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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Flashpoint Previews and Infographics

Yesterday DC announced in The Source that exclusive first looks at Flashpoint would be in USA Today. The first four pages of issue #1 are already online accompanying Brian Truitt's article here. I have mixed feelings about this.

On one hand, it's great that DC is getting some mainstream exposure for their summer event. You can't expect people to want to read comics unless they know about comics. So if a mainstream audience finds out that they exist, it can't be a bad thing for sales of Flashpoint and maybe even the tangentially related Booster Gold.

On the other hand, USA Today references comics like they are for people other than readers of USA Today. It sounds to me that USA Today is trivializing Flashpoint, and I would expect that works counter to what DC would want to be promoting.

I'm not new to this cycle of comic book event hype. I'm sure that condescending articles in USA Today are better than no articles at all. So I'll take what I can get, but I'll keep hoping for more.

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