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I'm not sure if this is exactly the right place for it, but I didn't really want to dig up the buried JLA thread (if there even is one) and since it's more about the craft and the company than that book specifically, I figured this would work.

Dwayne McDuffie candidly discusses JLA (link provided by LitG)

It's hard not to respect the guy after seeing how cool and practical he is talking about all the editorial changes he's suffered through. Dude's got mad integrity. It's also a pretty fascinating look at how the whole process works for a tent pole book like that. It's just a shame DC shuffles him around like they do. The ideas he's talking about sound like a pretty delicious blend of Giffen and Morrison era Justice League.
 
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JLA always seemed like a mediocre mess to me and I guess the constant editorial interruption explains that. Poor McDuffie. :(
 
ProjectX2 said:
JLA always seemed like a mediocre mess to me and I guess the constant editorial interruption explains that. Poor McDuffie. :(
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It's a shame, because he seems to have a pretty interesting long game set up.... Well, three or four interesting long games that are continuously juggled and interrupted by editorial.

On the happier side of things, he obliquely references a couple of dream projects coming down the pipeline.
 
More information about Morrison's Multiversity. "Bigger than Final Crisis." :shock:

He also mentioned that the Shazam issue will be like a Pixar movie. This, along with the comparison that it's like All Star Superman, makes me think Quitely will be drawing this one... which means this could potentially be the greatest issue ever made.
 
ProjectX2 said:
More information about Morrison's Multiversity. "Bigger than Final Crisis." :shock:

He also mentioned that the Shazam issue will be like a Pixar movie. This, along with the comparison that it's like All Star Superman, makes me think Quitely will be drawing this one... which means this could potentially be the greatest issue ever made.
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Your article eventually led me to this:

Wiki Article: Earth Prime said:
In Flash #228 (July/Aug 1974), Earth Prime's Cary Bates travels to Earth-One, where he discovers that the stories he writes are not only based on events on Earth-One, but can actually influence these events as well. This power turns for the worse in Justice League of America #123 (October 1975), when Bates is accidentally transported to Earth-Two. The interdimensional trip temporarily turns Bates into a supervillain, and he quickly kills the Justice Society of America. Luckily fellow DC writer Elliot S! Maggin, with the help of the Justice League and the Spectre, is able to restore matters on both Earths (in Justice League of America #124 (November, 1975).
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What?

The seventies were insane.
 
How does Geoff Johns manage to write so many damn titles at the same time while still producing such acclaimed work?
 
Langsta said:
How does Geoff Johns manage to write so many damn titles at the same time while still producing such acclaimed work?
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It's called talent. For some reasy DC actually uses this method in hiring its writers. They'll never get by if they keep this up.
 
Langsta said:
How does Geoff Johns manage to write so many damn titles at the same time while still producing such acclaimed work?
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Because he shares his studio with Allan Heinberg and Jeph Loeb - he has to have so much quality output to make up for their lack of. :D
 
Sorry if already talked about
Kingdom Come's Magog Pulls New Series
DC reveals new ongoing series for infamous villain.
by Richard George

US, May 28, 2009 - Today DC's Source blog confirmed and expanded upon a teaser image that appeared in the back of DC Universe titles this week. The publisher is giving the Kingdom Come villain Magog his own series. The series launches this September
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More info here http://uk.comics.ign.com/articles/987/987675p1.html
 
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ProjectX2 said:
James Robinson and Mark Bagley are the new creative team on Justice League of America.

I'll read that. I'm not a fan of Bagley but he's dependable and I like Robinson so I'll check it out. I'm glad they've got some top talent on this book.

Also glad that Robinson will get to continue on from his JL mini.

DC are doing great at the moment. They keep putting out comics I want to read.
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I love Robinson, but I feel like the whole situation between DC and McDuffie was pretty ****ty.
 
Zombipanda said:
I love Robinson, but I feel like the whole situation between DC and McDuffie was pretty ****ty.
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True but McDuffie's run was crapola. I feel like JLA hasn't been great since Morrison was on it which is a shame. I mean the stories that came right after Morrison's were good but that was mostly based off of ideas sparked by Morrison's run. Meltzer wasn't bad but his issues were way too nostalgic for me. McDuffie's graet on the animated series but I feel that he did a mediocre job with the actual characters. I feel Robinson will be great for this and am excited for his roster.
 
bluebeast said:
True but McDuffie's run was crapola. I feel like JLA hasn't been great since Morrison was on it which is a shame. I mean the stories that came right after Morrison's were good but that was mostly based off of ideas sparked by Morrison's run. Meltzer wasn't bad but his issues were way too nostalgic for me. McDuffie's graet on the animated series but I feel that he did a mediocre job with the actual characters. I feel Robinson will be great for this and am excited for his roster.
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I don't have the link to it (and it's probably deleted by now) but McDuffie had a thread where he was answering questions about the JLA. He was gracious and patient of his treatment in the thread, but it was clear how regularly editorial mandate would force him to shift gears and characters midway through plots. I don't think any writer could have told good stories under that kind of stress and meddling, and McDuffie in particular is a writer who's strength seems to lie in longer term plot development. Seriously, the amount of editorial changes McDuffie contended with was ****ing Biblical. Imagine trying to write a monthly book, and every three months the company who hired you upends the status quo that they had already approved for the book.

It's just extra funny because one of the primary editorial concerns that forced him to regularly stop-and-go plots were precipitated on DC's fickle and repeated attempts to fit James Robinson's JL into the schedule.

Not that I'm holding it against Robinson. I'm sure his story will be great. I've been excited about it since they first announced it as an ongoing, and now I guess we get to have our cake and eat it too. We get the prestige-style, beautifully painted miniseries, followed by the ongoing we were originally promised. But sadly, McDuffie doesn't seem to be anywhere on DC's schedule.

Anyway, here's hoping James Robinson doesn't have to face those same ****-blocking challenges during his run.
 
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Was Mauro Cascioli the artist on Trials of Shazam?

I like his work. I'd like to see him do more stuff. And am I right that he's carrying on doing covers for the series once it kicks off?
 
Brian Azzarello and Rags Morales are doing the ongoing Doc Savage series.
 
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