ECCC12: Brubaker & Rucka Investigate Crime Comics

[CBR News]

Crime comics heavyweights Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka discuss the history and current state of genre writing in comic books with scholar Benjamin Saunders at Emerald City Comicon.


Full article here.

[morganagrom]

"Brubaker sees the current market as ready for a similar diversification of genre, with the sales of Marvel and DC super hero titles stagnating or falling.

"I wish that they would try something different just to see if it sticks," Brubaker said."

And then goes off to write more Captain America.

[Alientraveller]

It helps pays the bills, but it's apparent to all his fans that Brubaker cares more about Winter Soldier and Fatale: being the modern 'voice' of Steve Rogers is routine now.

[Alex6166]

I saw the line for Brubaker yesterday. Lots of fans. That show (ECCC) was just insane. There we're people everywhere. It was like that Charlton Heston movie where the world is over-populated. Even the escalator had lines. The sad thing for them, me and two other guys just went to the back of the place where there was an elevator and nobody was there and it got us right up to the floor of the con. Secret back window. I got some a couple of those Brubaker Captain America: Reborn issues. The one with the Quesada variant cover.

[Frank]

Wonder why it was important for Brubaker to change the woman point of view when he wrote crime fictions.

[mr.pants]

"Brubaker sees the current market as ready for a similar diversification of genre, with the sales of Marvel and DC super hero titles stagnating or falling.

"I wish that they would try something different just to see if it sticks," Brubaker said."

And then goes off to write more Captain America.

I thought the exact same thing. And it's not that they're not trying. DC is, but people aren't buying them. OMAC, I, Vampire, Frankenstein Agent of SHADE, All-Star Western and others out of their whole 52 initiative are doing just that. Sadly, the sales ARE slipping on them.