Diversity Character Flops After DC Comics Lie to Fans
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- A third member of DC Comics new Justice League with all diversity characters is cancelled in the last four months. DC Comics are cancelling Aquamen after only 6 issues. Aquamen is supposed to elevate Jackson Hyde to the mantel of Aquaman. DC Comics are prioritizing diversity characters but failing left and right. Yara Flor and Jo Mullein had their comics cancelled earlier in the year. Now Jackson Hyde Aquaman joins them as another example of a failed diversity character. Only Jon Kent Superman and Jace Fox Batman comics aren't cancelled....yet. Worst yet DC COmics lied to customers and fans. Knowing the Aquamen likely wouldn't see a seventh issue, they advertised it was an ongoing. Lying to customers is always a bad business strategy. Another DC Comics diversity character flops after DC lie to fans.
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Jackson's comic Sold & Selling Like Complete Shit! Same with the SuperBoy comic. I Can't CUT My orders Fast Enough. The new comic writers these days Have NO Idea How to write Good comics. They're Dull & Boring as Hell
@marco conti He's a yes man who's terrified of being accused of something by the people who were hired for who they are rather than their writing talent.
Hey, JC. Happy, Easter.
agreed, JC's. Its sickingly obvious how out of touch these writers and artists are. MANGA IS SO much better, that its pathetic for DC and Marvel
Lee’s work day. Walk into the office. Check ok on every woke script on this desk. Play on computer. Check Twitter/TH-cam. Hide under desk if one of Zaslav’s guys comes in. Keep telling every employee “Everything is great!”
Dude is already retired…just collecting a pay check
When I was a child and I bought a Superman comic I knew that inside there would be an adventure, action, conflict, emotion, the Superboy comic is an LGBT+ pamphlet full of cliches, they also made Kal-El's son a stupid boy, he couldn't keep his secret identity not even 3 pages, the real protagonist was her pink-haired boyfriend of Japanese descent and an environmental activist, only with this boy could they fill a lot of boxes.
They killed off and erased Arthur Curry's son. Replaced him with a daughter. And gave Aquaman a gay replacement.
And you're telling me people aren't responding well to it?
Given how the numbers look in the comic industry right now, I'm kind of surprised that they're still trying new titles and new characters
I think it called bad business strategy and that the kindest take I can give.
I think they're stuck in a sunk cost fallacy. They invested so many resources in these woke comics and characters to the point they can't turn back and stop. And it's really hurting them badly more and more as time rolls by. Well, DC and others like them that gone "woke" are going to learn the hard way that the precious "ESG" money (which is the main reason they went "woke" in the first place) they coveted so much is not going to save them forever.
There's actually a reason for this: they have no ability to write the original characters. The entire reason they're replacing the characters is because they don't understand them and are hoping to disguise that by making "new" characters. You can literally see this in this video. The reason they don't use Kaldur (even though they copy paste him) is because they can't make him feel the same or even similar.
The numbers looks fine tho
They really destroyed a great character, because in the young justice show, he was great, but in the comics, he's basically a villain. That's how they're making all these new heroes taking mantles though, selfish sociopaths who are more evil than a hero should be. Kingdom Come was created to mock the 90s dark antihero, but now they'll have to mock the identity politics sociopathic heroes of this era.
The real sociopaths are the writers
Speaking of KINGDOM COME, the Return to EARTH 22 _Johns / Eaglesman & Ross' JSoA_ beautiful Saga (like 9-23 w/ some one shots & A classic pre New 52; Earth 2 epilogue annual). I remember it being better than _Waid's_ original !!
Anyhow,
I was looking for A New collected trade of that saga the other day, there isn't one. Just the 2008 originals, an 2 of the 3 tpb's are "oop" super price hiked on Ebay.
DC Needs to solicit A singular collection of that whole arc, asap!
Aqualad was great in young justice because they didn't have him being gay to fall back on as his personality so they had to actualy give him one.
I have no ideas whose these characters are. Why is DC doing this?
After hearing about this horrible “diversity league” theyve replaced the beloved characters of justice league with, itd be cool if the justice league somehow came back and took down these shitty imposters.
I call it Justice League Diversity. Yep they even made Mera KING of Atlantis and just like the MCU they made it at the request of the actual king, Arthur in DC where as MCU did it with Thor. I so hope Discovery cleans the comic writers and editors out as they are doing with WB and DC in the movies.
