Really. I imagine they will announce it this weekend, but all the evidence points to that. Unless they only plan on having him do a Green Arrow/Green Lantern book.
But let's remember a few things:
1. Geoff brought Robinson back in.
2. Geoff wanted to have a writer he loved working with partnered with him on the Superman titles.
3. Geoff, I believe, expressed wanting to make the JLA/JSA crossover stories a semi-regular thing.
Mind you, the two working out some sort of Green Arrow/Green Lantern Hard Traveling Heroes thing could work, but it would seem to be more than the properties can support. Has to be Robinson on JLA after McDuffie's run ends.
I'm sure it will be great, but McDuffie has certainly gotten screwed over (albeit with a regular check) in the last year, becoming just a place holder for JLA and Fantastic Four.
Edit: D'Oh...while it wouldn't render my guess completely incorrect, THE SILVER AGE has been floated as something he might do. That would make a helluva lot of sense.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Worst Kept Secret: James Robinson on JLA
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The Silver Age was originally going to be drawn by Howard Chaykin, back when it was first announced in 1995. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but McDuffie screwed himself by writing inconsistent books. If he wanted to stay on the books, all he really had to do was, I don't know... tell good stories?
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ReplyDeleteIf you followed some of Dwayne's comments around the 'net, it appears that he has been largely hampered by editorial mandates. He was forced to write the Tangent tie-in issue with no idea as to what the Tangent mini-series he was supposed to be teasing was about. Then he's largely been removed from the series for Alan to write the Salvation Run tie-in stuff.
Let's not forget the Green Arrow/Black Canary marriage stuff which wasn't his idea, but a story that editorial asked him to write.
So here's the deal DCU is a shared Universe, so editorila mandates are the rule of the day... it's his job. He can cry or he can write better stories. Fantastic Four was just as uneven and overall just as unenjoyable. Cartoons and Funny (Damage Control) are his thing, JLA is not.
ReplyDeleteJLU was largely lauded as being the best iteration of the JLA going for a period of its existence. So I'd say he has demonstrated the ability to write JLA well when he's allowed some larger amount of control of his stories.
ReplyDeleteproblem is JLU and JLA are not the same thing... JLU was bright and while it was good, certain characters were just wrong... The Question being the biggest example. When McDuffie came to the book, I feared (and have pretty much been given) JLU well we already had that book in, oh yeah, JLU. AS much as I disliked Metlzer's run, it was if nothing else consitent in voice and scope... McDuffie not so much. The cartoon, in a move that has always baffled me about DC, was a free for all and McDuffie played to those strengthes, but in a shared U, he has to take Editorial's concerns and stories. FF was just as bad. McDuffie griping about it comes off the same way as JMS and OMD to me, unprofessional. He's a talented writer and creator who has shown himself to excel in his own niche books, Damage Control; or his own universes, Static Shock and Malibu (& to a certain extent JLU). It's not a bad thing. I just want them to get JLA straight, and for me that seems to mean removing McDuffie.
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