A group of semi-successful lounge musicians have noticed the kids just aren’t into their music any more like they were back in 1952. But those kids will watch a biopic on Frank Sinatra so they’re pretty sure there’s an interest.

Instead of learning a new style of music that they can use to draw the kids in, they instead decide that they’ll give Frank Sinatra a Flock of Seagulls haircut, release the same exact songs he always sang on iTunes, and THAT will bring the Lady Gaga generation to them.

They’re flabbergasted when it doesn’t work.

So, are our lounge musicians dumb? Out of touch? Or did they simply make a half-hearted attempt at getting a new audience because they knew the regulars at their lounge will always been there?

If you’re not cynical about comics, from publisher to fan, then you’re not paying attention.

Gene Colon died on a bed made of money, right?

And yes, DC DOES want new readers for their books. How do I know? Because I heard it said last week at DC Comics.

I’m sorry. You’re right.

Hoping the general public suddenly decides they were wrong over the last forty years of not buying Wonder Woman comics each time they rebooted the book is a wonderful business plan. Obviously Nu DC is the plan of a group of people with their fingers on the pulse of the non-direct market audience.

They want exactly the same thing direct market fanboys want. They just don’t know it yet. Makes prefect sense!

(Flipside of this is the oft-cited fact that the Blue Beetle comic was canceled right before the Batman toon started and featured the character in its very first episode.)

Johns seems to be burning the candles at both ends these days, its left even some of his most earnest supporters upset with him. Especially on his quick exits on books like LSH and then the recent Barry Allen Flash series.

I wonder how long he’ll last on Aquaman before leaving? (I’m sure with JL being a flagship title that he will stay and GL is his baby) Being the face of the company when it comes to Hollywood (which makes sense given his connections there) has got to take a lot of time.

I actually found it interesting that in the interview with them, the new writers on the Flash series, who were the artists on Geoff’s run, said it wasn’t their fault the book was late when asked.

There’s already talk that his last issue of the current GL, which is the final part of the GL War storyline that sets up things for the new series is behind as well. Doesn’t Apple require a certain amount of time before something is approved?

It’s not broken. Things do need to be changed, but it’s not the end of the world.

Also “The medium will improve vastly once it crashes” makes no sense. You mean the medium of comics will improve once the DM crashes? That’s right, get rid of all the comic stores and infrastructure so that anyone who wants to create comics has no idea how to get their work out there.

I know, I know… the internet will save everyone. That’s why so many web comics are turning their creators into multi-millionaires overnight.

Sigh.

I’d apologize for the bitterness, Johanna, but I just get really really tired of people thinking that reading a blog makes them experts on the Direct Market and all the things that make them tick.

And yes, DC DOES want new readers for their books. How do I know? Because I heard it said last week at DC Comics.

The whole machine is broken from top to bottom. The medium will improve vastly once it crashes.