Considering how CW, and their slick teen-YA Twilight-knockoffs and DCU marketing, first started with the WB, anyone else picturing Michigan J. Frog singing “Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone…”?
No I didnt not really my venue,,,and Im others either. Its nice to have options. Actually before The CW aired them, Id never heard of it. Hmm learn something new everyday.
Article quoted saying Black Lightning only lasted 2 seasons. When in fact it had a 4 season run. I stopped reading right there as the “writer” lost all credibility with me. I mean did he even watch any of these shows? Dont write an article about a subject you obviously dont know much about.
No it wasn’t. The author clearly stated Gotham as an “arrowverse show” not on the cw. The only problem with that is Gotham was NEVER a part of the arrowverse. So clearly the author doesn’t know what he’s talking about
The comics have been doing that for four decades. People are tired of the mutual hypocritical and schizophrenic idiocy of the left, right, middle, and fringe alike. The chickens have come home to roost and this will be the beginning of the end for Time Warner, and, by extension, all of the studios and companies that it controls, including DC.
CW missed some obvious opportunities. The Hal Jordan Green Lantern never made an appearance, likely because of the sorry job Ryan Reynolds did with it. Of the DC characters, my favorites were always Black Lightning and the Hal Jordan Green Lantern. I was happy to see Martian Manhunter in Supergirl, and I was happy to see Bizarro show up in Superman & Lois. I was not a fan of Batwoman and think the second season was kind of a cop out since Aubrey Rose did a commendable job getting the series started. If she couldn’t come back for a second season, there just shouldn’t have been one. Legends kind of grew on me, though. I STILL want to get my two year old son a talking Beebo doll. What sets me apart from many of the CW Arrowverse fans is that I grew up reading all of these characters in Silver Age DC comics when they were new. I was always looking at them as role models. Hell, as a white kid, Black Lightning was my favorite superhero, and Hal Jordan’s Green Lantern was the reason I joined the Air Force. I always wanted the Green Lantern ring to choose me. I also watched the ‘Marvel Family’ cartoons (Shazam, Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Junior, etc.) and the live action Shazam, Isis, and Wonder Woman shows on TV on Saturday mornings. CW laid some eggs – like the reboot of Walker Texas Ranger and Kung Fu, though both have their bright spots, and the Riverdale and Nancy Drew shows from Archie comics. We won’t even talk about the ‘Vampire Diaries’ saga. One scene from Walker that I had to smile about was when the band Kansas was supposed to put on a show and Jared Padelecki (Walker) asked his character’s love interest if she liked Kansas and she said “Oh yeah. I love ‘Dust in the Wind’” and Padelecki responds “Wait, that’s the song you go with?” in reference to his fifteen season run on Supernatural, whose title song was “Carry on Wayward Son”.
I too agree with most of your points, but I add this caveat, DC/Warner Bro. had restrictions on the use of many popular characters. So, the CW could only use the characters from DCs vast library that WB allowed! That’s why there was no Batman, Nightwing, Robin(s), Joker, Hal Jordan Green Lantern, etc. and just references to them at best. Originally, Superman was on that embargoed list too!
Such ‘no use’ decisions are kind of bittersweet. For, with them we don’t get to see our favorite characters, but, were it not for them, IMHO, there is no way there is a Black Lightning show or Naomi. My issue with the CW Arrowverse DC universe and the DCEU, is why is there some much over lap in the theme or type of characters used in both the small and silver screens? There a versions of Batman, Superman and the Flash. With DC having a host of “A”, “B”, and “C” list characters to draw from in catalog of characters, they seem to go to the same well a lot, if not too much, IMHO. Why not a Legion of Superheros television show or movie? They’d have to shorten the roster and the show could be expensive for the small screen, but it would definitely play into their teen-YA audience that the CW was playing too. I know that Supergirl had a few of them in her show, but like legends of tomorrow, it could have been a nice bridge to their own series. Supergirl didn’t have some of the most popular characters if that series in her show, so it would have been nice to see them introduced in their own series.
