DC ANNOUNCES YET ANOTHER IMPRINT: BLACK LABEL

DC ANNOUNCES YET ANOTHER IMPRINT: BLACK LABEL
With mature stories for mature readers, by acclaimed creators.

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dccomics.com/blog/2018/03/08/dc-launches-new-publishing-imprint-dc-black-label
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This opens the door not only to standard single issues and OGNs under Black Label, but less standard formats such as Euro-sized comics as well.


I decided to make a new thread after all, but it is too late to remove my original posts in another DC imprint news thread. Janitors can feel free to take either this or my old posts down.

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List of books that will appear under Black Label imprint:

Fucking kill me.
I saw an issue in my nearby comics store. I know it probably isn't but sounds fun, what is it about Holla Forums?
ditto


Frank Miller working on Supes… fucking kill me.
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Sounds like the whole concept behind it was.

If you're aware of her work then you know what you're going to be getting.

That's it. I got to storytime the New Guardians. Son of a bitch.

LEAVE MY AIDS INFECTED HOMO WIZARD ALONE!

uh, excuse you, nazi.

the politically correct term is 'african american label'.

People won't even get Wonder Woman right, a Homeric epic to portray Greek mythology with DC characters should be an obvious formula for success, but alas, as always Wonder Woman is a complete waste of potential, only DCAU, and the 2009 animated movie has done her relatively decent and should be examples of what they can do with the character, then again I must admit I only hear of Wondy when is shit, if there's a run an user could recommend me it would be greatly appreciated.


lel.

My first reaction was "what fart-huffing bullshit is this?" until I went and checked the numbers and say that White Knight was consistently a top 10 seller during its run. Why do we want to save comics, again?

Fuck no. This is DC casting a wide net and hoping to catch some fish. It's no better than the various Archie spin-offs.


This is the final amalgamation of Vertigo. Ever since Identity Crisis, DC has been trying to work Vertigo's "maturity" into their main line. This is as far as they can go without completely destroying their brand.

The newfag is strong with this one.

This sentence really drives home that Snyder fucking hates Batman.

There is also MAD Books, and Bendis' Jinxworld might be coming to DC as well. Also, is Hannah Barbara it's own imprint, or is it a line with DC's regular comics?

Either way, DC might be going a bit overboard with these imprints. It would probably be better to just make Young Animal and Bendis's imprint into their own lines within Vertigo. Either way, at least DC is trying to do something. It makes sense to have different imprints for different demographics.

But half of them are selling the same product: Variations on Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.

If I'm looking for something different, I won't be looking at those tired IPs.

No one wants more bad comics. There's little joy to be had when a shitty show does well or a terrible comic sells tens of thousands of copies.

All they had to say was "We're bringing back Elseworlds".
Superman: Year One, Last Knight on Earth, Damned and The Other History sound good.

Might be good, but might also just be a last ditch effort with no thought or planning behind it.

Until the actual books come out, I've yet to see what's so bad about this. Black Label might as well as be an Elseworlds revival in every way except name. At least DC's making an attempt to accurately brand its output.


DKIII is another sequel to Dark Knight Returns. It's basically Batman and Superman against crazy Kryptonian cultists from Kandor. It's better than it sounds if you don't take it too seriously.
Hardly an omen if you don't just buy into the memes about him. I'd be more concerned about JRJR's art.

"For adults"
That's a funny way of spelling "full of tits, innards and unsubtle jabs at Trump, only unlike squirrel girl they'll say 'fuck'"

Weren't they already doing that? How adult can you get? Nothing they write is aimed at anyone younger than 35.

You just named two of the worst portrayals of Wonder Woman. One had her as a perpetually angry bitch who also craved Bat-cock, the other had her as a naive, bitchy girl who only calms partially after Steve Trevor spergs out at her.

The closest we got to a good Wonder Woman in animated form was the Young Justice version, ironically enough.

And even then, YJ WW was fairly flawed.

Is someone finally doing the "Joker is killed and takes over Hell when he gets there?" storyline?

Batman Damned intrigues me. Mainly becuase it's Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo doing it and I normally like their work.

But is it Elseworlds? Elseworlds stories usually created an entirely new version of the character. BL just sounds regular cape comics, just with a mature twist.

But the mainstream titles are already geared toward adults. I'm having trouble appreciating the difference.

The difference is that you can expect more blood and gore along with scenarios that couldn't happen in the mainstream books because it would damage the brand.

DCAU Wonder Woman wasn't perpetually angry

They call it black label…because you'd have to be drunk to read it

They said the stories were out of canon and cited Elseworlds and famous non-canon one-shots.
Elseworlds don't always have to be incredibly vast changes, they are just uses of the IP that aren't canon so writers could do whatever they liked.

