Nice to know that’s why no one bothered to respond to me during that time. Thanks for giving me a fake news reason on the lay offs. I’m pretty sure AT&T knocking on Warner Bros’ door was one of the reasons they got to this point. And when did mention Warner bros before this point? If that’s true, then dc’s shield known as Warner Bros got caved in and sent to the basement in a new building.

 

Not fake. Well documented at the time. What's fake is you projecting your butthurt over the product not catering to you specifically and thinking that must be the one reason that is somehow magically more important than AT&T drastically overextending themselves, forcing them to institute mass layoffs simultaneously across all of Warner Bros., of which DC Comics was only one tiny part of. You're looking for and coming up with a child's answer to a problem in the adults' world.

 

I question the words Well-documented. Certain sources had warners bros and dc say things are fine, but people who worked or people who knew them say them getting canned was to save their own asses. Much like how sites said the CW is doing great, before now revealing issues behind the scenes. And now the discovery shift for Warner bros and the dc office move (which apparently was planned before the pandemic) has the everything is fine sign put up for some reason. If they can’t pull off a new slate with discovery, then things may get get added on top of layoffs. I can’t exactly trust documented sources (especially when many news sources are not reliable anymore), and hell I can’t say I’d trust people outing the jobs they worked for before in dc or Warner bros since it’s possible they can be buttmad too.

 

No one wants to reckon with the idea that the big two (Marvel and DC) are far more profitable as IP farms than as publishers. That’s the big variable in all of this as folks talk about what these publishers should do, bottom line numbers, etc.

 

It's a little of both the layoffs were caused in part by company issues, but their sales numbers on titles are still down each month on almost everything not batman. Each month it seems they have fewer titles making the top 20 and top 50 lists in sales on ICv2. Only 9 DC titles made the top 50 sales list for February last month for instance. And except for Monkey king which was a#1, I think they were all Batman or Batman related. Honestly trades and graphic novels of older books are mostly what are keeping them a float at this point. Or really Batman stuff is keeping DC going.
Top 50 Comics - February 2022

 

That's definitely true. Comics just has to put out one great storyline or two every few years or so and the media division can make money off those. Toys too! As it is though, both Marvel and DC still have a ton of material they can mine.

 

Worst worst case scenario you could have a functional Marvel/DC publishing house with as few as 4 monthly books. Just make them $10 giant sized, once per week, with each having a focus. For DC do BatFamily, SuperFamily, JLA, Vertigo-ish. Do two 30 page features with a couple 20 page back up features. Done. Get legal to give a schedule of who has to show up to protect trademark, have 2 books crossover once a quarter, and all the books crossover to do a summer event one month.

For Marvel do the same thing, just make it Avengers, Spiderverse, X-Men, and Strange Adventures (F4, GotG, Dr Strange, etc).

You could do that with minimal staff, infrastructure, and all freelancers for writing and art. You’d still have the comics industry publishing stuff. You just wouldn’t have the current cost structure.

 

Merger has been approved, now comes more layoffs and cost cutting.
Discovery Shareholders Approve WarnerMedia Merger – The Hollywood Reporter
As WarnerMedia-Discovery Deal Nears Close, David Zaslav Shapes Up Executive Team With Eye On $3B Cost Savings Target – Deadline

 

I would consider Variety, WSJ, plus Hollywood Reporter to equal well-documented. The percentage of total staff-based layoffs were mandated from above not only the DC level but above the Warner Bros level. That is not disputed by anyone who actually follows business or any of the legitimate sources that report on it.

None of that is to say everything at DC was "fine" or that sales were great. Just to say that the decision for the layoffs was made by a person to whom comic sales were beneath his notice and weren't a factor. There would have been the same cutbacks if sales had been the best they'd had in decades. Even sales numbers that are great by comic book standards are barely a blip taken in the context of Warner Bros as a whole.

 

Black Adam Lands Solo Series Ahead of Upcoming Film



DC's Black Adam is getting his own solo series prior to the upcoming Black Adam film set to release later this year.

