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It's a given. Look at Hawk and Dove as well. It's the start of something either new across the board, or at least the current attempt. Speculators still buy whether there is a real long term resale market. The return of old customers who left behind or abandoned is of interest, and also how many really left. Again, I'll wait a year, see what the anniversary remarks on the change. It may wind up a whole lot of nothing, or a great jumping on/returning point (especially if there are tpbs.

Hopefully this promotes comic back into healthier numbers for all players in the game, independents and big two. This is just one venue. They still need to advertise at the beginning of their own tv shows and movies that the books are the source/inspiration and that the books are online and in comicbook shops that the audience can find local, likely.

It does and doesn't matter, depending on how the characters were written and what they dealt with in and of their times. Continuity is a part of character development, a show of progress/regression. Why it may not appear important now is as adults we know the histories, often too well and more easily dismiss it. It also helps to have for a cohesive universe for multiple characters who interact. I gave up comic book reading because a shift in the focus on continuity by one of the major publishers gave me reason to believe I was wasting my time in being fanatical about being a regular consumer. There is continuity in following the business end of the comics industry, they can't reboot, recant, or reality punch it, just age and go along with time.

I'd rather go all digital. I still have to get rid of or hold onto three filing cabinets of pretty much useless paper that I don't reread mostly because I hate digging thru to find a storyline I wish to revisit. I'll give Marvel a little good cheer on bumping up their digital game. What they need is a that sub $75 dollar device that feels right for comicbooks and magazines and then roll a subscription based all you can read, with a digital locker for your keeps and a library for your temporary checkouts, . . . maybe a print it section that gets the musky dusky snail mailed to you if you want.

Not a problem, not even the heroes not for hire and on existing teams can't fulfill the always available . . . fictional people have lives too. And not every team (large) have members that compliment each other power / tactics wise . . . somebody sits out or does a support duty not in the hard line of conflict. As for being for hire, it's already been discussed about if heroes should be paid . . . yes, if the hero wants and the people affected contracted them to do whatever . . . otherwise it would be more like pay or die, or Thugs for Mugging. It's all variety, the spice of life.

I just hope its not comic speculation and a real market gain.

Depends on the comic fanatic that you are (continuity or little2no baggage). As someone who quit comics when Joe Q took over at Marvel, I don't see a good jumping on point for regular reading . . . I'll look at a big event trade . . but I don't know the status quo. Starting over usually is a great jumping on/off point. But like DC, I've no intention of gauging the success of such in the first few months, it'll be at least a year before I look over the birthday ratings / reviews and then make a decision on whether its good enough to jump on/back issue collect.

Whatever they do, they need to make sure their other licensed properties point back to the source. In the movie theaters, run that ad before the show begins, these characters appear in comicbooks and trades at your local comicbook and bookstores, please purchase and read.

Unlike some genres of tv, I'm pretty sure the executives and creative teams feel that they can take some of the plotted points of the printed source and diverge, thus keeping the attention of the reading faithful who won't know each beat and have to scrutinize is this a path that leads back to a point in the books. There's a lot that can be missing or interpretted from the page, when seen in motion on tv, some inbetween moments, and some outright that didnt happen . . . It will be fresh and rotting new for the none reader and familiar yet off in hopefully attractive ways for the rest.

She's a get out of jail card . . . whether in a year or several . . .

Psychics and/or sorcerer supremes with their charms and amulets of truth. Bad by possession, forgivable just not forgettable.

@labarith: I see your point regarding the How of a reboot. I'm only following the industry as an observer, not a reader, but it seems that there are changes in the nature of characters and their powers/stories that should not have been affected by or at the point in time that DC says alterations occurred, that the defy their own continuity? I'd hate that if true because it goes beyond story, it sounds like opportune business decisions about the business, not necessarily the legacy. Change this while its hot and fresh in your starting point, fudge the past abit. Nobody should have a prob with it . . . squirrel!

Hey, down the road they can have someone remember the way it use to be and fix the fix (except maybe anything awarded in a lawsuit). Wasn't their a time agency bureau in the DC universe? Can never find a time cop when you need one.