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Message: <blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 3813235" data-attributes="member: 10531">All the DC continuity reboots have happened at the same time as a steady decline in DC comics sales.  Oh, you get a temporary boost when you have a Crisis on Infinite Earths or a Zero Hour or an Infinite Crisis or a Final Crisis . . . and then the decline sets in again.Or, say, look at Traveller, first after the assassination of Strephon and then after the Virus.  There's a reason every version of Trav issued since TNE has been set either before Stephon was killed or in an alternate universe where he wasn't killed.Hey, remember how well Enterprise did in the ratings in its first season, after it became apparent it had thrown out care for continuity in favor of some Temporal Cold War?There's no evidence that rebooting shared worlds does anything other than piss fans off.  It's like getting sick in the Eighteenth Century; you go, you see the doctor, and the doctor takes a lancet and cuts open a vein.  You complain about the pain and feeling faint, and the doctor tells you that bleeding is a medical necessity.  Then a statistician comes along in the next century, takes some surveys, and discovers that poor people survive illnesses better than the rich.  Why?  Because the poor can't afford vein-opening doctors, and that more than makes up for their poorer food and shelter.</blockquote>