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DC Comics No Longer To Close In 2015 For Two Months

I understand that, initially, DC Comics planned an "impromptu" creative summit in Chicago to coincide with C2E2.

I understand that at that summit, they would have been informed of plans, next year, for DC Comics to close its offices for anything up to two months as the New York editorial team who have chosen to move west (around 40% of the editorial staff at current count) undergo the move, both personally and professionally, while editorial duties would be outsourced.

As well as moving home across the country, they will be required to set up the new offices and help train new employees hired to take the place of those who aren't moving, and to come to terms with the new demands of the promotions that many will be receiving as part of the move (April will be a really good time, career-wise, to be an assistant or associate editor with few ties to New York).

But it seems that last week that plans changed. It seems that a numbercruncher got involved and pointed out how much the big plans would cost, while others pointed out the psychological damage DC closing for two months might cause, with creators, retailer and readers. Creators have been especially skittish, and the big news at C2E2 was how many of them were setting up books at Image, Boom, IDW, Avatar, Dynamite, Dark Horse and more ahead of fears for their longevity at DC.

Now it appears that staff will be sent up in groups to set up shop in Burbank while keeping all the plates spinning, then sending another group, then sending another, incrementally, until there's only one group of folk working in the whole of the DC New York offices…

…and then there were none.

It's a plan. At least until it changes again. Or changes back.

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