My thoughts on the DC Universe Relaunch!

One terrible mistake man. I feel like I have been slapped in the face. Everything I have following is gone.

Sorry guys. I imagine that's how I'd be feeling now too if I were in your shoes. There's always the chance it will fail miserably and they'll decide to go back to the way things are.

Marvel better not do a reboot, maybe some new heroes can be introduced but if they reboot it aswell they can go and [frick] off. I don't mind changing the status quo of characters and books, don't even mind changes to the costumes but completely erasing there past is moronic (yes Joe Q, you are a moron for the shit you did to spidey, although there were some pretty decent story lines post BND)

i think rebooting is like admitting that your universe is horribly flawed.

which is a shame. Individually, DC has some very good books. But as a complete continuity and universe, the world is very convoluted. DC reboots very often, and it usually goes back to the status quo in time.

Marvel has done the same thing though, just look at Heroes Reborn...

@ bigbmh

yeah, lol. Heroes Reborn was so bad that they went back to their old numbering and forgot the reboot ever happened. and it was only like 4 or 5 issues into it too, lol.

@JM4Superman and anyone else saying similar things -
Everything you have been reading in the last 5 years is gone. Since the end of Infinite Crisis. And now, at least you get the beginning, which - with the exceptipon of the Secret Origins minis - has been missing from New Earth continuity. In only 6 years you will have more of a loyalty to the post-flashpoint New Earth than to the pre-flashpoint New Earth and there will be an actual starting point to read from.

Thanks Dane. Hopefully Green Lantern does well so they're more willing to do movies for their non-Superman/Batman characters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the ony other DC universe character that has ever gotten a major movie Jonah Hex? That one didn't even turn out well.

@DukeAcureds I think you're wrong about how I'm going to feel about the post flashpoint New Earth, I've been reading comics from DC for 14 years and followed the stories. All I'm saying is that it does not make sense to erase and relaunch everything.

What I'm saying is that they HAVE erased everything with all the other reboots, but they have also kept everything the way it was just before the reboot. This causes so much confusion, because the books have no official history in comic format for fans, - new and old - to read. Then they cherry-pick plot points from past comics that take place in previous universes and it actually makes it more convoluted than before the reboot. Crisis was meant to make things simpler. But they were simpler before, on Earth 2 and Earth 1.
Just for example: If you were reading Batman (doesn't matter if you were reading it before Infinite Crisis or not) and you wanted to start at the beginning, what would you read? Year One? Is that in-continuity? It was Post-Crisis, but then it wasn't in continuity Post-Zero-Hour. Has anyone at DC ever said what is in fact in-continuity? And let me ask you this: If you wanted to read about the adventures of Batman and the Dick Grayson version of Robin on New Earth, what would you read? The Golden Age comics? I don't think so. They acknowledge that all this stuff has taken place in the past but it is a past we don't know about. Imagine if Chris Nolan sequeled Batamn Begins with a book similar to Batman And Son or Batman RIP (which were the big stories after Infinite Crisis), with all the characters and their histories but with no explanation how we got from Batman Begins to that. And at least he gave us an origin.
So, @JM4Supes, you might have been reading for 14 years, but only 5 of those years count as canon. The rest may or may not. No one at DC will ever tell you.