Comic Book Talk

So Rich Johnston (yeah, I know) is claiming that he's talked to several higher level staffers at DC who have basically told him the following:

-There's going to be a move away from monthly floppies, to digital serialization for monthly titles and then collecting those in physical trades. They are also looking at doing physical monthly anthology titles.

-The emphasis for these trades and anthologies is the mainstream market: they want them in bookstores, school book fairs, Amazon, etc. and that supposedly the direct market/comic shops are no longer a primary concern with this model.

- The content they're producing going forward is only going to focus on characters with big multimedia presences, so Batman, Superman, Flash, Wonder Woman, etc. He speculates that DC conceivably license out the lower tier characters to another publisher (kind of like Marvel licenses out the Star Wars Adventures kiddie comics to IDW), but says that there have been inquiries about this and the licensing fees DC are asking for are too astronomical for any publisher to actually pay.

-DC Comics will no longer be having a notable presence at comic cons (once they're a thing again) and most of their con presence will be just tied up in the broader Warner Bros. stuff as SDCC and NYCC.

Again, it's Rich so take it with a truckload of salt. And he himself even says that it's just company rumor for now. But I will say this: he does have a history of getting leaks whenever sheet starts hitting the fan at either company and people start running to him anonymously to get word out, and he says that he had multiple sources at DC tell him this and no one he asked outside of those sources refuted any of it.