The Flash #19 - "So the Soul"

[laughing_tree]

When writing Big-2 books, unless you’re one of the handful of creators invited to plot the course of the entire shared universe, at some point you have to reconcile yourself to the notion that you are a cog in a machine. Some publishers, and some editors, are better than others at telling the cogs about the machine. Where it’s going, what it’s for. Who’s tinkering with it, and to what end. Why that new component suddenly appeared overnight, and what it means for your specific function. Ugh. More tortured metaphors. Point is, it’s easy to understand why the creative urge tends to carry a writer, when confronted with this reality, in one of two directions. They either a) aspire to become a driver of the machine, or b) focus so tightly on their own unique component within it - seeing it as a discrete device in its own right, with its own modes and motivations - that they can essentially ignore the rest. For myself, I’ve consciously tried to be in the former camp while instinctively falling into the latter. -- Si Spurrier

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

Darkseid is... dead. But Eclipso himself came back from it so he should know that it won't take. And that trying to take his throne while he's temporalily life deficient will just result in the imprint of size 62 Apokoliptian boot in his tuckus when Darkseid comes back.

[bruinsfan]

Eclipso's messed with the Spectre on more than one occasion; I'm not sure that worries about reprisals from Darkseid factor into his thinking at all.

[cainofdreaming]

But they do. Or else he wouldn't have agreed to the annual chess matches instead of trying a forced takeover.