While I think the costumes look great. The word REBOOT concerns me greatly especially considering that there have been 3 reboots in the past two years.  

Not true.

Great post that sums my feelings on this up 
 
You know, as someone who grew up reading DC comics, I find this sad. One thing I really enjoyed about DC, and that distinguished it from Marvel, was its legacy characters. I found it intriguing that there were several generations of characters, Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, then Wally West or Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, then Kyle Rayner. I thought it was really neat, and dded a sense of history to the DC Universe. To me, Marvel had continuity to keep track of, DC had history.

And they seem to be abandoning that. Granted, I haven't regularly read a DC comics since a few months before Hal Jordan returned (I viewed his return as DC regressing). And I can see by this announcement that I haven't missed much. Quite frankly, while Johns might claim to love the Silver Age, I think he's largely missed what made it so special. He simply wants to recreate the comics he grew up with. Tell the same stories he read, but with a little more dismemberment and rape thrown in for good measure, you know, so it's edgy! But that's not what the Silver Age was about. The Silver Age was about newness. New concepts, new characters. John Broome crated Hal Jordan, rather than bring back Alan Scott. Mort Weisinger didn't just bring back Lex Luthor and the Ultra Humanite to fight Superman, he created Brainiac and Metallo, and brought the Legion of Super-Heroes into the mix. 

I've often said this, and I'll keep saying it. The only modern writer to understand the Silver Age was Grant Morrison. He's the only writer that understood the potent brew of wonder, imagination, and novelty that made the Silver Age so magical. I'm continually shocked that Johns was put in charge of everything and Grant Morrison only has his little Batman ghetto
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Looks like DC is about to pull a "Brand New Day" for their entire universe.  I have mixed feelings about this.  DC's writers screwed up from the very beginning by having so many different versions of their characters.  Now they are trying to be more like Marvel by making them younger, hipper.  I understand why they need to do this, but it saddens me that this could result in the loss of so much great back story that's been established over the last 25+ years.  Oh well, I guess it was bound to happen anyway.  Just sucks after all of these stupid "events" that took place over the last decade.  "Final" Crisis was a lie.  It's all about the money.  
 
Guess Clark Kent and Lois Lane just got a divorce.  I wonder if "Superman: Earth One" will be the new origin story for Superman?  Hmmmm...

Is it just me or does it look like Superman lost the red underwear?

@danhimself said:

wait a minute!!  isn't there supposed to be a Red Lantern series launching soon?  why launch a brand new series only to have it canceled with the reboot?  something doesn't feel right

Its because its not a complete reboot. Theres also a JLI series coming soon.

I'm calling it right here: It's not a ATRUE reboot, but just a change in direction for a bit: continuation of the main universe stories, with different costumes: eg Publicity stunt

No Cassie or Connor makes wonder what’s in store Dick and Tim. If there is no Cassie does this mean Barbra is going to have legs back and be batgirl?

I like the redesign for Superman, dropping the red briefs is good. But he looks to young- almost like Connor and not Clark.

Why does flash never get a real costume change??? GL is just the movie one, Wonder Woman is basically is better version of her current one minus the jacket and straps and really hope she has boots O_O, Lose superman's collar and I'm good with it, Aquaman looks pretty much the same and Cyborg looks better but a bit bulky 
 
Batman almost always looks cool, Just hope continuity remains almost the same just revamp what wasn't working and tweak some villains but don't start fresh 
Tired of the next generation of heroes constant;y getting screwed over so we can relive the same stories with the exact same characters  
 
How lazy are new readers that we need a reboot? I only started last year plus periodical comics over the years(no where to buy them) and I just jumped into random story arcs and was able to go along with it and figured things out as I went(fun to do from time to time keeps you away from spoilers) 
 
Also reboot = LAZY writing, I'm sorry, Just wish they'd leave batman alone and leave morrison in charge. Batman has finally made a progression and now it's like hitting the reset/undo button,  Superman was in a rut so do what you wish with him just don't turn him into smallvile superman 

I like the redesign for Superman, dropping the red briefs is good. But he looks to young- almost like Connor and not Clark.

Question,does this mean we can knock out gl with a jar of mustard again. Or if manhunter comes back does he have a weakness to fire.

