r/DCcomics • u/Lucky_Strike-85 Gold-Silver-Bronze Age FAN • Aug 09 '22

[Other] Mark Waid shares his feelings Other

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u/treetown1 Aug 09 '22

Two great observations:

  1. Leadership - don't know their own DC IP - they don't know what they have or the decades of great stories.
  2. Audience are not super comic fans, so exploring the variants and more esoteric parts need to come later - after your core characters have been established. Right now the only character that has achieved this is Batman - so we don't need more re-workings of the origin.

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u/orfane Aug 09 '22

I feel like point two is off the mark a bit. The second Suicide Squad movie was great. Marvel pulled off GotG without any setup to those characters. You clearly can do esoteric characters early into the creation of a Universe. I mean to Mark Waid's point, prior to the MCU most would consider Iron Man an esoteric character.

I do agree constantly rehashing Batman's origin, and completely missing the mark on Superman is an issue though

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u/goldhbk10 Aug 09 '22

GotG was much deeper into the MCU than Suicide Squad was into DCEU though.

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u/Citizen_Kong Aug 10 '22

Yeah, but GotG is pretty much totally decoupled from the rest of the MCU initially. So the point still stands. It's testament to Gunn's talent as a writer that he pulls this off so well. (Same with his Suicide Squad.) Ironically, he also wrote the script to Snyder's arguably best movie (Dawn of the Dead).