I'd love to FLUSH the last twenty years and bring back our wonderful Pre-Crisis multiverse!!! I would proceed as if Crisis On Idiotic Earths had never happened!!! We just hire writers who don't think you have to destroy (i.e. REWRITE) a character's history!!! Hire writers who grew up with the REAL DC HEROES; Those who understand how horrible things have been BYRNED
since 1986! I realize that this would mean that DC Comics would be under the control of a bunch of out of touch old farts like me; but it's fun to dream!
I wonder, though; Do you think it would be too much to ask if DC would allow a series or two that allowed some of today's writers to tell Pre-Crisis stories? Something along the lines of Legends Of The Dark Knight; An anthology of sorts; Rotating creative teams, telling stories from our beloved multiverse about varying heroes in one shots; or perhaps two, three or even five to six issue story arcs?
I know, I KNOW..."MOVE OUT OF YOUR PARENTS' BASEMENT, GET A LIFE, AND GROW THE Heck UP!!!!"
It'll never happen...ah, well...still fun to dream...
BEN
Ben, I have to ask you if you've been keeping up with current developments, and if so, what you think of them.
The multiverse is back, pre-crisis stories have been told in
Solo (an "anthology of sorts with rotating creative teams," telling stories about different characters) and the pre-Crisis Superman continues in
All-Star Superman.
Kurt Busiek, a "writer who grew up with the REAL DC HEROES" and who "understands how horrible things have been BYRNED since 1986" is the current writer on
Superman and looks to me to be doing incredible work.
Going back and reading davidelliott's initial post in this thread is like reading an outline summary of everything that DC is in the midst of doing!