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Well, screw him, because that's my favorite era of the Justice League, bar none. So he can go fuck himself.

I'm fairly certain that if Dan Didio hated the Justice League International so much he wouldn't have let people write all those JLI revivals in the mid 2000s.

I don't think he's ever bothered to deny the rumors by saying he likes the JLI (which, then again, no one's technically obligated to do).

I think the key part of it is the JLI goes against the kind of storytelling he favors, which is mostly based on huge 'super serious' events and an overally darker and edgier tone. Which ironically enough can get so dark and bloody for edge's sake they end up being comically Narmy instead. For all the lighter books DC's pushed in the last decade or so, and there's been lots of them, don't get me wrong, those seem to be against Didio's overally vision and preference. If he had it fully his way all of DC would be a nonstop parade of Amazons Attack/Countdown carnage, I think.

"For all the lighter books DC's pushed in the last decade or so, and there's been lots of them, don't get me wrong, those seem to be against Didio's overally vision and preference. If he had it fully his way all of DC would be a nonstop parade of Amazons Attack/Countdown carnage, I think."

I've got my problems with Dan Didio, but I don't believe that this is true at all.

The impression I get is that's his personal choice of overall marketing push, anyway. That's the way it comes along to me.

edited 30th Nov '16 5:03:09 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

He did basically have complete control over Countdown from what I remember.

yeah he did. and he did say it was better, but and this is important he only said it because it was better editorially. 52 was a mess in that regard. so much of a mess they had to have a miniseries to detail a big event.

Hey, if it works...

Considering the big event Crisis it was supposed to be leading into had to end up telling readers to ignore it altogether instead, was Countdown editorially successful either?

No, I was saying 52 was successful despite being an editorial mess, while Countdown was not despite being editorially tight.

Its weird that anyone was surprised that Countdown was worse than 52. There's no way Adam Beechan and Tony Bedard where going to be able to compete with Grant Morrison and Greg Rucka.

I guess people hoped Paul Dini would pull it off for the others, but in hindsight it was too much weight left on his shoulders.

When 52 started, it was written by four of DC's biggest fan-favorite writers.

When Countdown started, it was written by a guy who had written like 10 comics ever, plus some other guys I guess. It was doomed to fail.

But, but muh animated series.

Jokes aside, Dini is a great animation writer, but people tend to forget he was not the main architect and coordinator behind the animated universe. His strenghts cater more to the 'filler' done in one stuff rather than long term storytelling.

edited 1st Dec '16 4:51:56 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

the countdown era of paul dini was not his finest hour as well as writing bits of that mess he wrote one of the single worst runs of batman i have ever read and i do admit thats a bit unfair since he was going up against morrisons amazing and very long run....

but seriously the riddler as a good guy because my namesake hit him on the head with a mace too hard....the hell

When does Super Sons come out?

DC's website says February 15th but Direct Currents #1 says February 1st.

So I just finished reading the new Deathstroke (issue 7) & while I'm loving the series, I'm still kinda confused bout the story.

Can someone please summarize & explain what's going on please? There's like so many hidden players & people working against Slade that its getting hard to keep track of whos who.

Can anyone who read Justice League United tell me what Equinox's powers were?

I'm not completely sure but I know that it changes based on the seasons.

So is she like an elemental or something?

Interesting bit of DC-related trivia I learned recently: as much as people like to talk about that period in the '50s when superheroes temporarily went out of fashion, it... actually didn't last very long. The JSA's final adventure was in 1951 (their title, All-American Comics, was thereafter replaced by a Western) and Barry Allen, the first Silver Age hero, debuted in '56. The superhero slump lasted a whopping five years... and even then, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were popular enough to survive it (as was Captain America over at Marvel).

Yeah, and while the super-hero genre took a significant downturn, they didn't entirely go away. Johnny Quick persisted in Adventure Comics until 1954 (only two years before Barry Allen's debut), and Green Arrow and Aquaman never went away (they all three had the benefit of having been created by then-Superman editor Mort Weisinger, kept them around as backup features in titles featuring Superman). Captain America was published in the early 50's, '53 and '54 to be precise, by a company called Atlas, where he fought communists and horror-styled menaces. Other companies experimented a bit, too. So yeah, there was hardly a yawning gulf between the Golden and Silver Ages, and while they diminished in their popularity and domination of the market (especially compared to the early Golden Age, where they were extremely popular) super heroes didn't vanish.

Superman and Batman's popularity never significantly waned, but I know, for instance, that DC kept publishing Wonder Woman at least in part because it was part of the contract they signed with the Martson family that they had to publish her at least (I think) 4 times a year or else lose the rights to the character (DC owns Wonder Woman outright, now).

edited 4th Dec '16 9:53:57 AM by Robbery

So do you guys have anything new (or anything at all) about Flash family in the new DC Enclyclopedia? I know older Wally is added to Dick's allies but I don't know what's up in Flash's own page.

Hey I finally got mine so I can answer this! The Flash entry is, unfortunately, almost all Barry. I suspect this book was put together before Rebirth really began in earnest and a number of entries include Rebirth "teasers" of a sort. Flash's, naturally, mentions the return of the elder Wally. The younger Wally, Bart, and even Bar-Torr are covered under the Kid Flash entry, and various other speedsters (and Linda and Iris) have entries as well, but there's no one Flash Family entry.

edited 4th Dec '16 12:57:54 PM by HamburgerTime

Is there a Multiversity-like map? Does it mention the Empty Hand, Justice Incarnate, other ideas etc from the book at all?