While interest in comic books has grown in recent years, it’s mostly been in areas that the long-standing Big Boys like Marvel and DC do not cater to. Things like manga, young adult fiction, slice-of-life cartoons about being a teenage girl with braces, etc. Despite the massive popularity of superheroes in other media, it hasn’t translated to growth in the medium they originated from…because your typical modern super-comic requires a monthly devotion to 32-page floppies to comprehend their long-winding storylines. Newer readers aren’t bothering.
Go figure that Zenescope of all companies is going to be the first to break tradition. Their typical output is Disney by way of Larry Flynt — fairy tale stories where all the characters are rendered as buxom women. But they recognize the trend toward self-contained and easier-to-understand plotlines, and they’ve announced a new publishing plan to reflect that.
According to Zenescope there will be more trade-format stories published from...
