Dan Didio Archives

Frank Miller And Dan DiDio Teaming Up For Independent Comic Publishing Venture

May 2, 2022

The celebrated Frank Miller, writer of The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, and Sin City is getting into independent publishing to launch his new titles and he is collaborating with a fellow former DC Com...

DC Comics VP And GM Daniel Cherry III Flees Company As They Set Out To Kill The Justice League, Ethan Van Sciver Weighs In

JB Augustine

January 23, 2022

Comic Books

DC Comics Senior Vice President and General Manager Daniel Cherry III is bolting from the struggling company after only 16 months on the job. Source: All Things Innovation YouTube RELATED: DC Appoin...

Grant Morrison Reveals ‘Superman And The Authority’ Written To Stop DC’s 5G Plans To Turn Man Of Steel Into “A Right-Wing Authoritarian”

Spencer Baculi

December 12, 2021

Comic Books

According to legendary comic book creator Grant Morrison, Superman's recent organizing of a new Authority team as a contingency for his possible death was written in order to prevent former DC Comics publisher ...

Reports Suggest Gutting Of WarnerMedia And DC Comics To Continue In 2021

JB Augustine

December 30, 2020

Comic Books

It appears that the WarnerMedia layoff bloodbath, specifically at DC Comics, is set to keep the blood flowing well into the new year Related: Ethan Van Sciver Reports California Comic Book Retailer To St...

Report: New Round Of Layoffs At DC Comics Includes Executives With Decades Of Experience

JB Augustine

November 12, 2020

Comic Books

In what is being called a Bloodbath Part 2, another electric boogaloo of firings has reportedly happened at DC Comics and we have the names. Bleeding Cool reports DC is ending the contracts of some top a...

DC Comics Announces Line-Wide ‘Future State’ Event Coming in January

JB Augustine

October 19, 2020

Comic Books

The shake-up is coming, except they aren't calling it 5G. DC is moving forward with a shorter version of the event Publisher Jim Lee said they weren't doing, and that seemed dead with the ouster of Dan DiDio. ...

Jim Lee Addresses The Rumored ‘5G’ Reboot Of DC Comics

JB Augustine

September 15, 2020

Comic Books

DC Comics Chief Creative Officer and Publisher Jim Lee denied over the weekend that a reboot of the DC Universe dubbed "5G" is on the way. In a video message that aired during DC FanDome: Welcome to the Mult...

Mark Waid Officially Returns to DC Comics in December, May Write Superman

JB Augustine

September 15, 2020

Comic Books

Veteran comic book writer Mark Waid is making his way back to DC by the end of the year to write for a tie-in for their upcoming crossover event. Related: Humanoids Promotes Mark Waid To Publisher In ...

OPINION: The Irresponsibility Of The “Just Make New Characters” Argument

Connor Tomlinson

March 30, 2020

Comic Books, Movies, Television

Marvel’s “new” New Warriors. DC’s 5G Initiative. Riri Williams. Wallace West. Amadeus Cho. ‘All-New’ Mockingbird. Carol Danvers. A list of borderline-heretical names, certain to induce lucid nightmares for long...

Report: DC Comics Accounts for An Estimated 0.2% of AT&T’s Annual Revenue in the Past Year

JB Augustine

March 10, 2020

Comic Books, Industry News

Could AT&T sell off DC Comics? The answer depends on how much the publisher is worth to its parent company, AT&T. According to an estimate by Motley Fool writer Leo Sun, the amount is not very big in...

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