5 ways to make a comics fan happier with DC

I can get behind all of these, but I think number five is the biggest:

5. Five-Year Crossover Moratorium.

That’s right, five years — at least. DC’s credibility is pretty much zero when it proclaims Final Crisis to be just that. Much of that is due to the company’s perpetual-crossover mentality, going back at least to the start of Identity Crisis in the summer of 2004. (You could make a case that it goes back even to the death of Donna Troy in 2003, but Identity Crisis really kicked the whole thing off.) With the last issue of Final Crisis coming out at the end of 2008, that’ll actually cap about four and a half years of mega-crossover hijinx, but as you’ll see it pretty much works out.

There are two exceptions, but only two, and they come with conditions:

The first is for DC’s 75^th anniversary in 2010. A twelve-issue limited series would be appropriate, but it cannot promise that a) everything we know is wrong, b) nothing will ever be the same, or c) the streets will run red (or whatever) with blood. If DC’s superhero continuity still needs maintenance after our current series of events, it’ll be on the level of rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs. After all, the Sinestro Corps War is proving to readers that a big-event crossover can be engaging without rewriting the rules of the universe.