MARK WAID SEÑALA LAS DIFERENCIAS ENTRE LOS EDITORES DC DE ANTES Y DE AHORA

En una entrevista rememora sus tiempos como editor DC en la etapa post-Crisis, con Dick Giordano como Editor Jefe:

Yes, there were some nervous people up there, but DC office culture in the late 1980s was defined by Dick Giordano, Executive Editor and the all-time master of knowing just how much rope to give to creators and staffers. Controlled chaos. Lightly managed mayhem. The last great era of taking chances first and sweating the P&L sheets later. If you were an editor, as long as your book sold and passed the Comics Code, you were pretty much left alone. 

No one said to you, “your book isn’t budgeted for a Kevin Nowlan story” or “This cover sketch has to be approved by a committee.” When Brian Augustyn pitched GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT and, that same morning, we roped Mike Mignola into committing to draw it, it was approved that day. Everyone, me included, got shot down from time to time, but the overall sense of audacity and fearlessness, particularly among the younger editors, was strong and that all came from Giordano. God, how I miss him.

Preguntado por si en su librería se venden cómics New 52, responde:

Now, now. Just because I’m not the audience for those books doesn’t mean we don’t have customers who want them and expect them. Even though when any of them casually says, “I love the Barry Allen FLASH,” I die a little inside.

Buena parte de la obsesión de Didio ha sido borrar todo rastro del Flash de Waid, así como del paso de cualquier otro rival por la editorial.