Riverdale is a dumpster fire and Archie Comics have been likewise since they got woke, and when they lost the Sonic and Mega/Rock Man franchises. Nancy Drew is not much better. I also hear that there will be a new series that is based upon her friend Tom Swift, but I do not hold much hope for that series.
I was lost when the CW started canceling good shows. Brought on that Tom Swift show that was a complete shambles. Legends started out good and fizzled. I never got in to Nancy Drew or Walker because Chuck Norris is Walker. Naomi and Black Lightning were great and should have kept going. I get tired of TV canceling good shows I get hooked on for crap.
The CW is not a studio. It’s a station with all series produced by two studios who owned it: Paramount (previously CBS, the C in the name) and Warner Bros Discovery (previously Warner Bros, the W in the name).
DC Entertainment is still a subsidiary of WBD. Since Paramount and WBD have their own streaming platforms to showcase their intellectual properties, they no longer need a money-losing terrestrial network. Nexstar will inevitably use this acquisition to expand its news network so your grandparents have another program to scream at.
Does the author of this article even know how television works? It doesn’t seem likely. Add in some pretty horrendous grammar and a factual error about Black Lighting…
I love Stephen Amell, but he wasn’t really Green Arrow. He was like a hybrid… mixed with Batman. I thought the Smallville Green Arrow was much closer to the character.
All this said in the nerdy Conan O’Brien voice “there were four seasons of black lightning! How dare you, you fiend! One error on website article means you are an imbecile! Errr err”
They make subpar content and it seems their fanbase all became old enough to drive at the same time. No more CW Friday’s for Dakota and Jagger..
Never liked Superman when he was on Supergirl, but I love the Superman and Lois show. He’s one of the best supermans now. Like it or not people are getting sick and tired of LGBTQ characters shoved down our throats with a hammer. You want to put one of those characters in there once and while that’s fine. Shows no longer display a true picture of the percentages in society anymore. People want to see it reflect society as it truly is.
The problem is that LGBTQIAPP characters, as well as real life people that support such hypocritical and idiotic ideologies, are drama queens and spoiled brats with mommy and daddy issues in their lives. They also are very good examples of the proof of concept of the Big Lie that Frederick Goebbels and the N a z i s all promoted. Apparently, they did not learn their lessons from the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Zebulon, Zeboiim, and Adnah the first time that their sort of evil ran amok on this planet.
Homosexuality is heterophoria. Argue otherwise, down vote the comment, and/or report on it, and you and your ilk will prove that sentence to be true. People like you lot are like the kinds of idiots that promote other destructive things in the world and wonder why people get upset with you lot.
The CW Network is the product of Paramount (UPN) and Warner Bros (the WB), except all their TV Series (except those they import for syndication) are wrapping up – got canceled – potentially will move to their respective streamers (HBO Max, Paramount+) as the CW Network gets sold to NexStar (who will probably turn it into the equivalent of the Hallmark Channel!)
Almost reminds me of when the Walt Disney Company purchased Channel 9 KCAL so they could have their Disney Afternoon (later continued when Disney sold that Local Station and obtained the ABC Network).
My two cents is writing and writers. Comic book writers need to get out of their feelings and let the brand hire television writers. Comic book writers generally write for a pre-adult audience. When you are writing for a more mature audience you need more advanced thinkers in the room. This is where DC has failed. I could list Numerous shows over the last decade that have had long well written adult sagas: that maintained a strong connection to the opening episode: Game of Thrones, Power, The Witcher, The Wheel of time, Top Boy. These shows and so many more like them seems to have writers who know their adult audience and write episode as such. Stop trying to create this multiverse on Earth. If you want a multiverse audience slowly create that platform with the Green Lanterns. But on Earth bring everyone along is a more simple fashion. Flash for instance should have a big villain he is trying to defeat but he should also have central city type crimes he fights at least twice and episode. If he is stopping a bank heist, maybe one of the other members are trying to save someone from jumping off a building; all while the people at star-labs are trying to figure out how to stop a bigger threat. DC needs to cut some so called writers loose.
