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CRISIS MANAGEMENT
December 5, 2005
written by Michael Dolce

5 Questions With: Dan Didio (Part Two)

INFINITE CRISIS #1 (Oct 2005)

Continuing our chat with Crisis Management specialist Dan Didio, Wizard talks monsters, 52* and just what comes next for the DCU.

You made the point about Wonder Woman and how, when she killed the villain Medusa, because Medusa was a monster, nobody cared. But kill a man trying to take over the world who’s human…
Or a character they’re familiar with or liked at one point, which was Max Lord all of a sudden it was a different story. The best part is when people come up to me and complain about the Max Lord killing, they never complain about the Medusa. And Greg specifically went out of his way to make sure there was a parallel between the two. He actually wanted to make sure that was there and be able to have that correlation. So when everyone goes, ”She doesn’t kill, she’s not a killer,” we can go ahead and say, “Well, wait a minute, a year ago she did. So why is that different? What constitutes a monster? Is it a physical make-up or a psychological make-up. So you can argue in some ways that Max Lord as he was being portrayed is much more of a monster than Medusa ever was.

Can you fill us in on the 52* series and just what exactly it’s going to entail?
There's two things that occur towards the end of and following Infinite Crisis. What happens is that we jump all the books [ahead] one year later. Primary reason for that is that I wanted to get to a spot that every story was fresh and change was occurring and you saw the ramifications of Infinite Crisis without a lot of the set-up. Because you know [once] Infinite Crisis ends and we bring the Universe to a cohesive point, every story will be the same coming out of it because they will all be referring to what happened just before. But if you start one year later everything seems like it has a chance to be a lot more fresh jumping into the middle of the story.

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ISSUE 171:
INFINITE CRISIS ARRIVES
Friday, October 14

Wizard spends the day trailing creators Geoff Johns and Phil Jimenez

Every comic book shop from suburban New York to sunny L.A. found itself in the midst of a Crisis on Wednesday and Geoff Johns and Phil Jimenez were right in the middle of it. Which is exactly where they should have been since they were responsible for it.

With the debut of the Infinite Crisis mini-series on Wednesday, the creators birthed DC’s most epic and all-encompassing storyline since…well, since 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths from writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez. But a lot has changed at DC and in the world between the Gipper-Era and now.

“13 year-olds in 1985 were playing Pac Man,” explains the Los Angeles-based Johns while en route to his local comic shop, “Kids today are playing Grand Theft Auto—I get my ass kicked in Halo by 11-year-olds all the time!”

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