jademunky said:
Are they really looking to try to kill off Superman again? No, just no. DC, you do not get to do that. Nobody thinks you will keep that promise, you blew your load in that one already and we will not be fooled again that you mean it this time.
Actually, they've un-killed a former Superman, so now there are two Supermans.
It would be difficult, if not impossible, to re-kill not-Superman again.
K12 said:
The reboot is getting retconned because people whinged about it. I assume the handful of stuff that people liked about the New 52 will be incorporated into the old continuity along with all the other stuff that people didn't complain too hard about despite being logically inconsistent on several levels. In a few years it'll get re-rebooted anyway so who cares.
...this is why comic book storytelling is shit on a macro scale.
this is essentially what's happening.
The New 52 led to a massive short-term sales increase, which was what DC wanted, but it dropped off once the poor quality of most titles outweighed reader curiosity. Then DC tried this not-reboot called DC You, which I actually think was great - it led to a lot of off-beat, suprisingly good comics like Grayson, Omega Men, and Prez - not to mention a crazy arc where Superman lost his flight and had to ride around on a blue-and-red motorbike, and Jim Gordon replaced a missing Bruce as Batman and ran around in a police-built
Bat-Mecha.
But despite all that kinda-crazy kinda-awesome stuff, it didn't get reader's attention the same way the New 52 did - probably because doing two reboots within a few years of each other put a bad taste in people's mouths - so they pulled this Convergence event, which I
still don't understand, and now they're basically rolling back on all the New 52 stuff that people didn't like and spent four years complaining about, very vocally.
So if anything, this shows that DC has been listening to the recommendations/anguished wailing of their eternally-displeased internet fanbase, and is attempting to pull out the good New 52 stuff, shed the bad, and go back to the status quo before Flashpoint. It's not a terrible move, it's not the move I'd make - I think they should just stick to their guns and focus on making the New 52
better instead of taking this shotgun-style approach to quality control where they shoot everything out and keep whatever hits the mark - but it's aimed at pleasing the fans and at the very least, Superman won't have a Hitler-Youth style raised collar anymore.
Although they recoloured his red boots to blue, which is...ehh. Is it hypocritical for me to chastise the fanbase for nit-picking condemnations and then complain about his boot colour? It probably is. I don't care. His boots looked better in red. (then he can tap his heels and go back to Kansas! hahaha recycling a joke from BvS...new low)
