Okay, first, I am instituting a new award for quotes so sublime in their perfect crystallization of a known but never quite articulated idea that angels weep.
The first recipient is one Sam
Gafford, the "Lewis Black of comics", for the following:
That said, I'm going to risk the space-time continuum and cut DiDio some slack on this one, because the inconsistency Gafford is objecting to is actually the least Dubyesque in Didio's tenure at DC: "Last weekend, at the Fan Expo in Canada, Didio talked about several interesting things including the fact that the reboots of old characters (like Blue Beetle) hadn't really caught on."
As in stepping up and admitting mistakes were made. When he was insisting everything was fine with the reboots... and by-god they were going to stick with it no matter how many titles tanked as a result, then okay. But today, he's stepping up and being a man, and I really don't want to call him names while he's doing it.
I did want to pass on the quote, because it really is representative of an era at DC. And I wanted to call attention to Gafford. Anyone calling himself the Lewis Black of Comics is someone readers of this blog should look in on from time to time.
Here endeth the waffle.
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(Dan) Didio is quickly becoming the George W. Bush of comics which means you can't trust a word he says. Unless he "crosses his heart and swears to die" first. Or pinky-swears. That might work.
That said, I'm going to risk the space-time continuum and cut DiDio some slack on this one, because the inconsistency Gafford is objecting to is actually the least Dubyesque in Didio's tenure at DC: "Last weekend, at the Fan Expo in Canada, Didio talked about several interesting things including the fact that the reboots of old characters (like Blue Beetle) hadn't really caught on."
As in stepping up and admitting mistakes were made. When he was insisting everything was fine with the reboots... and by-god they were going to stick with it no matter how many titles tanked as a result, then okay. But today, he's stepping up and being a man, and I really don't want to call him names while he's doing it.
I did want to pass on the quote, because it really is representative of an era at DC. And I wanted to call attention to Gafford. Anyone calling himself the Lewis Black of Comics is someone readers of this blog should look in on from time to time.
Here endeth the waffle.
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