I wish we had more real industry information and things of that like kind of stuff. I was reading The Question #1 from 1986 recently, bought it at Goodwill for 54 cents mint condition. The most interesting thing for me in it though was a Meanwhile column from a Richard Bruning.

In it he discussed the need for the end of the never ending battle. DC was coming off the success of books like Watchmen and The Dark Knight returns, and Bruning was speculating about the need for a move to these types of stories. Ones that had a beginning, middle and ending, because that’s what the common person was looking for.

I wish someone could reprint these old Meanwhile columns in a book, or online somewhere. Though I doubt it, as so much of it flies in the face of DC’s current philosophy of “never ending a story, because you don’t want to give readers a chance to jump off.”