#anti dan didio

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

I apologize but I felt like shitposting.

#dick grayson #nightwing #slade wilson #jon kent #superman #i don't even like geoff johns #but him and waid were like no not happening #anti dan didio

[sporkberries]

For everyone dreading dc editorials current decisions, never forget that we have already overcome a great enemy. We can survive this😤

#this was a discord joke but i wanted to share it here too #anti dan didio #anti new 52 #anti one year later #anti babs girl #dc #barbara gordon #cassandra cain #<- the one year later stuff #batman #wonder woman #spork says stuff

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

"That was the 21st century Batman and Robin, THEY'VE BLOWN IT! Those guys were IT."

"My favourite part of [my run of Batman] is when Dick Grayson took over [as Batman], I could've written that for 10 years!" -Grant Morrison on Dick and Damian as the Dynamic Duo.

Source: Fatman on Batman

#dc really did fucking blow it #dick grayson never felt more unique a character ironically than when he was wearing the cowl #watching damian grow under dick's wing was an amazing experience #dick and damian's relationship is also so special to me like damian just isn't bruce's robin #dick grayson #damian wayne #grant morrison #batman #dickbats #batman and robin #dc comics #comics #bat family #batfam #anti new 52 #anti dan didio #kevin smith

[fantastic-nonsense]

Do you have any post about didio's hatred of legacy characters? I forget if that was an actual stated thing or if it was just assumed. I vaugely recall him hating Dick Grayson specifically.

I don't have any posts, but here's the shorter version of a better-sourced post I might make about it some day:

Dan Didio notoriously disdains legacy characters, particularly ones which have eclipsed their earlier gen mentor figures in popularity (see: Wally West). He USUALLY will not say this outright in interviews; you have to read between the lines between what he's saying and not saying. But the sentiment is obvious for anyone who does read between those lines, and people around him have talked about his general dislike of legacies on multiple occasions.

The long-and-short of it is that he feels that legacies, particularly ones who were allowed to grow up and become their own independent heroes like the Fab 5, make the "originals" look old and outdated. He doesn't like that legacies inherently age older heroes and make them more mature, and he doesn't like that the story of a legacy is inherently about growing up and either accepting or rejecting what your mentor has taught you. A fully grown, independent, and successful Nightwing makes Batman look old, which he can't stand. Likewise, a Wally West who has taken Barry's place as Flash and eclipsed him in pop culture popularity makes Barry irrelevant in his mind.

He also has very weird and frankly wrong conceptual issues with legacies taking over their mentor's mantles; he thinks it makes them "too similar" to their mentors and unable to stand on their own as characters (this is his core issue with Wally, for some reason). He has a special dislike of Dick Grayson and is notorious for wanting him killed off in Infinite Crisis, which writers like Mark Waid and Geoff Johns have talked about before and Didio himself has commented on:

His dislike of Dick in particular exists for a lot of reasons, but there are two main issues that pop up again and again during interviews: he thinks Nightwing ages Batman too much (which he hates)...and he thinks a "happy Batman is the end of Batman."

Dick tends to be the focus of his ire because he was the first legacy hero, the first of Bruce's children, and has been the second most successful breakout legacy character at DC Comics (with the first being Wally), but there's a part of me that thinks he hates the concept of the Batfamily more than he dislikes any singular legacy Bat hero given his various editorial edicts (not letting Batcat get married, not letting Kate and Maggie get married, erasing most of the Batfam during the New 52, ordering Lobdell to write the Ric arc, etc). He doesn't think heroes should have happy personal lives (Batman least of all) and to Didio, having grown and successful children who have succeeded beyond Bruce's wildest dreams counts.

Ultimately, he's a 62-year-old fanboy who does not want to move beyond the Silver Age. He wants his heroes and favorite teams to remain just as they were in the 70s, when he was a kid. He doesnt like characters to mature and grow as adults, he wants teen characters to stay teenagers forever, and he wants his heroes to have sucky personal lives and ruined relationships because he thinks it makes them more relatable. Happy hero families with successful legacy characters undermines those desires. I'm glad he's no longer in charge of DC Comics.