Here is the problem with your kind of thinking, or, more accurately, lack thereof, with your comments. First of all, it is good to have emotional growth for characters in a series. Second, even if people had taken your comments to heart, then you would also inevitably run the risk of running out of good ideas for the show and then the retreads will become more and more acceptable by the writing staff than actually original and unique writing, as well as writing ideas. Moreover, I can point to a lot better written shows than anything that DC and Marvel Comics have made, as in serious, grounded in reality shows, like, say Law and Order, for example, that have fallen for this trap.
Third, here is the thing, fantasies can be, but are not always, for all ages, so that claim of yours has pretty much been made inert. Fourth, there are things that are in the programs and books that you had mentioned that are ironically the result of the very immature minds that you claim to be fighting against in the first place. Fifth, anyone that is a mindless political activist drone that is on the left, right, middle, or fringe have all become immature themselves. Sixth, you mental midget, the DC comic books literally created a multiverse YEARS before DC did the Arrowverse, so, one of your other claims has now also been rendered as inert. Seventh, multiverses make for more longevity to a franchise and the superhero mythos is essentially required to have such a thing if people want it to be successful and last for a long period of time.
Eighth, and lastly, comic books are kind of like LEGO…they can be for a wide range of ages, but there will always be ideas that do not square up with what people expect from the product. What I mean is that the DC series that focuses isn on kindergarten aged versions of DC characters is obviously not going to target the same audience as, say, people that go for Sandman, The Watchmen, or The Dark Knight Rises (Frank Miller comic version. ).
Honestly, I find little difference between what is legally permitted to write for an American comic book/manga franchise and the fan made doushinji Japanese manga, Korean manhwa, and other similar type stories. The fans are the reason that a franchise exists and when the fans leave the franchise, then it will be a dead franchise.
Black Lightning was on for four seasons. Now if you was to say that Black Lightning was part of the main Arrowverse for two seasons. Get your info right. No one has time to read the wrong info people are putting out.
These shows would probably garner more viewers if they weren’t so same “WOKE”.
Shows like the recent Tom Swift that failed to make 2 season before cancelation is prime example. It’s more important to show their lifestyle than developing a good action story.. I’ve stopped watching CW because none of these stories resemble the comic book stories.
I don’t usually partake in the comments sections, however it is worth noting that first Black Lightning ran for 4 seasons, not 2.
Secondly any article that cites IMDb numbers is immediately suspect. IMDb ratings are notorious for their lack of moderation and ability for anyone to post a Star rating without verifying if they’ve watched the show or not. A cursory glance at the one star reviews of Batwoman and Naomi would indicate to a journalist worth their job that there is an agenda behind the reviews beyond just not liking the shows.
Thirdly saying this is a sale of “DC Studios” is just further proof that the author has no idea what he is talking about. The sale of the CW to Nexstar has very little impact on revenue streams for the shows because historically the pre-HBOMax shows have had a very lucrative streaming deal with Netflix. Netflix paid an inordinate amount of money for the streaming rights to the CW shows that came out before Batwoman. There is a reason why The Flash got picked up and Grant got a massive pay bump for Season 9 while their ratings have been slipping. The shows are largely Berlanti productions and if Nexstar pulled the plug tomorrow, these shows would find a home either on HBOMax or Netflix.
This article is just a failure of basic journalistic abilities and the author devalues the very profession by putting this out without at minimum fact checking basic details.
The twits this article quoted obviously don’t understand finance. CW was “bought” for $0 because the company that “bought” it actually has multiple hundreds of MILLIONS. Of dollars and now has to assume CW’s operating loss of most of $100 million. So no a normal person couldn’t offer $3 and be taken seriously.
What this really means is that any of the CW shows that did even remotely well will just end up on HBOmax. Pretty sure they aren’t going to just all of a sudden cancel a series that was just renewed for a NINTH season. I’m more concerned with what’s going to happen to shows that we’re in development. Specifically the Babylon 5 reboot.
Sign all the petitions to fire Ezra Miller from Flash flim effective immediately. Grant Gustin is the only Flash. Grant Gustin should be in the Flash. If not I will tell people not to watch it.
Comments for DC Studios Bought for $0, Failed Superhero Shows in Crumbles
EricJ
Considering how CW, and their slick teen-YA Twilight-knockoffs and DCU marketing, first started with the WB, anyone else picturing Michigan J. Frog singing “Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone…”?
