Franchise Re-Launch Blues
16 min readJul 11, 2021
After several decades, DC and Marvel each has a wide array of team franchises. Many are perennials and have been in more or less constant publication for decades. Others have had periods of dormancy but managed to make successful comebacks with the right combination of concept and creators.
Both publishers also have team books that, despite many efforts to re-launch them successfully, never quite seem to get on track…