#dan didio #anti dan didio #dc fanwank #asks #dc comics #batman #dick grayson #nightwing #wally west #I have......a LOT to say about Didio that I am very consciously and pointedly not saying in this ask #(namely: BARRY ISN'T EVEN THE ORIGINAL FLASH HE'S A LEGACY TOO...BUT NOOOO WE CAN'T MENTION JAY GARRICK IN THIS HOUSE)

[theflashzoom]

I am so glad that Dan Didio isn't working at Marvel Comics. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT FEEL LIKE IF HE TAKES OVER?

#dan didio #dc comics #marvel comics #What a nightmare #young avengers #champions marvel #new mutants #young x-men #dc titans #dc memes #marvel memes #anti dan didio #anti legacy

[heroesriseandfall]

It could’ve been worse?

Image description: A screenshot of Mia Dearden’s New Earth wiki page on dc.fandom.com, where is says, “DC Editorial intended for Mia to die alongside Lian Harper in "Cry For Justice", but writer James Robinson fought the choice, and kept her alive.” End ID

#if they’d killed off mia on top of lian 🔪🔪🔪 #writers who kept favorite characters alive thank u seriously #every new fact I learn is bad ❤️ #mia dearden #anti dan didio #heroesriseandfall #justice league: cry for justice

[meara-eldestofthemall]

Hello Bat-gran 👋.

What were the decisions, good and bad, made about writing Tim and Damian (and by extension others) that led us to having 2 Robins?

Is this a problem textually, or a problem with DC as a company?

Thank you for the great ask. What an excellent way to start 2024!

The blame for the two Robins can be laid firmly at the gnarly, ugly feet of DC. The Editorial Staff has a long, disturbing history of making staggeringly bad character decisions. Worse yet they seem to hire writers who make even worse storyline decisions. The Robins dilemma is a perfect example. Let me explain.

When Damian was first introduced he was supposed to end up as a villain. That’s why he was so darn unlikable at first. The writers wanted us to hate him and boy did they make it easy. Then DC did an abrupt about-face and decided to make Damian Robin. They shoved Tim Drake out of the cape into the Red Robin suit to make room for the new kid in a manner fans still dislike today. It did neither Tim or Damian any favors but only seemed to cement the divide among Robin fans.

Half of the fans loved Damian. He was like a miniature Wolverine; violent, raw and disrespectful in a way Robin had never been before. It was a completely new take on the character. The other half of fandom loathed him as Robin and really, really wanted Tim Drake to remain in the role. Tim was the everyman, the Peter Parker of the DC universe. He’d taken the role to new heights and people wanted him to stay. 

So DC did what they do best - the wrong thing. 

After the not-nearly-fast-enough death of the New-52, the Rebirth universe featured Damian as Robin and Tim as Red Robin but in his old Robin suit with an RR shuriken stuck on it. See! Tim isn’t Robin, he’s Red Robin!

DC changed Tim back to just Robin (and made him 16 again) right around the time Damian quit the role. The original storyline was to have Damian become an anti-hero if not a full blown villain. That ground work was laid during Damian’s Teen Titan run where he had the illicit prison. Tim was given a sharp update of the Robin suit (we will not talk about the whole “Drake” debacle) and was working with Bruce again. 

Then DC Bloodbath of 2020 happened and Dan Didio plus a lot of other employees were fired. The massive shake up Dido wanted to introduce (5G which would have seen most of the legacy characters sidelined) was gone as well.

DC had changed direction. Again.

Damian was back in as Robin but with a new costume. Tim was still Robin and came out as Bi. Unfortunately this only compounded all the old problems. 

While an excellent character, Damian simply does not work well as Robin with anyone but Dick Grayson as Batman. He and Bruce are forever at each other’s throats and, quite frankly, his character development is hobbled by being Robin. 

Tim not only works extremely well as Robin to Bruce’s Batman but darn well all by himself. He’s far too independent to be considered the traditional sidekick. But since he came out as Bi DC can’t move him out of the Robin mantle without facing potential backlash due to the message that move would send (Robin is too important to be “sullied” by having a queer person wearing the cape). 

DC’s unwillingness to plan for the long term, and stick to those plans, is how and why there are currently two Robins. DC’s inability to learn from past mistakes is why we’re going to have two Robins for the foreseeable future. Could I be wrong? Gosh, I hope so but after more than 50 years of following Batman and crew, I highly doubt it. 

