So here I am, reading this week's installment of Lying in the Gutter, which is Rich Johnston's weekly comic-based rumour site, when I come across the following nugget:
"[A source] tells me that the last issue of Final Crisis is further delayed as it is suffering from serious rewrites. It appears that DC Executive Editor Dan DiDio was unhappy with the way the story concluded and the implications for the DC Universe for a while and had ordered changes from a, naturally, rather unhappy Grant Morrison. Considering this is the way he wrote the pitch for the book.
As a result, creative teams working on a number of spinoff and affected books have also had to stop work while the Final Crisis ending is reworked.
Expect more lateness, more annoyance and less likelihood of Grant Morrison doing DCU work in the near future."
Now that's just great! DiDio's had the script in hand for months, if not a year, and now he decides that he doesn't like how it ends! This, in addition to the fact that he set up Countdown (a debacle all on its own) to lead into Final Crisis but managed to completely undermine Morrison's work and in the process screw up the continuity between the two series. But wait, there's more...
"Morrison is not the only person having difficulties with DiDio's direction. I understand that James Robinson and Dan had a stand up argument that led to Robinson quitting the Superman books and the DCU in general."
Excuse me?! DC finally gets Starman creator Robinson back into the fold, has him slated to start a second Justice League title in addition to writing Superman, and now DiDio has driven him away? How much more damage is this one individual going to be allowed to do?
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