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(Or “I ran out of “D”s.)

I’ve complained numerous times about what I call “DiDio’s Darker DC”, because whatever issues I had with DC in the 1990s were to be blamed on the 1990s, while Dan DiDio’s time as editor-in-chief of DC Comics was when the de-heroing of the DC heroes really began. From trashing Dick Grayson and Wally West to wiping Clark and Lois’s marriage as well as Black Canary and Green Arrow’s, to the unnecessary deaths of Ted Kord and evilized Max Lord, the ruining of Batman and Wonder Woman’s reputation, a new Crisis every year, the total reboot into The New 52 after creating events like Identity Crisis and Countdown, and returning Hal Jordan and Barry Allen because he hates legacy characters (if that makes sense to you, then you’re less up on DC Comics history than Dan), there are only some of the sins DiDio has either created himself or brought in others who committed the sins under his watch and approval.

It’s been four years since Dan DiDio left DC Entertainment and now he’s working with Frank Miller to start their own publisher. Whatever keeps him off of ruining my favorite properties is fine with me. Remember, he’s also the one who pushed Transformers into Beast Machines ignoring the previous show with a darker tone, and that was just the beginning for old Danny boy. (You want to know if someone is wrong for geek media? Put him on Transformers. See also Michael Bay and Alex Kurtzman, who I’m convinced had little to do with Transformers Prime just by looking at what he co-wrote for Bay and what he’s done to Star Trek with Secret Hideout.) You’d think with Jim Lee in charge there’s be a new direction at DC Comics. While some critics maintain Lee does almost nothing his role as sole publisher, but if you ignore the activists getting in there’s so much wrong with the current DC universe that is still to be blamed on things DiDio started. It’s almost like DiDio hasn’t really left. Let me show you what I mean.

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