"There is no forgiveness for Black Adam. This is the reality Teth-Adam, immortal man of indomitable will, must face when he discovers he has been infected with an incurable plague destroying his immortality. Haunted by the specter of centuries of dark deeds, Black Adam transfers his powers to a worthy successor who will redeem Adam's legacy and defend their ancestral homeland of Kahndaq, only to subsequently become mystically 'handcuffed' to him when Adam's plague is arrested, giving birth to perhaps the most volatile and dysfunctional super-team in DC history!"

Black Adam #1 -- by writer Christopher Priest, artist Rafa Sandoval, cover artist Irvin Rodriguez and variant cover artists Mikel Janin, Lucio Parrillo, Crystal Kung, Cully Hamner, Travis Mercer and Danny Miki -- will release on June 21.

 

Christopher Priest means I'm in.

 

https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/dc-celebrates-pride-2022-with-new-anthology-and-titles-starring-tim-drake-teen-justice-poison-ivy-and-more/

DC's annual Pride anthology will return with a new 100-plus page addition in May, but in 2022 that's just the start of the publisher's plans to celebrate its LGBTQIA+ characters and creators.

DC will also publish a new young adult graphic novel, and four new comic book titles in June featuring Poison Ivy, Nubia, the Teen Justice League of Earth-11, and Tim Drake.

That's in addition to special DC Pride variant covers and other initiatives.

DC Pride 2022, the 104-page prestige format comic, publishes on May 31 featuring an introduction by transgender rights activist and Supergirl actress Nicole Maines along with a teaser of her upcoming DC project.

Featuring a main cover by Phil Jimenez and Arif Prianto, and variant covers by Joshua "Sway" Swaby and Jen Bartel, stories and creative teams in DC Pride 2022 include (but are not limited to):

• Alysia Yeoh and Batgirl by Jadzia Axelrod and Lynne Yoshii
• Aquaman/Jackson Hyde by Alyssa Wong and W. Scott Forbes
• Green Lantern/Jo Mullein by Tini Howard and Evan Cagle
• Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy by Dani Fernandez and Zoe Thorogood
• The Ray by Greg Lockard and Giulio Macaione
• Superman/Jon Kent by Devin Grayson and Nick Robles
• Tim Drake by Travis Moore
• Contributions from J. Bone, Ro Stein and Ted Brandt, Samantha Dodge, Brittney Williams, and others
• New pinups by P. Craig Russell, J.J. Kirby, and more

Then in June, DC will launch four titles, including:

Poison Ivy, a six-issue limited series by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara, with covers by Jessica Fong, Warren Louw, Nick Robles, Frank Cho, and Dan Mora on June 7.

In the series, Ivy leaves Gotham City and sets to give the world a gift - to heal the damage humanity has done to it.

Nubia's story continues in Nubia: Queen of the Amazons, a new four-issue limited series by writer Stephanie Williams and artists Alitha Martinez, and Mark Morales, with covers by Khary Randolph, Jae Lee, and Martinez.

Also launching June 7, the new series takes place immediately after May's Nubia: Coronation Special.

On June 14, Tim Drake's LGBTQIA+ journey continues in DC Pride: Tim Drake Special, a 64-page one-shot special by writer Meghan Fitzmartin and artists Belén Ortega, and Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque, with covers by Ortega and Travis Moore.

The special collects for the first time the high-profile story from 2021's Batman: Urban Legends anthology in which Robin comes to realize he has romantic feelings for this male friend. A new story features a Tim teaming up with his former Young Justice teammates and the Batgirls.

DC describes the story as "Tim Drake's 2022 path starts here!" and seems to suggest there are plans for him later in the year.

Finally, and also debuting on June 7, Multiversity: Teen Justice by Ivan Cohen, Danny Lore, Marco Failla, and Enrica Eren Angiolini features the return of the Future State Flash Kid Quick and other young heroes from the gender-swapped Earth-11 of DC's Multiverse.

The six-issue series promises to reveal the secrets of Earth-11's newest heroes and villains and answer what role the mysterious Raven - a "brooding hero who has refused to join the team in the past" - will play.

Multiversity: Teen Justice #1 features covers by Robbi Rodriguez, Stephanie Hans, Bengal, and Failla.

In addition, the previously-announced Galaxy: The Prettiest Star from writer Jadzia Axelrod and artist Jess Taylor will publish on May 17.

