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J. Crew Guy ([info]j_crew_guy) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2011-09-29 07:22:00


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The DCnU: Now with more fail than ever!
Backstory: DC Comics has rebooted their entire universe with the DCnU and "The New 52", with 52 first issues of their titles, including Action Comics and Detective Comics. And new versions of familiar characters. Some of them more different than others. This has been... controversial to say the least. But where the fail has really hit the fan has been with DCnU!Starfire and Catwoman.

DCnU!Starfire is basically a scantily-clad wish fulfillment object in the first issue of Red Hood and the Outlaws #1. DCnU!Catwoman had sex with Batman at the end of Catwoman #1.

Comics Alliance's Laura Hudson has a well-written, well thought out response.

And another well-written response from a female fan.

A 7-year-old girl responds to the new, sexed up Starfire.

Shortpacked! does the math.

What does DC Comics have to say for themselves? "Pay atention to the ratings."

Edit: [info]thisfishflies reminds me that if you value keeping your blood pressure low, you should avoid reading the comments with those links.

And [info]spawn_of_kong points out Linkara's reactions to these changes (and others) for those who are interested.

Edit #2: [info]anarchicq says there's a survey being done by DC. But they only want to hear from certain people.

Patton Oswalt ragequits buying/reading DC after an encounter with a "New 52" survey taker in his local comic book store.


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[info]littleshebear
2011-09-29 11:05 pm UTC (link)
So...they're trying to lure in new readers but they're severely limiting their market research?

Yeah, DC, that makes sense.

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[info]sandglass
2011-09-30 01:26 am UTC (link)
They probably don't want us dirty feminists telling them we want better female characters without ever buying their shit.

So I lied and told them I'd bought the comics that I would consider buying if DC didn't hate women.

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[info]bemysty
2011-09-30 03:40 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that's what I did, too. I picked a random town from Wikipedia, used the zip code and filled everything else out based on what I *would* have bought if I wasn't so infuriated by DC's "choices" in characterisation etc.

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[info]blue_penguin
2011-09-30 06:33 am UTC (link)
This was also my strategy.

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[info]aaron_agonistes
2011-09-30 07:22 pm UTC (link)
There were several titles on the 52 list that I would have bought if it weren't for DC's fail. So I just claimed that I bought those, and my survey was accepted.

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