Are any Trek Author's going to DragonCon 2010?

[Greg Cox]

I've just picked up 52. I'm wondering if the Ralph Dibney storyline got cut. Flipped through it in the bookstore and didn't see any mention of him.

I confess: I cut out the Ralph Dibney storyline, plus the Steel vs. Luthor storyline, and the whole space saga with Starfire and Animal Man. I basically pruned everything down to the whole Batwoman/Question/Black Adam/Isis story and the Booster Gold story.

Otherwise the book would have been four volumes long!

 

[kkozoriz1]

I've just picked up 52. I'm wondering if the Ralph Dibney storyline got cut. Flipped through it in the bookstore and didn't see any mention of him.

I confess: I cut out the Ralph Dibney storyline, plus the Steel vs. Luthor storyline, and the whole space saga with Starfire and Animal Man. I basically pruned everything down to the whole Batwoman/Question/Black Adam/Isis story and the Booster Gold story.

Otherwise the book would have been four volumes long!

And why would that be a problem?

I'm glad you kept the stories you did but wish that Ralph's final story could have been in there somehow.

 

[Greg Cox]

I regretted leaving Ralph's story out, because I love the whole mystical side of the DCU, but it didn't really overlap with the main storyline, which made it expendable.

Plus, it didn't seem to fit thematically. The way I saw it, the basic gimmick of the novel was "a year without Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman," so those were the storylines I focused on. You have Booster Gold trying to fill in for Superman in Metropolis, Batwoman picking up the slack in Gotham, and, arguably, Isis serving as a sort of surrogate Wonder Woman.

Ralph trying to bring Sue back to life just seemed like a different book.

Plus, to be honest, I knew Batwoman would look great on the cover!

 

[kkozoriz1]

I agree with you that those were the main storylnes, I just loved Ralph's journey and his eventual triumph. For someone that was so far down at the beginning he really gave us his best showing in years. I'm not a fan of killing characters for the most part but this is one that worked for me. Besides, he got reunited with Sue, putting back one of the best couples in comics.

 

[Greg Cox]

I agree with you that those were the main storylnes, I just loved Ralph's journey and his eventual triumph. For someone that was so far down at the beginning he really gave us his best showing in years. I'm not a fan of killing characters for the most part but this is one that worked for me. Besides, he got reunited with Sue, putting back one of the best couples in comics.

Oh yeah. On its own terms, it was a very engaging story.