Dan Didio vs. Joe Quesada

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Now that SDCC 08 is coming to an end. I gotta say Dan is really expanding DC into a much more larger fanbase. Bringing back Archie characters and Milestone is a good stretch.

Meanwhile...Joe Q is making the most moolah. mmm

Whoa - DC has control of the Archie titles?! 😱

Originally posted by roughrider
Whoa - DC has control of the Archie titles?! 😱

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Interview:

http://www.newsarama.com/common/media/video_sdcc.php?videoRef=NA_080724_DiDio3

Static Shock being brought into the DCU and joining the Titans is long overdue.

Originally posted by Val-E-Doosh
Static Shock being brought into the DCU and joining the Titans is long overdue.

Now they just need a new writer to join the Teen Titans.
I'm seriously on the verge of dropping this book, the quality has dropped more issue to issue since Johns left.

I bailed when Johns left. I knew it wouldn't be near the same.

Both Fail

Originally posted by starlock
Both Fail

QFT

Thanks to Accel for the story about Marvel's 50% market share.

http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.5700.MyCup_o~apos~_Joe_Week_29

To me, the events around Marvel are much more interesting right now. While DC has 'Crisis' fatigue.

Originally posted by starlock
Both Fail

If they weren't running the companies well......

YouTube video

......then it'd be someone else 😄

Bump.

As long as DC don't fu@k up Vertigo I am happy.

With the year - and the decade - drawing to a close, time to evaluate these two again?

DD gets a mixed review from me.

I'm glad he is a fan and enthusiast of the DCU characters.

I'm not glad he ***s up things with things such as FC and Batman: One More Day....errr...sorry I meant Batman R.I.P.

However, I'm glad he allows Geoff, Jimmy, Gail, and Paul Dini to run with things. On the ugly side of things he allows Morrison as well.

He gets a C- from this Bat-Head.

As for Joe Q....well, he sold Marvel to Mickey....the man is a business guy.

I think Didio is more a business guy - he came from outside comics to run DC. Was it television?
While Quesada is a real artist & editor, and seems as secure as anyone in his position since Jim Shooter's heyday.

I don't remember but true on Didio having some business skills. He also listens to fans and intereacts with them in conventions and on newsarama. I think for that...he gets raise to a grade C.

Wonder if the thread title should be changed, now that Bob Harras got named DC's new Editor In Chief this fall.

Once upon a time, I thought he would be a Marvel lifer, like Ralph Macchio. But thanks to Marvel's bankruptcy period in the late 1990's, he got the bum's rush out of the Editor In Chief's seat there a decade ago.

Didio is still Executive Editor I think. But I don't know if he still has a senior position over Harras; at Marvel, Executive Editor is below Editor In Chief.

Whoever he's fighting, Joe Q loose. What a big NOOB. Killed awesome title (Gardians of the Galaxy, Nova, ...), approve shitty story lines (Chaos War anyone!? And I'm a fan of Pak's runs on Hulk and Hercules...) and most importantly, scrap 40 years of Spider-Man history.

Who let this village idiot take power in the first place!?

Originally posted by Bouboumaster
Whoever he's fighting, Joe Q loose. What a big NOOB. Killed awesome title (Gardians of the Galaxy, Nova, ...), approve shitty story lines (Chaos War anyone!? And I'm a fan of Pak's runs on Hulk and Hercules...) and most importantly, scrap 40 years of Spider-Man history.

Who let this village idiot take power in the first place!?

The past decade at Marvel was much better than the 1990's.
As far as Spider Man, it's easier to undo the events of One More Day than the mess they created with The Clone Saga 15 years ago.

Originally posted by roughrider
The past decade at Marvel was much better than the 1990's.
As far as Spider Man, it's easier to undo the events of One More Day than the mess they created with The Clone Saga 15 years ago.

Past decade was great, but I couldn't care less about what you're saying about OMD; This shit shouldn't have exist in the first place. What a lack of judgement. This is unforgivable. I mean, do you realise that he scraped 40 years of comics?! What the hell!?

All of this for selling the movies?! Seriously, this guy should stick at drawing, and should be removed right the **** now of his fonctions.

During Quesada's reign many cool ideas came to be -Incredible Hercules, Agents of Atlas, Captain America, Iron-fist and cosmics, just to name a few-, but experimentation happened outside the mainsteam books, which pretty much stayed lame saving a few highlights -such as Hulk with Pak, seriously, this guy resurrected the character, he'll be fondly remember like Simonson for Thor or Miller for Daredevil-.

What I really don't like it's the ways cancellations are handled, one would think that critically aclaimed books with excellent plots and rising writers should stick a bit longer than they do. But instead of that, things are kind of retconned to feat the big events which have been incredibly lacking since Civil War -which caused mixed impressions-.

Bottomline I don't really think Q is bad, but things could be really improved and I partly blame the minor editors and the marketing group.