DiDo Clarifies “No Crisis Events”

So that succession of explosion sounds you’ve been hearing this weekend was the heads of comic geeks exploding after seeing what DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio posted on his Facebook page on Saturday. What sent message boards into a tizzy was the announcement of “after further review, there have been no Crisis events in the New DCU.”

Yeah, there is no Infinite Crisis, no Final Crisis, and no Crisis on Infinite Earths. I think this is kind of a good thing, most of the time what happens after those Crisis storylines usually left the DC Universe in shambles and allows DC to start over by eliminating some characters and bringing in others. Okay, some people will hate me for this, but I do think that starting over without the Crisis storylines is a good thing.

How many more times can we stand seeing characters being killed off, only to see them return in next year’s event? Now, after seeing the frenzy he started (and most likely death threats) tried to clarify his previous statement on Sunday.

“For those in crisis over Crisis, let me clarify. The topic of Crisis was much discussed among the editors and talent working on The New 52. With so many characters and histories restarting, major events like Crisis are harder to place when they work for some and not for others. (that was one of the problems coming out of the original Crisis). While we are starting aprx five years into our heroes’ lives, we are focused on the characters present and future, and past histories will be revealed as the stories dictate. Yes, there have been “crisis” in our characters lives, but they aren’t exactly the Crisis you read before, they can’t be. Now, what this means for characters seen and unseen…… well, that’s the fun of The New 52, infinite stories, infinite possibilities, with the best yet to come. [...] P.S. that’s the last time I try and answer a Facebook question before rushing out for dinner.”

Let us be a little honest here, this isn’t the end of the world. Think about some of the most ridiculous things that ended up in canon due to the Crisis storylines, but CBR brought everything together very nicely, “universe of the post-Flashpoint New 52 there was a Final Crisis, as Bruce Wayne “died” — or, rather, he was hurled back through time — and was temporarily replaced as Batman by Dick Grayson. There are undoubtedly other loose threads that are best not picked at, but that’s the one that springs immediately to mind. “