[popculturebuffet]

Valentine's Superhero Wedding Review Poll III

Hello all you happy people. For the past two years to celebrate the lovelist day of the year with my love of men, women and that beautifulu techiclor rainbow inbetween in costume who punch what good by letting my fine patrons pick out 3 superhero weddings, myself pick one, and you fine folks pick one of these for me to review. What says love more than some asshole in a costume crashing your wedding no?

So for your voting pleasure, here are this years nominees and the poll to pick your faviorite is below. Voting will close in a week. If it's a tie it's sudden death baby and if that ties.. well i'll just hav eto do both won't I. So vote whenever, vote soon, and vote with your heart, here are your nominees!

Lex Luthor and Adora of Planet Lexor (Action Comics 318-319)

Lex's pre crisis marriage has him doing the usual lex luthor things: escape prison, go to a planet he once fooled into thinking he's a great hero and Superman a villian.. then invite superman after the wedding to fake his own death and blame Supes for it.

Emma Frost and Tony Stark (Invincible Iron Man #10) Ones a life long playboy whose lasting relationships end in tears, betryal or the next set of writers wanting him to screw around again. The other's a life long career woman whose fine to flirt but mostly spends her time saving humanity and whose longest relationship was with a man she stole from his wife via very sketchy therapy practices. Naturally marriage is less out of love and more as a smokescreen to screw over a massive anti mutant biggot who used tony's tech to create a waking nightmare for mutant kind, but damn if it won't be fun anyway.

Luke Cage and Jessica Jones (New Avengers Annual #1) A relationship began in casual hookups and deep seated trauma, became one of marvel's most lasting and wholesome marriage and Hero for Hire Luke Cage and PI for hire Jessica Jones became the couple with the least time for your nonsense but the cutest baby. Naturally for their courtship their wedding involves a proposal luke announces to hold her to saying yes, a fight with an old foe turned into a scary monster/ super creep, and takes place just before the super hero community cracked in half.

Wally West and Linda Park (The Flash 132 and 159)

He was a fuck boy, she was a girl who didn't take his shit. Could they make it any more obvious. As wally west grew from irresponsible young ass to true hero worthy of the mantle flash he found his rock in reporter Linda Park, someone on his level willing to both call him out when he stupid, and support him when he's beating himself up too hard. Naturally given their marriage would be in trouble for the 2010's thanks to Dan DiDio's personal mission to make Wally West Fans suffer, their wedding ends in a magician making Linda disappear from everyone's memories, with the two finallyg etting married after antics with angsty future selves, Linda being Impulse's imaginary friend, and a picnic wedding to give us a happy end to Mark Waid's long and storied run and a happy start to one of the best marriages in comics

#superman #lex luthor #iron man #emma frost #wally west #linda park #luke cage #jessica jones #weddings #valentine's day #comics #marvel #dc

[goodluckdetective]

A fic idea I pitched a few days ago that I’m considering writing:

So during Infinite Crisis, Dan “hates fun” Didio tried to kill off Dick and was thwarted at the last minute, leading to Kon dying instead. This was a smart move in my opinion as I cannot picture a functional Bruce Wayne in that situation (Jason is back but a crime lord and possibly dead again, he resisted the urge to write the world off because his son is good in this universe only for that son to die, ect, ect) that would be written well. But it did get me considering what would have happened otherwise, if Dick really did die.

First off, I think Bruce would be gone. He’s missing and no one knows if he either he worked himself into an early grave or he just up and vanished. Two of his sons are dead, Batgirl is missing, two Robins died in a month (Dick and Steph) and I think he’s just gonna be too broken to get back up this time, given the surrounding circumstances. Tim obviously is still around but he’s also having a bad time and probably too busy either looking for Bruce or going a little off the rails to be holding down Gotham. Barbara would be a mess cus her and Dick were engaged, Steph has faked her death. It’s a bad situation, the bats would be pretty much in ruins.

Enter Cass, who comes back because she believes in the Bat and someone should do it. Alfred is against the entire idea: he will let Cass stay at the manor and support her non vigilante life and life threatening injuries but otherwise he’s out, he can’t do coms. And so we do essentially a redux of Batman’s first year, except this time, there was a Batman before where everything broke down.

My take on it would be this idea of legacy and how legacy is both a gift and a curse. Cass has Batman’s reputation to work off of, but also his fall lingering behind her, the father figure she once had like the memory of Bruce’s parents was to him. She’s doing her best but also overwhelmed: Gotham is a big city and she is one person inheriting rogues. There is this question of the narrative that is present in a lot of early Bruce stories but slightly to the left; instead of asking if Batman is a good idea in the first place, it’s asking if keeping Batman going is worth it despite the ruin it left.

