I don't have much thought one way or the other, except on a few issues that are important to.
I think it's a good idea in general. I've been trying for nearly five years now to get a handle on the DC Universe, but everytime I think I've managed to get somewhere I find an annotation on Wikipedia or in a comic saying 'for more backstory, read Oracle-The Cure' and then I spend six months trying to find an obscure book that's possibly even out of print now. Getting rid of most of that, and saying 'here's where we start again, everything before this is only interesting from an academic standpoint, but not essential to understanding the story.'
I liked the Marvel Ultimate Universe until they fucked the whole thing up (thanks Loeb!) so in principle I think reboots/relaunches are a good thing.
However
I got the little free comic they're giving away to explain the reboot, and reading it through it made me very concerned. Some of the writers who are part of this I really don't like, and it also already seems like they're heading for big interconnected storylines, which as I understood it is the exact thing they were trying to get away from with this reboot. Even disregarding the convuluted nature of such stories, I don't have the money to be buying 52 comics a week to try and keep up.
Also, Barbara Gordon is back as Batgirl.
No, fuck this idea right back to wherever it started. As Oracle Barbara Gordon was something new and different and very very cool. Stephanie Brown's recent adoption of the Batgirl cowl is one of the most fun comics I have ever read (besides Power Girl) and taking her out of the DC Universe as her own distinct figure with her own distinct line is nothing short of atrocious. Stephanie Brown was one of the only members of the Bat Family who wasn't a constant brooding psychopath, getting rid of her is a bad bad idea.
Secondly: No mention of the Question anywhere. Is Renee Montoya still the Question? Is Vic Sage getting resurrected? Why haven't they written an actual conclusion to the 'Five Books of Blood' storyline? What will her relationship, if any, be with Kathy Kane's Batwoman? I know these characters weren't exactly DC mainstays, but apart from Batman, I didn't care about any of the DC mainstays, I cared about the side characters, the bit players. The titles which actually had some fucking fun with their characters because they weren't under the heel of executive mandate all the time.
Stephanie Brown's Batgirl
Kathy Kane's BatWoman
Renee Montoya's Question
Power Girl
All names suspiciously absent from DC's role-calls, all characters that I actually cared about and wanted to see given some of the publicity they deserve.
And Damien Wayne can suck a ten foot donkey dick until he chokes to death the little Marty Sue-ing bastard.
I think it's a good idea in general. I've been trying for nearly five years now to get a handle on the DC Universe, but everytime I think I've managed to get somewhere I find an annotation on Wikipedia or in a comic saying 'for more backstory, read Oracle-The Cure' and then I spend six months trying to find an obscure book that's possibly even out of print now. Getting rid of most of that, and saying 'here's where we start again, everything before this is only interesting from an academic standpoint, but not essential to understanding the story.'
I liked the Marvel Ultimate Universe until they fucked the whole thing up (thanks Loeb!) so in principle I think reboots/relaunches are a good thing.
However
I got the little free comic they're giving away to explain the reboot, and reading it through it made me very concerned. Some of the writers who are part of this I really don't like, and it also already seems like they're heading for big interconnected storylines, which as I understood it is the exact thing they were trying to get away from with this reboot. Even disregarding the convuluted nature of such stories, I don't have the money to be buying 52 comics a week to try and keep up.
Also, Barbara Gordon is back as Batgirl.
No, fuck this idea right back to wherever it started. As Oracle Barbara Gordon was something new and different and very very cool. Stephanie Brown's recent adoption of the Batgirl cowl is one of the most fun comics I have ever read (besides Power Girl) and taking her out of the DC Universe as her own distinct figure with her own distinct line is nothing short of atrocious. Stephanie Brown was one of the only members of the Bat Family who wasn't a constant brooding psychopath, getting rid of her is a bad bad idea.
Secondly: No mention of the Question anywhere. Is Renee Montoya still the Question? Is Vic Sage getting resurrected? Why haven't they written an actual conclusion to the 'Five Books of Blood' storyline? What will her relationship, if any, be with Kathy Kane's Batwoman? I know these characters weren't exactly DC mainstays, but apart from Batman, I didn't care about any of the DC mainstays, I cared about the side characters, the bit players. The titles which actually had some fucking fun with their characters because they weren't under the heel of executive mandate all the time.
Stephanie Brown's Batgirl
Kathy Kane's BatWoman
Renee Montoya's Question
Power Girl
All names suspiciously absent from DC's role-calls, all characters that I actually cared about and wanted to see given some of the publicity they deserve.
And Damien Wayne can suck a ten foot donkey dick until he chokes to death the little Marty Sue-ing bastard.