5. Make More All Ages Books...
Lets face facts, geek-wads, we aint getting any younger... Most of you reading this first discovered comic books and superheroes in your childhood and that is where superhero fiction works best. Today, there are a lot of dark comics out there, which is fine, until you realize that younger children arent really reading comics anymore as a result... Comic books arent the tobacco industry, publishers dont specialize in killing their customers, but the two are similar in that both aim to hook the clientele while theyre still young... So, were suggesting here that DC pitch a series of All Ages books that contain serious, dramatic subject matter and take place within the main continuity, but that dont feature extreme violence, sexualised content or too much adult stuff. If, for example, you want to read Batman tracking down a serial killer, then thats fine - do it in the older version of the book, for Batman vs. The Riddler, put it in the All Ages book. If a couple of DC flagships (Justice League and Action Comics, for example) were newly pitched as All Ages books, it probably wouldnt affect existing readers at all, but it would also allow children to once again enjoy mainstream superhero comics. We want to stress here that this wouldnt involve a dumbing down of any storylines, just making them more accessible to younger readers by removing the more salacious content from selected books.
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