Another round of layoffs at DC

[Hypo]

More senior staffers have been laid off per Bleeding Cool. It was reported yesterday that WarnerMedia would be doing another round of layoffs so this isn't DC specific.

[kjn]

Bother. They have let Michele Wells go… after she had built up DC Ink/Zoom/Young Reader, arguably DC's most creatively interesting and successful line for a long time.

[Vordan]

Bother. They have let Michele Wells go… after she had built up DC Ink/Zoom/Young Reader, arguably DC's most creatively interesting and successful line for a long time.

AT&T should never have been allowed to buy WB. They basically massacred the company. It’s going to be a long time before DC recovers from this.

[HAN9000]

AT&T should never have been allowed to buy WB. They basically massacred the company. It’s going to be a long time before DC recovers from this.

The acquisition definitely did more harm than good to WB and DC. However, executives of WB received a cornucopia of money through the merger and that's why they welcomed it.

[Bruce Wayne]

AT&T should never have been allowed to buy WB. They basically massacred the company. It’s going to be a long time before DC recovers from this.

DC will never recover from this. Comics aren't exactly making money. Down the line, DC will likely cease publishing and become a licensing company licensing its properties for cartoons/video games/movies.

[Frontier]

DC will never recover from this. Comics aren't exactly making money. Down the line, DC will likely cease publishing and become a licensing company licensing its properties for cartoons/video games/movies.

That is extremely concerning .

[Tony]

I feel like the downsizing is required. I think it's important to replace all the writers for up and coming Sci-Fi and Fantasy self publishers from Amazon who wont just redo tired stories. publish maybe 8 titles and use only the most popular artists and the books will make money. 2 or 3 Editors will be enough and like Archie the company will be around forever making comics.

[superduperman]

Firing someone two months after hiring them suggests that even AT&T doesn't know what it wants to do going forward. Whatever plans DC has may have to be put on hold until this is all sorted out.

[Digifiend]

DC will never recover from this. Comics aren't exactly making money. Down the line, DC will likely cease publishing and become a licensing company licensing its properties for cartoons/video games/movies.

Yeah. I can see the unthinkable happening - Marvel ending up with the DC characters because nobody else wants to print superhero comic books.

[Vordan]

DC will never recover from this. Comics aren't exactly making money. Down the line, DC will likely cease publishing and become a licensing company licensing its properties for cartoons/video games/movies.

Then DC is f*****. Most of the non-Batman characters get treated like crap in outside media. Zero faith in hacks like NRS being the ones to guide the future of the characters.

[Hypo]

Follow up article from Bleeding Cool: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/afte...-comics-today/

Basically two points of note, Daniel Cherry was brought in to cut costs and that's what he's doing by firing the senior people and Marie Javins, who was promoted to EIC yesterday, will be reporting to Cherry instead of Jim Lee.

[seismic-2]

Down the line, DC will likely cease publishing and become a licensing company licensing its properties for cartoons/video games/movies.

I can just as easily see this happening to Marvel. Disney has huge comic book sales in Europe of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck titles, but Disney doesn't publish them - they just license the properties to European comics publishers and reap the profits. They could adopt that same approach in the USA, if they decide that maintaining Marvel as a publishing house is more trouble than it's worth. Both Marvel and DC could wind up as IP licensing companies rather than comic book publishers. Probably the first step in that direction would be reducing the volume of publications by eliminating floppies in favor of only collections and original graphic novels (and maybe digital-only weeklies). Then those too would simply be outsourced, and that would be that.

[OopsIdiditagain]

DC will never recover from this. Comics aren't exactly making money. Down the line, DC will likely cease publishing and become a licensing company licensing its properties for cartoons/video games/movies.

They're making money, just not with the audience DC has.

[Nite-Wing]

DC is going through what people thought would happen to Marvel when Disney bought them.
The sky really is falling for DC
Pretty soon comics will be released like GN's and weeklies will be only digital

Priority money making characters getting even more focus and C and D list characters getting lost in the shuffle
WOW

[skyvolt2000]

DC will never recover from this. Comics aren't exactly making money. Down the line, DC will likely cease publishing and become a licensing company licensing its properties for cartoons/video games/movies.

The comics are making money. The comic division is NOT limited to that scared floppy that so many want to worship. It's the floppies, trades, licensing, toys and other stuff.

They're making money, just not with the audience DC has.

THIS.

They want the audience who bought Raven, Beast Boy & Aqualad's OGNs.
They want the folks who buy Ms Marvel, Miles, Lumberjanes, My Hero Academica, One Piece and so on.

They want the folks DC has previously chased off.

However when you let go of the person who is trying to do that-you are shooting yourself in the foot.

publish maybe 8 titles and use only the most popular artists and the books will make money. 2 or 3 Editors will be enough and like Archie the company will be around forever making comics.

Dc can't survive like that.

Archie is barely holding on because they too have alienated fans. They were not too happy with the Riverdale movement in comics.