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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jared Rascher" data-source="post: 5589917" data-attributes="member: 28825">Part of me actually thinks DC did need a reboot.  I think that there is a lot of baggage from some stories like Identity Crisis that really weighs down the current DC Universe, and there is this strange disconnect between pushing the Silver Age versions of some characters while still doing stories like Cry for Justice that seem to try and out Iron Age the 90s.However, there seems to be a threefold model that is very much working against a clean slate starting point for new fans, or old fans that want a new point to jump onto the books.1.  Green Lantern and Batman Incorporated are "sort of" not affected, in that everything that isn't changed in someone else's books still happened in these books.  This is the most confusing issue in the whole endeavor.  On one had, they are popular books, on the other hands, Secret Six and Power Girl are as well, yet they get sacrificed on the reboot altar.  I really don't want to say its obvious that Johns and Morrison get to dictate their own terms, but there it is.2.  Because Jim Lee is one of the head honchos, Wildstorm characters and concepts now exist in the DC Universe.  Including characters that are pretty much meant to be versions of DC characters with a harder edge to examine similar themes from different angles.  Either those characters are going to change drastically to not be alternate versions of their inspirations, or they are going to be confusing to new readers.  And if they do change so as to not be alternate versions of their inspired heroes, what's the point of introducing them.Not to mention the weirdness of introducing some Wildcats characters and part of the Wildcats plot, in a universe that has a lot more established alien races.3.  Some characters are getting the massive reset buttons hit on them.  Tim Drake didn't become Red Robin after having been Robin?  He just spontaneously exists outside of the Batman family because people liked him on the Titans?  But why did they like him?  Because he was the Titans version of Batman!  And how accessible is it to have Robin being Batman's son by Ra's al Ghul's daughter?  I'm not saying you can't tell that story, but it seems a bit more complicated then just having the standard, "touched by tragedy" adopted sidekick angle that people already "get" from various other versions of Batman over the years.</blockquote>

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