Another terrific article, with great original journalism.
The array of IPs in Renga!/Beano Maximum!/3000 ACE!/whatever is pretty interestingly eclectic: you've got a flagship strip which is essentially the most Nineties possible version of Ghost Rider with a little Judge Dredd thrown in, a strip designed to tie in with a low-budget horror comedy no-one who reads the comic will be old enough to see, and a strip which is, hands-down, the most Alan Moore idea which ever Alan Moored[1].
Arguably, this is a real strength for the new comic, especially the 1997 version, since you can draw in a pretty wide market. You've got the serious comic enthusiasts who want to read Grant Morrison's The Thunderhawks (feat. Grant Morrison), the weird punk kids who like bizarre horror-humour and sick tentacle tongues, and the vast army of teens who like huge demons on huge motorbikes wielding huge guns.
On the other hand, the urge towards specialisation is great, so you'd probably see the stranger and less profitable stuff (looking at you here, Killer Tongue From Outer Space) crowded out over time in favour of more profitable content, which knowing the comics market at the time would be Demon Police With Guns. This could have some negative consequences when the cultural tide turns against Liefeldian-influenced shoot-em-up antiheroes.
[1] So Alan Moore, in fact, that he basically did this with Albion, although rights issues meant that instead of Beano characters he was working with less well-known (today) Brit-comic heroes such as The Spider and Robot Archie.