Kit
You do realize the vampire diaries series was based on the books which were released way before twilight. Right?
J..R.
No I didnt not really my venue,,,and Im others either. Its nice to have options. Actually before The CW aired them, Id never heard of it. Hmm learn something new everyday.
AshleyBrooke
Black Lightning was on for four seasons.
Chris Trarback
I came here for this comment 🤣
Mike
Me too.
Jay
Article quoted saying Black Lightning only lasted 2 seasons. When in fact it had a 4 season run. I stopped reading right there as the “writer” lost all credibility with me. I mean did he even watch any of these shows? Dont write an article about a subject you obviously dont know much about.
James
Pretty sure he meant it was only in the Arrowverse for two seasons.
cam
This writer is an idiot. If he meant BL was only in the arrowverse for 2 seasons hen he shouldn’t mention lois & Superman do to recent episodes
J..R.
WOW harsh much?? He/She goofed, dosent mean he/she dosent know what there talking about.Nor dose meant they arent making a valid point either.
Amos
Reboot kids wb they all pieces undo damage cbs Ata down.
J..R.
Im not really sure what yiur saying. Could you or anyone else maybe exspand on what you said?
MikeyMikeisMe
“The CW has long been the home of infamous DC superhero series…”
The word is famous, not infamous, and the rest of the article didn’t get much better
Guardian4673
Ah, Mikey, Infamous is (is) when you’re more than famous. 😉
Jiren710
No. Infamous is when someone is “famous” for bad reasons.. like an infamous serial killer is only “famous” because hes a serial killer 🙄
Roxana D Lynch
Gotham was on FOX not the CW. The writer clearly doesn’t remember everything.
Arcee
Gotham was mentioned in the context that DC based shows appear on other networks other than the CW.
Ruben
No it wasn’t. The author clearly stated Gotham as an “arrowverse show” not on the cw. The only problem with that is Gotham was NEVER a part of the arrowverse. So clearly the author doesn’t know what he’s talking about
Eugen
No, “infamous” is correct, considering most of them were trash.
Cecil Sink
With the grammatical train wreck title it’s not surprising.
J..R.
Uhn your. comment was so disjointed. Im not even sure as to what even might be trying to say ! 🤔
jal11180
The comics have been doing that for four decades. People are tired of the mutual hypocritical and schizophrenic idiocy of the left, right, middle, and fringe alike. The chickens have come home to roost and this will be the beginning of the end for Time Warner, and, by extension, all of the studios and companies that it controls, including DC.
Wieriss Vibe
Spot on jal11180
Garry
CW missed some obvious opportunities. The Hal Jordan Green Lantern never made an appearance, likely because of the sorry job Ryan Reynolds did with it. Of the DC characters, my favorites were always Black Lightning and the Hal Jordan Green Lantern. I was happy to see Martian Manhunter in Supergirl, and I was happy to see Bizarro show up in Superman & Lois. I was not a fan of Batwoman and think the second season was kind of a cop out since Aubrey Rose did a commendable job getting the series started. If she couldn’t come back for a second season, there just shouldn’t have been one. Legends kind of grew on me, though. I STILL want to get my two year old son a talking Beebo doll. What sets me apart from many of the CW Arrowverse fans is that I grew up reading all of these characters in Silver Age DC comics when they were new. I was always looking at them as role models. Hell, as a white kid, Black Lightning was my favorite superhero, and Hal Jordan’s Green Lantern was the reason I joined the Air Force. I always wanted the Green Lantern ring to choose me. I also watched the ‘Marvel Family’ cartoons (Shazam, Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Junior, etc.) and the live action Shazam, Isis, and Wonder Woman shows on TV on Saturday mornings. CW laid some eggs – like the reboot of Walker Texas Ranger and Kung Fu, though both have their bright spots, and the Riverdale and Nancy Drew shows from Archie comics. We won’t even talk about the ‘Vampire Diaries’ saga. One scene from Walker that I had to smile about was when the band Kansas was supposed to put on a show and Jared Padelecki (Walker) asked his character’s love interest if she liked Kansas and she said “Oh yeah. I love ‘Dust in the Wind’” and Padelecki responds “Wait, that’s the song you go with?” in reference to his fifteen season run on Supernatural, whose title song was “Carry on Wayward Son”.