I said this 15 years ago and so many people blasted me for it.. when Marvel Comics started doing this to their characters I blasted them for it and I was called an old "so and so".. "I couldn't get with the times".. "I was behind the times".. maybe.. I've been collecting comic books since the 1970s when I was six and seven years old.. you can easily create diversity characters but give them some good background stories and don't force feed them to people.. it won't work.. if you do force feed them to people stop making characters who have been around 65 to 70 years main thing be their sexual preference.. they deserve better than that.. no one cares who a character sleeps with people care about story and substance.. stop cow towing to a certain demographic who is not going to be there for the Long haul... now DC Comics have been doing it for the last couple of years and it's not selling.. it never sells.. when a comic book company has to change the character just to get more readers or a certain type of reader it never works for long or it don't work at all.. I guess I'm just an old man screaming on top of a hill..
The last time DC had a successful replacement for a major hero was when Wally West became the Flash which was the result of Barry Allen heroically sacrificing himself to, basically, save reality. Wally was the Flash for *TWENTY YEARS* growing into his own man, being a hero, and living up to Barry's legacy. He *WAS* the Flash. And then DC decided to bring Barry back and has treated Wally like crap ever since (with a very notable, albeit short-lived, exception in the Rebirth "Titans" series). DC as a company seems to have learned the exact opposite lesson it should've about replacing heroes even though its own history showed them the only way it can be successfully done.
I really liked Wally as the Flash, he did a great job in the role and the writing was well done. But I also liked Kyle Rayner, who was much more interesting and creative than Hal *yawn* Jordan.
I liked Wally, I also liked Kyle Rayner, I liked Tim Drake, there have been a few replacement Heroes that have been successful but I agree with your overall sentiment.
Wally West was a better Flash than Barry will ever be. But Tim Drake and Kyle Raynor were pretty good replacement heroes too
@@christophertaylor9100 Hal Jordan was a great character to me. But I started reading during Emerald Twilight when Hal was at his most complex. Before he became Parallax his writing was often mediocre at best. Kyle Raynor was a good Green Lantern but he's a very 90s/early 2000s type character that wouldn't work as a solo Green Lantern in this day and age
I think a big part of it is that they tried to bypass a whole host of former sidekicks and have new/unknown characters come in to fill in the flagship team. Not one or two getting swapped out, but the entire team?! In a “restored” timeline, the team that should be coming in to save the JL would be the Titans along with aid of the respective “families”!
i will NEVER ACCEPT Jackson as my Aquaman. No matter how much woke DC comics pretends he is.
Aquaman DROWNED event was the best Aquaman issue i have read recently before DC cancelled his solo run. It expanded Aquaman's mythology introducing alien sea gods of other alien seas. Aquaman faught Poseidon in that event and had wonder woman backing him.
Funny this is Jackson Hyde counterpart on Young Justice, Kaldur became Aquaman on the show and no one complained at all
That's cause Kaldur earned it! He proved himself as a leader and hero to take up the mantle, plus it helps he was a well developed character everyone liked. And the reason for the swap made sense, Aquaman decided to spend more time running Atlantis which is reasonable and doesn't ruin him to make Kaldur look good like so many other recent mantel swaps have
It's disturbing to me that the promo poster for the new Justice League shows the new league approaching in a way that inspires fear or trepidation, like a poster for the totalitarian "Justice Lords" would.
Now that you mention it, you're totally right.
Well, since most heroes are being written more like villains it makes total sense. It's almost like these woke activist writers are subconsciously aware that they are not good people and are accidentally telling on themselves with there self-inserts.
@@rickymcn1 Well, they keep hiring Ta-Nehisi Coates, who laughed at 9/11 while _Doctor Victor von freaking DOOM_ cried...
"Respect our pro nouns mortals!"
Pretty sure this is how DC is going to operate going forward. It's to avoid drawing attention to their bad decisions, or admitting they even made them in the first place.
The titles that nobody talks about, reads or buys are going to slowly disappear, and we likely won't even notice most of it.
So no matter how hard they tried to force these characters on people they failed. Hopefully, they'll learn something from that.
