>>96974999Johns' comments on the early and current conceptualization are built around this idea of making a statement about the state of things in our world and why they are how they are, but also conveniently enough it's also DC annulling the state of things in their world and why they are how they are by using Manhattan as a scapegoat strawman for their own decisions to frolic in Dark Age ideation until it became inconvenient to be held culpable.
Now the narrative is it wasn't their writers or events at all, no, it was this comic book character all along.
Beloved DC would never do anything like that! Why, they're a Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. subsidiary publishing unit of hope, meaningful stories and your favorite comic book properties such as, but not limited to, Bob Kane's (and later that other guy they were made to acknowledge, a Will Thumb or somesuch) Batman, and Jerry Siegel* and Joe Shuster's Superman!
(*By special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family)
You know, modern heroic icons they cherish and respect and wouldn't in any way routinely repurpose to suit current market trends.
And if this effigy for innocents also helps renew recollection of another well received license under the DC brand, well that's just icing on the cake, and a nice red cherry on top if ever a movie or some form of adaptation winds up in the works to help the ink on that contract dry.
You see, it's not an $. In their halls it means Anti-Life. It justifies anything.
