DC Cancels Its Longest Running Series, Hellblazer, And Replaces It With New 52 Title, Constantine

[HellBlazerRaiser]

Agreed about Legion. Teen Titans has been a flawed book, but not too bad besides Culling.

Flawed TEEN TITANS may be, but it's a hella fun book to read.

[Cavemold]

So what? The change in continuity – erased, retconned, altered, etc. – in no way affects the power of the prior series and their stories.

When you look at it from a historic sense ,it kinda does.

[Comicsfan101]

When you look at it from a historic sense ,it kinda does.

Not really, no.

[spacedog]

Flawed TEEN TITANS may be, but it's a hella fun book to read.

The Teen Titans have seen better days - I'm sure of that.

I'm no fan of Lobdell.

[Cavemold]

The Teen Titans have seen better days - I'm sure of that.

I'm no fan of Lobdell.

Same here......

[Mr. Holmes]

The Teen Titans have seen better days - I'm sure of that.

I'm no fan of Lobdell.

Nah they haven't since New Teen Titans, and everything else has been a nostalgic retread until now.

[HellBlazerRaiser]

I tried taking that approach , but they really went out of their way to erase simply TT history... Then they reprint old TT books which was really weird

So what? The change in continuity – erased, retconned, altered, etc. – in no way affects the power of the prior series and their stories.

When you look at it from a historic sense ,it kinda does.

It does not.

[HellBlazerRaiser]

The Teen Titans have seen better days - I'm sure of that.

Better days, yes. No Teen Titans story or series will ever surpass the Wolfman/Perez NEW TEEN TITANS. But that doesn't all subsequent Titans stories will never be enjoyable.

[Mike H.]

Nah they haven't since New Teen Titans, and everything else has been a nostalgic retread until now.

I enjoyed the first few years of the Geoff Johns run. It didn't feel like nostalgia to me. It felt more like he was building on what had come before. Kinda petered out in the last 8 or so months before he left the book, though.

[Peter J Poole]

Depends on your definition of "work". Sales are up a bit, I'll give you that, but the real potential growth is undoubtedly gonna be in digital. As long as they are pricing digital like print in order to avoid undercutting physical sales, that growth isn't going to take off. No kid wants to pay four pucks for a 20 page PDF when they can get a couple of games on their device for the same price. There's going to have to come a point where one of the corporate overlords (DRINK) asks why they're spending money on production and distribution to support a market that's holding them back. In the words of Elvis, something has to be done.

Work = still making enough profit that they don't HAVE to take the next step to stay in business.

The BCO's were/are happy enough for the publishing side to keep ticking over as IP farms for movies and merchandising. Warner, I suspect, have taken an interest and the $2.99 price point and Nu52 are the path they went down. Marvel still seems to be Cap'n Ike's personal fiefdom so long as he pays the quarterly danegeld...

Going seriously digital, as opposed to the toe in the water thing we currently have, means burning a lot of bridges to get to the promised land, mainly with the DM and LCS as they currently exist. No one seems willing to drop the first nuke.

Cheers