When it comes to mainline books, DC and Marvel still will not allow certain mature content. Things like nudity, profanity, "problematic content," and will even put limits on things like alcohol or smoking. Big two comics are usually as tame as basic channels, and tamer than basic cable.

Did anyone ever get WW right in the first place? I don't think I have ever seen two people who could agree how WW is supposed to be handled.

Well, the William Messner-Loebs/George Perez WW was breddy gud.

Thanks for the recommendation user, honestly a warrior trained woman since infancy fighting mythological Greek beasts and monsters along an American soldier should be one of the great histories one could read, I don't even begin to fathom how they constantly fuck up a great premise like that.

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Feminism

Because that wasn't the original premise. It's also the reason why Wonder Woman will forever be a shit character.

Wonder Woman, deep at the core concept of the book, is a fetish title. A fetish title all about bondage, sub/dom play, and "loving" femdom. Wonder Woman writers have tried for decades to cover it up with more feminist angles, but the character won't be good until they fully embrace what the character was meant to be.

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That original premise was also shit, imho they should just continue on the greek mythology and strip the forced feminism they wrote in.

That was the wrongest thing you could have said about this.

But user, the original premise was shit. Anyone who wants bondage fetishism can find it much easier today, too.

But can they find a superheroine story with bondage elements worked into the premise? Nigger anyone can find porn.

Just because you have a specific fetish that doesn't mean the premise is good.

Didn't Morrison do exactly that and wasn't his rendition, big surprise, shit?

I don't have a bondage fetish, but it's still a better idea than "yet another hero based on mythology". If anything they should embrace it more rather than shy away from it.

Except there weren't that many superheroes, never mind super heroes based on mythology in 1941

The problem with the fetish shit is A) It's redundant what with the abundance and easy availability of porn nowadays (that there wasn't in 1941) and B) if bondage shit is not your fetish it's pretty much impossible to write well.

Wonder Woman's problem is not that she's based on mythology. Wonder Woman's problem is that she's been appropriated by angry feminist dykes who insist on her being an angry feminist dyke.

Good thing it's decades later, and that we're not talking about porn. You can explore fetish material without it being porn. Empowered does it just fine, and I will not let you sit here and tell me there aren't dozens of comics about men/women in skintight outfits.

Hey you know what's the easiest way to get rid of angry feminist dykes? I'll let you have three guesses.

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You seem to have missed several points

Your entire point is "Fetish shit in comic is bad because porn exists", when you seem to ignore the fact that you can cater to something without it being porn. Do you really think stuff like Minerva Mink wasn't written and/or animated by furfags, or that Jessica Rabbit's sex appeal wasn't lovingly added into every frame? Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth is a vehicle for light bondage elements and as we've seen before, sex appeal is like bug spray to the kind of people wanting to turn her into an angry dyke. Play it up and everyone wins.
Look I'll sum it up for you in the simplest way: Sex Sells.

No it wasn't. My point was that it's probably not a good idea to excise elements of Wonder Woman's character that have been elements of her character from her inception right through to her modern interpretation, in favour of elements of her character which haven't been part of her character since her earliest incarnation. Especially when there's a better outlet for them.

And I believe you're wrong, since there have been plenty of holdover elements from earlier iterations for many, many different comics that have become iconic over the years. Superman's heat vision, Batman's utility belt, The Green Lantern's Rings. Hell the costumes themselves have, more or less, stayed consistent. Very few major alterations.
On top of that, even if you played up the mythology aspect, there'd be no reason to exclude the lasso and it's use. Aside from a slight flavor change. Yes there's "Better outlet" for them, just like you have better sources for mythology-themed heroes, but again, you can cater to something without it being porn. You seem to have this hangup where you either are unable to understand or refuse to acknowledge that fetishy material can exist alongside something else and not be outright, or even somewhat, pornographic. Case in point: the images posted.

Golden Age Wonder Woman wasn't based on mythology. It was based on bondage. They never really got into the myths.

Batman: Damned is the only title that sounds somewhat promising. Miller's and Romita Jr's Superman sounds like something interesting, but not necessarily for good reasons.


Making books that appeal to men, meritocratic hiring practices, and ignoring moral outrage brigades?

So DC Ultimates then?

Bondage and feminism.
Feminism was whole lot sexier in William Moulton Marston's day…

Furries didn't exist then you retard.

They did. One of them was probably part of the reason why Tiny Toons was cancelled.
unpromisedone.blogspot.com/2012/11/meet-dennis-quozl-falk-man-who-got-tiny.html

From the thumbnail I thought they were going to create a whole new imprint for all their nigger-pandering comics. Now that I've read the article I don't know which is worse.