CBR: Paul Levitz Releases Public Letter of Resignation

[CBR News]

Longtime Publisher and President of DC Comics, Paul Levitz, has stepped down from his position with the company and has just released his public letter of resignation via the company's blog, The Source.


Full article here.

[froinlaven]

Honestly, do we need a new news feed every 2 minutes?

(Just merge the threads...)

[rick]

Honestly, do we need a new news feed every 2 minutes?

(Just merge the threads...)

You don't have to click the link.

[froinlaven]

You don't have to click the link.

No, but I have to look at it, and that's almost worse.

[olympichero62]

I do honestly believe Levitz is still going to be involved in a big way at the company. Who knows.

[Batman was taken]

I do honestly believe Levitz is still going to be involved in a big way at the company. Who knows.

You're a fortune teller, aren't you?

[olympichero62]

You're a fortune teller, aren't you?

He's a family friend.

(Not really though)

[KET]

I do honestly believe Levitz is still going to be involved in a big way at the company. Who knows.

Seems rather unlikely, if all he's got cooking right now is a return to writing the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Levitz probably faced either a boot in the rear, or the more polite "moving on to new horizons" public boilerplate, what with Diane Nelson's rumored arrival at DC seemingly becoming more imminent in the wake of the Disney/Marvel deal.

Once again, the comics actually being produced seems to be an afterthought by another corporate maneuver at one of the "Big Two".

[Scavenger]

I wonder if Quesada is goin' a poachin'.

[olympichero62]

I wonder if Quesada is goin' a poachin'.

Somehow, I doubt it.

[bookguy]

Maybe now that Levitz's no longer the president of DC Comics, we, the fans, can finally get to see in print the following issues/stories:

Swamp Thing meets Jesus Christ on a walk in the swamp by Rick Veitch

Unpublished Hellblazer story "Shoot" by Warren Ellis and Phil Jimenez

What do you think?

[rick]

Maybe now that Levitz's no longer the president of DC Comics, we, the fans, can finally get to see in print the following issues/stories:

Swamp Thing meets Jesus Christ on a walk in the swamp by Rick Veitch

Unpublished Hellblazer story "Shoot" by Warren Ellis and Phil Jimenez

What do you think?

I wouldn't hold my breath.

Besides I've read "Shoot", and it's really not all it was cracked up to be.

[hondobrode]

Levitz is going back to writing, yes, and editing, and consulting. He'll be a big fish but not THE big fish.

He's earned it and I heartily look forward to what DC Entertainment develops.

One thing I like is how they've stated that it's core business will remain on the publishing side and the rest builds off of that.

[comicsmetal]

Seems rather unlikely, if all he's got cooking right now is a return to writing the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Levitz probably faced either a boot in the rear, or the more polite "moving on to new horizons" public boilerplate, what with Diane Nelson's rumored arrival at DC seemingly becoming more imminent in the wake of the Disney/Marvel deal.

Once again, the comics actually being produced seems to be an afterthought by another corporate maneuver at one of the "Big Two".

Actually he still has some say he is consultant and editor as well.All the publishing stuff goes to Dan Daio ,not miss nelson .Nelson is only in charged with the media stuff(tv,movie ,toys ,games.)

[geordiesteve]

I think with the recent news about Marvel which is a good thing, this is also a good thing for DC. Nelson said in the interview they are going to look at developing more stuff for TV, and films, and I think it's a great idea. The animated stuff is nice and all, but I'd much rather see a Flash movie out in 2011 or 2012 than another animated movie. Green Lantern is on the move now, but there are a lot of other big well known brands that should be in production, the most obivous being Wonder Woman. It was always the Big 3 at DC, and we've had movies (successful or otherwise) from two of them and various incarnations. The last I saw of Wonder Woman was the TV series and recently the animated movie, which was great, but not as massive as a film could be.

I hope, and they're probably already doing this, that DC has their own version of the Marvel pool of talent that they call on when scripts need a polish. Johns name has been mentioned in connection with both Flash and Shazam, but if they started moving forward on a WW film, I would like to think they would call on people like Rucka and Simone to give the screenplay a once over.

In the scale of things for both big global enterprises, comics are a small slice of the pie, but if any of the other stuff, movies, TV, games etc, brings in new readers then it's a good thing. I'm not seeing the bad at DC or Marvel. The next ten years at both companies are going to be very interesting.