Anonymous asked: Hey Tom. Would you accept a job as DC Editor in Chief if you thought you had the means to put it back on track?
This is a complicated question to answer, but putting aside the issues of money and geography and so forth, the biggest problem is this:
I don’t believe any one person can right DC.
I think that many of the problems that have bedeviled them in recent years have their roots in the institution of DC/Warners, and that’s a much more difficult to affect change upon than it might seem from the outside.
What you’d really need is somebody like a Bill Jemas, with virtually unlimited power and a mandate to tear up as many things as are necessary without regard for human lives in order to make them work better. But especially given DC’s integration into Television and Films, I can’t see anybody being brought in with that sort of sweeping ability to make substantial changes,
It’s an interesting thing to think about, the closest I get maybe to playing “fan fantasy football” in terms of casting books and story directions. But it’s easy to decide that you’d do whatever with Superman or Batman, and far more difficult to get those changes to happen in a world where a multi-million dollar film is about to come out featuring those characters.
To a large degree, DC is the way it is and does business the way it does because that’s the way it wants to be, and a single high-placed person isn’t going to be enough to change that. Everybody has a boss, after all.
Given the highly diplomatic answer, Brevoort’s saying Yes? (Joke.)
