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The One-Year Gap
Over on Newsarama, DC honcho Dan Didio has stated that in the wake of Infinite Crisis, all DC books will be ratcheted forward a year in-story (well, all present-day main-continuity ones). Yeah, this worked so well for Legion. There's promises that the lost time will be filled in later on, but odds are when you do something like this imprint-wide that a lot will just never get around to it. Anyway, it got me to thinking how many books I may end up dropping as a result.
First off, Villains United and Return of Donna Troy are miniseries that will end before IC, so they don't really count.
Next, I should put down a caveat that several books I read because of the writers. If there's a creator shake-up as part of the Gap, that'll affect my buying. That said, here's the non-limited series from DC that I've read over the past two months, and my prognostications.
Huh. Looks like my DC Universe reading list is pretty puny after all. Six titles, one of which isn't likely to even be involved in IC.
First off, Villains United and Return of Donna Troy are miniseries that will end before IC, so they don't really count.
Next, I should put down a caveat that several books I read because of the writers. If there's a creator shake-up as part of the Gap, that'll affect my buying. That said, here's the non-limited series from DC that I've read over the past two months, and my prognostications.
- Green Arrow: This one is purely a creator-driven buy. I happen to like Winick's writing, so sue me. If he stays on, I'll keep buying. Otherwise, it'll depend on who replaces him. However, I expect this title could avoid too much damage related to the Gap.
- JSA: This title is so tied into all the crossover stuff that a Gap might be necessary to put some distance between it and the continuity snarl. Presuming they don't kill everyone off in Infinite Crisis, I expect I'll keep reading this.
- JLA: Another creator-driven buy, I may not even still be reading this next month.
- Outsiders and Teen Titans: I'll likely keep or ditch 'em as a pair, unless there's a creator shakeup that pairs a "like" on one title and a "loathe" on the other. They're kinda bound into their own little sub-world right now, so it's possible that the Gap will be awkward, a mandate that doesn't work for these books.
- LSH: If this one gets forced to have a Gap, I'll be very annoyed, but probably still read it.
Huh. Looks like my DC Universe reading list is pretty puny after all. Six titles, one of which isn't likely to even be involved in IC.
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I only read Outsiders, Teen Titans, LSH, Batman (just Batman) and Wonder Woman.
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I don't know which side of the pro/con-V4 fence you fall on, but IMO, so many things failed in V4 that the five-year-gap probably wouldn't make my list of the top ten things done wrong. But yeah, taking cues from a continuity that's been rebooted more times than an Apache server doesn't strike me as wise.
Sounds interesting on paper, but (even though I don't know entirely what IC is going to entail) I don't think people've been allowed to think this through. One year -- especially in the lives of DC's younger characters -- is a long time.
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Oh, wait. It didn't.
Sigh.
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Wait? Did I just type that?
But seriously. It doesn't matter if they move them a year ahead. Move them 10 years back. Or even reboot the whole damn thing yet again.
If there's not quality storytelling going on who cares? The right creators on the right material producing decent finished product has always produced sales for comics.
The gimmicks are just sales blips that I think most fans are just totally done with. It isn't like this or House of M are actually going to attract any new permanent readers to Marvel or DC.