The character will first be introduced in one of DC's Free Comic Book Day titles on May 7, which serves as a preview to the young adult graphic novel about Taylor, an alien princess disguised as a human boy in a story about gender identity, romance, "living as your true self," and "shining as bright as the stars."

DC will also publish a series of DC Pride 2022 variant covers. Here's a list of the titles that will feature DC Pride 2022 covers followed by a gallery of some of the cover images:

• Amy Reeder - Batman #124
• David Talaski - Superman: Son of Kal-El #12
• Derek Charm - Action Comics #1044
• Joe Phillips - Aquamen #5
• Kevin Wada - Nubia: Queen of the Amazons #1
• Kris Anka - Poison Ivy #1
• Nick Robles - Nightwing #93
• Nicole Goux - Wonder Woman #788
• Olivier Coipel - Harley Quinn #16
• Stephen Byrne - Multiversity: Teen Justice #1
• and more.

DC also has a selection of backlist collections and new collections featuring its LGBTQIA+ characters coming in the next few months which can be found on the publisher's DC Universe Pride hub page on the DC Universe Infinite digital comic book app.

Finally, DC and its parent company WarnerMedia will be working in partnership with LGBTQIA+ organizations such as PFLAG National, The Trevor Project, Family Equality, Human Rights Campaign, Athlete Ally, Mermaids (UK), Inside Out (Canada), and more, to celebrate Pride in 2022.

"Through paneling, events, advertising, outreach, and more, these partnerships help to create a more inclusive and compassionate culture for all Super Hero fans and provide resources for readers looking to learn more about these," says the publisher.

 

Exclusive first look at DC's 'Dark Crisis: Young Justice' miniseries | SYFY WIRE

This June, the world of DC Comics will plunge into darkness with the launch of Dark Crisis, the next major event to shake the DC Universe to its core. It's an event so ambitious that it begins with the apparent death of the Justice League, and moves forward with the supervillain known as Pariah wielding the energies of the Great Darkness to create his own rebirth. With the universe's greatest heroes gone, it'll be up to DC's legacy characters to step forward and light the way in a dark time.

Which brings us to one of DC's most prominent legacy teams, Young Justice. SYFY WIRE can exclusively reveal that, on the heels of the launch of Dark Crisis #1, DC will launch Dark Crisis: Young Justice, a six-issue miniseries from writer Meghan Fitzmartin (Batman: Urban Legends) and artist Laura Braga that will catapult the team into a crisis all their own, even as they do their part to fight the greater threats of the event.

"Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1 is a reaction to the Dark Crisis story," Fitzmartin told SYFY WIRE. "So it starts off...we understand where everyone is at, because we haven't seen a lot of these characters in a while. And then full blown chaos happens."

What sort of chaos? Well, according to DC's official solicitation for the first issue, it all begins at the Justice League's funeral, where Superboy, Impulse, and Tim Drake turned up missing, triggering a search by Wonder Girl. But the boys are lost "on the world of their dreams, one they may never want to leave." In the exclusive preview pages below, you can get a little taste of how it all kicks off.

 

World's Finest #1 was a really good, old school team-up between Batman and Superman. Who ever thought we'd see a Metallo/Poison Ivy team-up, with the Doom Patrol called in to help save a red-Kryptonite infected Superman? Great art, and Robin is teenage Dick Grayson in his traditional costume (though he gets long pants, which is fair enough really).

 

Death of the Justice League Art Reveals the Team Who Kills the DC Heroes



The Dark Army: a team composed of heavy-hitters like Ares, Darkseid, Doomsday, Eclipso, Neron and Nekron.


Shit just got real.

 

That would do it…

 

DC's June 2022 comics and covers revealed

 

As far as YA books go, "My Buddy Killer Croc" sounds adorable.

 

Matt Reeves on Twitter: "Paul Dano's incredible journey with The Riddler isn't over yet... Unmask his new @DCComics comic book: "Riddler: Year One," this October and see @TheBatman #OnlyInTheaters now. #TheBatman #Riddler #DCComics https://t.co/YmmqgBTsFS" / Twitter

 

I always worry when they bring in actors to write..