DC DIGRESSION: A publishing tradition in crisis
By Zack Quaintance — I wasn’t going to write this column. Originally, I was going to write about how DC’s summer event — Dark Nights: Death Metal — was just fine, coming close to transcending self-seriousness to become a winking, grandiose celebration of big and goofy superhero books via this week’s Dark Night: Death Metal #3. But that was before news broke that DC Comics’ corporate owners were essentially laying off the entire leadership of the comics publishing division, save for Marie Javins and Jim Lee.
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