A ” Stupid Comment ” leads to an all out discussion

Johanna Draper Carl­son over at Comics Worth Read­ing, wrote a quick post about a com­ment made by Dan DiDio of DC Comics and seems to have sparked a bit of a dis­cus­sion, which went into a decid­edly dif­fer­ent direc­tion due to a com­ment I had made in the same post in reply to another com­ment about comics going weekly…

Here is the com­ment by DiDio..

” One of the things that we’re really focus­ing on this year at DC is how we’re dri­ving the dif­fer­ent sto­ry­lines through 2008. There will be a sto­ry­line that fea­tures Super­man promi­nently in the Super­man titles through 2008, there will be a sto­ry­line that fea­tures Bat­man promi­nently through­out his titles in 2008, and Won­der Woman will have her own strong sto­ry­line in her series. ”

and here are the two com­ments which led to a whole other discussion..

Alan Coil Says:

1. Alan Coil Says:
   Feb­ru­ary 10, 2008 at 7:48 pm
   1. ” In 3 or 4 years, just about every comic will end up being week­lies. Even Mar­vel is get­ting on this band­wagon with Spider-Man.” , to which I had replied…
   2. Lew Says:
      Feb­ru­ary 10, 2008 at 8:41 pm
      Sorry Alan, but I have to dis­agree with you about the weekly comic trend. I think that try­ing to keep up with a weekly comic is unfair to the comic reader who tries to fol­low more than one or two titles. I started to read the weekly 52 series from DC, and also Count­down, and in both cases quit the attempt mostly due to the fact that I felt both sto­ries just weren’t worth the aggra­va­tion involved in try­ing to get them each and every week, while pass­ing up a bet­ter comic. And I can tell you, I’m already start­ing to get a bit put off with Spi­der­man going weekly.

And the dis­cus­sion con­tin­ues here.…