Didio went on to explain that the DCU is a generational story, and while time does progress, if you try to tell stories set in the past, it pushes the three major heroes up in the timeline, putting more time in between the first superheroes of the DCU and the modern day trinity of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Telling stories that do that, Didio said, is something he’s very cautious about.
Excuse me, what? A generational story? In the sense that no one ever dies and the characters, particularly the Silver Age characters, stick around forever? TILL THE END OF TIME?
Look, Dan DiDio, wherever you are . . . Have you noticed how James Bond never ages, ever? Have you noticed how James Bond fans don't run around screaming "ZOMG! How can he still be the same age as he was in the 60s???" Yeah, they don't CARE as long as the latest movie has scantily clad women and spies and lots of 'splosions.
And guess what else, Dan DiDio? In an amazingly similar way, it doesn't MATTER how long Batman has been 30, or 35, or whatever arbitrary number he is today. Here's a hint: all the fanboys who are obsessed enough to figure out that if the JSA are in a WWII story and Black Canary I has a daughter X years later, and Black Canary II is X years old, that makes Superman X years older than he looks in Superman #2343? If they are spending that much time figuring it out, they are fans who WILL BUY THE BOOK ANYWAY!
Anyway. *sigh*
I'm all for multiple universes, as long as there's a Superbuddies or JLI dedicated one . . . *innocent smile*
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Date: 2005-06-08 01:13 am (UTC)Excuse me, what? A generational story? In the sense that no one ever dies and the characters, particularly the Silver Age characters, stick around forever? TILL THE END OF TIME?
Look, Dan DiDio, wherever you are . . . Have you noticed how James Bond never ages, ever? Have you noticed how James Bond fans don't run around screaming "ZOMG! How can he still be the same age as he was in the 60s???" Yeah, they don't CARE as long as the latest movie has scantily clad women and spies and lots of 'splosions.
And guess what else, Dan DiDio? In an amazingly similar way, it doesn't MATTER how long Batman has been 30, or 35, or whatever arbitrary number he is today. Here's a hint: all the fanboys who are obsessed enough to figure out that if the JSA are in a WWII story and Black Canary I has a daughter X years later, and Black Canary II is X years old, that makes Superman X years older than he looks in Superman #2343? If they are spending that much time figuring it out, they are fans who WILL BUY THE BOOK ANYWAY!
Anyway. *sigh*
I'm all for multiple universes, as long as there's a Superbuddies or JLI dedicated one . . . *innocent smile*