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How to explain why you're not being as ambitious as your competitor by saying that you're actually so much more awesome than them that you don't have to be, oh and by the way what they're doing is totally lame anyway why would you even want it:

I’m going to speak frankly: I think our characters are bigger than Marvel’s.

That was Geoff Johns, Chief Creative Officer at DC, speaking at New York Comic Con yesterday.

He said that he’d rather spend time building each character on his or her own rather than “smashing them together.”

We've heard a lot from Aquaman in the months since the beginning of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, whether it's an anonymous internet photoshop, or the artwork of Kate Beaton (but nothing from the Sub-Mariner, hmm).

However, (as I realized in a moment of contextual horror while watching my Justice League Unlimited dvds on the train yesterday morning) he's known about the dangers of oil rig destruction for six years now. Or, at least, J. M. DeMatteis, writer of the Justice League Unlimited episode Ultimatum has.