DC!!

I know I'm am a little late on this bit of news, but did you hear about the stuff that DC is pulling in September. Yea, of course you have. i heard it from my dad first, and he hasn't read a comic in 25 years. Basically i initially thought "another DC gimic," and now i am thinking that it is something a bit different than that. It was a really short article my dad sent me that summed up to saying all new number ones and day and date digital. immediately i thought Zero Hour and went about my day. Now i have heard more about it online and through CGS, and i am getting more excited.

First and foremost, i want my kids to have funny books when they exist (the kids not comics). I have been getting more and more worried about the survival of comics because they are not pulling in the new readers they need to stay relevant. I did not feel comics or the companies that produced and distributed them could pull in noobs on there own, and that's why i take it upon myself to get comics into new readers hands whenever possible. But, now it seems DC is doing something that hasn't been done since the first Crisis, injecting new life into the DCU by not only relaunching (not rebooting) stories and making it possible to distribute a comic potentially an infinite number of times with the DaD releasing. Thinking about it now i am realizing that they have maximized the amount of new readers they could get by not only releasing the new number ones (which always sell), but doing it with the digital. I can totally see some hippster with an Ipad being like "hey Batman #1 im cool with buying that, i did just by a $200 pair of skinny jeans." But anywho. the whole digital thing can really only help, just look to Amazon with the Kindle and Barns&Noble with the Nook then ask yourself why is Borders bankrupt.

While i know old and current fan will probably get wicked upset about all this, i feel they have little right to. This is comics and continuity is somewhat of a luxury, just look into the DCU's early history and how crazy things were. For older fans continuity left DC 25 years ago, some say they fixed it, other say it made things worse. Now we have another back log of continuity that scares off new readers, confuses casual readers, and annoyed fan boys. Retelling every ones story, if done well, all at once could make the cohesive DCU we have all wanted since the first crisis. New readers I hope can look forward to a universe that makes sense and is more relevant today. If done well this can be a great thing for new fans, old fans, and potential fans alike.

Some things that i am really looking forward to is the Mr. Terrific book and i heard Barbra is coming back as Batgirl. Something that scares me is that i don't know what they are going to do with Tim Drake currently Red Robin formerly Robin. I really hope they keep him around.

But we'll see. I think i will sum all this up with a kinda quote (paraphrased) i heard on CGS. Internet 5/30/11: "DC you have completely screwed all of the DCU especially Batman, Superman, and Wonderman." DC 5/31/11: "Fine Internet have it your way, we will change everything in a very profound way" Internet 5/31/11 +1sec:"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"