I agree but lets be honest most of the original characters still do not sale well and these old lame characters are fading away because their writing sucks and they are for lack of better words just boring. Even Batman DC mascot does not even sale that good. Again the stories are just not worth the read.
Great video and great points ll sir. This is EXACTLY after starting my Comic Book Journey back in 1974, I stopped buying and reading them altogether in 2003. I collected both Marvel and D.C., and was so good, that I could look at any comic cover in those eras and tell you who the artist was.
Enough was enough. Thanks again.
He was such a good character in the Young Justice tv show! I haven’t seen seasons 3 or 4, so I really hope they haven’t ruined another show I loved in my younger years.
Season 1 and 2 are amazing, season 3 is okay, and season 4 is just garbage agenda pushing bs just like these new comics
@@jrson5000 Season 4's agenda didn't get bad until the atlantis arc.
Bruce wayne, Clark kent, diana prince, barry allen/wally west, arthur curry, john stewert/hal jordan/kyle rayner, martian manhunter, hawkman/hawkwoman, shazam, oliver queen. The only real justice league
Reject Modernity. Embrace Pulp Heroism. - Razorfist
@CthulhuChow
"God fucking speed!"🤘😎👌
@@georgehenry1258 I agree with you 100% good sir. Well said! 👍
all the new characters are just bad self inserts and using the "hero has power forced upon them" but extemely badly
🤣🤣🤣my God!! What did they expect with this poor display of character. Did they actually believe that Jackson Hyde would become a household name!?! To be honest, my stomach turned when I was introduced to Aqualad in Young Justice. I did not like him at all. He was bland, the team was way too militant and I was not enjoying the Superboy/Miss Martian drama. I gave it a try, but I just couldn't continue. Another thing that bothers me about this character is the blonde hair and blue eyes. Wtf!! How is my black ass supposed to feel represented with a "black?" character who has Caucasian characteristics!?! As a reader, what am I supposed to take away from this "representation?" 🤔 Ooooh!! I get it!! Pride!! I'm supposed to feel pride! Smh. DC should've suited Tempest up, made him the new Aquaman, and put an appropriate version of Kaldur to join the Teen Titans, along with the Super Sons, Yara Flor, and Wally's kids. But noooooooo, we get quick grow kids and the horrible Titans Academy. Sheesh! There is still hope though!! By the grace of almighty God, there still has to be hope!?!😤 Wes, I apologize for the rant. I'm no Stephen King, but better is possible. But, that's just my opinion.
I work at a comic shop…. No one was buying this book
If the new CEO of Discovery/Warner Bros was smart, he'd clean house at DC and hire our beloved Frog Jesus to run DC.
We have reached the point in DC and Marvel comics, that a straight super hero is so rare, it could soon become a selling point. Truly a clown world out here!
Supergirl, Nightwing, Green Lantern, Tempest and Donna Troy.
These are my nominations for the Future JLA
Wouldn't mind Connor Kent, but he hasn't been in anything for a long time.
Batwing would be fine in it, he just has to be named Batwing.
The Green Lantern would either be: Jessica Cruz, Kyle Rayner or John Stewart.
also why only 5, we need more love for Hawkgirl or Miss Martian.
We already got those characters in the JLA during James Robinson run before New 52 and sales for the book tanked like crazy.
@@DrLynch2009 Still would be better than the LGBTQIA+ league we've ended up getting.
@@thibaldus3 Justice league Diversity. All the villains need to do is out live the heros cause they are not reproducing any offspring to pass on the powers as they all LGBT.
Justice League, “Obsidian Age” did that and it didn’t suck.
Now i know what the Star Trek fans feel when they see Discovery
They just took a steaming pile of excrement and slapped the ST brand on it. It’s more akin to Desperate housewives than ST.
STD, lmao.
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Batman (Jason Todd), Wonder Woman (Donna Troy), The Flash (Wally West), Shazam (Billy Batson), Aquaman (Garth), Nightwing, and The Question (Vic Sage). That's all I'm saying.
The ridiculous excuse that retailers don’t like miniseries is a joke. Retailers don’t like awful, terrible, preachy, and agenda-pushing miniseries. Give them a White Knight, they’ll order it all day.
