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A short comic for Bruce and Jay playing video games!! Pls Pls Pls watch Lego Batman Family Matters to have more sweet moments
Last edited by Sergard; 10-14-2019 at 01:37 PM.
Their TV series, not their comic series. If comic sales were the only thing taken into consideration RHATO probably wouldn’t still be chugging along. Heck, you could cancel the whole line and replace it with DC superhero girls. That outsells everything but Killing Joke.
And there is no conceivable way DC have to create heat on a character then making him Batman for a while. Nothing else they could do even comes close.
Last edited by Swallowtail; 10-14-2019 at 03:13 PM.
But you don't really need a comic for a TV series.
Just look at Legends of Tomorrow, the team and some of these main characters don't exist in the comics.
If they want to do a Batwing Series or Movie, it doesn't really matter much if he had ever been Batman in the comics (unless they managed to write a really amazing story), since the majority of the viewers has anyway never read the comics.
Last edited by Aahz; 10-15-2019 at 12:13 AM.
Yeah, but Legends was launched as "Hey look, a show about Canary and Atom and Captain Cold and all the minor characters you like from the first couple of seasons of Arrow on the Flash" for a whole season before they got bored with its premise and it went out and became it's own weird thing. We're in this heavily IP driven environment at the moment, where screen-writers are actually told, "Hey could you go and turn your script into a graphic novel first so we can say it's based on something" in order to sell your script. Having something be from the comic give it legitimacy. Comics are a very small slice of the pie in terms of WB's overall sales, so they need to bring added value. That means every now and then you pull a stunt like this. Black Batman will get mainstream news coverage. It will mean Luke-as-Batman merch and a Luke-as-Batman TV animated movie. It's the same reason Barbara will stay Batgirl. Because no comic is going to be worth as much to the company, as all those red-headed barbie dolls AT&T sells to little girls.
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I got my hands on the "Anatomy of a Metahuman" book, and it was pretty weird to see the Dark Trinity mentioned in the Bizarro entry, mainly because the rest of the book only references events up to Darkseid War, so the brief Rebirth mention is so out of place.
The Generation stuff is pretty new.
DC has revealed a "new" timeline at a convention at the beginning of this month. Here's a thread about it. The main information is that DC has structured the history of their comic universe into four Generations, and each Generation is subdivided into Years, although I don't think that "Year" actually means "365 days". Otherwise Bruce Wayne/Batman would be 60+ years old by now. We are currently in Generation 4 Year 5. (just for comparison: Generation 1 is 25 Years long and Generation 2 and 3 are 15 Years each.)
So far, there are only rumors about Generation 5 (short: 5G) starting soon. And the main rumor is that all the big heroes (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash and Green Lantern) will step down and their mantles will be passed to new/lesser known characters. Rumors say that the 5G Batman will be Luke Fox and the 5G Superman will be Jon Kent. There's a thread (mainly speculation) about that topic too.
As Aahz has mentioned, Marvel has done something similar in the past already. The main target group are new readers. So since you are pretty new to DC, as you have mentioned, 5G might be something for you (if 5G really happens).
There is still some stuff I personally don't understand (I also don't follow Marvel comics, so I don't know how they handled their stuff):
When does Generation 4 end and when does Generation 5 start? Generation 2 and 3 have 15 Years each. So I'd imagine that Generation 4 will also have 15 Years. Does that mean that 5G is set 10 Years in the future?
Will there be Generation 4 and Generation 5 comics? What will be considered the "main universe"? Or will every comic have a time jump and missing years will be addressed in flashbacks?