DC will be more judicious in dealing out death to its characters post-Blackest Night, DCU executive editor Dan DiDio has promised. DiDio said that the company will be much more careful in choosing who it kills and returns to life in the future.

“The revolving door of death is a staple of comic book storytelling,” DiDio told Newsarama. “I hate to say that, but it’s true.

“It’s something that’s been occurring for as long as I’ve been reading comics – you know, with characters who are supposed to have been dead or dying and ultimately returning over the course of time.

“The thing that will be disappearing will be the rebooting of characters, where a character dies and you don’t know how to bring him back, so you just bring him back and move on from there.

“You also won’t see as much arbitrary death in the DC Universe, in that, if a character dies in the DCU, there’s a very good chance you won’t be seeing him at all. So therefore, we have to be more judicious in regards to how we make decisions about what happens to certain characters.

“But you know what? We’re not even sure there is a DCU after Blackest Night, so all these questions might be moot.”

DC’s Blackest Night crossover has had a strong focus on death, with dead characters rising from the grave as black lanterns to torment their former loved ones and the black lanterns have particularly focused their attentions on characters who have returned from the dead, including Hal Jordan, Barry Allen and Superboy.