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Zeus 05/22/19 11:37:07 PM #278:	WhiskeyDisk posted... Maybe this is a 50/50 nostalgia, and late 90s grimdark me speaking, but I loved Azrael as the Bat and wish he hadn't been punted for the admittedly more deserving and actually-acting-like-batman Dick Grayson. Bazrael never made much sense from a logical standpoint given that the mantle was handed off to a guy who Batman had barely just met and who had a troubled history. That said, he had a totally badass costume and he was cool enough to win even Bullock over. WhiskeyDisk posted... Then again, I also have soft spots for Gambit and Speedball/Penance so take from that what you will. Gambit had a really cool design and neat power. ParanoidObsessive posted... It does make sense from their perspective, though. Is it better to cater to the 100k readers or so you already have, or to try and pander to get the millions of people who are watching the movies to start buying comics? Unfortunately, apart from an occasional minor bump, it almost never works to increase sales at all, and usually just winds up driving more of the regular readers away, so in the long-term it decreases sales. That seems to be the trend these days in general - comics will desperately pander to pretty much ANYONE in the hopes of creating new long-term fans, but it almost never works, and they ultimately wind up alienating the fans they already have. Whether it's trying to pander to film audiences, SJWs, hipster teens on Tumblr, or whatever. Those people may bitch about/praise whatever you're doing on the Internet, but none of them are actually going to buy the book. Yeah, you'd think they'd learn their lesson by now. ParanoidObsessive posted... I just sort of wish that Claremont had gotten to stick around and finish his intended storyline where it turned out that Gambit was secretly working for Mr. Sinister and was a bad guy the whole time. I feel like it would have made his character somewhat more interesting than what we eventually got, and there wouldn't be as many annoying fanboys ranting about how kewl he is all the time to irritate me. That would just make him cooler! --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:922252798] in PotdMon: N... [t:77558720]...</cite> <quote><cite>WhiskeyDisk posted...</cite> <quote>Maybe this is a 50/50 nostalgia, and late 90s grimdark me speaking, but I loved Azrael as the Bat and wish he hadn't been punted for the admittedly more deserving and actually-acting-like-batman Dick Grayson. </quote> Bazrael never made much sense from a logical standpoint given that the mantle was handed off to a guy who Batman had barely just met and who had a troubled history. That said, he had a totally badass costume and he was cool enough to win even Bullock over. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted...</cite> <quote>Then again, I also have soft spots for Gambit and Speedball/Penance so take from that what you will.</quote> Gambit had a really cool design and neat power. <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>It does make sense from their perspective, though. Is it better to cater to the 100k readers or so you already have, or to try and pander to get the millions of people who are watching the movies to start buying comics? Unfortunately, apart from an occasional minor bump, it almost never works to increase sales at all, and usually just winds up driving more of the regular readers away, so in the long-term it decreases sales. That seems to be the trend these days in general - comics will desperately pander to pretty much ANYONE in the hopes of creating new long-term fans, but it almost never works, and they ultimately wind up alienating the fans they already have. Whether it's trying to pander to film audiences, SJWs, hipster teens on Tumblr, or whatever. Those people may bitch about/praise whatever you're doing on the Internet, but none of them are actually going to buy the book. </quote> Yeah, you'd think they'd learn their lesson by now. <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>I just sort of wish that Claremont had gotten to stick around and finish his intended storyline where it turned out that Gambit was secretly working for Mr. Sinister and was a bad guy the whole time. I feel like it would have made his character somewhat more interesting than what we eventually got, and there wouldn't be as many annoying fanboys ranting about how kewl he is all the time to irritate me.</quote> That would just make him cooler! --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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