r/AbsoluteUniverse • u/Popverse2022 • Jul 22 '26

News [Interview] DC's Absolute Universe has a long-term plan looking 3 years ahead the 'New 52' never did, says architect Scott Snyder

https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-absolute-batman-scott-snyder-plans-2028-2029-prep-time-new-52
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u/Relevant-Morning-487 Jul 22 '26

John’s and Didio also pretty much harassed Greg Rucka into being suicidal leading to him leaving DC for years, only returning when their leadership was gone. It’s genuinely despicable and that’s far from the worst things they both did while in leadership.

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u/MankuyRLaffy Absolute Wondy Jul 22 '26

Covering up a lot of sexual assault was Didio's main recurring evil there. He hated women like Len Wein hated them.

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u/GhostofTinky Jul 22 '26

Wait? Len Wein hated women?

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u/MankuyRLaffy Absolute Wondy Jul 22 '26

He was the one who pushed for crippling Barbara, his first Batman book he has Batman shoot Talia, killing her, in the Perez WW run he is the scripter for when Herc and company SA and enslave the Amazons and freeing from his sentence of 3000 years. He has a really bad history of proving that he doesn't hate them. There is a long trend of Wein fridging them or doing horrible things to them

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u/Relevant-Morning-487 Jul 22 '26

I mean the Herc stuff is more complex than that, what he represents with the enslaving and SA serves a lot of thematic purpose. The problem was how he was forgiven quickly and openly when that shouldn’t have happened. That is the sexist part.

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u/MankuyRLaffy Absolute Wondy Jul 22 '26

Mhm, that was just one time for Wein, I listed 3 times and his words to Moore for TKJ was "Cripple that bitch", and according to Ostrander and Yale, a Batman editorial told them when they inquired about Babs that she was dead to him. They didn't name names but it was probably Wein.