The next age of DC begins this week with the publication of the hotly-anticipated DC All In Special – a 64-page flipbook-style comic that tells two connected stories that set up the future of both the core DCU and the newly-revealed Absolute Universe. In a recent roundtable discussion with writer Scott Snyder and artist Wes Craig, the former revealed that one of the motivations for the high profile relaunch was to confront the notion of superhero fatigue that has been the subject of much media and online chatter over the last couple of years by personifying it in one of the publisher's most infamous villains.
Asked how the creative team approached the special, Snyder said, "We were trying to make like a thesis statement about what the whole initiative stood for... We began with 'what do we want to say?' What is this moment about for us? And it really felt like in the cultural zeitgeist, there was this whole conversation about how superheroes were over, or how superheroes were in a malaise because the cinematic universes had peaked or were going to start over soon. There were all these kind of autopsies in the Times and in the Wall Street Journal and all these places. So for us what we wanted to do was an initiative that reminded people that not only are these heroes alive and well in comics, but they're living some of their most epic stories, and the comics is where they can also be reborn."
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