Clayton
It’s Ruby Rose my guy, but I do some what agree with a lot of your points.
wmb
I too agree with most of your points, but I add this caveat, DC/Warner Bro. had restrictions on the use of many popular characters. So, the CW could only use the characters from DCs vast library that WB allowed! That’s why there was no Batman, Nightwing, Robin(s), Joker, Hal Jordan Green Lantern, etc. and just references to them at best. Originally, Superman was on that embargoed list too!
Such ‘no use’ decisions are kind of bittersweet. For, with them we don’t get to see our favorite characters, but, were it not for them, IMHO, there is no way there is a Black Lightning show or Naomi. My issue with the CW Arrowverse DC universe and the DCEU, is why is there some much over lap in the theme or type of characters used in both the small and silver screens? There a versions of Batman, Superman and the Flash. With DC having a host of “A”, “B”, and “C” list characters to draw from in catalog of characters, they seem to go to the same well a lot, if not too much, IMHO. Why not a Legion of Superheros television show or movie? They’d have to shorten the roster and the show could be expensive for the small screen, but it would definitely play into their teen-YA audience that the CW was playing too. I know that Supergirl had a few of them in her show, but like legends of tomorrow, it could have been a nice bridge to their own series. Supergirl didn’t have some of the most popular characters if that series in her show, so it would have been nice to see them introduced in their own series.
Roxana D Lynch
It was Ruby Rose as Batwoman. I don’t blame Ryan Reynolds for the bad GL, I blame the writers & WB. They couldn’t make him a suit? 😳
Bob
That was definitely not Reynolds fault. He fit Hal Jordan. It was the Direction and script. Not to mention the awful CGI.
jal11180
Riverdale is a dumpster fire and Archie Comics have been likewise since they got woke, and when they lost the Sonic and Mega/Rock Man franchises. Nancy Drew is not much better. I also hear that there will be a new series that is based upon her friend Tom Swift, but I do not hold much hope for that series.
Arcee
Tom Swift has been airing for a few weeks now.
Kevin Hobbs
I was lost when the CW started canceling good shows. Brought on that Tom Swift show that was a complete shambles. Legends started out good and fizzled. I never got in to Nancy Drew or Walker because Chuck Norris is Walker. Naomi and Black Lightning were great and should have kept going. I get tired of TV canceling good shows I get hooked on for crap.
Ouki's Lips
Is this surprising? CW’s failure was inevitable the moment the execs decided liberal propaganda was more important than actual content.
Jack
They had “Terk our Jerb” propaganda in it too so let’s not act like it was one sided. Plenty of cousin humper stories were involved as well
James
What episodes? Because I am all but certain we were watching completely different shows.
Arrow only made it a couple seasons before the liberal propoganda started.
jal11180
Agreed, but the right, middle, and fringe are all just as ironically bad as the left.
CZ
The CW is not a studio. It’s a station with all series produced by two studios who owned it: Paramount (previously CBS, the C in the name) and Warner Bros Discovery (previously Warner Bros, the W in the name).
DC Entertainment is still a subsidiary of WBD. Since Paramount and WBD have their own streaming platforms to showcase their intellectual properties, they no longer need a money-losing terrestrial network. Nexstar will inevitably use this acquisition to expand its news network so your grandparents have another program to scream at.
Does the author of this article even know how television works? It doesn’t seem likely. Add in some pretty horrendous grammar and a factual error about Black Lighting…
Ramona
As CW sinks near the iceberg let’s all have a moment of silence…….then get back to watching Stranger Things and Evil! Yeah take that CW.
Fanfan
Bring back arrow with Stephen Amell and all is well 😉
Roxana D Lynch
I love Stephen Amell, but he wasn’t really Green Arrow. He was like a hybrid… mixed with Batman. I thought the Smallville Green Arrow was much closer to the character.
jal11180
To be honest, Green Arrow, even from back in the day, honestly kind of was like Batman, but with a more Liberal/Libertarian streak.