I honestly don’t understand what the hell is going on over there. They had the benefit of watching Marvel fail miserably for doing what they are now doing...and they did it anyways. All of them deserve to get fired. Does it suck for people to lose their job? Of course. But if you’re not good at something and do the same thing you’re not good at over and over...you should lose your job.
I bet what going on is:
1. These writers are extremely cheep
2. They are activist minded
3. The people in charge are activists and don't have a proper sense of business
If sales are extremely bad, I bet the new CEO will likely pull the plug on DC comics and outsource them to another publisher with some clauses that means they cannot do dumb ass things with their characters, like make Superman, gay, as a example!
That's what I do not get. DC was doing okay as Marvel started to crash and burn and all they had to do was distance themselves from this crap. Instead, they embraced it as if that was some heroic idea
@@christophertaylor9100 They were actually taking over. They consistently had more books in the top 20 than Marvel did if I remember right. This was at the start of Rebirth. They had a ton of talent. But Didio had to let his pride and ego get the better of him. His fee fee’s were hurt because Johns’ Rebirth was so much better than his New 52 so he had to bring Bendis in and it’s really been a steady decline since that happened.
The preachy "woke" garbage was doomed to fail. Obviously, the editors at DC didn't care, and dove into the poison lake anyway. Their commitment to the tiresome ideology trumps their commitment to loyal customers and decent story-telling. It's all so....tedious.......
About as Popular as Superboy’s First gay kiss . No One Needs this shit in their escapism.
As a long time aqua fan they started destroying him and his legacy when they gave the book to Kelly sue, yes I kno all the jokes already, I own every issue of aquaman ever printed (which includes all the spin offs) until about 3 issues in to Kelly's run and haven't touched it since,
It's *amusing* to see how much DC Fans are "enjoying" all the beloved *wokeness* that us Marvel fans have been embracing for the last 5 to 7 years... LOL
Bring back the golden age Aquaman with the yellow gloves. Why not at this point? Yes folks, there was a Auquaman in the 40's.
Thank God Ethan is making such great comics over at Comics Gate and Comic Artist Pro Secrets!
I wonder why "some people" would be so threatened by straight white men - that they would try and replace them everywhere? why do you think that is?
When you hand your name, crown kingdom and spotlight over to the diverse alphabet son of one of your deadliest foes. Hyde is awful and if removed from mythos would improve things.
I've definitely reached that point that I'm not even bothering with any DC book that isnt pre 2010 at this point, unless the merger yields some DRASTIC changes to the storylines like make future state and everything after it not even remotely exist.
Oh boy. When will they learn
I'm getting New Vertigo flashbacks here - weren't two of the titles withdrawn even before the launch? And the rest stumbled right off the blocks? It isn't a good sign for any reboot when you pre-launch part of it and it fails outright. And with Warner-Discovery looking over their shoulders...
The solution is to: *_EDIT THESE MFing BOOKS!_* You bring new talent in? Wonderful! Now hold their feet to the fire and that turn dull lump of writing talent into a fine sword! I don't know what the heck is going on with this stuff. What I do know is that even badly translated manga is more riveting than what I reading from DC. This really needs to end, the nutters need to be removed from these companies and get actual people that want to lead and make comics.
These books exist not because a lack of editing. It’s exactly what the current editors want.
So fall's the house of DC.
Current DC Comics is to Marvel what Family Guy is to the Simpsons: the same jokes five years later and even less funny.
10:16 Those creators were Peter Tomasi and Geoff Johns
This whole thing sounds like a Justice Lords origin story.
A thing that makes me laugh is DC right now isn't just doing what Marvel did 7 years ago, but they are also repeating a bit of their own failures of the DCYou - they are changinging too many things at one time! DCYou had Gordon Bunny Suit Batman, Powerless Superman, Hal Jordan Renegade as the only GL in the Universe, etc. That was bad, but right now is even worse! We got Rebirth then, hopefully Dark Crisis not only fixes things but lasts a bit longer before DC repeats everyones mistakes again!
" We told the story we wanted to tell."
Me: Yeah, cool story bro.
A wise man once said: "Everything woke turns to shit."
Congratulations, DC. You shot yourself in the foot again... for the 104th time. How many times do we have to teach you this lesson?
