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if we're talking Dan DiDio or most of the DCE marketing people, you're probably right. If we're talking Johns and Lee, i dunno. They run the con circuit pretty hard. But would a linewide reboot really bring in the sales DC is expecting? (oh great and this means we're in for yet ANOTHER Legion of Super heroes reboot? ****!)

Right, because All-Star Batman & Robin was such a great idea.

in all seriousness, they already had plans for an 'Ultimate' line, the Earth One GN. So if theyre doing a linewide reboot, does it mean theyre scrapping the Earth One lines?

Ultimatum was & wasn't a reset button. A lot of titles were canceled and rebooted. But it didn't start everything over from the origin point. Also the reason they dont perpetually end/restart whole universes are the fans, at least the fans who actually pay for the comics. The idea is to hold onto the old fans while bringing in new ones. Sure, you could intro entirely new lines, but thats too big a risk for some publishers to take.

Also, this review needs more Manimal!

True, but it had some pretty nasty competition to overcome. But as long as it breaks 100$ million, i see them churning out more sequels. Not that i mind, KFP is pretty amusing.

New to me. Everytime a steampunk PC link comes up, its usually the one of the laptop.

As long as they make money, i don't foresee them not milking the frak out of the franchise.

Actually, the stories were generally aimed at folks younger than the teenage boy set. At least as far as the spandex clad dominated books went. During the '50s and '60s, the market was just as dominated by non superhero books as by anything else. The problem here is that virtually no one working in the medium took it seriously. Over at Marvel, Stan Lee was probably crapping out nearly ten to twenty stories a month, while artists were busy churning out as much art as possible, because if you didnt work, you didnt get paid. SO no one really paid much attention to the continuity. Plus, they completely reinvented almost every hero you can think of (and invented a whole new slew of them) in the 1960s.

Yes and no. IMO folks really started paying attention to continuity when the direct sale market took off. Instead of throwing away the comics like they used to, finally there was a place the fanboys could gather and even pick up the back/missing issues from their collections. And newsstand sales were falling off. The problem is the explanations tended to make sense to the fans, but not so much to new readers.

Because the general public knows who Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and a handful of other heroes are. The ones who pay attention also know the secret identities of these people. But it makes no sense if these folks were originally introduced in the '30s, the '60s, and whatever and are still active today and look exactly like they did when first introduced. They retcon in order to keep readers from feeling disconnected from the characters, and to make the stories fit with all the other characters being created today.

Yes it is. Because the ones who keep coming back, reading and buying the comics are the old fans. People who read the stories when they were younger and want to see those heroes, not the new ones that took over when they stopped reading and left for whatever reason. Sure, folks gripe how nothing ever progresses in comics, but those are usually the first ones to scream bloody murder when they pick up a comic after not reading for five or ten years and scream at the top of their lungs "THEY DID WHAT!?!?!"

Actually the show's been pretty weak this season, and IMO because they actually develop the characters, it's always had a shelf life. his journey from zero to hero has always been what the show is about, and once the trip was done whats left that would really make the show all that different from any other spy themed show to keep it going much longer than a season or two?

i think you've just listed the reasons why i have difficulty
accepting most zombie apocalypse scenarios. as for some other smart species dominating the planet over us, i can dig it. being smart enough to use tools is one thing, but if they observe us using our tools and turn that against us, yeah, i can see someone overreacting and screwing the pooch because of it.

as for the original series, the first two were the only ones worth watching. after that, it turned to crap. in this case, we're not even going to get THAT far before it turns to grok.

mebbe we'll get lucky and just before he dies at the end Franco hits the button the blows the whole damn thing up.

If we can get away from the Superman as Christ figure allegory and get back to him as the ultimate immigrant, i know id be happier.

yeah, caught on to that after i read the book.