And like Bruce, she does gain allies as the arc goes and enemies. Barbara comes back at coms at some point. Tim is convinced to take to the fight. Jason serves as an anti-hero who maybe turns into an eventually ally. Steph returns to take up Batgirl. Damian shows up to try to take his father’s mantle and Cass finds herself throwing hands with a 10 year old. Duke is there because I think he’s neat.

And maybe down the line, Dick comes back to life and we play with how much stuff changed.

#iz rambles #dc comics #cassandra cain

[brithombar]

wally west writers trying to bring back the donna troy / groomer baby i need dan didio & his anti titans grindset back

#hate nostalgia addled fans poisoning comics w concepts that should stay dead

[danieladkinsblog]

Big Bang, Multiversity, and the futility of Multiversal Classification

It seems like every few years, there’s a new *thing* that finds itself at the forefront of pop culture. And in 2022, the word you couldn’t escape from was “multiverse.” Marvel Studios’ release of Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness led them to officially christening their next saga as “the Multiverse Saga”. The genre-bending indie film Everything Everywhere All At Once became a critical and commercial hit. Dungeons & Dragons released their new Monsters of the Multiverse bestiary. And Warner Bros. tried to get that sweet, sweet Super Smash Bros. money by making a video game where Bugs Bunny and Jon Snow can fight Steven Universe and the Gremlins.

And in the midst of all of this, DC Comics released yet another fucking event comic about a multiversal Crisis. 

To say that the recently-concluded Dark Crisis event (later rebranded to Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths in a move that makes my eyes roll into the back of my head) was underwhelming is generous. Aside from some pretty solid one-shots reimagining various members of the Justice League, the story has been both bloated in content and completely empty of substance. In many ways, it’s a microcosm of the many issues that have been plaguing DC Comics for several years now. And perhaps the best representation of that is this week’s tie-in release: Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1, written by Mark Waid and drawn by Dan Jurgens.

Waid and Jurgens are, of course, longtime creators for DC, with tenures at the company stretching back nearly 40 years, working on some of the defining stories for the biggest superheroes in the world. And while Waid did briefly leave the company due to disagreements with editor/publisher Dan DiDio, he was quick to return following DiDio’s ousting. And I think it’s notable to point out that the series that marked his full return - Batman/Superman: World’s Finest - is a retro-throwback that focuses on the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight in an earlier phase of their career, with Dick Grayson still serving as Robin with the Teen Titans and an overall aesthetic and tone homaging the Silver Age. Don’t get me wrong, the book is excellent, and probably my favorite thing DC is publishing right now. And the fact that it has Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain (aka, the best art team working in mainstream comics right now) doesn’t hurt either. 

It’s essential to keep this in mind when looking at Big Bang. The issue’s story (a word I use very loosely) concerns Barry Allen/The Flash and Wallace West/Kid Flash traveling through the multiverse looking for the Anti-Monitor. As they run (literally) through the multiverse, Barry narrates that he’s been cataloging the various Earths and reflects on their differences. This is accompanied by panels depicting events occurring on each Earth and helpful caption boxes establishing each Earth we see. And that’s the real reason this comic exists. This isn’t a story. It’s a checklist. 

Now don’t get me wrong, it’s a nifty checklist. But that’s all it is. Waid even admitted in an interview with Gamesradar that this was part of an overall edict at DC to be more organized with the multiverse, eschewing the more laissez-faire approach of recent years. 

In looking at this, I can’t help but compare it to the last time there was an alternate Earth checklist tie-in to a big multiversal story: The Multiversity Guidebook by Grant Morrison, with art by a murderer's row of collaborators. Like Big Bang, it uses a frame story as an excuse to chart the then-nascent 52 Earths of the DC Multiverse, which had been reintroduced thanks to 52, touched on briefly in Countdown and Final Crisis, and been shaken up once more in the wake of the New 52 reboot. However, rather than being a simple tour through different realities, it uses its descriptor of “Guidebook” to actually delve into the multiverse on a level that hadn’t been explored before, including a map outlining the 52 worlds, short descriptions of each world, some worlds left blank, and small glimpses into not just the worlds themselves, but the people and stories that populate them. It’s crucial to note the ways that Morrison et al are sure to leave lots of openings for other creators to fill in the sandbox and create new worlds, or expand the stories of characters Morrison only briefly outlines. But the most significant difference between Morrison’s approach vs Waid’s? 

