Say What?! - Darker and Darker Nights
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As anyone who even reads this humble blog is passing can tell you, I am not what you would call a DC aficionado. I respect their history, dig some Wildstorm stuff, buy the Vertigo collections regularly, but I just can't get into their main line. I was raised a Marvel Zombie and for the moment thus I stay,
However, anyone who reads the comics blogosphere really couldn't get away from the problems DC is having. Between completely incongruous books being released and having to be explained (namely Grant Morrison's excuses for Final Crisis #1) and creators being somewhat vocal about their abrupt dismissal (Chuck Dixon), this week was really just a microcosm of problems being spoken about for some time.Even Warren ELlis offered an unprompted "State of the DC Union." Dan Didio has been a lightening rod for controversy in the industry second only to Bill Jemas.
As someone on the outside, most of what I hear is the negative. most successes are out trumpted by the failures, regardless of the the size of the success. So the question on the table this week is this:
Just what do you think the future of DC is right now?
Will Dan Didio be fired? Can they bring themselves out of hole they've dug? For that matter, is it really a hole or is it the media making it more of an issue than anything else?
Goblin
Posted to Hot Stuff, Say What? on 19 June 2008
· Comments (4)
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Yes, I think Dan Didio will be fired some time this year. DC is falling behind Marvel Comics and several creators are dissatisfied with Didio. Hopefully, the next EIC will do better.
I can't say if Didio will be given the boot, but he's letting the DC universe get buried under a mountain of continuity and crossovers. Final Crisis looks like a big unwieldy mess. On the positive side this may hopefully lead to a moratorium on big summer crossovers. The past couple of years at DC have been very much in a Grant Morrison vein, by which I mean "very big ideas with mediocre execution".
Marvel has been smart to contain Secret Invasion to some core books and let guys like Brubaker and Bendis (I assume Marvel has other writers too) do what they do best and just tell stories. And when Joe Q feels like screwing up a book from on high, at least it's just the Spider-Man titles.
despite the fact that its not an "attack", i think this weeks DC Nation article in the back of all the comics is VERY poor in terms of timing. it just casts even more horrible light on Dan. if it werent for all this, i would normally just see that as the standard ribbing those articles seem to have. but after all the hullaballoo recently, this is just a telling example of how things are going..
besides, "i just dont think people want to see catwoman for a while?"
where the HELL does he get those ideas?
I'm also in the zombie category, but I do know I have been pretty impressed with the quality of most dc titles. (countdown for example didn't really do anything for me) Other than that, I don't really follow sales or the goings on of their management.