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May 21, 2013 3:17 pm Indeed. :)

May 21, 2013 3:16 pm Hahahaha yeah... I'm a bit too young for that! ;P

May 21, 2013 1:45 pm Ghostmann, you got a superpower man for spotting this! 0_o Or you just read so many comics for so long... ;P

May 20, 2013 10:20 pm I'm sooooo glad the ifanboy POTW for the #1 made me try this book! Thanks guys!

May 18, 2013 2:07 pm Am I the only one that thinks the Prankster is actually a girl? And even more, the girl with the bat who almost bashed Dick's head in in her bedroom? Would be the ultimate prank, no?

May 15, 2013 11:13 am So you really get to ask yourself: what would Batman do?

May 14, 2013 12:29 pm True that.

May 14, 2013 11:44 am I agree with you both, but it's a specialization, Image is for Indies, DC/Marvel for Superheroes, IDW for franchises and that is okay. But the average comic book buyer, what does he buy? We all have different tastes and preferences, some are DC fanboys(girls), some are Marvel fanboys(girls), some want Crime stories, some want Sci-Fi, etc. Same with literature, same with movies, we all have our particular preference and for that, there's a place we can go to get our fix and it's the specialty of each company. In occurance, DC who makes damn good superheroes stories, are attempting to acquire some parts of the market by broadening their field of genres because that's what marketing is, trying to squeeze as much money out of the pocket of customers as is possible by appealing to their needs but here, they fail miserably because they can't quite match the competition and the "specialists" who do it better than themselves. I might be wrong, but this is how I interpret it. As an example, I own my own publishing house up here in Montréal called La Maison des viscères (The House of Guts), we publish extreme horror books in french because we're the only publishing house that does so in Québec. We made horror our specialty and we are recognized as such by our peers. If I were to publish some chick-litt tomorrow, I'd be out of business, unless I add my own horror flavor to it (and NO, I would not publish something like Twilight, screw you for ever thinking that even though I'd be a gazillionaire!), we can venture into other genres but always with horror elements to it. Though our business model works here, because we're the only ones doing it in Québec, if, let's say, I would publish horror books in english, I'd be in an oversaturated and highly competitive business because there's a hell of a lot more english language horror publishers in the world than in Québec... I think the same thing applies to DC/Marvel, so they should stop trying to appeal to different masses and stick to their specialty, superhero stories, leave the rest to other publishers.

May 14, 2013 8:34 am Walk inside any comic book shop where a hundred comics hit the shelves each month and it IS normal that a lot of them don't get high sales rates. The average comic book buyer spends what? 50$ each month on comics? So that's around 20 titles a month? What does he think when he gets in the store with this restricted budget for his hobby? He gets the triple A titles like Batman, Justice League, Superior Spider-Man, etc. Maybe, just maybe he'll grab a few indie comics or underdogs like the titles that just got cancelled... It's the sad truth, the comic book medium is oversaturated in my opinion. We should have less titles on the shelves but of a higher quality and less wildcards and "edgy" titles that don't sell. I mean, when DC gives the greenlight to a new title like "Threshold" do they really expect it to sell like Batman does? I doubt it, then why even bother producing it if it's to cancel it six issues later?

May 13, 2013 12:21 pm Just make a precision, the 8 issue arc is called "Batman Beyond: Industrial Revolution" and I also recommend the "Justice League Beyond: Konstriction" and "Superman Beyond: Man of Tomorrow" trades which also come out next week. While not as great as Batman Beyond, they're still quite enjoyable and an extension of the Beyond universe!