BokkenMonkey on September 03, 2011 at 11:18 am

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Ok, so it's not a video game story, but I'm sure it'll spawn tie-in games soon enough.

DC comics is starting over - September 2011 marks the release of 52 different DC comics titles, all at issue #1.  Even though it's been openly acknowledged as a desperate attempt to boost sales for a brand that has been trailing behind Marvel since Barbara Gordon could walk, preorders are through the roof.  Apparently it's a given in the comic book industry that slapping "#1" on a cover boosts sales.  Doing it 52 times in the same month is unprecendented, and it's garnering DC titles quite a bit of attention.  From HypeUp to National Public Radio, people everywhere who don't usually give a crap about comic books are talking about them, if only for a little while.  It's certainly got me thinking about picking up a few titles, when I normally don't bother reading anything that hasn't been repackaged as a trade paperback.  Only time will tell if this publicity stunt pays off, if interest disappears even faster than it built up, or if the masses will realize that only 25% of these new titles have Batman in them, so really what's the point?

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Random on 03-09-2011 11:32

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I’ve always found comic books to be so inaccessible because of how many different books you have to keep track of to follow the story.

BokkenMonkey on 03-09-2011 21:20

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As far as I can tell they’re not actually starting over in terms of the whoe 60 years of backstory thing.  Everything gets a brand new story line, there are a whole bunch of new writer/artist teams, but everything that already happened seems to have already happened.

dancingpuppet on 07-09-2011 23:29

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I can’t read this from the mobile version, when I click on the title or read more it takes me directly to the comments section, without the main article :/

BokkenMonkey on 08-09-2011 11:54

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Fail.  .

Random on 20-09-2011 00:29

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I will check it out.

Random on 20-09-2011 00:33

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Fixed.