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| - Newsarama asked Didio some fan questions about Steph, and Didio gave an unusually long answer, discussed at length below: Yet again, no one is willing to take credit for the decision to kill Steph off. Horrocks, Simone, Willingham, and Didio have all said either they objected or were told by "others" that the death was happening. Seriously, people, SOMEONE made that decision, and SOMEONE chose to push it through. Gabrich hasn't said anything about the decision one way or another to this date. And Didio conflicts with Willingham's claim, made about the same time, that Willingham wanted to make her Robin.
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| - Newsarama asked Didio some fan questions about Steph, and Didio gave an unusually long answer, discussed at length below: Yet again, no one is willing to take credit for the decision to kill Steph off. Horrocks, Simone, Willingham, and Didio have all said either they objected or were told by "others" that the death was happening. Seriously, people, SOMEONE made that decision, and SOMEONE chose to push it through. Gabrich hasn't said anything about the decision one way or another to this date. And Didio conflicts with Willingham's claim, made about the same time, that Willingham wanted to make her Robin. Ah, yes, the vague claims of "unmet expectations." What were the expectations? According to Diamond Industry Statistics, Steph's title started at #39, and hovered between 50-70 for most of its two-year run. While it's true it suffered very badly in the last three months of its run, that was also the time of Flashpoint, which always depresses sales of any non-integral part of a crossover. It did significantly better than Gotham City Sirens, and both Harley Quinn and Selina Kyle have been given a huge amount of support in the n52. Ditto Supergirl. Birds of Prey, much as I love it, didn't even place in the top 100 during Steph's run, and it received a relaunch in the n52 as well. Okay, but you could at least acknowledge that you had plans to do so at some point, instead of company wide silence, and squashing every attempt to bring her in, even out of continuity. Oh, really? As editor, you couldn't have said, "Hey, lets make this a big deal?" Dixon clearly did the best he could given the insanity of his brief return to DC in 2007-2008. The entirety of Steph's return was a baldfaced retcon simply to erase one of the most unpopular and poorly thought-through decisions in the company's history. Instead of giving it muscle with advertising and getting writers together on the project, they shuffled it off to Dixon, then fired him as soon as he'd finished the job. Then, when they did grudgingly decide to give Steph a chance at Batgirl, they gave it little to no push with advertising, and then cried "no interest" when sales weren't Batman level. The interviewer is clearly attempting to do a puff piece for Didio, but comes across as more than a little clueless.
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