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.