DC Comics has a massive elephant in the room: no one cares about any of their characters other than Batman. This scenario occurred for numerous reasons, but it’s gotten so bad their writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly took shots at the company in their comic, The Outsiders #3, ironically, a comic that originally spun out of a Batman title.
It wasn’t always this way. Superman used to be the company’s biggest character. However, over the last few decades, years of lackluster storytelling, regurgitating the origin story countless times, and modern writers incapable of writing a solid Boy Scout hero have pummeled the brand. This is compounded by the fact Superman has now been replaced by his homosexual son with Tom Taylor forcing the typical identity politics narrative on his books.
At this point, Batman is DC Comics’ only book inside the top ten sales consistently on a monthly basis, according to ICv2 stats, which means the company has killed its brand overall. Ironically, DC Comics stands for Detective Comics Comics, with Detective Comics being the original Batman title. Still, it’s not good for the company, as their other properties are not gaining traction among comic book readers.
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In Outsiders #3, writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly take shots at DC Comics through the dialogue, again ironically, using two Batman race and gender replacement characters to do so. Batwoman was reintroduced into the DC universe in the late 2000s as one of the first DC Comics characters changed to become homosexual, which started a line-wide domino effect where DC seemed to make everyone gay. Luke Fox’s brother was meant to replace Batman going forward until retailers nearly rioted when Dan DiDio presented them the idea during one of their infamous 5G meetings.
Both of these characters are in Dimension: Batman, a place where only Batman stories are left, which is exactly where DC Comics is going as a whole. It is unclear how editorial let these writers get away with attacking the company they’re writing for.
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Here, Luke Fox tells Batwoman, “Look man, they don’t want me here either.”
This appears to be a meta-commentary by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly that comic book readers don’t want these replacement characters.
He continues, “You’re wearing the signal. And you’re wearing the cowl.”
Another character replies, “It’s the only way left. The idea’s too deep. A virus in the bleed.”
While speaking of Batman, he concludes, “They’re the end of it all, Luke. Dragons growing under the skin of stories until they’re the only one left to tell.”
The commentary isn’t subtle, and it is clear that Batman is fast becoming all that’s left of DC Comics’ storytelling. However, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly don’t seem aware of the true problems facing the DC universe.
With all the replacement characters running around as race, gender, and sexuality-swapped versions of what made DC Comics great, there’s not much to take an interest in besides Bruce Wayne and Batman. Superman and Wonder Woman have become leftist political arms, and the next-tier characters like The Flash have become unreadable. Beyond that, too many characters have been made gay, trans, or some form of the two, which Is why YouTube critic Richard C. Meyer stated that DC Comics feels like “a gay bar” in recent videos. Normal comic readers don’t want this from the company.
It might already be too late, despite Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly issuing a warning in Outsiders. DC Comics has become the Batman company. They’d be better off licensing off their other characters to see if other companies can revitalize them, as the current talent pool seems to have been out of ideas for a long time.
What do you think of Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly’s commentary in Outsiders #3? Is DC Comics doomed to Batman? Leave a comment and let us know.
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