If you’re reading this then you survived the “spiritual rapture”, bravo good sir or madam, bravo. Now on to the dirty work.

 

 

So by now you’ve heard, if you cared to even hear it, that Wonder Woman got canned. Not that she has nice cans, she “got” canned. Sorry folks, you’ll need to look for your Baywatch running sequences else where. Do I agree with this? Yes, from what they were selling, their entire approach to this iconic character was wrong.

TV land is desperate to get that one show and grab on to the so called “super hero craze”. It’s all a lame duck my friends, the people who drive ratings are just sheeple. They’ll graze where you tell them, when you tell them and they’ll buy what you tell them. It sounds like some half-cocked conspiracy/consumerism rant, but I don’t care. The truth is there folks, when networks like NBC gasp and struggle to recapture the glory of “Two and a Half Men” (oh and if you just clicked that link, I’ll forgive you this time.) do I really need any other proof? We get good shows like Heroes end up in a downward spiral or shows like the Cape whom seem to be grasping for the leavings that remained. Comic Book television is slim pickings folks and on average it doesn’t get the ratings needed.

 

Another show to die before launch, Locke and Key. Not a super hero story, I felt it had a chance in the world. It appears Fox doesn’t agree. It’s not the first or the last to feel the burn of the networks. Should we honestly care anymore? No.

Why? Because we have the Internet and the quality of programming it can provide improves by leaps and bounds every day. Each day I can load up this series of tubes, forgetting the old days of dump trucks, and tune into my favorite shows. I can watch it on my time, when I decide, and they can still throw all the commercials they want in there. It’s non-network productions that draw my interest though, like the new Mortal Kombat: Legacy. (some form of irony in calling it new with the word legacy in there.)

It’s a quality show at about seven minutes a pop. With proper marketing and viral buzz, shows like this could help grow the comic audience. It’s not a hard model to follow, nor does it require a bunch of stuffed suits debating the commercial validity of the product and what kind of market share to expect. We are closer and closer to the possibility of this market share control and ownership falling into the hands of the masses.

The world of comics on the Internet is not limited to digital comics and half-ass motion comics, possibility is out there for something better. Someone just has to kick start this mother and get it going, we need a media revolution apocalypse style.

-Martin

P.s. I purposely didn’t bring up Smallville ending… go watch ABC family and shut your mint hole!

 

Header Image Art by: Christopher Uminga