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philippos42) wrote2011-02-03 05:11 am
philippos42) wrote2011-02-03 05:11 am
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So here I am, pretty much snowed in....
Am I diligently digging out of the ridiculously deep (for this latitude) snow? No. Not nearly as much as I wish I had been.
Am I finishing up answers to the Question Game (which I back-burnered when I realized I was putting off stuff with deadlines that would cost me money, so I would put off the meme more)? No. "A week or so" is now at, um, four weeks.
OK, I'm stupid. I lost months to Evony once, now I'm playing Warflow. Don't click on an ad that tells you the game is addictive when you know you have an addictive personality.
:sigh:
Also reading crap on Tumblr. Here are some responses to fuckyeahcomicsecrets:
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Huh. I don't think it would help, really. It could, if the writer of the team book were invested in her & fought for her, & DC respected any writer enough to let him keep a character like that on a team.
But DC likes to reshuffle the writers. At least DiDio did. Harras might be less trigger-happy.
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Wow. I would go so much further. DC as a company sucks because they buy into the hierarchy crap as part of their corporate culture.
I want to hit the Ascended Fanboys who run that company with a clue stick: The characters you published in 1960 are not eternal verities. They weren't even that popular then, & the ones that were popular then became old hat long ago. There's a reason Marvel started whipping Superman-DC-National's tuchus in the 1960's.
Maybe if Marvel hadn't bred its own Ascended Fanboys (not to mention all the losers at Marvel who really wish they were writing Superman) you wouldn't have forgotten this lesson.
Look at Disney: They don't expect to make new Mickey Mouse cartoons every month that outsell everything else they do; they develop new product constantly. Marvel used to do that in the 1960's, DC did in the 1940's. Your sales suck because you've mostly forgotten how to do anything new.
And it's not that hard.
But no, you keep a few properties as zombies, & occasionally dig up old properties to piss on them. And then you're relieved that they didn't outsell your precious Superman & Batman, two moderately nifty characters you're run into the ground ten times over.
Am I diligently digging out of the ridiculously deep (for this latitude) snow? No. Not nearly as much as I wish I had been.
Am I finishing up answers to the Question Game (which I back-burnered when I realized I was putting off stuff with deadlines that would cost me money, so I would put off the meme more)? No. "A week or so" is now at, um, four weeks.
OK, I'm stupid. I lost months to Evony once, now I'm playing Warflow. Don't click on an ad that tells you the game is addictive when you know you have an addictive personality.
:sigh:
Also reading crap on Tumblr. Here are some responses to fuckyeahcomicsecrets:
~
Huh. I don't think it would help, really. It could, if the writer of the team book were invested in her & fought for her, & DC respected any writer enough to let him keep a character like that on a team.
But DC likes to reshuffle the writers. At least DiDio did. Harras might be less trigger-happy.
~
Wow. I would go so much further. DC as a company sucks because they buy into the hierarchy crap as part of their corporate culture.
I want to hit the Ascended Fanboys who run that company with a clue stick: The characters you published in 1960 are not eternal verities. They weren't even that popular then, & the ones that were popular then became old hat long ago. There's a reason Marvel started whipping Superman-DC-National's tuchus in the 1960's.
Maybe if Marvel hadn't bred its own Ascended Fanboys (not to mention all the losers at Marvel who really wish they were writing Superman) you wouldn't have forgotten this lesson.
Look at Disney: They don't expect to make new Mickey Mouse cartoons every month that outsell everything else they do; they develop new product constantly. Marvel used to do that in the 1960's, DC did in the 1940's. Your sales suck because you've mostly forgotten how to do anything new.
And it's not that hard.
But no, you keep a few properties as zombies, & occasionally dig up old properties to piss on them. And then you're relieved that they didn't outsell your precious Superman & Batman, two moderately nifty characters you're run into the ground ten times over.