Stephen Churay
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But these (mostly) aren't super-heroes, so I guess they don't count.
The Big Two keep trying to do all-ages magazine comics featuring
SUPERMAN, BATMAN, GREEN LANTERN, SPIDER-MAN, THE X-
MEN, etc., but these also don't really count, I suppose, since they are
out of continuity and aren't usually by the top talent. And they also
seem to fail and get replaced--by more of the same.
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You can't say they don't count, but they do, most of the time, come off
as half hearted attempts. What I have found though is, what appiles to
Thanksgiving dinner also applies to comics. Kids don't like to sit at the
kiddie table. They understand that. These are kids comics and not
what the grown people read. Marvel's current attempt at superhero
comics aimed at kids are the definition of half hearted. Currently, they
are taking stills from there animated shows and putting word balloons
to them with the shows dialogue. My son is five and he saw through
that. He even told me, why are we reading this when we could just
watch the cartoon?
Besides, is it good business to print comics just for kids? Franco and
Baltazar make some of the best comics I've seen for kids. It was an
exception to the rule that my son loved. DC cancelled TINY TITANS
and SUPERMAN FAMILY ADV. Granted, they're bringing back TINY
TITANS but they look at it in terms of numbers for the title and not as
building a new/future readership. They did LIL' GOTHAM but that title
was just terrible. It didn't read well and the art doesn't work for a
child's sensibilities.
Well, what happens to the numbers of the SUPERMAN title if you
could add the SFA kids numbers to the readers of the DCU title.
Would you lose some older readers? Maybe. Would you gain younger
readers. If kids know they are allowed to read it, you should get at
least some of them. It could garner you a larger readership or you
could lose some. But, the readership you do pick up has a lot greater
potential to be with you for longer than your current one.
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