Friday, June 7, 2013

Please Reboot your Reboot-Who watches...you

Things to Reboot about the Reboot- Other Media

Marvel is coming out with six movies in three years and there’s a few cartoons coming and going still.  They’re keeping their long and complicated history (even the stuff Mephisto erased).

They aren’t rebooting anything.

While money is obviously involved, it’s more complicated than just that about how much better they’re doing than you.

DC, you started over.  You’re explaining your world to readers.  That’s good.  But comics have evolved not just in writing and art, but giant media studios like yourself are spanning mediums these days. 

Before it’s even out, you failed with the ultimate purpose of these movies with Man of Steel.  With so many issues at stake, you failed at the most important by focusing on all the others.

Many people who have never picked up a comic before can now easily identify each of the avengers. Soon they’ll know characters and comics they’ve never heard of.  Guardians of the Galaxy wasn’t well known outside of people who made it a hobby to know Marvel characters and stories.

The Nolan movies introduced people to Batman.  They gave him and his villains a look, something to remember. 

But now you’ve taken away our Teen Titans and replaced them with immature brats that don’t match the characters in your comics.  You’ve ended Young Justice and didn’t replace it.  All we have now is a Superman that few comic readers will recognize and who looks amazingly generic save for his heavy eyeliner.  Who can point to him and instantly say ‘That’s Clark Kent’ and know his basic backstory?


You put so much effort into your reboot.  Are you just too tired now to put any into telling the public outside of comic stores and conventions about it?

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