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4) Changing what happens in a supe...Furthermore...<br /><br />4) Changing what happens in a superhero comic DOES NOT ATTRACT people who don't already buy comics. That is a fact proven over and over and over again. DC continues to be IDIOTS. Kids do not want superhero comics. All this reboot could possibly accomplish is to steal away sales from other publishers or from DC's own non-superhero titles.<br /><br />5. I don't even understand DC's logic. Is there anyone out there saying they would buy Superman if DC rebooted the title? Does anyone believe the series will be that different for the foreseeable future? Does anyone believe DC won't go back to the old continuity somehow in the near future? <br /><br />6. Is there any data at all that supports this plan? Is there any marketing scheme at all in the past (since the 1994 collapse) that has actually motivated people who don't read non-manga comics to start regularly buying non-manga comics?dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-29066084991950615382011-06-15T08:17:11.320-05:002011-06-15T08:17:11.320-05:001. Don't make the "it's the publisher...1. Don't make the "it's the publisher's property and they can do what they want" argument. It's essentially irrelevant. Anyone who funds a company has a 100% right to complain about its product. These are comic books, not oil. Without our pleasure, they do not survive (no one buys oil out of joy but out of need; and no one needs a comic book). Feedback is essential in the intertainment industry. <br /><br />2. A rebook negates continuity even if it doesn't technically void it. Unless this really is just a gimmick of new numbering, it requires that prior continuity be set aside so that new continuity can evolve. And if I've been buying a title because I'm caught up in its wonderful storylines, I have a right to complain if the selling feature is changed.<br /><br />3. This reboot is effectively a raising of the white flag that all the previous reboots have been failures. Didn't we just end the monoverse DCU and return to the multiverse DCU? Didn't we just undo a bunch of character deaths? And we need ANOTHER reboot event? <br /><br />This isn't "epic" fail... this is EPOCH fail. <br /><br />It's one failure after another for a very long period of time (26 years of it, from 1985-2011).dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-33785005684319064142011-06-14T13:20:29.091-05:002011-06-14T13:20:29.091-05:00For all the #1s they're launching, they really...For all the #1s they're launching, they really aren't doing their best with the covers. Very few of them look exciting, or memorable (I'm looking at you, Batman family).<br /><br />I'm gonna give this a chance, I'm actually excited to see them try and make fun and interesting comics again. Visually, however, it looks kinda boring, almost every new costume seems like a movie costume design.Mandrakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08698107286176995559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-7360836379499854932011-06-14T00:32:28.498-05:002011-06-14T00:32:28.498-05:00I'd feel much more sanguine about this if He W...I'd feel much more sanguine about this if He Who Must Not Be Named weren't writing <i>Hawk and Dove</i>. <br /><br />And if the kids on the cover of <i>Teen Titans</i> weren't wearing such dreadfully familiar-looking costumes.<br /><br />And...<i>Blackhawks</i>. Dear Lord.<br /><br />Are we entering into '90s nostalgia now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-42803249014770967432011-06-13T15:24:38.607-05:002011-06-13T15:24:38.607-05:00Six of one....Six of one....TotalToyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17458868361840649001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-81045817587957780242011-06-13T13:26:22.164-05:002011-06-13T13:26:22.164-05:00To the last anonymous: DC DID say it WASN'T a ...To the last anonymous: DC DID say it WASN'T a reboot. It's the launch of the new DCU.<br /><br />Whatever that means.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-4704528634441233452011-06-13T09:37:29.933-05:002011-06-13T09:37:29.933-05:00Not my hard-earned dollars, Steve my friend. I hav...Not my hard-earned dollars, Steve my friend. I haven't purchased a new comic in close on ten years now. And this is just one of the reasons why.TotalToyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17458868361840649001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-71957136476396403202011-06-13T00:03:39.237-05:002011-06-13T00:03:39.237-05:00I'm starting to think that all the talk of &qu...I'm starting to think that all the talk of "Universal Reboot" is more smoke and mirrors than substance.<br /><br />If this was a real reboot...<br /><br />1) Why would Damian still be Robin? <br /><br /> A character with no presence outside the comics pages, while others have been Robin in TV, cartoons, and movies.<br /><br />2) Why would the numerically haunting Action #1 show us an adult Superman with blue collar roots wearing a Superman T-shirt suggesting a world already familiar with him--not any sort of origin adventure image like the real Action #1's car flipping?<br /><br />3) Why would they keep so many Bat-family and Superman-family titles alive when those relationships require some degree of continuity to make any sense?<br /><br />I think this posturing about a reboot is really about integrating the Wildstorm characters into the DCU and getting set-up for Morrison's Multiversity series (whatever that will be).<br /><br />Agree / disagree?<br /><br />As always, Thank You Scipio for framing the discussion so insightfully.