Sci-Fi has a habit of talking up properties to make into bad mini-series, then never uses them for whatever reason. WAAAAY back in like 1998 or so, they mentioned about 8 different classic sci-fi series they were planning to do mini-series with, but only Dune and Earthsea ever remotely saw the light of day. Though, considering how they turned out, perhaps I shouldn't feel TOO upset that they never made the Nine Princes in Amber series I was looking forward to...

@Jono11 - I think you do know the answer already, based on a previous post. Perhaps it would help to point out that Rich Morrissey wrote a guest editorial for Amazing Heroes complaining about a story in which Superman cold bloodedly killed some supervillains. I don't know for sure that it's the person who wrote that story, but I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Doesn’t jibe with what I recall Shooter has said about the NU. Sounds to me like an Urban Legend for the future.

Agreed, like I said above, while Gillis may be correct, I don't think anything he says on what Shooter was thinking is definitive, just what Gillis was thinking, vis a vis the creation of Strikeforce: Morituri.

"You tend to see more done-in-one and short two-three part stories these days than you did even a few years ago."--Unless you're referring to Jonah Hex, JLA, Detective Comics and Blue Beetle, no, you really don't see that from either of the Big Two.

The Skull and Cap completed their fight in one issue (the Skull cheated and won). The next issue featured a fight between the Skull and Black Panther.

Doesn't jibe with what I recall Shooter has said about the NU. Sounds to me like an Urban Legend for the future.

@Luis Dantas.... Not intended as a bash but it's even weirder to me that anyone would consider the Gillis run on Strikeforce: Morituri a clunker... that's the first time I've ever seen any negative criticism of Strikeforce: Morituri in 22 years. Ah, well... to each their own.

These days, a classic story like "Who is Donna Troy?" would be padded out to at least a 5 issue story arc. Hell, her wedding would've been a one-shot crossing over into half a dozen other titles. Or, to use a Marvel example, God only knows how long "Days of Future Past" would end up today...

A mangled quote is, "You know what to do. You know what the answers are. So, I watch you and hope that someday I'll know, too."

Theno

Teen Titans.

The Charydemon appeared in issues #2-3 of the "Total Justice" toy-tie-in mini by Priest. It was actually a decent enough story as a way to hang the ridiculous "fractal tech gear" snap-on accessories and had some fun character moments with Wally, Kyle and Robin, but the art was outright atrocious in the first issue and merely enh in the others.

Are these posts coming from the far-flung future or a parallel world? Because last I checked, it's STILL the reigning practice.

Fun challenge: Try and find a Geoff Johns run in a regular series to which the phrase "the best the book has been in a long time" doesn't apply.

And this is a problem that is still ongoing on Avengers books -- the following contains some spoilers, I guess -- one of the first SI tie ins (it was drawn by Cheung, though I don't remember the issue number) had one page that was three panels of slightly different angles of Skrulls standing around. The recent New Avengers issue about Spiderwoman (also drawn by Cheung, I believe) ended with two pages of a spreading white-out over one identical panel. I could deal with dilated stories if they'd bother to include more information; it's the idiotic padding with overblown panels that rankles me.

Me, I would take the average New Universe book over S:M any day.

Heck, I would take Merc, perhaps even Kickers Inc., over S:M.