Dan Didio truly amazes me.
How he can say and do the things he does and still keep his job is an acrobatic act truly worthy of the Flying Wallandas.
Last weekend, at the Fan Expo in Canada, Didio talked about several interesting things including the fact that the reboots of old characters (like Blue Beetle) hadn't really caught on. No surprise there that readers didn't embrace unimaginative rehashes of old concepts.
What caught my eye was a report where Didio talked about the return of Barry Allen to the DCU. In a talk with Comic Book Resources, Didio says how he "loves that Barry Allen is back" and that he "...was a big Barry Allen fan from Day One.”
That's interesting to me because, for years now, Didio has always been the one to say that Barry wasn't coming back, no way, no how. As recently as September 2007 at Baltimore Comic-Con, Didio said, "No Barry Allen plans, he's not coming back. It's the first time I can say that without screwing it up."
So either there were no plans at that time or Didio was simply b.s.ing. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that there were no plans for Barry's return then... but, in the words of my hero, Lewis Black, "I have doubts."
In a 6/9/08 interview with Newsarama, Grant Morrison had this to say about his blockbuster DC series, FINAL CRISIS:
"GM: Well, the way it worked out was that I started writing Final Crisis #1 in early 2006, around the same time as the 52 series was starting to come out, so Final Crisis was more a continuation of plot threads from Seven Soldiers and 52 than anything else. Final Crisis was partly-written and broken down into rough issue-by-issue plots before Countdown was even conceived, let alone written. And J.G. was already working on designs and early layouts by the time Countdown started. There wasn’t really much opportunity, or desire, to modify our content at that stage."
Now, I'm not a math professor or anything. I'm just some dumb nerd that reads comics but, unless I'm mistaken, 2006 was BEFORE 2007! That means that FINAL CRISIS was well under way when Didio said there were no plans to bring Barry back. But bringing Barry back is a MAJOR factor of the plot of FC. So, did no one TELL Didio? Was he left out of the loop so he could have plausible deniability in 2007? Did Morrison have WMD and, if so, when did Didio find out and how much did he know when he found out? What did he know and did he know what he knew when he knew it?
No wonder I have a headache.
Didio is quickly becoming the George W. Bush of comics which means you can't trust a word he says. Unless he "crosses his heart and swears to die" first. Or pinky-swears. That might work.
2 comments:
Sam, Sam, Sam. You're making me cry, because you put me in the horrible place of -defending- Dan DiDio... *sigh*
Yes, he lied. Of course he lied. He had to. For the reason of not spoiling what may be and could be the only good thing to come out of Final Crisis.
Of course I would have rather had him just say nothing, but that's another story.
Jeez, you made me defend DiDio... what's next? Defending Christian Bale for ruining Batman? ;-)
But this isn't politics where you EXPECT everyone to lie to you. This is COMICS which should be held to a higher standard! lol
Seriously, Didio makes himself look like an idiot here. He could easily have just said, "no comment" or "I can't say if he's returning but there will be something big happening about this next year" and leave it at that.
To lie so blatantly means that, like a politician, we can't believe a WORD he says about anything.
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