Apparently, the only people that can ever have bad ideas are Silver Age writers.
Golden Age writers/artists don't get off any better. The attitude now is that everything begins with John Byrne and Frank Miller and every single thing before that was "Silver Age camp," even stuff from the 1930s.
Which explains why Didio is gleefully going on a killing rampage.
Someone on the DC message board once compared Didio to a serial murderer when it came to the DC characters. A single death(Sue Dibny, Firestorm, Jack Drake) or a team(Freedom Fighters) with each time a death takes place.
I have the bad feeling that part of Infinite Crisis is to take out the last intact Bronze Age heroine: Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld. She violates everything DC stands for. She is a powerful woman who has retained her powers and does have a somewhat happy ending with her daughter living on Earth. She's more powerful than Superman. Women in DC should be depowered, raped, killed, have no happiness, and no family. No hero should be more powerful than Superman. No heroine should be more powerful than Wonder Woman.