I was hoping Superman Son of Kal-El was getting cancelled after the video the other day. Superman is my favorite hero and that book is trash
I think you mean, "as marvel still does" when it comes to ratio variants, multiple events, title reboots, etc
Absolutely no one with any activity in their brain matter would ever speculate this horrible crap would last. It breaks my heart after Geoff johns and Dan abnett busted their asses to make aquaman credible again.
As the Joker stated in Batman... _"It's not about the $$... it's about the message."_
I can ONLY Sell 2 copies of "I Am Batman". NO One Wants This Garbage
Since the Empire State of mind - arc, I really like it
Lmfao. It's really stupid that they don't just use Kalder
I remember that the show Avatar the last airbender had similar concept of powers, of controlling the water in one’s body called “blood bending” though unlike DC writers. The ATLA knew how disturbing and dangerous it was for one to abuse they’re powers like that- even when the main character was FORCED to use blood bending as a self defense, she promised herself to never use it again because of how corrupt the power can be-
Seeing how a supposed “hero” is using these powers like it’s nothing, using the words “your body is mine now-“ makes me wonder how can these people be so sick in the head to think this is an heroic act? Even darker heros like Batman didn’t go this low to interrogate-
Says a lot about who is writing the comics when then writers of Young Justice are kicking thier asses with the exact same concept.
3 down…2 to go…I’m going to celebrate when Jon Kent and Tom Taylor fails. Jace Fox’s cancellation will be the final vindication.
Purposefully replacing long-standing characters with clones doesn't work. You need a new character with its own identity that can usurp existing team characters and that has a very small success rate on its own. Like how new X-Men characters like Rogue and Wolverine became the go-tos over Angel and Beast or how She-Hulk took over Ben Grimm's role on the Fantastic Four for a while.
Even if DC used Calgor some writer would ignore what has been fleshed out about the character and just do their own thing with him leaving him undeveloped. That's usually how reboots works.
thank the Gods for the entire pre-nu52 DC line.
💯
I actually enjoyed the new 52. Yes it was not perfect and could have done things better, but compared to the current era of comics the New 52 might as well have been the Ultimate Universe from 2000-2009.
Absolutely STUPID not to use Kaldur.
kelly sue and her husband must be so proud
When the Aqualad in Young Justice minus the woke garbage has better written character arc than the comics. I would rather see being Caucasian, have the mentality and aggression of Black Manta while in his character development of him questioning his own motives for him as a hero of the league. I want to see an anti-hero version of the league similar to Justice League: Gods & Monsters
We don't need anymore dark versions of heroes
@@zemox2534 I mean why not! It makes more sense than the more lighter version of that. Plus its more relatable to the more mature side of things. But i can understand the reason of some not liking it.
I see this as them understanding that the current Justice League lineup shift is a temporary move , I'm hoping however after this, DC return to a pre flashpoint continuity or a hard reboot.
I think DC could actually save the diversity Justice League if they make them a case of 1997 Hart Foundation/2019 Seth Rollins where they're villains that think they're heroes, and then make the next big event "Justice League vs Justice League". Use that to not only save these new characters but then you can use the payoff to return to the status quo. Even if that's not the best idea in the world, it's better than anything DC can come up with.
I certainly hope so. I thought that was the point of Rebirth, but they went off the rails.
Why would you care about DC. GIVE IT UP and go to Manga and get your money's worth of entertainment.
@@lukeyznaga7627 I been reading manga since 2000, quality of it is for kids now
@@AvengCalifornication Ohhh...Yeah..Yeah I have heard something like this before. that is a problem. It would be nice to have more mature stories.
Considering the whole Discovery takeover of DC, I am willing to bet this new version of Justice League is going to be cancelled.
Feels very likely long before it even debuts. Hopefully they put them out of commission for a time, and then bring them back as actual characters. Then we can see if they're worthy of being on the Justice League.
They made me stop after spending thirty five years of buying comics I never thought that would happen but dc and marvel managed it
Hopefully with this new merger we get pre 52 dc and better writers
Their not bring earth one back that’s been done
The diversity needs to go away.
Dc comics blood bath is coming the biggest one yet
10:17 Young Justice tv show was basically Greg Weismann's baby. Comic companies seen to have a hate boner for him. That's probably why they didn't use Kaldar in the book because they would have to give him credit.
For me, writing was meh. And the art is plain and boring without no personal style. Very generic. Could be drawn by everybody.
