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#1  Edited By Mr.Q
Schrodinger and Alucard would kind of be games breakers. but worth it.
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#2  Edited By Mr.Q
@Darkmount1: I haven't heard much else about the DC Nation thing yet, other than it being a block for Warner's DC cartoon collection but it is a start. but id does make me a little suspicious that they may just try and make the new comic canon to much like the shows which may hurt more than help. after all if they talk about the comics while the shows are playing and they are different than viewers may become 'confused'. because as we all know comic readers are easily 'confused'. why do the writers think their customers are so stupid they can't wrap their heads around something thats been going on for longer than a year? on a related note for Disney, Marvel, marketing and sales I was in the Disney Park not that long ago and saw they were selling Marvel comics in the gift shops. not just at the hotels but in the parks themselves. it wasn't a vary large collection but there was some surprising variety. I was expecting Spider-Man and X-men but not Agents of Atlas or Prince of Power. so there is that. never thought I'd see an Avengers comic within two feet of a rack of Tinkerbell t-shirts. yet still Disney's XD has a lot of the 90's Marvel cartoons that they only show on Saturdays at around 1am. I guess they need the daylight air time for six identical kid-coms with the same four actors in a row. c'est la vie. 
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#3  Edited By Mr.Q
@Darkmount1: that was the 80's now both Marvel and DC are owned buy companies that also owns TV networks. granted they can't turn a profit from selling air time to "themselves" but the end result would be good for the company as a whole. Disney channel pimps all of their own movies, TV shows and other products so why not their newest product? put on during Avengers"Earth's Mightiest Heroes or even the handful of other anime shows they now show on XD. they both appeal to the same demographic, young boys, which was why they bought Marvel in the first place, to get young male's to buy their products rather than relying on the Princess thing with the young female audience. advertising is tricky. but not that tricky. hell a well placed billboard even. there are options.
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#4  Edited By Mr.Q
@Darkmount1: basically. use the show or film as an as for the book. like as others here have stated with video games, Marvel's Ultimate Alliance 2 was lifted mostly from their Secret War and Civil War stories and prominently featured more than just two of their big names and two stories that actually happened in the comics. DC's Batman Arkham Asylum games do something similar. it's all about information. and for that matter why don't comic companies especially the big two put out TV commercials? it wouldn't take much maybe just have the writers hype up what they are doing and some interviews with fans at local shops or conventions. it's all about getting information to the masses. I've seen some small time local shops advertise their comic stores with short TV ads, so if these small independent shops can scratch up enough money to advertise the comic books they sell why can't the comic publishers, who are owned by big entertainment companies with TV channels, get commercials to advertise the books they make? I see know reason not to. 
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@Darkmount1: I think what 'labarith' may be getting at is how with Japanese Manga and Anime they go hand in hand most Anime is based on a Manga(magazine/comic) or the other way around. with the animated renditions of comics they tend to differ from the comics in one form or another like mixing and matching elements from the comics, the movies and what have you. where as anime follows the plot of the manga exactly. what you see o the screen is lifted from the printed page. so going from the show to the book is a smoother transition. basically they make the shows and movies just like the printed source material like many comic fans have been asking for anyway. at least thats what I think he means.
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#6  Edited By Mr.Q
@Toxin45: could work.
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to me the moment they said anything about making the books relevant to a younger audience, I cringed. through my experience with other forms of entertainment media, this never ends well. remember Vibe. I could be wrong but these decisions seem to always lead to blatant and ill thought out pandering to a generation that the person marketing the product doesn't really understand. Vince McMahon wants a younger audience, he is over 60 and doesn't watch TV he doesn't produce so his attempt to attract the Y generation? Snooki was in a match at wrestlemania. Kissco. St. Anger. Yo, Yogi. and you're right the problem isn't creative its marketing. don't bring in new readers. go get them. as Ted Turner put it "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise." I think Ted may know a little something about this.
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#8  Edited By Mr.Q
@Toxin45: I see. perhaps have alternate story scenarios depending on which organization you choose to affiliate yourself with. Hellsing, Iscariot, or Millennium. 
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#9  Edited By Mr.Q
... first person shooter?
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#10  Edited By Mr.Q
I will catch some flack for this but I'm saying it anyway. comic books are a niche. thats not a bad thing but the money is made off of the "hardcore" fans that are in the niche, the target audience. the customer that has proven they will spend a lot of money on the product. there will always be casual fans but they will come and go and the real money will come from the loyal "die hards". thats who they need to cater to. it's not just the comics industry that is doing it. almost all forms of entertainment media is trying to lure in an audience that isn't and most likely never will be interested. find your target market and focus on that. alright enough rambling. back to my corner. sorry to interrupt.