Welcome to useless boycotts and given the dire straights WB are in right now, they're more likely to double down on this and go 'ok now make another game, Harry Potter or any other IP we have, less woke to piss off the same people and get us some more fucking money!'
If you don't know how bad WB are right now, they used to own Crunchyroll, they bought their San Francisco office, THAT'S how bad their previous management was at handling money....
I've been following the DC comic implosion, as well as the HBO Max lawsuits regarding contracts which guaranteed box office percentages being undercut by streaming releases. I noted the DC film universe self-destructing as well.
These are all wilting leaves springing from the dying WB tree.
I mostly see reflections of it in reporting by Clownfish and Eric July. The Joker 'male pregnancy' story that made it into the back of a 'regular' book speaks to what's going on.
I think it's mostly the unhealthy industry stuff: no sales numbers, slowdown of payments to comic book artists (which included DC and Marvel, but Disney being in better financial health than WB insulates the other member of the 'big two') and I recall (perhaps erroneous) speculation about DC shutting down its in-house comic production in favor of licensing the characters to third parties. WB being in financial straights really puts the vice on loss-leaders like DC comics.
Welcome to useless boycotts and given the dire straights WB are in right now, they're more likely to double down on this and go 'ok now make another game, Harry Potter or any other IP we have, less woke to piss off the same people and get us some more fucking money!'
If you don't know how bad WB are right now, they used to own Crunchyroll, they bought their San Francisco office, THAT'S how bad their previous management was at handling money....
I've been following the DC comic implosion, as well as the HBO Max lawsuits regarding contracts which guaranteed box office percentages being undercut by streaming releases. I noted the DC film universe self-destructing as well.
These are all wilting leaves springing from the dying WB tree.
I mostly see reflections of it in reporting by Clownfish and Eric July. The Joker 'male pregnancy' story that made it into the back of a 'regular' book speaks to what's going on.
I think it's mostly the unhealthy industry stuff: no sales numbers, slowdown of payments to comic book artists (which included DC and Marvel, but Disney being in better financial health than WB insulates the other member of the 'big two') and I recall (perhaps erroneous) speculation about DC shutting down its in-house comic production in favor of licensing the characters to third parties. WB being in financial straights really puts the vice on loss-leaders like DC comics.