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Originally Posted by DrPhil
1 That's why this is a topic that has people talking both inside and outside the comic world.  2. Afterall, the comic book companies and consumers are the ones who made most of these announcements and continued most of these discussions. 3. Nonconsumers and the general public are not initiating most of this attention.
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1. Not really.
2. DC is simply trying to find a new way to get the dollars. The whole continuity reboot last September was a start so flipping a character is no surprise. If DC wanted to do it properly with care going towards the actual character and not sales figures in mind then they wouldn't hype it up like they are and just roll it out in the comics naturally in the story without making it 'news'.
3. Meh. Non consumers could care less one way or another. The crowd this is aimed to might care for it for one or 2 issues and then what...?
If DC wants to get the most out of this, they would have to do something ballsy and make it a headlining character on the level of Batman or Superman. (which for either one of those two, more than likely it's not going to happen...my bet is Aquaman, Wally West or a major villain...HA!)
It has be more ballsy than Marvel making Ultimates Spider-man a young black kid after killing that version of Peter Parker last year. What really amazed me was how many non informed consumers wrongly thought that the ORIGINAL Earth 616 Spider-man was the one being replaced. But it's not their fault.
But the bottom line is whoever the character is, the writer of that book has to be strong in their writing skills for that character or else it's not going to really matter. Comics have a hard enough writing minority characters so for those that are really vested in this are going to want to see how writers write this.
If it fails, it can always be ret-conned.
I have read far more interesting stuff in Dark Horse, Image and IDW and regardless of the characters' backgrounds, if the story was strong, that's all that mattered. What DC is doing, that ground has been covered by other companies so...from me, no big whup. You want to surprise me, kill Superman and leave him dead.