DC Comics Starting Over Again

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I think DiDio has been in charge of creative in one capacity or another since 2003. It is amazing that he has survived all of these upheavals, even if he's really not to blame for any of this. Historically, that doesn't matter. Carmine Infantino was given the axe after about 8 years in a corporate role, and fewer years at the very top. He had been with the company 20 years before being kicked upstairs! Paul Levitz was Jennette Kahn's right-hand man through the company's greatest creative achievements, and didn't get to sit in the president/publisher chair long at all...they "retired" him. He was the last vestige of the DC that carried on from the original founders.

In the long-run, the day DC bought Wildstorm (and Jim Lee) was the ruination of them, as far as I'm concerned. It set into motion all of these things. I have nothing against Lee, DiDio or Johns personally, but the characters I love have become unrecognizable under their watch.

Chris

Dido comes from a family of Hollywood producers, (TV I think). It certainly provided insulation as the company adjusted. I would think the reboot implies that protection doesn't work anymore. Dido. as much as Johns, needs BvS to top Civil War.