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-34767742190563692172011-06-12T18:41:51.318-05:002011-06-12T18:41:51.318-05:00But then, if you don't like the DC reboot, you...But then, if you don't like the DC reboot, you can always take a look at Marvel. The once-mighty House of Ideas has just announced "X-Men: Schism," in which the mutants have to decide which side they're on (with Cyclops or Wolverine), and then engage in a--dare I say it?--mutant civil war. I seem to remember reading something kind of similar just a few years ago. . .<br /><br />And people actually get paid for coming up with this tripe. Paid out of YOUR hard-earned hobby dollars!steve mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-14095050245620789202011-06-12T18:37:03.615-05:002011-06-12T18:37:03.615-05:00While a DC reboot might be a good idea in theory, ...While a DC reboot might be a good idea in theory, my problem is that the inmates are still running the asylum. The "geniuses" who brought us Infinite Crisis, One Year Later, Countdown, Death of the New Gods, and Final Crisis are the same creators who will bring us the September reboot. What are the odds they will do a better job this time?<br /><br />Eleven Bat-titles? The Red Hood leading a team? The grandson of Sgt. Rock? I Vampire in its own title? Red Lanterns? Is DC just throwing things against the wall to see what sticks?steve mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-7039398294225709222011-06-12T12:58:43.088-05:002011-06-12T12:58:43.088-05:00I didn't really miss your point. I just had no...I didn't really miss your point. I just had nothing to add to it, because I agree with you 100%. My DC ended in 1986, too. But in my own way I still have it, and they can't take it away from me. They can claim Clark Kent was never Superboy all they like; I have boxes and boxes of comics that say otherwise.TotalToyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17458868361840649001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-9321762919425313812011-06-12T12:16:53.057-05:002011-06-12T12:16:53.057-05:00You're right, Scipio. I forgot about the ice ...You're right, Scipio. I forgot about the ice cream...but what an amazing super power to have! Still...it's nice to know that Apex City is actually in continuity now.SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-71324482947434228222011-06-12T12:07:55.496-05:002011-06-12T12:07:55.496-05:00really? The giant ants will win. Despite recent ...really? The giant ants will win. Despite recent years being devoted to undoing all the things you're complaining about?<br /><br />Overall, my biggest problem isn't them removing stories it's them removing characters or randomly changing chracterizations(see Wondergirl, beligerant thief)mrjlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03683082869179911101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-2809986030092752442011-06-12T11:05:54.548-05:002011-06-12T11:05:54.548-05:00Reboot bothers me but not for the normally express...Reboot bothers me but not for the normally expressed reasons.<br /><br />1. DC constantly complains that their continuity makes story-telling difficult and makes stories inaccessible for new readers ... but Marvel is beating them in circulation numbers and have not had to resort to the same number of universal reboots. So, perhaps it's more a problem of DC's preferred writing style that makes continuity a problem more than continuity being problematic in and of itself. Or perhaps continuity is just an easy scapegoat for dipping sales.<br /><br />2. I understand the idea that a reboot does not negate the old stories but sometimes people want to see characters continue to develop. I'd rather read the further continuing adventures of character X than a umpteenth retelling/rehash of character X's origin story. <br /><br />3. It gets a smidge weak when you pat yourself on the back about the longevity of a character (Superman's 70th anniversary! Yippee!) but at the same time state that you need to clear-cut a character's history every ten years because it's a total tangled rat's nest. Is continuity a selling point or an achille's heel? Can we pick one?<br /><br />- JasonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-47648040099294611652011-06-11T15:04:08.205-05:002011-06-11T15:04:08.205-05:00Personally, Sally, I'm holding out for ice cre...Personally, Sally, I'm holding out for ice cream cones from the void.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-2929619418817776512011-06-11T10:20:57.477-05:002011-06-11T10:20:57.477-05:00You are of course...quite right. But it seems to ...You are of course...quite right. But it seems to be in our nature to panic and scream and stomp our little feet. I have done this a bit myself. As a creature of habit, I want my books to ALWAYS BE THERE FOR ME!!!<br /><br />But on the other hand...this HAS been done before...and will undoubtedly happen again. And somehow, everything always reverts to its original status quo, once everyone gets tired of the latest reboot, or retelling, or whatever.<br /><br />So yes, someday, Wonder Woman will be back in her star-spangled short shorts, and Super-Man will be back in his red underwear, and so on and so forth. <br /><br />But man, I'd really like to see J'onn J'onnz make gold out of seawater again.SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-79545165655111358882011-06-11T09:44:56.285-05:002011-06-11T09:44:56.285-05:00When I found out I'd be getting Peter Milligan...When I found out I'd be getting Peter Milligan writing Shade the Changing Man again AND a new Suicide Squad series AND Keith Giffen OMAC, I gladly welcomed our new Insect Overlords.MattMinusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-31434728653548389302011-06-10T16:03:23.731-05:002011-06-10T16:03:23.731-05:00Sorry, I meant UR (Universal Reboot). I guess UB ...Sorry, I meant UR (Universal Reboot). I guess UB is Universal Boot...Redforcenoreply@blogger.com