I wrote a scene set at their gravesite that I recently had to quickly rewrite into something not very good.
I wrote a scene set at their gravesite that I recently had to quickly rewrite into something not very good.
Ouch. So there is some truth to what Dixon said about Didio changing his mind all the time.

I wrote a scene set at their gravesite that I recently had to quickly rewrite into something not very good.
"Shaken by their experience with near death, Hawkman and Hawkgirl visit their local family law practitioner to learn the six things everyone needs to know about writing their Living Will!"
"Given their unique circumstances, the Hawks buy a crypt with a revolving door."
If it involves HAwkgirl waking u and finding Hawkman in the shower Patrick Duffy-style, it's all good.
Reading your post after Travis's was kind of hilarious. For a second I was wondering what they'd call the trade.
Do you actually enjoy writing JLA? It just seems to be constant editorial rewrites and bad art.
Heh. Reminds me of that timeless line from the end of the prologue to the first John Carter book: "He directed that he be laid in a tomb with an open casket and a door mechanism that could be opened ONLY FROM THE INSIDE."
writer/photographer
It's still DC's best-selling non-Morrison, non-crossover book.
so, apparently most of the contradictions in FC are attributed to time distortions which i'm sure will at some point be attributed to superboy prime punching the walls of time.
QUESTION: At the end of Final Crisis, there is a panel with Arthur Curry, but we've also heard that Arthur Curry will be in Blackest Night. Are they the same Arthur Curry, and if so, how?
DD - They are not the same ones. One thing that Grant Morrison wanted to do was, with a big event story featuring the entire universe, some characters would be conspicuous by their absence. So the Arthur Curry used in Final Crisis is simply an alternate universe Arthur Curry who came over to help out. But the bigger story to tell is in Blackest Night. The panel in Final Crisis was simply an Easter Egg put in for the fans, but the bigger story is yet to come.
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You know, sometimes is really hard to take these people seriously at all.
I've said this before, probably, but reading DiDio brings to mind that Big Train sketch where George Martin is taken hostage by the Iranians and fails to notice.
The funny thing is that, if Morrison was so dead set on using Aquaman, he could have simply used Superman Beyond to set up the cameo in the finale via having alternate universe Aquaman showing up to help Superman out over there. Or pressured Geoff into removing Aquaman from "The Blackest Night"/force Geoff to have to bring Barry back in the pages of Flash: Rebirth instead of FC, and make Aquaman's return the cornerstone of Final Crisis instead of Barry's return.
But...everyone knew Barry was dead. It's been a requirement for all DC comics to mention the fact every few issues since Crisis. I didn't know Aquaman was dead. Did anyone else know?
Last time I saw Aquaman he had an octopuss head, and some new kid who was coincidentally also named Arthur Curry and had gils was calling himself Aquaman.
Shortly after that, Aquasquid was killed, and Gillboy discovered he was only alive because he had a piece of Aquaman's soul.
You're making this up, aren't you? Like, this is some kind of competition between you an Manzi to come up with the most shit idea, right? Right?
I liked that they resolved Sub Diego the best unmentioned geographical change in the DCU.
Nothing beats zombie Aquaman. Or was it Aquazombie? (For best idea, not worst.)
I'd do a better job than that...
Nopes. Kurt's Aquaman series, post Infinite Crisis. A new Aquaman showed up, and was being mentored by a squid-headed guy who was strongly intimated to be the real Aquaman. Real Aquaman's transformation into Squid guy was eventually chronicled in the WWIII mini-series. at the end of 52.
It was actually a good read, with beautiful Shawn McManus art. I only stopped reading it 4 or 5 issues in because I was culling a lot of stuff at the time...
Hmm...breathes water, telepathic...yeah, sounds like Cthulhu.
I am to Zombie Aquaman as Gillen is to Dazzler.
MY TIME WILL COME
Sooner rather than later, by the sounds of things (ie BLACKEST NIGHT)