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War Rocket Ajax #23: The December Roundtable [Podcast]
By Chris Sims and Matt Wilson
This week, Chris and Matt are back from a week off, and they have some thing to say about Bethesda Softworks and their various games. Matt’s been playing through Skyrim all week, and we have some bad news, guys: He has succumbed to the curse of the Werewolf. Get well soon, Matt!
Meanwhile, Chris has a lot of thoughts about the Dead Money expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. Do you like enemies that can’t be killed with the weapons you use for the rest of the game, enemies that can’t be killed at all, and experiencing instant death? No. You don’t. No one does. Stop putting those in games.For the roundtable, Chad and Josh join us to discuss what titles they’d add to DC’s “New 52” Lineup. First, Josh gives us his pitch:
Josh: Is Ultra the Multi-Alien appearing anywhere? How about one I don’t really know anything about but would like to know more about: Kamandi. I don’t know where it would fit in the New 52, I mean, it would be this half-naked boy wandering around modern day Metropolis, if you have to set it in the New 52.Matt: Here’s what it should be. It should be like 25 issues of regular Kamandi, out in the ruined wastelands, and then in issue 25, he goes to Metropolis. Like, you find out that this has all been the same world this whole time, and it’s just huge.Chad: There’s like this whole section of the New 52 that’s just nothing but wasteland.Chris: Well, the Super-Heroes have only been around for five years, so they weren’t around to prevent Invasion and Millennium and Armageddon 2001… All the crossovers still happened, but there were no super-heroes.
Eventually, after a lengthy discussion of the Creeper and Wild Dog, we get to talking about the recent cancellations by Marvel, and whether this signals a lack of risk-taking in the major publishers. Chad shares his thoughts:
I think it’s just the idea that most of the stuff that got canceled in this crazy last wave of cancellations are like you said. Most of the DC books are kind of safe bets. It’s two or three Superman family titles, a bunch of Batman books, a bunch of Green Lantern books, stuff that they know is going to sell and pretty much carry the line. Then you’ve got the Marvel books, and the stuff that’s getting canceled is not stuff that’s got Wolverine in it. It’s not stuff that’s got the Avengers name on it. It’s stuff that may have done well, but probably, historically, would’ve done okay as mini-series, but been canceled as an ongoing.That sounds really cynical and kind of negative, but I don’t know. I think they’re going to have to re-evaluate how they do things. I really wanted to read that Destroyers mini-series.
And finally, we give comics publishers their key to financial success:
Chad: The safest new comic to put out would be Batman and the Batmen.Chris: I think the safest one would be Batman and the Wolverines.
All that, plus the mystery of J.D. Finn and Josh reflecting on being the only guy on the panel who actually wrote the Justice League (really!) in this week’s show!Listen now at ComicsAlliance.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvuwn8Ftii1qcw9rdo1_500.jpg)
War Rocket Ajax #23: The December Roundtable [Podcast]
By Chris Sims and Matt Wilson
This week, Chris and Matt are back from a week off, and they have some thing to say about Bethesda Softworks and their various games. Matt’s been playing through Skyrim all week, and we have some bad news, guys: He has succumbed to the curse of the Werewolf. Get well soon, Matt!
Meanwhile, Chris has a lot of thoughts about the Dead Money expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. Do you like enemies that can’t be killed with the weapons you use for the rest of the game, enemies that can’t be killed at all, and experiencing instant death? No. You don’t. No one does. Stop putting those in games.
For the roundtable, Chad and Josh join us to discuss what titles they’d add to DC’s “New 52” Lineup. First, Josh gives us his pitch:Josh: Is Ultra the Multi-Alien appearing anywhere? How about one I don’t really know anything about but would like to know more about: Kamandi. I don’t know where it would fit in the New 52, I mean, it would be this half-naked boy wandering around modern day Metropolis, if you have to set it in the New 52.
Matt: Here’s what it should be. It should be like 25 issues of regular Kamandi, out in the ruined wastelands, and then in issue 25, he goes to Metropolis. Like, you find out that this has all been the same world this whole time, and it’s just huge.
Chad: There’s like this whole section of the New 52 that’s just nothing but wasteland.
Chris: Well, the Super-Heroes have only been around for five years, so they weren’t around to prevent Invasion and Millennium and Armageddon 2001… All the crossovers still happened, but there were no super-heroes.
Eventually, after a lengthy discussion of the Creeper and Wild Dog, we get to talking about the recent cancellations by Marvel, and whether this signals a lack of risk-taking in the major publishers. Chad shares his thoughts:I think it’s just the idea that most of the stuff that got canceled in this crazy last wave of cancellations are like you said. Most of the DC books are kind of safe bets. It’s two or three Superman family titles, a bunch of Batman books, a bunch of Green Lantern books, stuff that they know is going to sell and pretty much carry the line. Then you’ve got the Marvel books, and the stuff that’s getting canceled is not stuff that’s got Wolverine in it. It’s not stuff that’s got the Avengers name on it. It’s stuff that may have done well, but probably, historically, would’ve done okay as mini-series, but been canceled as an ongoing.
That sounds really cynical and kind of negative, but I don’t know. I think they’re going to have to re-evaluate how they do things. I really wanted to read that Destroyers mini-series.And finally, we give comics publishers their key to financial success:
Chad: The safest new comic to put out would be Batman and the Batmen.
Chris: I think the safest one would be Batman and the Wolverines.All that, plus the mystery of J.D. Finn and Josh reflecting on being the only guy on the panel who actually wrote the Justice League (really!) in this week’s show!
Listen now at ComicsAlliance.
