More on the DC Reboot
Jun. 1st, 2011 06:02 pm
Thinking things over more, there's definitely positive and negative with the DC reboot.
I mean, I've been saying for a while that the DC universe is utterly opaque and daunting for new readers. I'm a comics fan, but Crisis after Crisis, Countdowns, big events and reliance on drawing heavily on past canon has kept me away from much DC content. There's a rich history at DC, but I don't even know what the original Crisis was, let alone want to see it referenced weekly, have events built on the multiverse... it's all seemed needlessly complex. Streamlining all this, to me, does seem an attractive proposition. This is the positive, along with embracing digital.
However, it's the logistics of it that has me concerned.
For example, take the current scenario of Batman Incorporated...
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