Miles
All this said in the nerdy Conan O’Brien voice “there were four seasons of black lightning! How dare you, you fiend! One error on website article means you are an imbecile! Errr err”
They make subpar content and it seems their fanbase all became old enough to drive at the same time. No more CW Friday’s for Dakota and Jagger..
A
If you’re going to write an article get your facts straight instead of being loud and wrong! Black Lighting ran for 4 seasons not two.
Todd
The CW Is *not* DC Studios. This story is pointless.
Spencer
Never liked Superman when he was on Supergirl, but I love the Superman and Lois show. He’s one of the best supermans now. Like it or not people are getting sick and tired of LGBTQ characters shoved down our throats with a hammer. You want to put one of those characters in there once and while that’s fine. Shows no longer display a true picture of the percentages in society anymore. People want to see it reflect society as it truly is.
Notyours
And you fags can keep getting shows cancelled
jal11180
The problem is that LGBTQIAPP characters, as well as real life people that support such hypocritical and idiotic ideologies, are drama queens and spoiled brats with mommy and daddy issues in their lives. They also are very good examples of the proof of concept of the Big Lie that Frederick Goebbels and the N a z i s all promoted. Apparently, they did not learn their lessons from the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Zebulon, Zeboiim, and Adnah the first time that their sort of evil ran amok on this planet.
jal11180
Homosexuality is heterophoria. Argue otherwise, down vote the comment, and/or report on it, and you and your ilk will prove that sentence to be true. People like you lot are like the kinds of idiots that promote other destructive things in the world and wonder why people get upset with you lot.
jal11180
heterophobia^
Ace
Black Lightning had 4 seasons, not 2
M. Haynes
The fact that the writer doesn’t even know that Black Lightning was on for four seasons, they have 0 credibility in my eyes.
James
Pretty sure they meant 2 seasons on Arrowverse. The first 2 seasons, prior to the “merge”, it was its own thing.
Amos
Reboot wb changed back tributes Barrasso who is nextstar.
CJ
The CW Network is the product of Paramount (UPN) and Warner Bros (the WB), except all their TV Series (except those they import for syndication) are wrapping up – got canceled – potentially will move to their respective streamers (HBO Max, Paramount+) as the CW Network gets sold to NexStar (who will probably turn it into the equivalent of the Hallmark Channel!)
Almost reminds me of when the Walt Disney Company purchased Channel 9 KCAL so they could have their Disney Afternoon (later continued when Disney sold that Local Station and obtained the ABC Network).
RJ
My two cents is writing and writers. Comic book writers need to get out of their feelings and let the brand hire television writers. Comic book writers generally write for a pre-adult audience. When you are writing for a more mature audience you need more advanced thinkers in the room. This is where DC has failed. I could list Numerous shows over the last decade that have had long well written adult sagas: that maintained a strong connection to the opening episode: Game of Thrones, Power, The Witcher, The Wheel of time, Top Boy. These shows and so many more like them seems to have writers who know their adult audience and write episode as such. Stop trying to create this multiverse on Earth. If you want a multiverse audience slowly create that platform with the Green Lanterns. But on Earth bring everyone along is a more simple fashion. Flash for instance should have a big villain he is trying to defeat but he should also have central city type crimes he fights at least twice and episode. If he is stopping a bank heist, maybe one of the other members are trying to save someone from jumping off a building; all while the people at star-labs are trying to figure out how to stop a bigger threat. DC needs to cut some so called writers loose.
jal11180
Here is the problem with your kind of thinking, or, more accurately, lack thereof, with your comments. First of all, it is good to have emotional growth for characters in a series. Second, even if people had taken your comments to heart, then you would also inevitably run the risk of running out of good ideas for the show and then the retreads will become more and more acceptable by the writing staff than actually original and unique writing, as well as writing ideas. Moreover, I can point to a lot better written shows than anything that DC and Marvel Comics have made, as in serious, grounded in reality shows, like, say Law and Order, for example, that have fallen for this trap.
