yudelson@aecom.UUCP (Larry Yudelson) (03/18/85)
According to the April issue of the Comics Journal, Marv Wolfman has returned to Marvel. This is a major loss for DC, not only because he was their most popular writer, but because he leaves the Crisis on Infinite Earths unfinished, and all of the standard DC characters destroyed by anti- matter. While notes for the next few issues of the Titans books were found in his desk, it appears that he never had any plans to save the DC universe. Rumor has it that he has been paid by Marvel for the past years to infiltrate DC, which explains the phenomenal realism in the Terra plot in TNTT. As things stand now, after July, DC will have to cancel all comics that take place in Earth 1 or Earth 2, unless they are willin ignore their highly praised Crisis series. Chris Claremont has reportedly been offered a six-figure salary to plot DC out of the mess, but is demanding that DC recall Tales of The Teen Titans #55, where Marv put in a derogatory reference to resurrecting Terra "like a phoenix from the ashes." Due to the difficulties of recalling a million comic books, and Marvel's willingness to match any offers from DC, this seems unlikely. One possible out is the earlier declaration that certain titles are outside the multiverse. Thus, by tying in the 12-issue maxiseries, the Oz-Wonderland Secret Wars with the regular issues, they will establish that all their magazines are not on Earth 1 or Earth 2, and were not destroyed by Dark Wolfman. Look for Nightwing to dump Kory for Alice or the Red Queen. Since DC is owned by Warner, look for the entry of at least one Warner Brothers hero (Bugs Bunny? Sylverster?) oin the non-multiverse JLA. This is a preemptive response by Jeannete Kahn to the corporate voices at Warner who don't understand the problem with continuity, and have threatened to replace her with Jim "Continuity?-I-Don't-Care-About-Characterization!" Shooter. Another suggestion, attributed to Dick "no-more-good-afternoons" Gordiano is to launch a series along the lines of, "What If The World Didn't End, And Everyone Lived Happily Ever After, Except Braniac Attacked Superman." He admits that the idea needs more thought. And who said Comics weren't exciting? Larry Yudelson "Can you imagine me out in the real world?" "Maybe you can break the kiln" . w q