Cover to Nite Owl #1 (DC Comics)
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 24 hours, you must know what Before Watchmen is. It's DC's foray into telling stories before the seminal work of Alan More and David Gibbons. It's comic books at their finest. There are going to be seven mini series, with one issue being released a week. Most issues are four, with a few being six issues. There is also going to be Crimson Corsair back up in each issue.
So naturally......fan boys won't shut the hell up and not complain about something for once.
I'll make my argument simple: comic book fans love to complain. We live in a cynical society where we love to kick everything and everyone down a peg. So when this was announced, naturally the fans cried fowl. Did they forget that DC is a comic book company? That they are out to make money? If they listened to fanboys the majority of the time, they wouldn't ever change anything. The new 52 never would have happened. I don't understand why fans haven't learned to let stuff happen first THEN judge it. Oh, I know why. And I can boil it down to one sentence.
Comic fans are pissed if nothing changes, and if something changes, they're pissed.
Cover to Dr. Manhattan #1 (DC Comics)
What angry fan boys need to learn is to think that writing angry comments on web sites is going to do anything. If they don't like something, don't buy it. In a capitalist society, money speaks louder than words. If the book doesn't sell good, then they won't do something like this again. But enough people WILL read this that it will be a success. That's just how this works. It's a business. My local comic book shop owner was excited by the news. He knows it's going to sell a lot and it's going to help him stay in business. You might hate that DC is doing this, but you have to agree it's going to keep our favorite store in business
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