Originally known as "National Publications", DC is a publisher of comic books featuring iconic characters and teams such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Justice League of America, and the Teen Titans, and is considered the originator of the American superhero genre. DC, along with rival Marvel Comics, is one of the "big two" American comic book publishers. DC Entertainment is a subsidiary of Warner Brothers and its parent company Warner Media.
I think it is waaay too corporate and makes DC look like a software publisher instead of an awesome comics publisher... Honestly I'm a little disappointed
So bland....even worse now... this is why I dislike that companies (like DC in this case) nowadays prefer to use external graphic designers who will produce such sterile and unrelated logos for products..rather than having people on board, co-working with the guys creating the comics.
In this case, people working on the comics, making their own logo.
I already had the same problem with these New 52 series' logo...but now the DC logo follows the same pattern of "hi-tech design modern logo", and even worse, looks completely unrelated to the material. There's no synchronization or harmony between the books/cover art/content and and the series' logo or the DC ones...
(ps: Yes, I'm a graphic designer)
(ps2: yes, I can recognize graphic designers and myself included often work on our side of things, making things pleasant visually/design without thinking about a correlation, a link if you will among product and representation/logo)
And you know what, in the end there's only thing you can know for sure.... They'll change it again.
On the plus side: we'll get another one someday.
At the worst scenario: we'll be stuck with this for the next 29 years...
But they might change it sooner if they got some legal troubles.
At first, I didn't really like this logo. But now, after seeing what they can do with the colors and everything, I like it. I just have to go buy something with the new logo on it!
I think its more a case of the DC mentality at the moment - trying to create a vibe which is conducive to a new reader, while pretty sure the old readers will stick around. I would say it is mostly working too, just as long as those readers aren't reading Hawk and Dove or Men of War.
I think its more a case of the DC mentality at the moment - trying to create a vibe which is conducive to a new reader, while pretty sure the old readers will stick around. I would say it is mostly working too, just as long as those readers aren't reading Hawk and Dove or Men of War.
Did I think the logo needed to be changed? Not particularly. But do I like this one? Yeah, sure, it seems pretty cool. And in the end, it doesn't really matter. As long as DC keeps producing quality stories, like they have been with Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Animal Man, Green Lantern, etc. in the New 52, I'll keep buying their comics.
Anyway, hasn't DC always made it a habit to put whatever logo they wanted on any comic. I swear I have comics from 2006 that still have the logo from the '70s and '80s, while I also have comics from that same year that have the current logo on them. They could just do the same thing that they've always done. Put this new logo on a third of the comics, put the current one on a second third, and put the old retro logo from the '70s and '80s on the last third.
@bingbangboom: Dude are you seriously just using this as an opportunity to bash DC? Jeez, I bet if you went around to the average moviegoer, the also wouldn't know that Marvel is the home of Spider-Man and the X-Men. And they wouldn't even know who the Avengers are or what company they originated from. They just think of it as another superhero movie. They don't care what company it comes from. I was the same way when I was a kid before I got into comics. I always wondered why in the cartoons I never saw Superman teaming up with the X-Men or Green Lantern and Spider-Man. I didn't know they were produced by different companies.
DC as a name is fine. And believe it or not, Marvel is not as big a name as you would like to believe. Many people I know who aren't into comics don't even know the name. I had to explain to my friend a few months ago that Spider-Man and Superman did NOT inhabit the same universe and that Spider-Man was Marvel and Superman was DC. So, why doesn't Marvel just change its name to Disney Comics? Disney is, after all, a MUCH bigger name
CHANGE. It's human nature for us to get all stupid when there is a change. I love the new logo and direction for that matter. It'll look dope one the big screen, it'll look cool on the books. A lot of posts have been a hate-fest as if the logo itself was going to make Batman suck right now and that's not going to happen. I'm not huge Bats fan, but I am smart enough to know it's the best book going right now. Again, this logo isn't going to change 's'. Rob Liefeld's Hawkman may be a different story but again, I'm smart enough as a comic reader and fan to know to not touch that with a 10 foot pole. Unless I am convinced by CV. It's rather funny how the posts begin to settle down.
My point to those of you: Leave it alone. I am past the point in my life now(30) to where I would use the term "Haters" in any sentence other than one like this. But most of the time when someone doesn't like something it's because they're jealous or don't understand what's about to happen or currently unfolding. Or maybe whomever knows something that whomever doesn't. Read the books. Shut up. Enjoy yourself. This is history.
I like it. It's contempary and subtle. Reckon the new 52! heading will be dropped when the logo changes over - probably why they launched the new 52 with the current logo.
I agree it'd look better on a digital only release and that they should've introduced this at the start of New 52. It looks nice and modern though, I suppose it doesn't really matter anyway.
i dont like this because you cant even tell if its a D, u just see a half C. And this makes me feel like the age of print is dieing, welcome the age of digital... maybe im just not ready for that yet
Meh... its kinda boring, but i guess its very ''modern'' looking. I often find that the modern design trend is very clinical, clean... and often rather boring.
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