DC didn’t say earlier that you’d need to read Superman and WW to understand OMAC Project

The following is a statement made by Greg Rucka

“I want to say, before anything else that we tried very hard to build OMAC so that you weren’t obligated to buy anything else, and we failed,” Rucka said. “We really did. I’ll cop to it – I won’t lie about it. And we did it by playing dirty pool too – if you were buying The OMAC Project, you really need the Superman and Wonder Woman books to know what’s happening in issue #4 of the miniseries. If you don’t read them, it’s possible to understand them, but you don’t get the emotional resonance. That was a little bit of dirty pool, but we didn’t plan it out that way – we weren’t looking to spring this on people, but that’s the way it happened, and again, we’re sorry. So instead of a six issue miniseries, you get a ten issue miniseries, and I won’t fault any reader for not picking it up. I’d still suggest them though, because they’re a good story and worth reading, but I’d suggest, if nothing else, you pick up Wonder Woman #219 at the very least – call it issue OMAC #3.5 if you must, because it sets up the events of OMAC #4.”

Greg, with all due respect, I like your work, I really do, but…no. I’m not saying that Mr. Rucka is at fault here, but I will have to say that DC, if anyone, was being very dishonest with the readers by not telling in advance that, in spite of what may have been said earlier, that the OMAC Project didn’t require reading other books in order to understand what’s going on in the miniseries itself, it DID.

The failure of this whole buildup to yet another needless crossover is already starting to be felt. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, DC hasn’t been publishing those silly “this issue sells out/goes back to press” news releases as much as they did before recently. Whether or not they’re selling well, it’s apparent that things are beginning to take their toll.