Yeah, so we all agree CW and recent story arcs are more risky than, say, IC was.
Technically DC owns Wildstorm as well, so I'd give a to Didio for not messing with the WS universe much. Gaiman's Sandman stuff is also under DC's wing.
...but most of that wasn't on Didio's watch, and was quite a while ago (I think Sandman started mid-80's). Vote for Quesada...kudos for seperating the hell out of "cosmic" and "Earth" with Annihilation and CW, something DC doesn't do well.
And Alan Scott's eyepatch is awful. I'm a huge fan of Alan, but I cringe when I see it for the first time in any comic. That's probably my least favorite thing to come out of IC.
Batman's son is a black eye for DD.
And we'll never see the return of the funny Giffen/Dematteis JLA team under his watch.
Marvel now has good relations with top writers from the British Isles - that's the work of Joe Q.
On the minus, his hiring of Jeph Loeb for The Ultimates looks like a backfire in waiting - just look at Onslaught Reborn.
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I think creating 52 was just as risky as Civil War, and with the exception of this forum its been far more critically acclaimed. Civil Wars 4-6 have had some very negative reviews. Id say Joe Q is far more on the ball than Dan Dido, and if i wasn't for Geoff Johns, Mark Waid and Grant Morrison D.C. would be down the toilet.
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I think both are seriously at fault... there are, at the very least, ten people on this forum i would trust more to make decisions about characters than those two... both companies could do with a change...
I think more or less the reason the last few comics of Civil War haven't been acclaimed well is they're seeing the problem with Millar's writing style. There's always three or four issues in an arc that is really, really slow. However, he usually delivers well with a finale.
Honestly I attribute 52's greatness to Geoff Johns. Since he achieved his sort of "mini" editor status due to IC I think things have been really tight in DC.
On the other hand a lot of editoral decisions I've not agreed with. Bringing back the multiverse? So soon? I still fail to see the point. Maybe if they'd gone ahead and killed Nightwing too.
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Jan 18th, 2007 02:27 AM
to Didio for not messing with the WS universe much. Gaiman's Sandman stuff is also under DC's wing.
