Oh I know, but fanfic exaggerates/flanderizes characters as the Batfamily Webtoon proves. Nuance is not something you will find in fanfic.
Pretty much sums up the difference between the two: DC focuses on Batman to the exclusion of all else, while using him to try new stuff. Marvel focuses on everyone but wants you to come to them.
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I mean, are we really assuming all of DC's webtoons are going to be Batman at this point?
Nope, I’m expecting there will be more since that’s what the announcement said. We might have to wait a while though. Even if others are getting stuff, it’s telling that the only thing they’ve got ready for launch is a Batman project though. If this had flopped they wouldn’t have even taken a chance on anyone else.
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Going to be honest - if DC decided to let the shippers have what they want and did Kon-x-Tim and Bruce-x-Clark as official out of continuity stuff like these Webtoon comics, I'd be 100% okay with that move personally, and I'd have a hell of a laugh reading the upset posts of some folks here getting bent out of all shape over it.
I think it's more the opposite side of the coin - the point isn't to try and get them to read the comic books - that's largely a dying medium. Eventually the traditional comic book model will die. The point is DC's aware that the model will die and needs to find other platforms to tell these stories so they're in a position to move on when our comics are dead. They're not using this as a bid to save the comic book market, they're actually taking the first baby steps to move on away from this doomed market.
Not saying comic books are going away, not this decade or the next, but eventually this market of older fans is going to crater, and when it does DC will have already established itself on the platforms that will continue on. So, this is a pay off indeed, but not in the way you think. Comic book sales isn't the pay off, survival of DC's characters and storytelling post comic book is the payoff.
Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman family sitcoms would smack
I'm afraid the only webtoon we can expect for Wonder Woman would be a sitcom starring the Olympian gods. Which wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't tainted by the Daddy Zeus origin.
I'm not up on my lingo here - are you saying that they'd suck or that they'd be great? Sorry, just not up on what smack means in this context.
Either way I'd personally enjoy such sitcoms myself. Not sure if that puts me in the majority or minority of the fans here...
I know a lot of fans despise the Zeus origin with an ungodly passion, but I personally don't mind it. Plus demigod or golem it really shouldn't have an impact on most stories.
For a change? Isn't that how they're presented 99% of the time? Elseworlds aren't that common, outside media appearances, which this sort of pseudo-counts as I think, aren't as common as the comic books. So frankly, wouldn't such a thing where that happened actually be the "for a change" take?
Not saying there aren't any, but the ones I saw are not interested in the Greek Gods. If there's a family time, they want Diana, Donna, and Cassie, and now Nubia and Yara.
Otherwise
Mainly Batman for Justice League watcher but non comic reader
SMWW seems limited to the New 52 fans.
That said, I'm not sure if the fans of both these pairings read Webtoon. I'm not getting any vibe.
A lot of Wonder fan content actually comes from comics reader, because for the longest time, with the exception of Justice League cartoon, they don't get any depiction of Wonder Woman in other media. So naturally, most Wonder fans would be comics reader.
After the movie though, there's an increase in Steve-Wonder fans, whose wish is so that they can both be happy together... and then there's the Barbara Minerva x Diana fans because the way she acted was like she has a crush.
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