He just totally misses the mark
Dan DiDio was interviewed by a website called Zona Negativa, and in it, the following Q&A was given:
When will they ever learn?
Update: In an earlier interview surrounding Countdown on the ultra-establishment Newsarama, Dan DiDio continued to bloop when he mentioned Identity Crisis:
There's more misleading and even fairly insulting stuff inside, including the break up of the Trinity, that being Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman. Of course, this was all obviously done as an excuse to break them up just for the sake of non-unification, which isn't a good thing for the most part.
Reading this, I came away with zero faith in DiDio.
ZN.- Why don’t characters like Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, Tim Hunter and others participate in IC? Do they live within DCU although they are published by Vertigo? “American Gothic” was the best first Crisis’ “spin-off”. Will IC have consequences for Constantine and the rest of Vertigo characters that are DCU origin?Sorry, but you know that your argument cannot hold up if you're going to stuff mature themes into titles like Identity Crisis, and maybe even Green Arrow #57, in a ludicrous, sensationalized manner, right?
DD.- Simply put, once those characters moved completely to Vertigo, and were printed under a mature label, we could not, as responsible publishers, cross them over into unlabeled series.
When will they ever learn?
Update: In an earlier interview surrounding Countdown on the ultra-establishment Newsarama, Dan DiDio continued to bloop when he mentioned Identity Crisis:
If you look at Identity Crisis as one of our starting points, that helped reset he tonality of the DC Universe, and gave it an attitude and a personality. What we’re doing with Countdown is setting the direction, and further defining the tone, and giving a backdrop against which all of the characters will exist and survive, and really give a feel that this is a world picture, and this is a comprehensive universe. This is a place where everybody exists together as one.I am falling off the couch laughing already. All that mini did after all was to make virtually all the heroes look bad and un-heroic, and as for any attitude, would that be referring to the grittiness people like him want to force en masse upon their universe? Classic.
There's more misleading and even fairly insulting stuff inside, including the break up of the Trinity, that being Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman. Of course, this was all obviously done as an excuse to break them up just for the sake of non-unification, which isn't a good thing for the most part.
Reading this, I came away with zero faith in DiDio.
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