The odd part is that the New 52 idea was based in concept off Heroes Reborn and it's success (which makes me wonder of their will in fact be a Heroes Return element to all of this where the timeline returns to normal after the sales push with some elements remaining from the New 52 on a side note), which itself of course in turn was done to follow the success of the Marvel company walk-off and formation of Image comics (Image popped a bottle of champagne, clearly for just how hard they proved Marvel wrong at the time), particularly the success of Jim Lee's Wildstorm side of things (again, Heroes Reborn itself even included an amalgamed Marvel/Wildstorm-verse much as New 52 does), whereas of course Jim Lee was tasked with redesigning and modernizing the characters and other talent brought in to helm the books, (New 52 a much more expansive version of that experiment), namely Rob, yet, the largest failure of the Heroes Reborn maneuver, as well of the Image comics foundation was putting to much faith in Rob Liefeld which he inevitably failed both times and quickly went from excited and into his work to pursuing some odd immature rebellion against the companies he found himself employed (and generating mucho legal issues as well), leaving the fold and his books (for Marvel Avengers and Cap respectively, I think by around issue #6?, and of course his Image properties, earning him a blacklist publicly from Todd McFarlane)becoming the low selling points of each respectively and hurting the overall sales push (luckily for Marvel Lee is a workaholic and was there to pick up the pieces). So the odd part in summary is that DC also now chooses to make the mistakes made before, exactly, and ones which have been proven to follow suit each time and over a decade now? Personally I would say screw whatever census of the mans artistic integrity here, but this alone is a good enough reason to be concerned and take this stance legitimately.
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