Dan DiDio still think that New 52 should have lasted longer:
>The biggest regret I got is…not spending the same amount of energy on year two of 'New 52' as we did on year one of 'New 52.'' We spent a good six to eight months building the 'New 52,' rethinking the characters rethinking the designs, rethinking the villains, rethinking everything so it all made sense. As things progressed, moving quicker, we spent less time on development, so we were spending less energy making changes for the characters that felt like they were worthy of a new direction or line.
>By the time we get into the third year, we're just dusting things off and dropping them in. They’re not making sense cause they’re slightly changed but not really changed. Fans don’t have a point of reference anymore. You feel the wheels coming off the cart.
>What happens is, we get to 'Rebirth,' we reinstitute some of the things we felt were missing, but what also happens is, you put in things that made you want to revamp the line in the first place, and things get stagnant again. Everybody says ‘don’t change them anymore’ but the whole purpose of storytelling is change and evolution.
>If you’re not changing and evolving, you’re stagnant. And when you’re stagnant, the books become what the fans identify as ‘does this book matter?’ I need to know which books to buy, and I only wanna buy the books that matter. Well the only way they matter is if they’re affecting change…then you’re chasing your own tail and you can’t get out of it. You have to do these starts and stops every once in a while to keep it going.
You think you do, but you don't
Tell me what kind of change is reboot Superman every so often? Is Superman growing old, marrying the woman of his life, becoming a dad, training his son as a sucessor, and so on more significant then another origin?
Look at where Batman was before the reboot. Bruce was 40 years old and expanding the Batman idea throughout the world. Dick was the new Batman of Gotham City and leading the Justice League. That was a change. The New 52 did away with all of that.
Came across this file in my old shit.
Its called victims of nu52
I saved this panel once and feel that this will always be the example of why the reboot was so bad.
Fuck you Dan. I'm glad you got the axe. We had change with Superman being a father and a family man, but your dumbass didn't like it, and gave the job to Bendis
Dan is talking about the older Superman when he talks about "things that made you want to revamp the line in the first place". That's why he tried to ruin it by giving to Bendis. His ideal Superman after all is an younger and crazier one who shakes the world whenever he fucks Wonder Warrior.
He had FIVE years with the New 52 Universe.
What was the point of making Amanda Waller
hot? No, seriously. what was?
Also, who thought "crazy girl with hammer and guns" and "crazier girl with the face of a genocidal murder clown stapled to her own" were good fits for Task Force X?
Reminder Didio complaining about how the readers were more interested in buying collections of older stories than the newer issues, and how that was an issue that they should figure out. That coincided with all those Dark Multiverse issues focusing on giving bad ends to iconic story-lines. Because THAT was his solution.
He couldn't understand that readers would rather read the older stories than the newest ones simple because they were more appealing than whatever retardation he wants.
Synergy. Amanda Waller was playing by a relatively skinny and hot older black actress in that abortion of a Green Lantern movie, which was supposed to be the kick-starter for a shared cinematic universe. Didio thought that that Waller would be played by another relatively skinny and hot actress again in the newly DCEU movies and jumped the gun.
>Reminder Didio complaining about how the readers were more interested in buying collections of older stories than the newer issues
I remember that. How can someone be so butthurt over people BUYING your products? Even if it was old reprints? Like, how mentally ill do you have to be?
You know how SJWs whine that comic fans only want attractive women, or don't like diversity? Here's a tip when they squawk that nonsense; show them Amanda Waller. At least they backpedaled on that.
That and DC is famous for cancelling/discontinuing older trades. What a petty fucking practice just to get your new continuity to sell. Fuck Dan
Huh, i almost forgot that movie existed.
It's kind of a shame that they cheaped out on Green Lantern so hard, both in recycled tv script and CGI. I swear, Green Lantern could make just as much as Star Wars if given the time of day.
Yeah, sure, Danny boy.
There's lots of examples, they just conveniently ignore them for the sake of argument, that is, if they even have one.
>no Majestic series this entire time
gay
What’s funny because the books he wrote like OMAC and Sideways were the most optimistic and old school books being published at their time.
How is "constantly undoing everything" not the exact OPPOSITE of "evolution"?
I know im in the minority here but Dan Didio did nothing wrong.
I don't get this.
Why is he talking about 'changing things' when all he wanted to do was reset everything and make everything the same?
pre-new52 was a good era.
So, it was all Bob's fault?
>I swear, Green Lantern could make just as much as Star Wars if given the time of day.
Warners can't afford to buy their own tickets.
Sit down and tell me what genre the Corps is going to remind people of and what demo that reflects. The GLC in the comics has been soft rebooted multiple times if you think about the ridiculous number of Lanterns for sector 2814 which isn't a sign of a stable franchise.
I'm not saying GLC sucks (it doesn't) but it's arguably more of a television concept than a motion picture.
He kept Jonah Hex alive against all business sense which was beautiful of him, and made Sideways.
The rest of his history is less wonderful.
>He kept Jonah Hex alive against all business sense which was beautiful of him
Because he thought it had potential to become a movie.
>when you’re stagnant, the books become what the fans identify as ‘does this book matter?’ I need to know which books to buy, and I only wanna buy the books that matter. Well the only way they matter is if they’re affecting change…
What Didio calls "stagnant," most of us would call "stable." When comic events and clickbait gimmicks constantly affect change and no status quo lasts more than a handful of weeks, THAT'S the point where fans ask "does this book matter?"
After reading comics for a certain number of years, you start to understand that an important development in a character's story will simply disappear a month later like it never happened at all. Emotional achievements and personal victories get contradicted, retconned or simply ignored by later stories. A character you respect today will become completely different tomorrow. Nothing carries importance anymore when there's no structure keeping the story stable and consistent.
the only good thing about him.
>He couldn't understand that readers would rather read the older stories
He could, he was just butthurt about it. You people are either really stupid or REALLY stupid. The point he was making there was that "we need to be better".
Once again you people prove to be complete morons by missing the point Dan was making by a mile. If people are buying just gimmick reprints of decades old issues instead of new material then it’s a sign that something has gone horribly wrong with the market and your output.
And neither sold particularly well and were quickly cancelled because they didn’t matter.
It's disingenuous.
>Well the only way they matter is if they’re affecting change
Biggest. Bullshit. Ever.
Books matter if they're well written and well drawn, not if they have "lasting consequences" or "break the mold" or take things in "new, brave, never before seen directions".