One word: innovation. 

Knowing the multiverse was going to be limited to a finite number of Earths, Morrison was keen to not simply recreate worlds from DC’s past, but make sure that each Earth had a distinct vibe and potential for making new things. And even worlds that paid homage to those of the past (Earth 4, Earth 5, Earth 10) were given overhauls to better carve out their place as unique settings in this burgeoning cosmology. Morrison even left several worlds listed as “undiscovered” so that future creators could add their own takes to the multiverse. (In the middle of writing this, I received my copy of the Absolute Multiversity, which also includes even more notes that Grant had for the Guidebook and they absolutely deserve a more in-depth piece at some point. Suffice it to say, it makes the way certain later creators approached this material even more disappointing.)

Waid’s approach, meanwhile, doesn’t really create anything new. Those undiscovered worlds? Filled in with a bunch of Elseworld miniseries that DC released in the past few years. The Earths that go beyond the 52 are the similarly populated with recent additions to DC’s ever-growing catalogue of intellectual property. And if they’re not for recent releases, then they’re references to old Silver Age comics taking their designations from decade-old guidebooks. 

There are no attempts to innovate or elevate or do anything interesting at all, despite the fact that an infinite multiverse should be a gateway to endless possibilities. It’s just reduced to a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper so that nerds - represented on-page by the pre-eminent nerd of the DCU himself, Barry Allen - can check them off on a spreadsheet or a wiki page.

#dc comics #dark crisis #multiversity #mark waid #grant morrison #dan jurgens

[juniaships]

Hi sry to bother you but could you pls tell me why Dinah and Ollie are considered destined and a meant to be couple? I liked them in the animation Justice League but reading the comics ... they always break up, divorce or worse stuff happens. My mind kept screaming maybe move on and that Dinah deserves better. Hope it's okay to ask this but why do you like them?

Well not exactly destined but see Dinah and Ollie always has great chemistry together when the writing was really good (see: Justice League Unlimited) but DC always be putting drama in their relationship to the point where it gets OLD and AGGRAVATING. Especially when Dan Diddlesticks was running the place he had this weird ban on marriage and healthy positive relationships (broke up Superman and Lois, Starfire and Dick, killed off Lian Harper and Conner Kent, among other stupid decisions). Dinah and Ollie were just another couple of DC's victims of this destruction of happiness. Cuz apparently superheroes cannot have healthy relationships or anything positive going on in their civilian lives 🙄

That's why in the comics there's always stupid relationship drama in Dinah and Ollie they're scared of having them act normal for once 😔

#anti dan didio #dc comics #green arrow #black canary #dinah x ollie #ollie x dinah #green arrow x black canary #shipping #actiontoongorlz

[sporkberries]

Dan Didio becoming an “anti-woke” comicsgate grifter lol. So fucking typical

#i hate this man so much #spork says stuff

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

When fan uproar (and Grant Morrison) returned Stephanie Brown's Robin memorial to the Bat Cave

Kick ass, take names, love purple and hate Dan Didio.

Batman #673, Batman #677

#stephanie brown #robin #batman and robin #the spoiler #batgirl #batcave #grant morrison #anti dan didio #batfam #sexism in comics

[littlemissonewhoisall]

He’s literally following the EXACT same script! BEAT BY BEAT. This is literally the exact thing he did with Cass. 

1. Order storyline where beloved legacy hero is turned into a villain in a completely OOC moment written by someone who obviously has no knowledge of the character beyond a 5-minute google search. 

2. After everyone gets mad, announce a miniseries written by the worst possible author, promising to fix things but in reality hoping it will tank so you can write the character off as a failure. 

3. Refuse to let other, actually good writers use the character.

4. Claim that you have “big plans” for the character only to NEVER follow through! 

This is legit the same exact playbook! 

#Wally West #cassandra cain #anti didio #anti dan didio #the flash

[gritsandbrits]

DAN DIDIO IS OVER PARTY 2020!!!!!

After ruining so many of our beloved characters, Dan Diddlesticks have finally got kicked out of DC!!!

#ANTI DAN DIDIO #DANDIDIOISOVERPARTY #dc comics