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[False Prophet]

Maybe in the new DCU Robins are like members of Menudo and need to quit when they start shaving.

Bruce doesn't like hair on his tongue?

[vinnypic]

You're forgetting Steph.

Batgirls: All but Babs and Bette appear fucked.

Well, My rage has been sated. You are on your own.

[Timbales]

Bruce doesn't like hair on his tongue?

and he doesn't want anyone with a deeper voice than him

[ReturnoftheMack]

If Time Warner are really serious about this and this is their call, then they need to get some TV commercials on this. If their goal is to relaunch their comics line, then they need to put their money where their mouths are.

They are a huge media company. They need to get this stuff on the cover of EW, Time and other magazines they own. They need to do stuff on their TV channels. A sketch on Conan. A commercial on Kids WB, shit like that. Just rebooting will do nothing. Comic book fans will either buy it or they won't. It's that simple. If you really want new fans, you use the power behind your company.

Bleeding Cool:

And this is where the other shoe drops.

DC Comics have quite radically restarted all their comic books from issue one, cancelled a stack of them, and begun a new load too. And they are making them all available digitally on the day of purchase. This is a big thing, with an eye on a big mainstream audience. But how will DC reach that audience, given the insular nature of the comic book industry in the USA?

Well, I understand that DC is to launch a major national television advertising campaign for the new line of comic books.

Declaration of interest here, I’m an experienced advertising copywriter and only recently stepped down from a Head Writer position at a London ad agency to go full time on Bleeding Cool.

Comics, when they have advertised on radio or television, have generally done so pretty poorly. Vertigo’s ad exchange with BBC America saw them advertise their Crime OGN line and the Fables collections on the channel, the latter was tolerable but the former was execrable.

Benefit-led commercial, please folks. Advertising a reason why they might want to buy a comic book in the first place, what it could mean to them on an emotional level. What’s in it for them and why should they care? Think how a theme park ride does it…

What I said one week ago...

[Arion]

and he doesn't want anyone with a deeper voice than him

Now that's the kind of Batman comic I'd love to buy .

[Juan Cena]

Now that's the kind of Batman comic I'd love to buy .

There's an image of pedobear in a Batman suit out there somewhere, but I really don't care to go search for it.