DC to REBOOT???

[Professor Zoom]

^ Indeed. Maybe this is one of the reasons why I'm not really having a freak out about this.

And since I'm not economically vested in DC, I'm not either. It's just a surprise worth discussing really.

I think this is about launching their digital market in a big way, more than anything. They didn't NEED to do a reboot to start selling online, but, doing this, gives it a lot of attention. Hope it works for them. Of course, if it doesn't, ala Heroes Reborn, it'll just go right back.

 

[God Magnus]

I'm curious...out of those people in this thread discussing the "business" side of the reboot..how many of you guys have actually been reading? Or are you just discussing for discussions sake?

I haven't been discussing the "business" side in this thread, but I will say that I am reading many DC titles right now, mostly the Bat-books, and I've really been getting into the "Batman Inc." reality. If it goes poof, so will a lot of my interest in DC titles. Hearing Gail won't be on BoP is also making me lose interest fast as well.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Yeah, I'll be very disappointed if Powergirl gets too much of a coverup.

I'm with you on that. It may make me sound a bit immature, but the PG costume (along with Zatanna and Huntress) may be among the most impractical, but they look great on the comic page and would hate to see them go.

Jim Lee's huntress costume worked a whole lot better with her covered up more as we saw in BoP.

 

[Broccoli]

I just think it's funny that people are bitching about the very same thing that happened to me in 1986. Get over it, kiddies. This is what happens when they try to tie every damn character into every damn "arc" (whatever happened to just telling a story?). They end up with a complete mess and have to reboot.
I, for one, am laughing my ass off.

I'm more scratching my head at the logistics of the event, rather than the reboot itself. How it all came to be seems somewhat "off". Then again, very few details are known at this point.

In any event, I find it hilarious that you are telling people who are upset by this to "get over it" followed by you continuing to complain about the Crisis-Reboot from 25 years ago.

Perhaps you should take your own advice?

@Broccoli...it's Post-Flashpoint. Flashpoint#5 is the only comic shipping from DC in August. Then Sep...the reboot starts.

Wait...Flashpoint #5 is the only DC comic shipping in August?

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Yep. "The Dark" was what DC was teasing Sep with. Like I said before in the thread and keep repeating because it's important to keep in mind...Bleeding Cool blew the top off this because they never signed any non-disclosure deals with DC as Rich Johnson stated in his original article. He wanted to scoop Johns and Lee. He posted an article kind of rubbing it in their faces that he stole their thunder today too.

 

[Broccoli]

Kind of a dick move on Bleeding Cool's part.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Yep. Agreed. This announcement was not supposed to be made until next weekend. Now I guess Johns and Lee will simply address questions. Have no idea what they will talk about. I expect the rest the Relaunch plans news will continue to leak out.

 

[Broccoli]

Probably at this point, they will have to. But, I suspect they will be "controlled" leaks.

These people aren't stupid; they know that this was going to provoke a reaction. Knowing the impact of such an event, I suspect that the DC crew had a plan in action at the con on how to reveal this info to quell any sort of fan shit-storm.

Then again, I bet they were also looking forward, with morbid amusement, to complete and utter shock and silence as an entire room filled with fans who simultaneously shit their pants. If I were them, that's what I would be looking forward to the most.

 

[JD]

I'm curious...out of those people in this thread discussing the "business" side of the reboot..how many of you guys have actually been reading? Or are you just discussing for discussions sake?

I haven't been discussing the "business" side in this thread, but I will say that I am reading many DC titles right now, mostly the Bat-books, and I've really been getting into the "Batman Inc." reality. If it goes poof, so will a lot of my interest in DC titles. Hearing Gail won't be on BoP is also making me lose interest fast as well.

I think this is the thing that surprises me the most about this. it seems like have been some big things going on the DCU lately like Batman Inc., and I find kind of shocking that they are possibly going to be undoing all of it in one big move. Do we know anything about how long this has been planned?

 

[Broccoli]

^ Apparently, Johns has been working on Flashpoint for the better part of two years. Since that apparently leads into this reboot, one can assume that it has been on the drawing board for at least two years.

 

[Skywalker]

I don't really follow DC's superhero comics, so I'm not invested enough to be upset about this. I think a total reboot would be better than a soft one. Dump everything but the core characters and start fresh.