.......  .......  As expected as it was, that's crap. Nothing against Jim Lee and Geoff Johns but do we really need modernizations? The modern age sucks. Sucks hard. I don't want to read about a Superman who is hip and young and has stupid emo bitch problems with his powers. I want to read about a Superman who carries great weight and resonates as an established authority for DC's superheroes. I want a Superman who showed up in 1938. Who fought in World War II and has at least aged so damn slow that he can pass of as at least 30.  I'm half expecting this reboot to be like Ultimate Marvel, nothing against that either but a lot of the characters are so unlikeable (such as the Ultimates). I don't want a gritty realistic take on these characters or a realistic cynical take on them. I don't want the Justice League to be a task force formed by the government. Modernizing an entire universe removes the element of fun and excitment that comics used to have. I'm not even talking about Golden and Silver age stuff, I just mean since 2000 comics have just gone haywire in terms of giving bullshit explanations for superpowers, i.e. the metagene. It's not enough to just be struck by lightning and have superspeed; oh no we can't accept that because it's just not realistic. Boo hoo, it's not about trying to apply this to real life science it's about enjoyment. It is distracting us comic fans from the sad truth that we're going to die one day; sad and alone, wondering where it all went wrong.  A modernization is just worthless, because these characters will still be around in a hundred damn years - we'll go through ten more modernizations to try and make these characters 'accesible' to new readers; readers who shouldn't want to see their heroes deal with real life issues; nothing against that either it's cool to...try, but whatever real life issues they try to deal with they will just piss a lot of people off, like Superman did recently when he got involved into a real world issue, that he shouldn't have poked his damn nose into.  It's just stupid, 10 years from now they'll repeat this. They shouldn't ignore their 75 years of history, they should include it. They should build up from it not break it all apart and try to knot it all together with turn of the century tape. Their continuity doesn't have to be this iron wall that new readers can't penetrate.  Redesigning their costumes is fine, even though they'll just go for the traditional costumes in a few years. But modernizing it; just a shitty fucking idea.

@danhimself said:

@doordoor123 said:

@danhimself said:

wait a minute!!  isn't there supposed to be a Red Lantern series launching soon?  why launch a brand new series only to have it canceled with the reboot?  something doesn't feel right

Its because its not a complete reboot. Theres also a JLI series coming soon.

then this makes absolutely no sense what so ever....how can they reboot some things and not all things?

Lol, I can't see a character like Booster Gold being older than Superman. :P

Question,does this mean we can knock out gl with a jar of mustard again. Or if manhunter comes back does he have a weakness to fire.

So we had the golden age, silver age, and modern age of comics and characters.  Is this the start of the digital age of comics?

Great post that sums my feelings on this up   You know, as someone who grew up reading DC comics, I find this sad. One thing I really enjoyed about DC, and that distinguished it from Marvel, was its legacy characters. I found it intriguing that there were several generations of characters, Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, then Wally West or Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, then Kyle Rayner. I thought it was really neat, and dded a sense of history to the DC Universe. To me, Marvel had continuity to keep track of, DC had history.And they seem to be abandoning that.

Ok now i am going to say it , no Lois. He is going to be with who? this is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Included in the 52 series will be:

* A new title starring Superman written by Grant Morrison.

* Birds of Prey #1 - This new ongoing series will not feature the work of longtime "BoP" writer Gail Simone. In fact, many tried and true approaches to books will be getting a second look at DC in September.

* Teen Titans #1 - The new start for the teen team will be written by "Red Robin" scribe Fabian Nicieza.

* Justice Society of America #1 - Only one of a number of current titles that will welcome a creative team shift, the future of the original superhero team will apparently not involve current writer Marc Guggenheim.

* Wonder Woman #1 - Don't expect the recent changes from writer J. Michael Straczynski to stick when the Amazing Amazon sees another new #1 hit.

* Green Lantern #1 - Even with a new #1, Green Lantern remains in Johns' hands, and readers can expect the effects of major crossovers like "Blackest Night" to stay in place moving forward.

* Hawkman #1 - While fans have known a "Hawkman" series by James Robinson has been in the works since the writer mentioned it on a panel at New York Comic Con, Bleeding Cool's Rich Johnston has been reporting the rumor that the book will be drawn by "Batman & Robin" and "Outsiders" artist Philip Tan.

* Aquaman #1 - No surprises here. The already announced series featuring the sea king by Johns and Ivan Reis will be part of the relaunch wave.

