Warner Bros is right to ditch the DCEU

THERE AREN’T MANY good things about 1997’s Batman & Robin, but there’s at least one. A single throwaway line, a cheeky little in-joke. When George Clooney’s Batman becomes exasperated by Robin and Batgirl, he grumbles: “This is why Superman works alone”.

That was (we think) the first time a big-screen laying the red-and-gold foundation for the MCU. After Marvel knocked it out of the Central Park with , Warner Bros./DC’s strategy changed course and scrambled to catch up. And, as 2017’s patchy proved, stumbled. Where felt like a family reunion, was an awkward meet-and-greet, cramming together characters who, Wonder Woman aside, only previously made fleeting, flummoxing appearances in .