DC COMICS AT RISK! Layoffs Were Expected But Nothing Happened! What Happens NEXT?

WARNER BROS management cut 26% of all WBTV staff a few days ago and many expected layoffs (I know I did) at DC Comics but there were none! We don't know exactly what will happen, but here is what I think will happen!Show more

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DC COMICS AT RISK! Layoffs Were Expected But Nothing Happened! What Happens NEXT?

Another round of post-merger layoffs has begun at Warner Bros. this week, with DC Entertainment among the divisions reported to be at risk. The layoffs Tuesday were at Warner Bros. TV, which cut 82 current positions and eliminated 43 open positions for a total of 26% of the workforce, according to Deadline. The cuts affected staff in scripted, unscripted, and animation, according to the report.

The move comes as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav continues on the path to find the promised $3 billion in post-merger cost savings. DC is one of the divisions that may be cut in this new round of layoffs, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Zaslav has not yet implemented a new strategy for DC and DC-based content at the company. As long ago as April, shortly after the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger closed, Zasalav was reported to considering a reorganization that would make DC its own content vertical (see "DC Re-Org in the Works"). In August, producer Dan Lin was reported to be in the running to become the head of the new vertical (see "New DC Head"), but the deal fell apart last month (see "Lin Won’t Be DC Head").

Regardless of the new organization, it’s hard to see how DC could take more staff cuts; it lost a third of its editorial staff and many others, including sales and marketing staff, in multiple rounds of brutal cuts under then-owner AT&T in 2020 (see "WarnerMedia Layoffs Hit DC").

The Daily Aztec says the Big Two, among others, have been adapting their comics into Webtoon, in what appears to be a hybrid of comic strips and animated fare:

At San Diego State University, comic books have made their way into the curriculum. Taught under the College of Arts and Letters, these offered courses highlight a movement toward examining visual storytelling. What was once seen as elementary writing, is now seen as well-respected literature.

On this, I’ll have to take issue – despite what they say, the whole notion comics are genuinely respected is laughable, and hugely exaggerated. When comics are exploited for the sake of far-left propaganda, as has been the sad case for years already, you can’t say they’re respected so much as they are considered a perfect tool for spreading propaganda, for all the wrong reasons.

While printed books may not be as popular as they used to be, comic book stories are continually growing every day with the help of digital media. WEBTOON is a great example of this.

Unlike other comic reading platforms such as DC Comics Infinite, Marvel Unlimited or Comixology, this South Korean digital platform features original vertical-scrolling content from creators all over the world. Since its founding in 2004 and its U.S. debut in 2014, WEBTOON has become a global phenomenon, averaging over 82 million monthly active users. They even have joint projects with the big two comic publishers, DC Comics and Marvel Comics.

Big corporations are known to collaborate with other brands through strategic advertising to reach audiences that they normally may not have. Just a little over a year ago on Sep. 8, 2021, the first WEBTOON episode of “Batman: Wayne Family Adventures” was released as DC’s first title on the distributing site.

And what are those projects like? What if they build on the new Tim Drake-as-gay status quo DC’s set up of recent, all at the expense of Chuck Dixon’s hard work of the past, and come to think of it, all at the expense of Marv Wolfman to boot (one can only wonder what a guy like him, who is, alas, a liberal, thinks of this mess, which was surely done under the confidence he’d never speak out against it for fear of losing all residuals). Bounding Into Comics posted a reminder of what Bill Willingham recently said about the abrupt retcon to the civilian co-star he conceived named Bernard Dowd too. With that kind of PC insanity now running the asylum, why should anyone feel encouraged to watch these webtoons any more than read the newer comics?