Dan DiDio’s 2 decade long reign over DC comics editorial is a microcosm. You might say of everything that has gone wrong and is currently killing American Co in the combination of the last 15+ years. This is what happens when you elliptically deflect any regard for legitimacy with projective virtue signals of the indulgences, that’ll actually being propagated in mass sycophantic top down fiat of agenda, driven ideologue pathological and branding addict consoomer shills plants with no and/or active antithetical regard for the basic native coherency and figurative rationale to the established central character and mythologies that the intellectual properties being utilized are built around and have a pre-existing market, viability, and following on the backs of the prior legacy of while they rot and burn while they proclaim either apologetics and or appraisal as a worth signifying draw of very indulgences
All-Star Superman happened during his time in office, so he can't be all that bad.
That's something that fell through the cracks and avoided his oversight.
Remember Beast Machines?
I wouldn't have gotten Geoff Lantern, the peak of DC comics, had it not been for DiDio who greenlighting Geoff and Tomasi.
JUST ACCEPT JOSHUA WILLIAMSON IS HACK OP DAMN
I never understood why the man had no fricks given to what paying customers wanted.
He's like the actual living version of that
>What if you take over DC, what would you do
threads where everyone always cancels everything and only runs shit they personally liked form decades past.
Exactly
Because, and I mean this honestly, the paying customer doesn't know what the frick they want. When you pander to the crowd you avoid the risks that could spark a new idea..
That sure went well huh
So instead he panders only to himself and makes moronic decisions out of sheer spite.
Here's an example of Didio management
>Cancel Cassandra Cain's book, remove her from being Batgirl even though her book did consistent numbers
>Replace her with Batwoman, who's creative team struggles to get a book out, though it does decently, all momentum killed because it takes years to get the first series out
>Give her to an editor who hates her and a writer unfamiliar with her
>Fans complain
>Ok we'll give her a NEW book
>Book done by the writer who put her in the mess she was in and was the figurehead for what went wrong, gave the book a trash artist who can't draw action
>Book bombs terribly
>Didio convinced it's because Cass fans don't support the character, not that the book was trash.
He set things up for failure and blamed fans for failure
And the worst part is that wasn’t even a isolated incident but the tip of the iceberg
your grasp of sentence structure gave me cancer
Is this like text from a chatbot or something? Doesn't make any sense.
I think OP swallowed and is vomiting a thesaurus without understanding or he forgot to take his meds
I don't think there's really anything spectacular about the faults with Didio's editorial style.
Didio is literally why DC has been unable to sell anything but Batman in the last few years. He outright crippled multiple beloved franchises because he didn't like them, when you have to nurture and push your franchises in order to sell.
>ruined Bart with the intent to bring back Barry when Bart was to inevitably fail
>got rid of every Flash family member for just Barry
>doesn't let Johns go through with his Flash family plan
>got rid of the JSA when they supported two books for about 8 years despite them being shit for the last couple years of writing
>declared them a "dead concept"
>allowed for one of the two writers who cared about them to be chased off their book
>allowed for the book to then become filled with Batman and Superman characters
>dragged popular Teen Titans members through the dirt
>kept killing off the C listers in events
>left editorial to literally just shove shitty plots on their writers
>got rid of the most popular version with the reboot because ???
>gets all their magic characters (which used to be one of the richest niches of the DCU) and squeezed them all into one book
>JLI is beloved to they naturally shit all of them with Booster and Guy being the exceptions (until King came along)
>crippled the Superman line, it went from 4 mainline books to 2 under him
Didio single-handedly tried to champion new ideas and characters and do books outside of just superheroes but they never sole despite how much rope and “sales can be lower” leeway he gave those titles
Because doing non-superhero books but giving them to superhero writers and artists isn’t any better.
>Noooooooo those books only fail because uhhhhh superhero writers and artists! Yeah that’s it!
Shut the frick up.
I had to wait through a decade plus of agenda driven ideologue pathologue and or brand addict consoomer astroturfed corrupt shill garbage just to hear what I figured out in a few days in the 7th grade that is an indictment on all the so called veterans of nerd culture and community they didn’t just let this extinction happen they actively contrived it
That’s a nice looking all of text that thinks it sounds smart while containing nothing of actual substance
Didoo is currently what marvel will be very soon if not sooner.