I know that a number of people have weighed in on the whole Zuda Comics thing, but I haven’t yet so I’m going to.  I think that DC really dropped the ball on this.  Instead of milking the dreams of aspiring cartoonists in some crappy American Idol vote for the “best”, they should have taken an approach that they already have in place at their Vertigo imprint where there is the balance of existing properties and creator owned.  Seeing as they already have a bevy of existing known characters and a number of top name creators, why not put it to use.  They could do stories featuring characters like other members of the Green Lantern Corp or other characters like those without a regular series.  This brings in the established core audience that read their monthly titles and then target a new audience.

This also allows for the promotion of upcoming titles, testing the waters for new series, or building up new creators for their monthly print comics.  I know I’d read a weekly strip staring Kilowog or the Red Tornado.  With those they could also run strips by new talent, but make it more of a work for hire type of thing wherein they keep the rights, not just the copyrights.  And do away with this vote thing.  Just give those who you deem talented and who do stories that are interesting the same treatment they would any other pitch coming across their desks.  If American Idol has taught us anything, the general public isn’t that good and determining quality

Then again I’m just basing this on the little there is on this at the moment. Also listen to the Daily Affirmations by Kristofer Straub and Scott Kurtz on this subject, I found them to be right on the money with the same way that I approached this news when I first heard it and put it more eloquently than I can. I no not right that all well an make good reason sometimes.