Augen said:
Neodegenerate said:
Oh yea I forgot about Zero Hour!
They have come out at times and said they wanted a clean slate every 10ish years. From what has happened recently though they are certainly accelerating even that timetable.
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Personally I'd prefer trimming down and having Universe 1 that could see characters age and grow over decades, and then a parallel one that gets rebooted every ten years to experiment with new and bold ideas that may win or flop. My biggest issue is trying to keep up with everything that is going on and how too often various characters are mishandled by certain creative teams.
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I am right there with ya. With this new approach they have taken, the "DCYOU" thing, I was excited because it appears as though they have loosened up on the singular direction and now are letting the creative teams do what they want. I have picked up a number of titles I never thought I would, and for the most part I am enjoying them. The only issue though is because they are so lax on continuity it is mind boggling to try and figure out how things make sense.
In Justice League Superman is still in his old costume, not known to the world, and fully powered. In all of his own titles he is outed, de-powered, and wearing a t-shirt with the new logo. Batman, same concept. Bat-books are all contiguous with each other, completely separate from JL. If you want to give freedom to do things that is all well and good. But when you say that your core line (Batman, Superman, JL, etc) is going to stay in the "New 52" line of formatting while the other books skirt the outsides you need to actually make that distinction apparent.
Then of course there was the Action Comics 41 with references to Superman 41 (not out for a few weeks after AC41) and even Superman 42 (a full month and a half later) in order to understand what certain characters were doing there.
At this point I feel like they should just give me a universe symbol/number on the bottom corner of the book and let it go from there.