I love the same-day digital release, though. Scale down the monthly paper releases and then collect the digitally-released storylines in TPB format for collectors, and I think comics might bounce back a little.

 

[Broccoli]

I don't really follow DC's superhero comics, so I'm not invested enough to be upset about this. I think a total reboot would be better than a soft one. Dump everything but the core characters and start fresh.

I love the same-day digital release, though. Scale down the monthly paper releases and then collect the digitally-released storylines in TPB format for collectors, and I think comics might bounce back a little.

That's not a bad idea. Take a company-wide event like Flashpoint or Blackest Night. Have the main mini-series be a print release, but have the tie-ins be digital downloads. Collections at a later date.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I don't really follow DC's superhero comics, so I'm not invested enough to be upset about this. I think a total reboot would be better than a soft one. Dump everything but the core characters and start fresh.

I love the same-day digital release, though. Scale down the monthly paper releases and then collect the digitally-released storylines in TPB format for collectors, and I think comics might bounce back a little.

See, I would be interested in a "collected" download of a story, rather than a monthly.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Kind of a dick move on Bleeding Cool's part.

No surprise.

He doesn't like DC.

 

[theenglish]

I don't really follow DC's superhero comics, so I'm not invested enough to be upset about this. I think a total reboot would be better than a soft one. Dump everything but the core characters and start fresh.

I love the same-day digital release, though. Scale down the monthly paper releases and then collect the digitally-released storylines in TPB format for collectors, and I think comics might bounce back a little.

See, I would be interested in a "collected" download of a story, rather than a monthly.

This would be the benefit of a "premium" subscription. If you subscribe to say 10 issues a month, you have the right to online viewing or temporary downloads of all the other publications. I certainly hope that DC considers some kind of "motivational" scheme like this.

 

[JD]

They would be fools not to. Don't they already have some sort of club or subscription that you can read some of there books online? I don't remember if they do or not, or if it was something being talked about.

DC and Marvel should also open up their archives and put those up online for purchase as well.

I looked into this when I first started getting into comics, and Marvel has a $60 subcription that gives you unlimited access to all of their digital comics. Which includes comics from at least last year all the way back to some of the first issues from the '60s. DC also has some of their older comics on Comixology, including titles like The Dark Knight Returns, and some Green Lantern and Green Lantenr/Green Arrow comics from the '80s.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I don't really follow DC's superhero comics, so I'm not invested enough to be upset about this. I think a total reboot would be better than a soft one. Dump everything but the core characters and start fresh.

I love the same-day digital release, though. Scale down the monthly paper releases and then collect the digitally-released storylines in TPB format for collectors, and I think comics might bounce back a little.

See, I would be interested in a "collected" download of a story, rather than a monthly.

This would be the benefit of a "premium" subscription. If you subscribe to say 10 issues a month, you have the right to online viewing or temporary downloads of all the other publications. I certainly hope that DC considers some kind of "motivational" scheme like this.

No, I don't want a subscription. I'm not that vested of a reader. I would like to buy electronic trades. What I like now about trades, more bang for the buck and I get the whole story--since monthlies seem to resist the urge to tell a story in an issue. So, if I were to buy online a an e-trade of the story, I would expect it to be cheaper than buying the individual stories. Like buying an album on Amazon is cheaper than buying the individual tracks.

 

[Trevacious]

I prefer the old ways, when they'd just put a giant numeral 1 on the cover to attract attention without renumbering the book.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What, ANOTHER reboot?

Why does DC keep doing this every three or four years? Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis, Even More Final Crisis, This Is The Really Final Crisis I Swear We Mean It, and now this shit. What makes this reboot different from all of those other reboots?

 

[Professor Zoom]

What, ANOTHER reboot?

Why does DC keep doing this every three or four years? Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis, Even More Final Crisis, This Is The Really Final Crisis I Swear We Mean It, and now this shit. What makes this reboot different from all of those other reboots?

Did they reboot anything during Final Crisis? It didn't seem like they did, from what I read about it. And one could argue Infinite Crisis didn't really reboot... it created the "New Earth" but did it reboot? Like the way Crisis on Infinite Earths and Zero Hour did?

And there was like ten years between Infinite Earths and Zero Hour, maybe 8, and then Infinite Crisis was what another ten? But, yeah, followed quickly by Final crisis.

Crisis on Infinite Earths seemed more like a real reboot than the rest--course corrections. We'll see what this is.