This is awful. RIP, good sir. 
My condolences to those who knew and loved him and his work. He was one of the best.
My condolences to those who knew and loved him and his work. He was one of the best.
Breaking Sad News...Dwayne McDuffie is dead.
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A real shock - I was just reading interviews with McDuffie the other day. Another talent gone.
I haven't read a lot of his comic work, but I do strongly recommend Blink and Don't Blink, an overlooked duology of Batman stories McDuffie wrote on the Legends of the Dark Knight title in the early 00s. Check for the issues in the back-issue bins, they're great.
I haven't read a lot of his comic work, but I do strongly recommend Blink and Don't Blink, an overlooked duology of Batman stories McDuffie wrote on the Legends of the Dark Knight title in the early 00s. Check for the issues in the back-issue bins, they're great.
Horrible, horrible news!
I have been a fan of Dwayne McDuffie since the late 80s.
I can not say enough good things about him. For his contributions to and understanding of the super-hero genre, he cannot be praised enough.
R.I.P
I have been a fan of Dwayne McDuffie since the late 80s.
I can not say enough good things about him. For his contributions to and understanding of the super-hero genre, he cannot be praised enough.
R.I.P
What a huge loss. My daughter came to know superheroes through the DCAU...mainly JL and JLU. Maybe he rest in peace.
This is a terrible loss. RIP.
Wha...? I just read an article on Newsarama the other day in which he was interviewed! I went out and picked up All Star Superman at lunch today. While I didn't follow him, I'm a comic collector, and his name has been around forever. My condolences to his family.
This really came as a shock. He was a truly talented writer, and a very intelligent man, and his death is a loss to both the WB Animation team and the world of comics.
Terrible surprise.
His work in animation was amazing; his comics stuff never really approached those heights, at least, not the stuff I read, but his run on JLA is one of the posterboys for editorial interference.
His work in animation was amazing; his comics stuff never really approached those heights, at least, not the stuff I read, but his run on JLA is one of the posterboys for editorial interference.
It's that editorial interference that will play a role in how McDuffie's remembered: part of his story will have to concern what happens when brilliant writers can't get anywhere in a culture of the Big Event. His work on the animated series speaks for itself, but also speaks to the need for the Big Two to start devolving creative power back onto a wider stable of writers and artists. One of the bravest things McDuffie did was to state candidly what happened with JLA - I know JMS and Bill Willingham have also done this, but McDuffie had a better case.
The L.A. Times reported his age: he was 49. Way too young.
I wonder what the surgery was that ended up being fatal.
Definitely a bad week for fantasy fans, with Nick Courtney of Doctor Who dying the other day, and it was in fact a blog reporting on his death that also mentioned McDuffie also dying. I'd just watched All Star Superman too.
RIP
Alex
Definitely a bad week for fantasy fans, with Nick Courtney of Doctor Who dying the other day, and it was in fact a blog reporting on his death that also mentioned McDuffie also dying. I'd just watched All Star Superman too.
RIP
Alex
The Los Angeles Times says it was emergency heart surgery. No word on why he needed it.
And one more detail on top of all the other reasons this is awful: it was a day after his birthday.
On the plus side, the Times reports that All-Star Superman is the second of three DC Universe movies McDuffie wrote. So we'll be getting a swan song from him down the road a bit.
Yet, at the same time, a blessing I'm sure that it was not a day sooner.
Oh wow, his birthday is a day before mine, and he died on my birthday.
