So guess what? DC has finally pushed this long-term Superman fan away. I am tired of reading these comics and cringing every other page. DC may still be happy to ride the Didio-Lee-Johns bus of ruin for Superman but I wll be getting off here.

I told my local shop to cancel all of my Superman pulls and to drop JL. Considering how much I spend on those titles, I now have $300 per year more to spend on books I might enjoy.

Voting with my wallet – hope you’re happy DC Editorial!!

On another note, I think it’s kind of crappy that major character developments have to happen within the JL title instead of being handled by the writers of the individual books. I thought that it was always supposed to be the other way around at DC. If a change happened in the solo title, then it had to be reflected in the group title. I’m just saying….

And as usual there are things to enjoy despite that from it , but people that enjoy the reboot should not mind other voicing their concerns .

Why do they even care if they are already happy ? You’ve won guys ! The negative minority IS a sales minority , as even disgruntled fans will keep bying hoping to see a change back or toward something else .

At the very least you better not dare complain at your turn , when your neat “new 52″ inevitably get rebooted . It’s a question of when .

Golden / Silver Age Batman: no serious relationships
Post-Crisis Batman: James Bond
DC-52 Batman: Catwoman is his f-buddy

Golden / Silver Age Wonder Woman: unconsummated secret love / subtext galore
Post-Crisis Wonder Woman: Dates some Jewish guy, breaks up
DC-52 Wonder Woman: casual hookup

Maybe this just reflects changing courtship behavior (and publishing taboos) in American society?

Oh, the $330 million dollars Perlman took from Marvel's profits while he leveraged debt against the company for the purchase of Fleer and Toy Biz and everything else he was doing with Marvel's profits had nothing to do with the bankruptcy?

Your premise is Marvel went bankrupt because Bob was editor in chief, Scott and I were selling more monthly copies of the X-books than had ever sold before (and that is numerical reality and not in ANY way a qualitative statement, since we couldn't hold a candle to the best of Chris, John, JR and Paul Smith)?

Is that your theory? Feel free to back it with facts.

These are not brand names. They’re characters. With power that comes from a rich history of stories. To totally toss that aside for some quick newness? I think you’re giving away your power base for a quick hit of juice. And, yeah, how long will that newness last anyway?

And I also question if things are actually new enough even for that. It’s not a total reboot. It’s a soft reboot. We still have Damien Wayne as part of four Robins from before running around. (None of the other Batgirls funny enough. No girls allowed in the cave.) Green Lantern was advertized as not being rebooted. And that’s rather a problem. It’s not really a new administration overseeing it all. It’s still the same old crew as when Greg and others were trying to make decent Wonder Woman or Batwoman books in spite of stupid stupid decisions from editorial. This is still the same company that gave us crap like Amazons Attack while kicking aside a New York Times bestselling author like Jodi Piccolt and all the readers she could bring just to maintain their good old boys club of silly crossover events with all the intellect of a ten year old boys smashing action figures together and thinking girls will give them cooties.

And I think this is in the reboot too. It’s not really new. It reeks of bad 90s comics and gimmicks. Not to be confused with the good comics and DC Comics of the 90s. Wasn’t DC’s Kingdom Come in the 90s a critique of the flashy Image books and their use of the dark anti hero and how that shouldn’t be applied to heroes like DC has? Isn’t that exactly what’s going on? And speaking of Kingdom Come, Superman and Wonder Woman as a couple? Is that really all that new of a concept? I like the comment critics have that Alan Moore wrote it off ages ago in For the Man Who Has Everything, “Too predicable.”

So.. is this DC reboot -really- new? Or more of the same garbage that has been holding DC Comics back for the past decade? Just in a shiny superficial coat of paint. The appearance of new. It’s the same old bad repackaging of the old as pseudo-new. Now with mere brand names and none of the actual characters people loved, the very thing people kept going back to DC Comics for.

No one can truly claim that Justice League, Superman, Teen Titans or Green Arrow — four of the biggest franchises at DC, all of which have TV or movies out or coming soon (Young Justice is a defacto Titans & JLA show)– have been improved by the reboot. Four truly awful titles pre-Flashpoint have gotten worse, and now they don’t even have an sense of history or a base point upon which the characters themselves might be returned to.

Instead we are being given reboots by the very writers and the editor in chief who were behind the bankruptcy of 90s Marvel Comics. Writers called upon back then because Marvel had chased away much of it’s house writing talent to appease the likes of Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld, only to see those artists all leave and form Image. (Books not exactly ever known for stellar writing talents back then.)

The New 52 has had it’s share of successes. Mostly the 90s pre-Vertigo books in the DC Dark line and Wonder Woman. (Which probably SHOULD be part of DC Dark.) Those could have happened without destroying their history of their biggest franchises.