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“Both of the Big Two are terrified of the Mass Market for two reasons:
1. It would take a major investment and risk to regain the mass market.
2. Comic creators, editors and publishers would actually have to do their jobs — sell populist fare by the truckload that appealed to the mass market. They would have to give up this tight little circle where people care more about Bruce’s feelings than they do whether there’s a Batman story actually taking place. They’d have to work all ages with public light cast on the book’s actual content, they’d have to compete with better written and produced entertainment from other media. Books that didn’t sell would die. “Creators” who couldn’t meet a monthly schedule would be restricted to specials and one-shots. Public taste and trends would have to be embraced. The precious superhero would have to share the stage with other more relevant genres like Romance, Crime, Horror, Humour and the like. Dicks like Kevin Smith would have to save their juvenile, oral-sex innuendo for something other than a mainstream DC comic.”
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“The comic book industry in America is a cottage industry aimed at a very exclusive audience. That’s why they don’t sell. For 20 years, Hollywood has been making millions off comic properties and the zombies chant about how it will translate in sales… and it never does. Because the comics are cryptic, inaccessible, overpriced and aimed at anything other than a mass market.”
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I want them to stop catering to the perverted needs of forty-five year old men, I want to stop seeing Batman fucking Black Canary, I don’t want to hear Batman swearing, I don’t want to see him feeding a boy rats, I don’t want to see characters getting raped in the ass, I don’t want to see characters who have been straight for sixty years become lesbians overnight because the writer’s too stupid or uncreative to come up with something decent, I want to see new characters for a new time, and when the industry of superhero comics realigns its sights to the young people it was meant for, I’ll be there with both arms and feet – Darwyn Cooke
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Originally Posted by Cth
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