Dan DiDio audio interview on The DCU at WORDBALLOON

[siuntres]

Dan, what are you doing to the DCU? (http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://media.libsyn.com/media/wordballoon/WBdandidio.mp3)

If you've ever been to a DC Nation panel, that seems to be the tone in some fans voices , as they fret over the fate of their favorite comic book heroes . From killing Sue Dibny and Ted Kord, nearly killing Nightwing, to the new versions of Blue Beetle, Aquaman and The Atom. If they'd get past their anger, they'd realize how much fun it's been reading the comic books. The executive editor of DC Comics has readers attention and wondering each month, what's going to happen next? We take a look at Dan's editorial views on why things change, and his plans for DC in 2007.

[jlg1]

If they'd get past their anger, they'd realize how much fun it's been reading the comic books.

Yeah, why can't they enjoy the fun of heroes being raped, shot in the head, and decapitated? Clearly, it's their fault.

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[skally19]

i'm enjoying this. i'm glad they moved supergirl back to supergirl. right now he's talkin about how in the 90's they changed things to change things. so he's saying he wanted to move em all them back down to their core concepts. then explained the jason rusch change. now talkin how some characters can't handle a full series. aka talkin bout aquaman.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

While I have enjoyed much of what Dido has brought to the DCU as Head Honcho, I have to scratch my head a bit at some of the stuff he says sometimes.

For example, how can you claim that Identity Crisis must be a great story because people are still angry about it four years after it was published yet talk about how poorly-concieved a story Emerald Twilight was. By his logic, wouldn't the anger that Emerald Twilight caused make that a great story as well?

Now, before the rotting corpse of Identity Crisis Bashing gets revived again, let me point out that I don't really care about the relative merits of that particular story. I just think using reader outrage as a way of determining the quality of your story is really, really stupid.

While getting a visceral emotional reaction from your readers is often a great thing, getting readers pissed off does not necessarily equal a great story.

[KET]

i'm enjoying this. i'm glad they moved supergirl back to supergirl.

I'd be glad IF she was Supergirl. But DC's current incarnation is mostly a T & A oriented PARODY of Supergirl, not the real thing.


right now he's talkin about how in the 90's they changed things to change things.

Sorta like what he and DC's doing NOW with Supergirl, Aquaman, Flash, Blue Beetle, The Atom, etc., etc.

Guess that old saw of "the more things change, the more they stay the same" is still DC's mantra. :(