I’m surprised that Snyder never lost some credibility with a bomb like the original Eternal, but I guess it is easy to pass blame when you are with a team of co-conspirators. It just doesn’t mesh with the other stories that are happening around the DCU, especially with Grayson and, to a certain extent, Batman-which is ridiculous because both of those series’ head writers worked on B&R Eternal. The same temporal-logic problems, seen in the original series, have crept up with B&R Eternal as well, though.
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It helps, of course, that the second series was half as long as the first. The first series was shit, constantly falling to pieces and shark-jumping, while this one holds together decently. While the weak weekly week-to-week art left us feeling a little flat, Batman and Robin Eternal trumps Batman Eternal in every sense of narrative development. Then the art would surely improve across the board.
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To re-iterate, my suggestion for comic book companies, in regard to future weeklies, is to stop writing them like so much stuff you see on TV and instead start writing them more like most monthlies or films. And say there’s a plot point that inadvertently gains traction changing the series so that plot point gains more traction should not be difficult because you know where you can divert your story’s vision and where you cannot afford to sacrifice.
This would make it easier on the artists. Writers and editors should not be contemplating a series’ conclusion while in the middle of writing issue #3-everything should already be planned out beforehand. Of course this requires scripts to completed much faster and the only solution is that series should be completely planned out months before release. Art can be improved for future weekly series if DC utilizes a “cyclical approach.” If they hope to make each issue’s art look polished, then they have to treat each issue like they would a monthly: the first issue of the month goes to one artist, and then the first issue of next month goes to the same artist as well.