Also, I find it amusing to consider “Teen Titans” a “mother” title to “Titans”. “Titans” is a continuation of a book that’s been going on since 1980 — arguably even since 1966. “Teen Titans” is a continuation of a 90s book. “Teen Titans” is the next iteration, the newer “Titans” characters compared to the much more longer running original “Titans”. The McKeever book are new guys, the Winick book has the Real McCoys.

“Mother” book indeed…

dude’s got to be 15 years old.

DC just can’t figure out what to do with it. Wally? Bart? Wally? Barry? I haven’t enjoyed the title since Mark Waid’s previous run, years ago, back when it was a fun, light-hearted comic. I gave this new writer a try, Tom Peyer, but he’s not very good, and he launched with a sprawling six-part story arc, which is seldom a wise idea.

With Barry Allen’s return coming in FINAL CRISIS, I guess THE FLASH will get rebooted for the third time in three years? And poor Wally West will be sent to join Kyle Rayner in superhero-replacement limbo.

Maybe it’s a Teen Titans-related curse. DC seems at a similar loss with NIGHTWING.

2) Has anyone else noticed that 90% of the ads in DC books are house ads? Does that mean they don’t need outside ad money or are unable to get outside ad money?

3) Appropos of nothing - I was reading an old Priest Black Panther comic (#26 or 27 maybe?) yesterday and saw a letter printed from one Marc Oliver Frisch. Well done, Marc.

I guess your LCS isn’t carrying it, so you didn’t see it on the shelf. It’s doing decently here, for a B&W Batman title. Better than Batman Confidential.

I’ve heard that arguement from Quesada before, and I don’t think he’s telling the whole story. I think what Marvel & DC don’t want to give up is the ad space they can sell in floppies. They make a nice bit of money off the ads, and that’s the really scary part, that they even have cancellation cut off numbers they hit frequently enough where a book is no longer profitable to print even with the ad space sold.

It’s over. Turn the lights off and leave the room. *No* one wants to buy comic books about superheroes with continuity anymore. (And yes, .005% qualifies as *no* one.)

Spine? Cardboard cover? Not on any of the editions I’ve seen.

>It’s another DC Universe title produced by WildStorm, by the way.

Technically it’s by CMX.

[Royalties, where applicable, only being paid where the item’s already in profit, of course]

I think the harm is it’s a money waster. People who make decisions based on finances - which is, sadly, all corporations - look at the sales of something like The Programme and think, “Well, no one wants to read stories like this….” Then, less books like The Programme get published and there are less interesting trades put out by a company like DC, and then sales continue to trail off, and the whole cycle continues.

I bought the first two issues of The Programme and loved it, but I thought I’d like to read it much more as a trade. I’m sure I’m not alone in this. I’d rather read Omega as a trade, too, but I got scared it wouldn’t make it that far without the sales, so I bought a bunch of floppies I feel resentful for having purchased. (Who is my resentment towards? Me, or Marvel?)

I firmly believe the periodical model is an out-dated business model. If we can’t have comics delivered digitally, then I can’t see a point in a periodic distribution system. But that’s just me….

And if it *is* going to do well in the trade format, what’s the harm in publishing a periodical too?

Now I’m off to buy the Programme v1 at my LCBS!