| Posted: 08 July 2014 at 12:12am | IP Logged | 1
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Brian, did Infantino say somewhere that he felt readers were alienated by the titles being an interconnected saga? I hadn't heard that before, and I wonder because (despite the fact that DC now markets it as a "saga") there really wasn't that much interconnection between titles and storylines. Scott Free appears in exactly one panel of the entire New Gods run (in flashback, as an infant). The New Gods don't appear in Mister Miracle until the final issue, after their own title had been cancelled for over a year. The Forever People never appear in either New Gods or Mister Miracle. And none of the stories crossover at all, aside from the flashback origin of Orion and Scott Free.
To his credit, Infantino greenlit a lot of innovative series, but he did pull the plug on many of them too quickly. I remember reading an interview with Grell about the Warlord, which Infantino cancelled after just three or four issues. When Jeanette Kahn took over, she decided to revive the series and give it a chance to find an audience, and it eventually became one of DC's top sellers. I get the sense Infantino expected The Fourth World books to be instant hits, given Kirby's track record. When the books weren't instant hits he panicked and decided he needed to have Kirby work on something else instead. He was like a coach who made to many substitutions, or a day trader who doesn't know how to buy and hold.
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