End of an Era

Posted by Bob Greenberger on September 9, 2009

I had no inkling that going to DC Comics for meetings today would prove a stroke of lucky timing. While meeting with Chris Cerasi on a project we’ll talk about in a day or two, I received a call from DC’s President and Publisher Paul Levitz. He heard I was around and could I stop up?

So, I took a break from the meeting and wandered upstairs and saw his secretaries prepping envelopes and clearly something was going on. I had already seen the rumblings at Nikki Finke’s column and Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool suggested I should keep my ears open.

When I was ushered into his office, Paul let me know that the time had finally come. The management changes, to be formally announced soon after, would mean that he was leaving staff and would return to being a writer. Later, I found out he was moving immediately onto Adventure Comics, returning to Superboy and the Legion, characters he is intimately connected to. But as we chatted, he told me of other stories he wanted to write, one with a cool premise. We chatted a bit but I knew he had tons of letters to sign and more people to personally notify before facing the staff en masse.

This is a seismic change for DC, for Paul, and for the industry. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »