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Had me for the most part, but the punchline seems awfully far-fetched for Dan Didio. (Someone had to say it.)

This started out good until the punchlne. I think in real life Didio would be furiously masturbating with glee to Geoff's insular and continuity-heavy idea, not shooting it down for not being fun enough. The punchline should have been Dido saying "Fine, whatever, just make sure someone in his family gets dismembered or raped. Santa Claus never did have a proper motivation."

By the way, Hanvey's facial expressions continue to improve. I like the looks on their faces in the last two panels.

Agreeing with the other commenters, somehow I have trouble imagining DiDio would ever say no to Geoff Johns even in a comedic context.

Agreeing with the other commenters, somehow I have trouble imagining DiDio would ever say no to Geoff Johns even in a comedic context.

Yes. Especially if the idea was a bad one.

I'll agree here. I like the comic, I got the punchline, and it did make me chuckle, but I can't see anyone at DC wanting their comics to be fun other than to the other folks at DC anymore.

"Dan DiDio is acting totally out of character! This comic sucks ... unless he's actually DiDio-possessed-by-Desaad."

This comic series is pretty good, and gets better every month or so. I actually would get a kick out of reading Giffen's take on the story described.

“Dan DiDio is acting totally out of character! This comic sucks … unless he’s actually DiDio-possessed-by-Desaad.”

I don't think anyone here came off like that, the criticism was mild and somewhat constructive.

I think everyone is missing the point that this is a criticism of Johns approach to comics and not Didio.

Bwahahahahaha!

It might have been funnier if Didio was actually interested in Johns' idea, and then decided it should be 6 issues and Ethan Van Sciver should draw it.

So, is it bad that I remembered both the DC Holiday Bash appearance and the JLA 60 appearance.

(Granted, JLA 60 is a fun comic by Waid, with Plastic Man telling his son a fictional story around rescuing Santa from Neron. It includes the following sequence:

"But then Neron pulled out his trump card: he turned the entire JLA into coal!"
"Even Batman?"
"Especially Batman! We were DOOMED! DOOMED I tell you!")

I think everyone is missing the point that this is a criticism of Johns approach to comics and not Didio.

Actually, everyone gets that point. They just disagree with the view that Johns and Didio have differing approaches to comics.

"I think everyone is missing the point that this is a criticism of Johns approach to comics and not Didio."

The problem is that DiDio is the single biggest enabler of Johns' storytelling approach and is basically allowing him to singlehandedly dictate the direction of the DCU at this point. To joke about Johns while absolving DiDio of responsibility makes the punchline ring false.

The punchline wouldn't have rung at all. The crushing of Johns' ego is the punchline. Hell, I love everything he does and revisiting old stories to make them more tied together, but I still thought it was funny. It's a joke strip, not a political cartoon. The funny is more important than the commentary.

Tee-hee.

Very very funny!

(I agree it's wrong for Didio...I'm just gonna pretend it's Levitz )

A Christmas special by Jim Lee. That should be out around Easter...

Funny stuff.

The punchline should have been Dido saying “Fine, whatever, just make sure someone in his family gets dismembered or raped. Santa Claus never did have a proper motivation.”

I read a heap of DC books these days, and I still haven't seen all this dismembering and rape.

There was a bit in a Green Lantern I read with some sort of Shark Man thing eating people, and it seems to happen in GLC a bit - to aliens though.... but where's all this rape?
There was that big fella in Batman who I believe killed prostitutes, but other than that, I'm just not seeing it!

Also, the jokes is on Johns people - let the joke be the joke.

Yes, you could do a similar strip on Dido - perhaps Johns is making a joke and Dido approves it - but this time it was joke on Johns.

And I say this as someone who enjoyed Green Lantern: Rebirth and is enjoying Superman.

Surprised nobody's noted that DiDio's nowhere near fat enough.

I chuckled. As much as I like Johns, sometimes he tries too hard to bring EVERYTHING together.

Very nice.
My first though was a Jim Lee Christmas comic? We'll schedule it for a May release date.

Look, if you're gonna make a humor comic about DiDio, you should really just go for the easy knocks and not make him, you know, right about anything.

but where’s all this rape?

There was the rape of Sue DIbny and Dick Grayson in a short span of time. That was around the last time I read DC regularly. Didio may have slowed down a bit since then, I guess.

Yeah, the Dibny one was off and silly... and apparently had nothing to do with the story.
Mary Marvel is possible the only character who it would be even more stupid to do it to - 'I hate that we have happy characters, let's get make them sad'.
The Dick Grayson one I can vaguely remember, but I only heard about that recently.
Was it part of a larger story?
Like when Jack Knight was raped the by The Mist, it was handled rather tastefully, as far as that can go, and it played a large part across the entire run of the book.

It's just odd when I hear people go on about all the rape and dismemberment, as I read way more DC than Marvel - in trade - and just don't see it it all.
Not in the Superman books, Batman books, Green Lantern, GLC, Blue Beetle, LoSH etc
Maybe a bit of strong violence, but never enough to see it as a company wide policy.

Of course, I do often grab older DC's books in trade, so maybe if it is going on, it's balanced out across the good stuff.

But I also get a kick out of ASBAR, so maybe I'm just fucking blind to it.