Heh. Just realized we're gonna have a grown man as Robin. Major Burt Ward vibes.
Yeah. It seems pretty clear that Dark Detective would've been Detective Comics, and I'm guessing that Superman vs Imperious Lex one was Action Comics. Most of the stories are abandoned ongoings retooled into minis.
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It can be new mayor. Nakano was created by Mariko Tamaki for her story in 'Tec, which showed why he hates Batman and masked heroes at all. Considering how much he hates them, and the fact that Tamaki writes Dark Detective where Peacemaker will appear, this is the most obvious option, even compared to Damian.
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Bleeding Cool says this was meant to be the status quo going forward, from the start, regardless of whether fans liked/wanted this or not. When Didio was in charge it was not meant to be a stunt or a temporary status quo shake up, it was meant to be the status quo. Luke Fox would be Batman going forward, Jon would be Superman, etc. Does that mean if it had crashed and burned that DC wouldn’t have done a 180? Who knows, but BC said that Didio intended for Luke Fox to be Batman for as long as he was EiC going forward, which is probably why he was fired.The first mention of 5G was on Bleeding Cool on June 13th 2019. All we had was a name. On October 14th, Bleeding Cool was the first to work out out, after we dissected the very blurry DC Timeline as shown off by Dan DiDio on stage at NYCC. It was the future of the current DC Universe. The DC Timeline would be stretched back out again, giving a longer history to the DC Universe through the twentieth century but that the characters would age, and be replaced by new, younger versions of the characters filling that role. The DC Universe would relaunch with new #1s. And this would be the new status quo for DC Comics going forward.
Didio has done lots of stuff that the fans hated but that he stuck with because he wanted it done. Sometimes he was forced to pivot, like with Wally, but other times he refused to budge. I can totally buy that he was going into this with the idea of it being permanent, just like they did with the New 52.
BC is a gossip rag, and I don’t trust Rich further than I can throw him, but they correctly called a bunch of 5G stuff, so I’m going to say they were probably right about the plan with 5G. If 5G was always meant to be temp, why was DC in such turmoil and scrambling to switch course? If you want to say BC is wrong, that’s fine, I’m not out to defend BC’s integrity.
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Remember when the New 52 was supposed to be the status quo? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
There's also a difference between long-form storytelling and permanent. If they intended to have the 5G stuff go on for 6 months to a year, minimum, DC would have easily been in turmoil over it because that's a years worth of potential sales lost to a company already on shaky legs. 5G was never going to be the status quo.
I mean, seriously. Think about it. Didio, a guy who resurrected Hal and Barry because they were what he viewed as the "iconic versions" of those characters, was going to make someone other than Bruce Wayne Batman for the foreseeable future? Someone other than Clark Kent as Superman going forward? Yeah, no.
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I think... this is one of those things where Didio thinks he understands something and take it completely the wrong way. Fans have been screaming about appreciation of Legacy, so Didio decided, after seeing the loss of sales from Rebirth, okay, we're gonna do Legacy, but not the one you think because I hate them, and they're white. So we're making a new Legacy, and they will be black, brazilian, amputee, it's a better Legacy, trust me.
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In recent interviews Didio had voiced his displeasure with how he perceived the post-Rebirth DCU as stagnant and too reliant on nostalgia. I wouldn't be surprised if 5G was conceived as essentially another big New 52 style shakeup without actually discarding all of the company's history again.
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