I'm always willing to chance that stories that happen next will be the things that fix the downward spirals of the present. It'd be the apex of unfairness to constantly hold future writers accountable for the mistakes of the past. A lot of excellent stories have been built upon the corpses of their lessers; sometimes it feels like this happens moreso than not.
The thing I am mostly tepid towards this event about is that I think it's high time the gods stop being such ineffectual d**ks. Even under Rucka, and even before him, maybe even stretching as far back to seeds laid down by Perez, the gods have been largely ineffectual d**ks who needed to be rescued more often than not ("A Crisis across the universe? Well, time to run away"), just to go back acting like big d**ks who never deserved to be rescued in the first place. One of the reasons that Rucka's depiction of the gods felt as progressive as it did is because he depicted them growing beyond the omni-PMSing psychos in togas that they've been in both Marvel and DC, but it doesn't even necessarily have to take his route. Morrison is going to be doing some major work to make the term "gods" feel like the awe-inspiring, epic title that it should be, instead of psychos in togas; I hope Simone is going to take from his example. I want Wonder Woman to have gods that deserve her worship.