And i dont care if the character is gay or not. I dont want an aquaman comic where the main character is the sidekick. And a third or fourth generation copy of a copy of a copy of aqualad.
Lol DC is cleaning house!!! I like it!!
The future of comics is indies and Manga. There is no future for Marvel and DC. They're too big, too cumbersome and too allergic to change.
They should just change the Jace Fox story to being made batman by Bruce as part of a league of batmen, where Bruce is the grand bat, Jace is New york batman and Dick is Bludhaven batman (gets promoted from nightwing)
Jace Fox would work better as a "pre" Batman Beyond story
Jace should be part of Batman, Incorporated... only with a new name.
Since he's in N.Y.C. you could call him Bat Apple, get it?
There is only one Batman, period.
It ain't this pretender!
How does that old phrase go...? Oh, I remember.b "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."
DC and Marvel always forget that it's we - the readers - who get the final say.
New JL is such a joke
All New, All Different, All Woke DC
It's NOT That simple
It's not just DC or Marvel
Listen has any of you in Barnes and Knoble or even just walmart or Target and glanced by the kids section and see the books the have printed out FOR kids?
"The joy of two mommies"
"Dad and Daddy"
"Magical Boy to Girl"
"The antiracist baby"
It's any book or printed material or publishing company and any media entertaiment outlet or enterprise
Unless you're completely willing and conforming to ANY SLW/Woke LGBTQ On and on Material you can kiss whatever career in those fields goodbye
There's a reason Doug Tenapal's had to self publish
And do you see anyone actually _buying_ those books, or do they just sit and rot eating up shelf space?
@@autobotstarscream765 Well that's kinda of the problem even if they don't sell if they're not being displayed they'll threaten offense lose a publishing suppllier and the store could go down
Shocker lol.
Don't forget that Brandon Thomas is writing Aquaman Green Arrow Deep Target which is one of the worst books DC has put out in years! His Indie stuff is good, but maybe he should stay with the Indie stuff.
I don’t get it Jackson Hyde aqualad was amazing in teen titans rebirth and the second they give him his own series they mess everything up badly.
Because they halted or ignored all the character development that Ben Percy gave him once they forced Percy off the book. Editorial strikes again.
@@Dhampir101980 figures why am i not surprised and god damn it that sucks on so many levels because I feel bad for Benjamin Percy because he put a lot of effort to make jackson hyde the character I knew from young justice animated series into the comics but the second he gets his own series they mess him up badly really badly. At least the good news is I can appreciate Jackson hyde aqualad in young justice season 4 which is really awesome and badass :).
The best example of pushing a diverse replacement is Jaime Reyes. He was given two titles and a backup and other media appearances while Ted Kord is more beloved never getting endless chances.
Also, where is Garth, the true heir of Atlantis? The most underrated of his generation.
Not no more they just made Mera the King of Atlantis in the comics LOL
Anyone else miss the JLI run by Giffen, DeMatteis, and Maguire?
Just me?
Dark Crisis should restore the DC Universe to the Pre-New 52 maintaining the Rebirth elements
Dark Crisis should restore everything pre-Crisis and pre-Flashpoint into the main DC universe because legacy.
Dark crisis will not restore anything. Just more crap. 👎👎👎😡🤮🤮
“Always going to be a miniseries.” oh please. They were hoping it’d blow up. Every new property needs to be proven in a miniseries but if it’s successful you just build it into an ongoing story. Every tv pilot comes out before the rest of the show is green lit to see what attention the show would get, doesn’t mean it won’t fail.
...did I hear that right, Wes? Do all the first names of the new "mantle-bearers" you mentioned start with a "J" (at least in sound)?
All of them but Yara Flor.
pls dont replace batman unless its taken over by one of the robins damien tim jason and dick should take over
Glad they recognized their mistakes
Damn. Its sad to see a once great company fall so hard, that they resort to outright lying about the length of a series. Its really pathetic.
I remember seeing in Brightest Day first some years ago before Young Justice came out.
So they've canceled the comic which makes me wonder are they still going to follow through and make the show about this character for HBO Max? And then this idiotic Death of the Justice League storyline they're doing to push woke characters into the positions of the traditional ones is absolutely gonna blow up in their face and I'm surprised they're following through with it given the failure of the individual books you referenced. Over time the comic side of their business has progressively become as screwed up as the movie side so let's hope the Discovery takeover leads to something positive in both areas.
