DC's next gimmick is...

luke52

... 3D covers!

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/05/31/dcs-next-cover-gimmick-3d-covers/

It just gets worse! Here's hoping its just rumor.

WetRats

I-)

WetRats

Stunt covers.

Smells like desperation.

Mr_Cosmic

DC killing off their characters -- NOW IN 3D!!!!

DoctorDoom

Does my boredom come across in 3D too?

spid

Shrug, I might pick up an extra issue if the cover looked cool.

rebis

It IS the 90's all over again.

John_Steed

I wait for the IMAX editions. Already ordered a boom crane to read those.

Chuck_Melville

I'm holding out for the return of the Colorform covers.

David_D

I want them to do a cover gimmick where the same creator names are on the cover for more than a couple months.

Chuck_Melville

David_D said:

I want them to do a cover gimmick where the same creator names are on the cover for more than a couple months.

Now there's a gimmick that'll be hard to pull off!

SolitaireRose

I have a cool idea for a gimmick: Hire people who are talented and let them do the comics.

Nah. It'll never work as long as the editorial team that gave us the X-Men in the 90's and the Spider-Clone saga are in charge of DC editorial.

Greg

Chuck_Melville said:

David_D said:

I want them to do a cover gimmick where the same creator names are on the cover for more than a couple months.

Now there's a gimmick that'll be hard to pull off!

Or if the cover credits match the interior credits.

spid

After seeing the covers I think I will pick up at least the Batfamily of books.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/03/dc-comics-officially-announces-3d-covered-villain-month-for-september-and-foreveer-evil/

Torchsong

David_D said:

I want them to do a cover gimmick where the same creator names are on the cover for more than a couple months.

SolitaireRose said:

I have a cool idea for a gimmick: Hire people who are talented and let them do the comics.

You ask the impossible!!!

Torchsong

Also as the forums pervert laurete let me say I'll be purchasing the 3D Power Girl and Wonder Woman issues.

Don't let me down, DC! :)

luckymustard

Here's Bleeding Cool's listing of two titles' solicitations. Batman and Detective each get four issues for the month. I am a collector (collector mentality) of, at least, the main Batman book. At Super Show I was able to find one last issue in the middle a decent run from #430 to now, including New 52. I don't have Detective Comics as thoroughly, but I'm working on that too. I will get these, but I'm gonna chop a ton of other DC books to do it.

Elsiebub

Yikes. DC pressing fans of "Batman" and "Detective" to shell out $32 a month for those series??! The covers so far don't look that great and the creative teams look a bit disappointing to me (Andy Kubert WRITING but evidently not drawing? Snyder only co-writing?). I wonder if they'll be doing four issues of "Action" and "Superman" as well.

But I'm liking Soule's Swamp Thing, so I think he'll probably do something interesting with Arcane.

I wonder who the Wonder Woman headline villain will be? Strife? WW is really the only DC book I'm digging on a consistent basis anymore (besides Dial H, which will be canceled in August...).

luke52

spid said:

After seeing the covers I think I will pick up at least the Batfamily of books.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/03/dc-comics-officially-announces-3d-covered-villain-month-for-september-and-foreveer-evil/

Pricey month for you then! There seems to be about 40 Batman family books alone!

eduardo_sanchez

Wonder Woman's villain will be The First Born, Zues' long lost first child. He's been a beast in the last several issues.

Nick

It seems to be the trendy thing to do to make fun of DC, and for those saying there aren't any talented people working at DC I don't think you are looking hard enough. Sure not everything is the cream of the crop, but there still are great titles being produced by consistent creative teams month in and month out.

I know the "WTF" promotion seemed dumb to me at first also, but reading the actual stories it was actually kind of fun. It wasn't as corny and forced as I thought it would be. I enjoyed the last time DC had villain centric books, so I'll give this one a shot. John Siuntres just did a panel on 3D comics, so kind of cool they are putting 3D covers on (although the $1 extra per issues is a little hard to swallow).

EarthGBilly

Let's see... from DC I'm currently getting Animal Man, Arrow, Astro City, Dial H, Larfleeze, and Wonder Woman.

Arrow and Astro City are exempt from "DCU Proper" hype, and Dial H is being cancelled.

I'm still potentially on the hook for three of these holographic chromium lenticu-- er, sorry, 3D covers.

Chuck_Melville

I wasn't particularly impressed with the WTF covers -- in most cases, after reading the stories, I really did say "WTF?", but I don't think I said it the way they were thinking I would. Some of those covers depicting scenes that didn't happen (Batman taking down Superman with a chunk of kryptonite on the Justice League cover), events that were only tangentially connected, or that at best were more symbolic than anything else; it felt, more times than not, like one big 'bait and switch'.

I'm less happy with the 3D covers, because they're forcing us to pay an extra buck for them. Time was, during the last big 'special cover' mania of the 90's, that they would offer a choice between the special cover or getting an ordinary cover. At least then you had a choice.

Mr_Cosmic

I'll be officially done reading new DC books when this month hits.

Greg

This isn't going to hurt me too bad. I may be down to just World's Finest. He-Man isn't New 52 and I'm holding out for info on who will be taking over writing duties Earth 2 before deciding to drop it.

Torchsong

I think DC's finally managed to get me back to just buying them in trades. I'm down to just caring about getting WW and Red Hood on a monthly basis (and He-Man, but like Greg said, that doesn't count!) :)

It's not that I don't enjoy these books, but before DC started this N52 stuff, I'd been trade only with them...it seems I've come full circle. As Nick said, it's not that there isn't talent there...just not enough at that price point to make me feel I need to be shelling out monthly dough for them.

Still reading (in trade):
Batgirl
Batwoman
Swamp Thing
All-Star Western
Batman

Everything else has pretty much been canceled.

luke52

I think the idea of villains month is quite a good one, it certainly feels in keeping with the New 52's feel i.e. trying to bring in new readers. This certainly feels aimed at giving people a chance to see what the villains of the nuDCU are all about.

However, this is also quite obviously meant to be a cash cow to push their dollar share up. $3.99 a book is harsh, and I'm assuming they'll not be raising the page count with the price? But who knows, when the solicits come out, they may offer $2.99 versions of the books... But I doubt it.

I'll get the Swamp Thing, Animal Man, Earth 2 and Justice League books, that's about it.

WetRats

Looks like by September I'll be down to just Wonder Woman and maybe All-Star Western.

krustycook

Here's my personal choice for a gimmick... how about starting a comic series with issue #2, so all the lemmings can go chasing after a #1 that doesn't exist. There's no bigger scam of collectors than a new #1.

rebis

DC's next gimmick is...making me disappear.

John_Steed

A good gimmick to have is a TV series. I like ARROW so much that after months of ignoring DC comics I started reading Green Arrow( again). It certainly helps that with #17 a new creative team took over - Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino are doing a great job. It's the only "new52" I currently read.