Dan DiDio
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Sep 26, 2026
SeanHOST
Or two, increase prices so that you can charge the poor audience that you have more money to buy the books.
SeanHOST
Dan Didio has talked a lot about the fact that every time you raise prices, You're alienating a certain portion of your audience so it gets smaller.
SeanHOST
Every single time it will happen, it will get smaller.
SeanHOST
But what will also happen is that your revenue will slightly increase because everybody who sticks around, which is going to be a sizable chunk, they're paying a dollar more for everything that they're getting.
Cory StrodeHOST
Absolutely.
Cory StrodeHOST
And there is a part of me that wonders if maybe that 5G that got Dan DiDio and everybody else fired because they're like, no, we're not doing that.
Cory StrodeHOST
And you should not have been allowed to go this far.
Cory StrodeHOST
And the new owners were like, no, no, no.
Paul GravettGUEST
And he was a very, very camp character.
Paul GravettGUEST
I think Dan Didio and some other people made some efforts to kind of apologize and make him a more interesting character, not such a very outrageously cliched, campy kind of character.
Paul GravettGUEST
And then, as you know, with Marvel, it was Jim Shooter with his Hulk story.
Paul GravettGUEST
And then there was also quite a good Hulk story where a victim of AIDS passed away.
Kurtis FindlayGUEST
Um, So I guess Hank, our publisher, sent the word over to Marvel that we were interested in possibly taking it up.
Kurtis FindlayGUEST
And at the very same time, I think it was Dan DiDio.
Kurtis FindlayGUEST
No, was it? Maybe? I can't remember who it was.
Kurtis FindlayGUEST
Not Dan.
Case AikenGUEST
Like, and not that he does, not that he gets a bad death, but like they, they did an incredible job with her and we get an incredible send off with her.
Case AikenGUEST
Like the, the, the, the lines that we get from Superman as he like mourns her and takes her, into the sun is like one of the things that like i i look to when i am feeling grief because it is a way you know a way to contextualize your feelings is by like exploring media that that deals with it so like i i grew up thinking like no she got a great send-off and now we have a new supergirl and it's a different era where we're not dealing with all these kryptonians and but like as much as i was kind of annoyed that dan didio was like now i got to bring her back because like there's a lot of choices that Dan Didio made and like, or things that happened under his watch that I was not a big fan of.
Case AikenGUEST
Like, like, oh, for sure.
Case AikenGUEST
Oh, for sure.
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Jay McKiernanHOST
the reason why he's super into blondes is because his mom was a blonde and that's just creepy and like writers in the 90s
Keith LehtinenGUEST
Oedipus 5 There's a general like feel in DC comics, in my opinion, starting in the early 2000s, basically post-crisis, to be honest with you, where DC was fast and loose.
Keith LehtinenGUEST
And I always make the joke with Dan DiDio that he had a big button on his desk that just said crisis.
Keith LehtinenGUEST
And just in case everything got too
Scott SnyderGUEST
But I was I had just adjusted to like Bruce Wayne in this.
Scott SnyderGUEST
And then I met Dan DiDio at C2E2.
Scott SnyderGUEST
And I remember we had breakfast and, you know, if you knew Dan, he was just, he was like always sort of, you know, in motion, always, you know, always very boisterous and very enthusiastic and, you know, like tractor beam eyes where it was sort of like, Scott, you know what I mean? You're like, okay, what is it? You know? And it was never, it was never small news.
Scott SnyderGUEST
It was always like something huge is coming at you.
DallasHOST
I remember being halfway through Convergence like, "What the fuck is going on?"
AnneHOST
I think Convergence was, like, DC wanting to do Rebirth, but Dan DiDio not being willing to commit to it yet.
DallasHOST
Yeah.
AnneHOST
He's like, "No, no, this, this'll work.
AnneHOST
I'm gonna plant some cool things that maybe we can do something with in the future, who knows." Uh, the story behind that is we don't have, like, the official version.
AnneHOST
We just have word of mouth from a lot of different creators.
AnneHOST
Uh, Pol- I think it was Polygon that did a really good write-up of this a few years ago, where they collected the oral histories from people like Dan Didio, Scott Snyder, uh, I think, like, Paul Cornell, and some others.
AnneHOST
Uh, basically [laughs] this...
MarcHOST
And it's interesting that DC... continued to not want to talk about it.
MarcHOST
Part of it is, like you said, they didn't want to date their material, but Dan DiDio of DC said in an interview in 2008 that DC didn't want to address it because they didn't want to kind of let real world events impact their comic book continuity and their flow and their heroes.
MarcHOST
And they found it to be more important to leave it out.
MarcHOST
Let's stick in this realm of fantasy and escapism, whereas Marvel's response obviously was, no, no, we need to say something about this.
RayHOST
Because I don't think there's any franchise, maybe in comic book history, that has had a terrible streak like this book.
RayHOST
To be clear, this book has not really had good buzz since 2005 when Dan Didio nuked the team that Geoff Johns had built and forced him off it within six months after Infinite Crisis.
RayHOST
And they have been trying to dig out from that ever since.
RayHOST
The New 52 screwed up the structure of the Titans so much that the book became pretty much a joke.
Dan JolleyGUEST
Well, so like on the phone with Pete, I said, are you talking about an approach so fresh that it's like a different person? And literally he goes, oh, let me call you back.
Dan JolleyGUEST
And like I imagined him scampering down the hall to Dan DiDio's office.
Dan JolleyGUEST
And 10 minutes later, he calls me back and says, OK, yes, it's a different person.
Dan JolleyGUEST
Give us a different person.
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