Anyway, not a big Bagley fan either. I appreciate that he's fast, and think his work on Spiderman is okay, but I really can't get used to his drawing DC's big three. Looks pretty amateurish, too me, anyway.

Hell, Robinson even gets to use the big 3,

... well sort of; but having Captain Marvel, Supergirl and Batwoman is like having the big 3 of the Future. You know, Justice League Beyond.

I think McDuffie got royally screwed and he didn't deserve it. He's a stand up guy that was there for the long haul. Meltzer and Johns are just drive-by writers who basically "set-up" the comics they want to read; but don't actually write them.

As for Robinson... I still won't buy the book. At least not until I know it's any good.

Basically, I haven't been impressed with his stuff of late (as others have mentioned).

And I don't think he's there for the long-haul. I mean, if memory serves me right; Cry for Justice was supposed to be an ongoing series. Plus, he was fired and re-hired from the Superman titles over "a misunderstanding". Yeah, right! The fact of the matter is Robinson and Didio are going to clash; so the former might not even get to finish his first arc.

Just a thought.

I did not mean to imply there was nothing worthwhile at DC between '73 and '85, just that it was a period when there was vastly more interesting stuff at Marvel by comparison. By contrast, I would rate the Silver Age DC as about equal to the Marvels of that period and even a little under-rated.

Heck, I even liked the Detroit League.

It's true, DC churned out a lot of crap during this era, but there were no shortage of diamonds in the rough.

?Yeah, if Robinson is ALLOWED to write it, it should be pretty good… But if he was allowed to do write without interference, would he be using a cast off Justice League? Maybe what we really need now is another Giffen written League?

We ALWAYS need another Giffen-written League.

don’t “hate” Didio. The guy’s running an entire company and trying to manage fictional universes. He allowed Grant Morrison to write a crazy Crisis, gave the green light for 52, helped to get Robinson back into comics after Starman, brought John Ostrander back for a Suicide Squad mini, and convinced the Justice League International team to write a Metal Men feature.

Don't forget All-Star Superman and bringing James Robinson and Gary Frank aboard the Superman titles (albeit separately). The first tour of duty Grant Morrison had on Batman had some real highlights prior to R.I.P. I know folks love the Geoff Johns GL. DiDio has put out some good and even great books.

What is frustrating about DiDio is that keeps making the same mistakes over and over. Once or twice, you can excuse. However, the pattern adds up to poor stewardship of the line as a whole. To me, those mistakes are:
1. Having a weird nostalgia for the Bronze Age. The period from the Death of Gwen Stacy to Crisis on Infinite Earths was probably the greatest disparity in quality between Marvel and DC. The majority of the output by DC was stale at best. There were notable exceptions (i.e. Wolfman-Perez on "Teen Titans", Moore-Bissette on "Swamp Thing"), but as a general rule you were much better off as a Marvel Zombie from the end of 1973 until the start of 1985. DiDio has a personal attachment to that period which blinds him to the reasons everything got revamped at the end of it. Hint: it wasn't the Infinite Earths as a concept.
2. Treating characters who are not currently being used as though they are disposable. The list of characters who have killed and/or brought back to replace their successors is so large it is comedic. The death of any DC character has become the equivalent of the death of a Red Shirt on the old "Star Trek". It is predictable and pretty well meaningless.
3. Not bothering to match the tone of the stories a character is used in with the tone that works best for that character. Ted Kord, Ralph and Sue Dibny were essentially light comedic characters. There are lots of different types of light comedy. Dan DeCarlo's Archie was light comedy, but so was Wally Wood's "Sally Forth". Steve Gerber's "Howard the Duck" was light comedy, but so was Carl Bank's "Uncle Scrooge". Jack Cole did light comedy in "Plastic Man" and in Playboy magazine. Mad Magazine was light comedy and so was National Lampoon. Rape and graphic murder are not funny except to truly warped people, so it inappropriate to include light comedic characters in those types of stories.
4. Treating creators who are outside his inner circle as though they don't have anything valuable to contribute. Around the time of the Infinite Crisis that circle included Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Somehow, Waid found himself on the outside looking in and is throwing a truly epic temper tantrum (HELLO ... Irredeemable). However, that doesn't make it smart to have freelance writers dictating the direction of titles they aren't currently ... you know ... writing. Don't hire Dwayne McDuffie to write the JLA if he isn't one of the 4-5 people in the room deciding where that title can go. If you want four people directing the DCU, then have them working on your eight biggest books.

My hope for Robinson on JLA stems from my belief that he has replaced Waid at the table with Johns, Morrison and Rucka. Robinson works well with Johns, who appears to be the first among equals, so maybe he'll get some freedom to tell his stories.

So I’m the only one who has found Robinson to be consistently over-rated?

James Robinson is one of the first comic writers to actually follow Stan Lee and really find their own "voice". You know what types of themes you are going to get and have a sense of how they might handle the characters they have been given. Because it is rare, it tends to get over-praised.

By virtue of having his own voice, it means that you can also say that it isn't to your taste. Maybe you aren't interested in the life or cities, nor how the past is prologue. That is why DC was historically reluctant to hand guys like James Robinson and Grant Morrison the keys to proverbial family car. So, I am always excited to see guys like that get big gigs.

But, as someone from my hometown used to say before he turned all libertarian/right-wing, "Of course, that's just my opinion; I could be wrong."

One thing I don't get about the big three leaving the title though: I understand why Superman and Batman are out of the picture, but why did Wonder Woman have to leave? Isn't she still on Earth?

Robinson’s an excellent comic book writer - I hope his upcoming Justice League of America run shows that.

You act as if there's a change in the writing staff or something. There's not. Didio was writing the book before and he's still writing it now. It will suck. Didio will make sure of it. Enough with the irrational optimism in Didio's oversight (although in his defense, all the Bat-books were good this week).