>>100048270>>100049700I doubt either of you mean it should be 'unimaginative' or 'uncreative' which was part of my comment. As far as 'shared universes':
I don't disagree that properly it should be done this way. Instead, Cereal Lord forced Oz on the Superman writers, and forcibly suggested Snyder picked up on Babyseid for Metal. He himself doesn't even bother using his own OCs other than creating, for example, a lousy one as a brief passing reference in Origins and then turning him into the worse kind of tedious Gary Stu villain for simple plot device reasons (and even then with no other explanation than 'because plot') for The Villains Journey.
A better way is Pak using the Chinese Triad for a throwaway scene in Divergence/Action Comics as far back as DCYou and then referencing it in New Super-Man (and using the Chinese Triad to advance that story as secondary and tertiary characters over multiple issues/panels), or even though Pak was forced to participate in that awful DOOMED crossover when he was writing Superbro, using the idea of the Doomsday virus, once again, in NSM for an ongoing story. That aspect of Doomsday was otherwise dropped by Jurgens, for example, when he went back to simply use/refer to OG Doomsday (which is partially his own OC) for Rebirth Action, which is a perfect example of how shared universes are typically done: unimaginative and uncreative.
THAT's what most writers do, want to use their own OCs and rarely want to use someone else's, essentially acting like dogs, wanting to lift their legs up and take a leak on whatever they are writing, versus actually reading comic books (as Priest clearly DID NOT before he wrote Simon or Jessica for his short run on Justice League that has just been happening) and seeing what's what or what's recently been what.
