If there was ever a sign that DC was beginning to listen to fans after all, Dan Didio’s recent interviews about Final Crisis may be it. In his latest talk with Wizard, he repeats the basic plan from his Newsarama interview, and adds some more details:
Final Crisis stands alone. It’s an eight-part miniseries. There will be two support series [running concurrently] during the course of Final Crisis, and there will be four one-shots during the missing month in Final Crisis… The only time that we’ll see one crossover or a tie-in leading into Final Crisis will be an issue of Justice League of America. So we’ll have one issue of Justice League of America that comes out just prior to Final Crisis and actually takes a beat from the conclusion of Salvation Run, goes into Justice League and then ultimately into Final Crisis. But again, Final Crisis stands unto its own. It’s just taking some story bits and bringing this into it… [W]e are [doing a third weekly series], but it does not tie into Final Crisis. It’s a stand-alone weekly series that doesn’t interact with the rest of the DCU, but features all the prime characters of the DC Universe.
Final Crisis standing alone for the most part, we knew about (but the missing month and one-shots? Story-led or deadline-saving device?), but the new weekly series being stand-alone again after the mess of Countdown sounds like a good idea… Also, very interesting choice for the one comic you should read prior to Final Crisis.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:18 am
This sounds good as far as Final Crisis goes, but the “one book to read” thing was the whole reason that I dropped JLA (well, besides the writing and the art).
JLA should be the premier DC Universe high adventure book, not a springboard for every crossover or pet project from the company.