I like to hear how horrible Doomed Company is right now - here in Poland we're slightly 'out of schedule' with Batman, so it's good to know when to stop buy their 'product' (I don't care about the rest of the 'futureverse' anyway...).
Just wait, the Boss is coming, He just recently basically shut down the DC Universe at WB and you can bet he is looking at DC comics, He doesn't play games he only looks at the profit, and if it's not profitable it's gone. So this is going to be a blood bath at DC. I cannot wait. This garbage if all precursors are showing come true. It's done over gone and a lot of people will be gone.
i dont read comics because its not really popular in my country in asia but based on the things i have seen, it seems like the same characters are just being recycled for a very long time now so beginners don't even know where to start. In manga, it is easier to pick up the story. You just buy the volume 1 of the story by the "same" author and you're good to go.
Having New York and Gotham exist at the same time in the same universe is just... what the? Where is Gotham supposed to be?
DC = diversity comics,woke,shallow,
derivative,boring,virtue signalling character.
It's the simplest of business choices; who do you market to? The millions of paying customers who have grown up liking what made DC comics? Or the handful who will get triggered, not buy your work anyone, but rather post it online and falsely accuse you of being a -ist just because it's the only way they can make themselves feel powerful?
The idea was stupid.
They killed Kaldor, when they made him gae. He is just like the rest now, a 1 dimensional character, that nothing can happen to.
The mantle stuff is nonsense. Stealing the identity of an original character is insulting.
Thor is not mantle, neither is Aquaman or Captain American.
So why was batman/catwoman listed as a mini as was the Adam strange mini ?
I've never understood Jackson Hyde.......i thought he was Kaldur under a white people name! Lmfao.
Kaldur is one of my favorite characters. Young Justice season 1 + 2 are amazing. I do think that Kaldur's sexual preference change came out of nowhere. I swearing this happens a lot today black make characters. Especially ones I like. Prodigy from the xmen had the same thing happen. It's strange.
They like us better when we don’t like girls. That’s the agenda.
I just want to point out that when he was originally appeared, Kaldur'Ahm/Aqualad II wasn't gay before the New 52. He was originally straight, had a civilian girlfriend, and was shown being attracted to the 2nd Aquagirl. Plus he was straight in the first 2 seasons of Young Justice. But then in the DC Rebirth (when the DC universe was already rebooted) they retconned him to being gay (just like the Alan Scott Green Lantern). What's worse is that none of the fans/audience seem to know about this. A lot of fans seem to completely believe that the 2nd Aqualad was always gay.
As a black person I find it stupid to just take character I know and love since I was a kid just changed because people think it should be diversit and lgbtqrsruv friendly. How would the diverse people think if black panther turn to a white person? You'll see them trying to strike that comic down and call the writer all kinds of names, guess the diversity is convenient to these people. That's what I hate, they could have made new characters with them, but now they want to replace them. I will never buy a woke comic and my collection is vast, this is why I'm enjoying manga more now, no woke bs and it's got a few woke manga and anime as well but that's the thing, they did it well and not forcing it on us.
Kaldur was at least interesting in YJ I’m not calling him Jackson
They made so many lies and cancellations that can dc be trusted along marvel as well? As of the merging with discovery and the extremely low sales of dc comics with alot of movie and shows getting alot of heat and with bat shield barely holding on off. I not sure why they want to follow dan dio direction of 5g or future state even fan voice it out, but still ignore fans and self insert bad fanfics.
I would fire these people if they giving bad rep and tarnish the characters. The multiverse system of dc is probably the reason these writers or publishers can get away with the horrible onmiverse is the big excuse to make bad comics because there no recon and that includes the bad parts of dc that people want to forget. As well no longer needs of writing earth or planet like related threat. Over burning it with final boss like threat in multiverse edition and people are growing tired of the same threat and remixing it with other villains that are basically nfts of evil gallery……. I can’t believe I use nft as an example considering that system will kill the art and media completely into apocalypse dystopia.
kaldor in the animated series was never shown to be gay, I have not read any of his comics.
The problem is DC books don't gain value. People rather invest in that gains value.