Dark Crisis Announced

[Ascended]

Is it really poor writing (from Williamson) if there's changes to the plot forced on him by editorial? I think it's clear that changes to the direction of Dawn of DC made them change the whole crossover midstream.

Yes and no. If editorial came in and forced changes into the story, that's not on Williamson. But that's also pretty normal in this industry and writers are expected to roll with such changes and make them work. Williamson didn't pull that off.

It's probably not his fault. We've probably all had jobs where everything is going smoothly until management comes in with a mouth full of stupid ideas and things go off the rails, and nothing we do can fix it. This was pretty much DC during the New52, when it was common practice to change plans at the last minute, sometimes even after the art had been finalized.

So I have a hard time putting a lot of blame on Williamson for all that, but end of the day he took a gig doing a big Event, which are always real heavy on editorial mandates, and he didn't manage to juggle whatever changes DC threw at him. And he's been with the company long enough to know how they do things, so we can't say he got caught off guard by DC's heavy handedness.

What I *do* blame Williamson for is the basic story, questionable pacing, and sometimes-awkward dialogue. Whatever changes editorial made, the basic premise of the story was still weak and repetitive, just a blender full of previous Crisis, "everyone is dead!" stories we've already read. I appreciate that Williamson put Nightwing front and center, and the story wasn't all bad, but in the end Dark Crisis didn't live up to the legacy it was trying to emulate.

But he did right by Nightwing, and that earns a *lot* of forgiveness in my book. Plus, Williamson is usually a quality talent so I'm not hating on the guy here. This story didn't work out, but whatever, I'm still looking forward to his Arrow.

[blunt_eastwood]

What exactly was the point in changing the name?

[Frontier]

What exactly was the point in changing the name?

Marketing, probably.

[exile001]

What exactly was the point in changing the name?

I imagine it was always the plan as they likely thought adding "on Infinite Earths" would bump sales on the later issues and demand for reprints on the early ones.

A lot of fans have strong feelings on the original CoIE, and adding that suffix is pretty much a promise that they're coming back.

[blunt_eastwood]

I imagine it was always the plan as they likely thought adding "on Infinite Earths" would bump sales on the later issues and demand for reprints on the early ones.

A lot of fans have strong feelings on the original CoIE, and adding that suffix is pretty much a promise that they're coming back.

They should have added it to the titles of some of the DCEU movies. Maybe then they could have been more financially successful.

"Man of Steel...on Infinite Earths"

"Justice League...on Infinite Earths"

[Lukmendes]

They should have added it to the titles of some of the DCEU movies. Maybe then they could have been more financially successful.

"Man of Steel...on Infinite Earths"

"Justice League...on Infinite Earths"

Man, this irks me lol.