I mean, who wants to read Superman saying “Oh $#!+!” after all.

There’s a lead feature by me, Mark Bagley and Art Thibert.

In #1, there’s a second chapter written by me and Fabian, with art by Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens.

In #2, there’s a second chapter (featuring a different character) with the same writers, and art by Tom Derenick and Wayne Faucher.

#3 begins a three-part sequence in the back of the book with the same writers, and art by Mike Norton and Jerry Ordway.

#6′s back chapter is Scott & Andy again. #7 is Tom & Wayne again. #8-10 are Scott & Andy again. #11 is Tom & Wayne again, and so on.

So it’s not as if the artists are all jumbled up — all the leads are penciled and inked by the same team, and the back chapters each have a penciler and an inker, nothing untoward or bizarre.

It may be that the fact that there are two chapters per issue and that the artists change on the back chapters as the characters featured in the change is enough to lose Johanna’s interest, and if so, well, so it goes. But it’s actually a much smaller, much more consistent group of creators than what’s been seen in previous weeklies.

And thanks, Andrew — Batman spends so much time being grim and grimmer that the fact that he’s really, really good at being charming Bruce Wayne can get lost in the shuffle. I’d rather play with his two different “faces” than ignore either. Hope you like the rest!

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This isn’t to say DC can’t screw it up, but it sounds like they’ve learned something from Countdown.