...And DC reaches for the reset button yet again: [link]

I think they should just acknowledge the necessity to reset or wriggle out from under continuity and build it into the plan, that way fans wouldn't be pissed or feel betrayed.

Like, have a set five year plan. Let your writers do whatever they want for five years, let characters live and die and change and then put an end-stop on that cycle at five years and get everybody geared up for a new cycle.

Then it would be more like the fond way Dr. Who fans compare different Doctors than the bitter way comic fans talk about resets and tortured continuity. "Yeah, Cycle 2 Batman was fantastic, but I actually preferred the Batman/Robin Dynamic in Cycle 5."

But with this they aren't torturing continuity. They're writing another Batman and Superman. So you can compare that Batman to others. Just that "ours" has long lost any meaning.

Yeah, manga are kicking the USAs collective ass, and the companies aren't learning from them.

Instead of relying on hot shit writers and artists, things ought to be done like manga, with a team of writers and artists working out of their own studio, with all the artwork on model, and with an overreaching story arc that comes to a definite conclusion.

with all the artwork on model

What does this mean?

The Earth One stuff sounds interesting.

Like, have a set five year plan. Let your writers do whatever they want for five years, let characters live and die and change and then put an end-stop on that cycle at five years and get everybody geared up for a new cycle.

That's an interesting idea. I feel like that could get confusing too, having to deal with the continual resets. But I guess there are continual resets already, just unanticipated? I do like that some characters have a rich history and long story, even though it's hard to grok all of it happening to one person in comic-book time. I wouldn't want to erase it all. Maybe just...parts. The silly parts. I'm mostly coming from a Daredevil place here, since he's the long-running character I've read the most of.

It's an animation term. Animators are supposed to work from model sheets so that the drawings look consistent.

Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert are bringing us Pirate Batman.

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Must have Pirate Bats.

So, the Dread Pirate Batman, then?

Speaking of Batman, somebody's put up the original writer's bible for Batman: The Animated Series. Cool beans.

Oh, kickass! I am almost done with the New Batman Adventures DVDs, and then I have to figure out how to write a post about the series.