I'm calling it right here: It's not a ATRUE reboot, but just a change in direction for a bit: continuation of the main universe stories, with different costumes: eg Publicity stunt

I don't know how I feel about this. DC books have always taken continuity very seriously and they have a massive time line of events and characters that stretch back forever. I really hope they take this chance to reintroduce Wildstorm characters into the main universe.

@doordoor123:  Infinite Crisis The return of the multiverse, Jason Todd,   Final Crisis:  Batman, dies/ returns, Death/relocation of the New gods  New Krypton:  Well technically those were more on the lines of major retcons than reboots now that I think about it, but I think you get where Im coming from.  

ew. they should've stuck with gloveless and short haired Aquaman. Now he just look like some K-Pop star. 
 
and this IMA WEARIN PANTS WW looks good. Finally.

@allhailme said:

Question,does this mean we can knock out gl with a jar of mustard again. Or if manhunter comes back does he have a weakness to fire.

Unsure if M.M will even be around. 
 
And since the events of Blackest Night and Sinestro Corps War has been confirmed to stay apart of continuity and seeing how Parallax was just removed from the battery in this War Of Green Lanterns arc...I think it would be rather hard at explaining how the impurity has been once again restored.

They need to be REALLY damn careful what they choose to reboot... Were DC not paying attention to One More Day? Spidey's marriage got wiped out and people went CRAZY about it. If they make any serious changes, their fans will rage. 
 
I only read two DC books, but I really like them. A reboot could totally screw up Red Robin and Teen Titans. Yeah, I'll probably pick up the new Superman to see what it's like, but if they mess up Tim or the Titans I'm just going to be gutted. In fact if they take Marcus To off Red Robin then I'll be gutted. Heck, this reboot could erase some characters from continuity, because they're "too complicated" for new readers to understand.

Ensue global panic......

@The_Tree I started a year ago too and have managed to figure stuff out and do fine. Still the first thing I bought was Brightest Day #0, because I knew that was a sequel to Blackest Night from the internet. Then I found out Batman Beyond was getting a miniseries so perfect timing there. The reason I'm reading comics is because of the DCAU which was a major part of my childhood. So instead of revamping everything like crazy, why don't they just put more emphasis into an animated universe. Yes they have shows on now and new ones incoming, but they're not in a universe. One of the great things of the DCAU was Bruce Timm drew it all, the Joker was the Joker on Static Shock, JLU, Batman Beyond, whatever. Also, DC leave Morrison alone.

Errr.. Im not so sure about this whole reboot thing. Why are they so desperate to draw in newer younger audiences? If it didn't work before, it's not going to make that much more of a difference this time around. Sure, you're gonna gain a few new readers but it's not going to become a drastic amount. 
 
And I HATE how Superman looks the youngest here.

And then everything will will be rebooted in the reboot will soon bee rebooted as well... is this even news worthy anymore?

@danhimself said:

* Teen Titans #1 - The new start for the teen team will be written by "Red Robin" scribe Fabian Nicieza.

 

Great. No Fabian on Red Robin probably means no Red Robin at all. Well, screw you, DC.

@danhimself said:

* Teen Titans #1 - The new start for the teen team will be written by "Red Robin" scribe Fabian Nicieza.

 

 

Great. No Fabian on Red Robin probably means no Red Robin at all. Well, screw you, DC.

I've never been a fan of Superman and Wonder Woman being together, just doesn't seem like a good fit too me, being with a regular human seems to keep him grounded and more human-like, matching him up with WW just elevates him above humanity.

Sucks

@mark5 said:

@Jordanstine said:

http://www.comicvine.com/myvine/jordanstine/wish-dc-would-focus-on-storytelling-rather-than-rebooting/87-69645/  My little blog.  Storytelling is what makes these characters tick for the last 70 years, not rebooting them.

I agree 100%

I agree 200%

This is very big! I wonder how much they will change. I will like to see Wonder Woman and Superman together =)

I don't know what to say. I can't say I'm surprised. Angry? I guess but more just plain frustrated. I guess we will just have to see what comes of this.

Eh, I'm not a huge fan for the majority of DC lines, so it means less (read next to nothing) for me. I'll give a few #1s a try and see. I'm curious as to if this will be the Wildstorm remnants stepping into the main DC lines opportunity - though serious doubts as to that. But hey, DC actually supporting a Jim Lee reboot, what can go wrong ... 

This is very big! I wonder how much they will change. I will like to see Wonder Woman and Superman together =)