it.
Nobody except DC's management wanted Baz and Cruz to be put in the JLA and to get their own GL comic, and for the other four Lanterns to be crammed into another comic. A pig with lipstick on it is still a pig, and nobody will buy it except someone who wants a pig.
I posted a long time ago that I thought they were doing this to get the diversity police off their backs. So they could say, "See how hard we tried to do this?" That's the only explanation I can think of. They couldn't be foolish enough to think this would actually work.
At least I don't think they could be.Last edited by Trey Strain; 03-27-2017, 07:53 PM.Comment
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This is an unusual comics board because most people here aren't politically correct. On CBR for example, the owner, Jonah Weiland, uses the word "diversity" as if it's sacred and unanswerable, and often angrily. Most people there thought that making Alan Scott gay would make the JSA comic fly off the shelves. They really believed that!
Well, why would it? And why would putting a Muslim Lantern and a female Latino Lantern in a comic make it sell? Especially when you promote them at the expense of your existing characters!
DC needs to learn from this and move on.Comment
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