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Ben Abernathy leaves DC. He edits like half of the line (Batman group editor, plus a few other books like GA, BoP and Doom Patrol) so it's a pretty big loss. I wonder who replaces him.
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The Batbooks have been weak at DC and his Elseworlds line was uninspired. Abernathy leaving in and of itself wouldn’t bother me, but yet another upper level editor at DC leaving is a bad sign. Especially since we don’t know who will replace him and if they’ll be a better fit. The Batman books desperately need a kick in the ass though.
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Sales were good, but quality of Bat books, asides of few gems here and there, in last few yeas has been real bad.
Also, wouldn't Waid doing WF: JLA be rather redundant considering his work previous work with JLA? If I'm not mistaken he did Year One and modern stories so feels a bit like going back to the same thing.
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All the best to Ben Abernathy in the next stage of his career but I hope the next editor can improve the Batline. It feels like it's really been floundering creatively for a while.
Era and roster-wise it would be pretty different because he'd be using the Satellite era League in the Bronze Age.
Yeah, World's Finest is analogous to the early 1970s. When the Teen Titans are expanding and the Doom Patrol aren't dead yet.
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I think Waid's WF stuff is about the pre-Crisis Bronze Age more than anything. His JLA: Year One was post-Crisis I think, a retcon in which case he wouldn't be repeating himself at all. A Bronze Age JLA would be more like Earth-1985 as mentioned in brief at the end of Doomsday Clock and would feature the pre-Crisis/Satellite JLA. Just a guess, but that's my guess.
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