jal11180
Third, here is the thing, fantasies can be, but are not always, for all ages, so that claim of yours has pretty much been made inert. Fourth, there are things that are in the programs and books that you had mentioned that are ironically the result of the very immature minds that you claim to be fighting against in the first place. Fifth, anyone that is a mindless political activist drone that is on the left, right, middle, or fringe have all become immature themselves. Sixth, you mental midget, the DC comic books literally created a multiverse YEARS before DC did the Arrowverse, so, one of your other claims has now also been rendered as inert. Seventh, multiverses make for more longevity to a franchise and the superhero mythos is essentially required to have such a thing if people want it to be successful and last for a long period of time.
jal11180
Eighth, and lastly, comic books are kind of like LEGO…they can be for a wide range of ages, but there will always be ideas that do not square up with what people expect from the product. What I mean is that the DC series that focuses isn on kindergarten aged versions of DC characters is obviously not going to target the same audience as, say, people that go for Sandman, The Watchmen, or The Dark Knight Rises (Frank Miller comic version. ).
jal11180
Honestly, I find little difference between what is legally permitted to write for an American comic book/manga franchise and the fan made doushinji Japanese manga, Korean manhwa, and other similar type stories. The fans are the reason that a franchise exists and when the fans leave the franchise, then it will be a dead franchise.
jal11180
I forgot to mention about fan fiction as a whole, but the point still stands.
Dre Black
Black Lightning was on for four seasons. Now if you was to say that Black Lightning was part of the main Arrowverse for two seasons. Get your info right. No one has time to read the wrong info people are putting out.
pretty blossom
It’s not free if they are paying 100 milion $ in debts – the price is just that – 100 million $
NITEHAWK
These shows would probably garner more viewers if they weren’t so same “WOKE”.
Shows like the recent Tom Swift that failed to make 2 season before cancelation is prime example. It’s more important to show their lifestyle than developing a good action story.. I’ve stopped watching CW because none of these stories resemble the comic book stories.
Giin
TIL: Legends of Tomorrow was still airing. Crazy.
Steven Biggs
Since when was Supergirl popular?
Mechafx
The party’s over. It’s time for “live action” super heroes to go back to being “cartoon only” super heroes.
Adam
I don’t usually partake in the comments sections, however it is worth noting that first Black Lightning ran for 4 seasons, not 2.
Secondly any article that cites IMDb numbers is immediately suspect. IMDb ratings are notorious for their lack of moderation and ability for anyone to post a Star rating without verifying if they’ve watched the show or not. A cursory glance at the one star reviews of Batwoman and Naomi would indicate to a journalist worth their job that there is an agenda behind the reviews beyond just not liking the shows.
Thirdly saying this is a sale of “DC Studios” is just further proof that the author has no idea what he is talking about. The sale of the CW to Nexstar has very little impact on revenue streams for the shows because historically the pre-HBOMax shows have had a very lucrative streaming deal with Netflix. Netflix paid an inordinate amount of money for the streaming rights to the CW shows that came out before Batwoman. There is a reason why The Flash got picked up and Grant got a massive pay bump for Season 9 while their ratings have been slipping. The shows are largely Berlanti productions and if Nexstar pulled the plug tomorrow, these shows would find a home either on HBOMax or Netflix.
This article is just a failure of basic journalistic abilities and the author devalues the very profession by putting this out without at minimum fact checking basic details.
Kevin
The twits this article quoted obviously don’t understand finance. CW was “bought” for $0 because the company that “bought” it actually has multiple hundreds of MILLIONS. Of dollars and now has to assume CW’s operating loss of most of $100 million. So no a normal person couldn’t offer $3 and be taken seriously.
What this really means is that any of the CW shows that did even remotely well will just end up on HBOmax. Pretty sure they aren’t going to just all of a sudden cancel a series that was just renewed for a NINTH season. I’m more concerned with what’s going to happen to shows that we’re in development. Specifically the Babylon 5 reboot.
JR
Wow must we be so harsh? I mean were all here for the same reason, right? For OUR love of comics and the worlds they give us access to.
Rose
Sign all the petitions to fire Ezra Miller from Flash flim effective immediately. Grant Gustin is the only Flash. Grant Gustin should be in the Flash. If not I will tell people not to watch it.
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