Warner Bros. announced a restructuring at DC today, with current Publisher Paul Levitz resigning and returning to writing full-time, where he’ll be focusing on getting Adventure Comics canceled (you read that Gentleman Ghost brick that he tossed in during Infinite Crisis, yes?). Taking his place is Diane Nelson, who has a proven track record of success that you might know as the Harry Potter movies. She will be reporting to movie guy Jeff Robinov.
It seems obvious that this restructuring (and rebranding as DC Entertainment) is structured toward a smoother transition between print and screen for DC properties. And the nerds are freaking out. Just like they freaked out about the Disney/Marvel deal of two weeks ago, a deal that is a net positive for all parties concerned and has no immediate negatives that I can perceive.
STFU, Nerds.
I just spent my last post complaining about reactionary nonsense, and now here I am doing it again. Oh no, DC is now owned by the corporation that already owned them. Oh no, now we might get a decent Wonder Woman movie someday.
Take a deep breath and ask yourself this question:
Batman?
As long as you can answer yes, everything is fine.
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We’re odd people, nerds.
Some of us aren’t happy unless we have something to complain about.
I also notice some tend to freak out over the fact that superheroes are intellectual commodities, and seem to take grievous offense at the fact that a company might actually want to earn money off of them instead of passing them about like a free doobie.
I’ve oft wondered about the motivation for this though..
Once again, Batman makes it all better.