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And other Darwyn Cooke stuff in this interview:

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/features/110950048942545.htm

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 28 February 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I realized what the biggest challenge was going to be; I wanted to prove that the world was as shitty then as it is now

― Huk-L, Monday, 28 February 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit! Go, Darwyn!

Both of the Big Two are terrified of the Mass Market for two reasons:

1. It would take a major investment and risk to regain the mass market.

2. Comic creators, editors and publishers would actually have to do their jobs — sell populist fare by the truckload that appealed to the mass market. They would have to give up this tight little circle where people care more about Bruce's feelings than they do whether there's a Batman story actually taking place. They'd have to work all ages with public light cast on the book's actual content, they'd have to compete with better written and produced entertainment from other media. Books that didn't sell would die. "Creators" who couldn't meet a monthly schedule would be restricted to specials and one-shots. Public taste and trends would have to be embraced. The precious superhero would have to share the stage with other more relevant genres like Romance, Crime, Horror, Humour and the like. Dicks like Kevin Smith would have to save their juvenile, oral-sex innuendo for something other than a mainstream DC comic.

The comic book industry in America is a cottage industry aimed at a very exclusive audience. That's why they don't sell. For 20 years, Hollywood has been making millions off comic properties and the zombies chant about how it will translate in sales... and it never does. Because the comics are cryptic, inaccessible, overpriced and aimed at anything other than a mass market.

― Huk-L, Monday, 28 February 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

How'd I miss this thread!?!

DC's spot-on in just about every bit of that part Huk quoted (even, sadly, the KS diss) (though I'm not so sure about the "more relevant" jab re: the spandex / other schism; that's feeding into the whole comics-as-RHSC* mentality that put comics into the Direct Market ghetto they're in now). I saw on some comic-news blog some Direct Market retailer was kvetching about the Marvel / 7-11 thing, because that'd take business away from his store, & the Direct Market. Yeah, because potentially reaching new customers (via their exposure to the books you sell in run-of-the-mill spots) is always going to take a chunk out of your profit margin. Someone PLEASE open a window!

*Red-Headed Step-Child

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

more Darwyn Cooke stuff: http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/pulse.cgi?http%3A//www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi%3Fubb%3Dget_topic%26f%3D36%26t%3D003630

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I so hot in my pants for Cooke's issue of Solo.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=1fcaa5bcbd31223c4b0284965e6ccc8b&threadid=34288

Johns off Flash, Cooke on! (for an arc anyway)

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Stunned.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

THEY LIED!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 20 February 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

The Cooke-ed Spirit (which was originally announced for LAST MONTH) stoled Cooke away.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 20 February 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

i want this so bad!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

how dare you get me excited with this thread revival

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

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