Audience-Alienating Premise: Difference between revisions

* The ''[[Hanna-Barbera]] Beyond'' line. It's [[DC Comics]] attempt to pull IDW and [[Image Comics]]-like comics using Hanna-Barbera proprieties. Of the lot, only ''Future Quest'', a multi-crossover of the action-adventure franchises of H-B primarily focusing in ''[[Jonny Quest]]'', ''[[Birdman]]'' and ''[[Space Ghost]]'', is the only one who has gotten universal acclaim, as it's the only one who plays its premise straight instead of for [[Darker and Edgier]] points. The one who got hit the most by this trope was ''Wacky Raceland'', which reimagined ''[[Wacky Races]]'' as a ''[[Mad Max]]'' [[Dystopia|dystopic]] extravaganza and tried to pass it under [[Rule of Cool]]; it folded after 6 numbers. The comic reboot of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' (which while still quite close to its original satirical roots, traded its comedic bent by serious explorations of modern issues in a [[Stone PunkStonepunk]] setting), the one of ''[[The Jetsons]]'' (which along with losing the sitcom comedy went with the [[Ascended Fanon]] of the planet surface having been devastated by an ecological catastrophe as the reason people living in floating cities), ''Scooby Apocalypse'' (yet another ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' saga, this time redesigned and in an [[After the End]] setting), and the wackiest of the crossover titles (''[[Suicide Squad]] and [[The Banana Splits]]''? Really?) had also failed to find wider audiences.