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THR: Dan DiDio (Co-Publisher) has left DC comics
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Famously, he's the reason no one in Batman books could ever be happy/have a happy home life. He literally had a mandate about that. He was directly responsible for Kate Kane and Maggie Sawyer's then planned wedding to not happen.
Thinking about this-I'm almost certain that the giant advertising push for Bendis at DC, his presumably massive contract and salary and the utter failure of that to catch any sort of fire whatsoever has to be part of the reasoning for Didio's dismissal.
Editorial decisions and character assassination will piss off readers. Publically failed investments and acquisitions piss off the execs.
Editorial decisions and character assassination will piss off readers. Publically failed investments and acquisitions piss off the execs.
So... what actually happened? Was he fired? Did he quit? Why?
I always assumed this was Geoff Johns? Isn't he who pushed to get Barry back in the first place.
I think this was a general anti-marriage rule, not specifically a Batman one.
I always assumed this was Geoff Johns? Isn't he who pushed to get Barry back in the first place.
I think this was a general anti-marriage rule, not specifically a Batman one.
Considering he didn't get a chance to do a "Thanks and goodbye" letter along with this happening at the end of a Friday which is typically used to bury certain news he was almost certainly fired.
Dan survived many bad bets. Why would hiring Bendis be the final straw?
If he wasn't the one making those decisions then he was the one who greenlit them, so he's still responsible as far as I'm concerned.
While I'm sure there's other idiots in DC management/editorial who thought stupid shit like Ric Grayson and bringing Barry Allen back were good ideas, hearing that the head idiot is out is great news. I haven't read comics regularly for years and it'd take a lot to get me back in but I can still remember all the Didio shit I hated. Pushing all the silver age boomer heroes to the forefront while butchering all the 90s heroes I enjoyed. Mocking fans for complaining that their favourite heroes were killed off, retconned or worse. An over reliance on shock value, particularly blood and guts but sometimes far worse. The constant reboots that'd give them a short term boost but they'd inevitably fuck up. Countdown to Final Crisis. And running to Geoff Johns to fix every problem/non-problem they had.
Very good read imo
The executive layout has changed, for starters.
Wouldn't they be looking at his entire tenure at his position to see if he's worth keeping? Hiring Bendis is sensible compared to the failure of the New 52.
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I mean, he's got a point, Akirasan never got any blowback. Likely because they had no one to replace him.
Can they finally let Bob Harras's Eddie Berganza-enabling ass go now?
You can't spell "sexual harassment" without "Harras."
You can't spell "sexual harassment" without "Harras."
The thing was merging the timelines but Wally fucks up and the heroes age and some people take their place.
5G is supposed to explain all the different continuities and place them all into the same timeline. I don't know what's going to happen now, but that was the plan.
Cause they not only respect alll the zany comic book history, they can make it work. Buisek took a grabbag of jokes and made the Thunderbolts, honestly the last real new superhero brand and fabian ran with it.
Wow, that's huge.
He did a lot that I disagreed with as a fan (my favorite DC characters are Cassandra and Wally for god's sake), but I always did believe that he had a real love for DC on the whole. I'm curious to find out what the hell happened.
He did a lot that I disagreed with as a fan (my favorite DC characters are Cassandra and Wally for god's sake), but I always did believe that he had a real love for DC on the whole. I'm curious to find out what the hell happened.
So I heard and honestly I'm glad we are getting a timeline because DC really needs it at this point. However, good luck to whoever has to make it. New 52 and Pre-52 clash at certain points so to make them both work you really gotta go all the way through and not be lazy.
Like, how are they gonna explain Cyborg being part of the NTT but being a JL founder? That's a headache all in itself. Not to mention Batman's timeline is incredibly wonky since he went through like 4 robins in 5 years or so. I want this timeline to work but DC is DC.
Just make Dick Dick again.
(Also, if you're gonna have Tim keep that shitty identity, turn either everything brown or everything black on his costume green. It's the one Batman/Robin/Batgirl color that no one in the family is using as their primary.)
How's Monday for you?
I don't have a horse in that race but you have my sword.
pretty sure they've already retconned vic being a founding JL member when they brought j'onn back for snyders run.
the cover for the FCBD issue has him pretty prominently in his NTT outfit.
whether this actually amounts to anything meaningful, who knows.
I have nothing to contribute, this is just interesting to watch play out and reading everyone's mixed reactions
Sure, I like the Dick/Damien dynamic tho, and when he is batman you can't avoid it.
They'll have nothing for FCBD if they do that, unless they just opt for a book of reprints or something. The 0G book is half Wonder Woman reprint already, I guess.
In all fairness by the time he got to DC his artistic chops & general sensibilities were miles ahead of his heyday. But yeah, he'll always be the X-Men guy to me.
Though he did draw the best Aquaman. The mutton chops should've stuck.
See, the boomer thing I thought was Geoff Johns, he was very vocal about those characters. He was just picking up on the nostalgia train Mark Waid, Alex Ross & Kurt Busiek had started as a reaction against the "every character is dead and replaced by an edgelord" trend of the 90s.
The violence thing...it felt like people above Didio thought DC should be churning out Dark Knight & Watchmen type IP: movie & prestige TV-ready concepts. So they hired legit novelists & screenwriters like Meltzer to try & create serious-business our-characters-are-adults stories around their main properties.
The shock value thing felt like an inevitable reaction to the fact that every series that didn't have a long established track record sank like a stone, and they kept doing event books because however much they grumbled, that was what the fans turned out for. Comics were in a bad place before the MCU broke out, and both Marvel & DC had higher-ups & investors to answer to.
Not that I'm defending any of this stuff. Barry Allen coming back made zero sense to me. He had an iconic ending, no particularly well-defined or unique personality traits, and a replacement who was well liked and just come off Mark Waid & Grant Morrison runs that after a billion years had actually given the Flash a mythos.
Same with Ray Palmer. In Ryan Choi they actually had a Grant Morrison created Asian hero with his own title who wasn't a martial arts stereotype and...they killed him off to bring back another silver ager nobody had any particularly strong feelings for.
The blood & guts thing felt all wrong, Johns had really nailed what was great about the core of DC with JSA, unironically embracing its heroism, while updating them in a way that felt true to the characters. To then try and shoehorn in the stuff from the blood & guts 90s that everyone was sick of seemed tacky and unnecessary.
And the endless events and shocks...that actually burned me out in the end. I haven't really been back to comics since Metal, which I know some people liked but I found too goofy for words.
Off topic, but GOD do I hate Tim going by Drake. And the suit is trash too.
I think they've been doing decently, at least critically. dumping that would be a bad move, especially if they want stories they can still sell 30 years later
He comes from a world like ours.
Why would you wish this on anybody
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