(Last time I was working at DC I pitched a one-shot parody issue, as a comment on the relentless darkening of all the characters: teenaged SUGAR AND SPIKE - VAMPIRE HUNTERS! I was told such a thing would "damage" the characters!!!!)

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I know why, too.  Paul Levitz is a HUGE Sheldon Mayer fan and he holds Mayer's creations in high regard.

However, NOW you could probably get the ok for that one-shot.  Just make the vamps sparkly.

Being more of a Marvel kid growing up and not buying any DC comics until JB took over Superman, I'm not as invested in the DCU and don't have a problem if they "fix" some things (like the Dibny's and I'd like the Ditko Creeper back not a demon). If I didn't hate what Identity Crisis did to the DC Universe, I doubt I'd care one way or the other about a reboot.

I put fix in quotes because I'm sure that there are people who love Identity Crisis and think that all the stuff that it lead to made DC comics better.

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And I suspect most of them work up at DC.

I recall once strolling by a clutch of people who were surrounding a British writer (sorry, don't recall which one) who was being verbally assaulted by an irate fan who was demanding to know why said writer could use all kinds of cuss words in his comicbook work but could not say... well, let's use "the C-Word".

Today, I get a picture of editors at Marvel and DC demanding of their writers why they haven't used "the C-Word".*

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* Here's a crazy idea! Let's not follow this post with all kinds of terribly witty speculations on what "the C-Word" might be!

Stanley grew up into a serial murderer and child molester and his monster was a demon from hell who had renounced evil and he was using it to kill people

And yet Kevin Smith continues to get work from DC. I'm mystified.

And yet Kevin Smith continues to get work from DC. I'm mystified.

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I read an interview not long ago where Kevin Smith complained about the fan's supposedly not liking his Batman stories but he said that his take is very popular because the collected edition (Cacaphony?) made the NY Times best seller list. I know that the man has his fans but I have never had a conversation with any comic book fan that loves his work. Guys like Didio and Quesada laud him and I guess if he made that list someone bought those books but I don't know any comic fan that is not already a Kevin Smith fan that holds his work in high regard.