The new Editor in Chief of DC Comics is...

[samurainoir]

Former Marvel EIC, Bob Harras.
Bob Harras Named DC E-i-C - Comic Book Resources

Under his watch, Harras put Jim Lee on Uncanny X-Men and helped rocket him into the upper tier of talent. Now it looks like Jim Lee is returning the favour.

Harras was ousted in favour of Joe Q. Not sure if this really means that Harras will be going head to head with his successor given Joe Q's now more involved at Marvel in a higher capacity with Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso running much of the comics kingdom on a day to day basis.

[The Toyroom]

I hope that this somehow translates into Dan DiDio removing his hand from some of the collective DC pie as far as story content and direction goes...

[The Bat]

I hope Jim Lee starts drawing Comics again(without Frank Miller writing).

[samurainoir]

Under Harras' watch, there was...

Rob Liefeld New Mutants/X-Force/Cable.
Jim Lee's Uncanny X-Men and the launch of adjectiveless X-Men
Claremont off of Uncanny X-Men
Enhanced covers up the wazoo
Spider-Clone Saga/Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider
Waid on Captain America
Busiek on Thunderbolts, Avengers, and Iron Man.
George Perez on Avengers again!

[samurainoir]

Here's someone who might not be writing for DC in the future...

Mark Waid's take on Harras' run as Marvel EIC from a 2000 inteview conducted by Warren Ellis.
Mark Waid On Bob Harras Ten Years Ago Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors

Word has it that you’re no longer welcome at Marvel after a statement you made on my Forum about Bob Harras. What’s your take on Bob’s time at Marvel in your experience?

Yeah, that’s at least temporarily true. Apparently, the fact that Bob was fired for unfair and wrong reasons one September rather than for all the tens of hundreds of RIGHT reasons he’d racked up in the seven years PREVIOUS gave a lot of staffers a sudden change of heart. Amazing. Overnight, they forgot what a two-faced, cowardly liar Bob had been and what crap they’d all had to suffer through because of his shortcomings as a manager. Instead, everyone was lighting candles for Bob. Jesus. You want to know the truth? In my humble =koff= opinion, Bob did as much to help destroy the comic book industry during the 1990s than any other single human being alive. Yes, even more than Gareb. I’d even let Ron Perlman out of Hell before I’d pardon Bob. For years and years and years, the editorial philosophy at Marvel was to make each and every comic book as labyrinthine and confusing as creatively possible. Marvel had the single highest-profile comic book in the Western hemisphere–X-MEN–and Bob did everything imaginable to make it completely incomprehensible and inaccessible to new and/or casual readers. Everything.

“But, Mark…” I hear the whine. “But, Mark, Bob kept the X-books best-sellers in the industry during his tenure.” Technically true–but let’s look at the sales figures. Over the last six years, the sales margin between the X-books and their nearest competitors has dwindled from about three-to-one to barely 1.5-to-one. Woo-hoo. Cigars, everyone.

Here it is in a nutshell: Did you see that stupifyingly atrocious piece-of-crap X-MEN sampler comic in TV GUIDE? My rage had no words. It was a textbook example of how NOT to write and draw something a prospective first-time reader could possibly understand or enjoy or want to see more of. Hell, I’ve been reading comics for 34 years and I had to read it three times to figure out what was going on. TV GUIDE. Eight million households. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for new market exposure. And everyone connected with it failed miserably. Fire them. Fire them all. We’re DYIN’ here. We cannot afford to blow ANY opportunity to find new readers.

[The Toyroom]

^ What was the last work that Mark Waid did for DC anyway? He's been pretty busy with his Boom! gig and his run over on the Spidey titles last year....

[Earth 2 Chris]

Didn't Al Milgrom get fired from Marvel for a while for taking a pot-shot at Harras in a sight-gag he snuck into a comic?

Most EICs aren't without their detractors though. Jim Shooter has more than a NYC phone book, but his Marvel run is considered one of the best, maybe only second to Stan.

Chris

[samurainoir]

Didn't Al Milgrom get fired from Marvel for a while for taking a pot-shot at Harras in a sight-gag he snuck into a comic?

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