/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3876135
that's a question for the ages here; the original version is disliked by the original penciller as unfaithful to his ideas, while the remastered version loses its edge and psychedelic vibe for a more streamlined look, which a lot of fans don't like
(the writer thinks this story is shit and so I don't think he has an opinion on either)
this http://myabsolutecollection.blogspot.com/2015/04/batman-killing-joke-deluxe-edition.html has some comparisons between a b/w version, remastered and original
>>3876168
yup, Bolland - he was apparently really pissed at Higgins making it in "garish ... hideous glowing purples and pinks", so he recoloured the rerelease himself
>>3876129
I think the biggest issue is the audience - what sells is what's being made, no matter whether we're talking about the US market or the Japanese one, and the US just likes more of the same; notice how every change to the status quo meets with resistance at the start - in this matter, I rarely agree with DC's publisher, Dan Didio, in that a good model for capeshit would be to put out stories and make only the acclaimed ones canon - after all, the best ones weren't really written as such
also US comics evolved from the Japanese model of publishing in magazines, early stories were packed together in 'Detective Comics' or 'Action Comics'; only relatively recently those became another Superman/Batman titles; this makes me wonder what is stopping, say, Weekly Shonen Jump from splitting One Piece into a separate title - would it impact income so negatively ?