Some bad news transpired over the last week at the Big two:
At Marvel Comics
Axel Alonso was just fired. After several years of abysmal sales the longtime editor-in-chief was
finally given his walking papers by Disney’s top management.
And over at Warner Brothers, the Justice League Movie was a
flop. Costing over $300 million to make, the film underperformed with a $96
million dollar opening. In the face of bad reviews and weak box office it looks
like the nail has been put in the coffin for New 52 era DC once and for all.
Is Change FINALLY coming to the Comic Book Industry? In the
face of so much bad news I’m hoping so.
Many comic fans like myself have been calling for change at
DC since 2011 when Dan Didio ushered in the dark and depressing era of DC
Comics with the New 52. The same era of comics that was used as the template
for Zack Snyder’s dark and depressing DC Cinematic Universe. With the failure
of the New 52 Comics at the comic shop and the box office failure of Justice
League movie based on the New 52 versions of the characters, Warner executives
have been sent a message by comic fans and the general public that they don’t
want to see dark Angry DC Superheroes, that they want to see the classic iconic
heroes that multiple generations grew up with in shows like Batman: The
Animated Series, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
I’m hoping this FINALLY leads to Warner executives cleaning
house at DC it’s needed for years. Comic fans have been demanding the gang of
five Didio, Lee, Nelson, Harras, and Johns be given their walking papers for
eight years. Fifteen if you count the voices calling for Didio to be terminated
since he started the decline of DC with Identity Crisis. With the failure of Justice
League at the box office the time is NOW for Warner Executives to start a real
rebirth at DC by hiring a new editorial team and ushering in the Post-Didio
era.
And many Marvel fans have been calling for change since 2015
when Axel Alonso ushered in what many comic fans called SJW Marvel. It’s at
where Alonso and his assistant editor Tom Bevroort ushered in the era of
“diversity” where characters of color took the place of popular characters like
Captain America, Spider-Man, Thor and Iron Man. Unfortunately, sales dropped by
90 percent in some cases, and most fans hated what they called the SJW Marvel
heroes. With the near collapse of Marvel a message was sent by readers that
they want their classic iconic Marvel heroes generations grew up with.
Unfortunately, Axel Alonso never got the message. He
continued to push the SJW Marvel agenda in the face of the worst sales numbers
in the history of the comic book industry in August and a New York Comic Con
breakfast, where angry Comic shop owners demanded that Marvel stop publishing
SJW comics because the books they were producing were putting them out of
business. Looking at the long-term damage to the Marvel brand and the overall
comic book industy, someone at Disney finally handed him his walking papers.
Comics are a business. And it looks like many executives who
own the big two have gotten to the point where they’re just tired of losing
money. With comic shops closing and fans alienated by leftist creators
attacking them on social media, it looks like the industry are finally waking
up and seeing the reality regarding how dire things are regarding that
business.
Could change be coming to Marvel and DC? I’m hoping that
this bad news will finally lead to something good happening regarding who works
at the Big Two and the comics they publish.
Oh yeah, and the Black Friday Kindle Sale is on TOMORROW!
You can pick up some GREAT SJS DIRECT eBooks for 99 Cents!
All these books are gonna for sale 99Cents on Kindle starting Thanksgiving!
Yeah no in regards to Marvel Cebluski's first move was to go abroad to find new talent as oppose to trying get home grown talent. And he's still continuing many of Mr. Alonso's plans.
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