Every week there seems to be CBR and Newsarama articles going on and on about how they wish Wally, Steph, & others were part of the new continuity in the DC now being ridiculed & rebranded as the Not-So-New-52 by various online readers.
The short version of this story is in 2011 they rebooted their titles in hopes to get new readers and new ways to write stories. For the most part it worked, for like 6-8 months. They had some original ideas in their titles, they pushed B-list or lower class characters, sold some titles no one thought would've sold, and made some really unique and fun changes.
Then the misogynistic crap happened with Harley's cover challenge to artistic fans, the egregious changes made towards Starfire's character and the ridiculous variant cover of steampunk Wonder Woman making Steampunk Clark Kent carry her bags around while she shops -- thus proving how idiotic their new relationship is caught fire on the interwebs. Add the brutal murder of Batman's 11 year old son who was Robin, Damian Wayne, by Grant Morrison -- plus the outrageous creators dropping like flies off titles for ethical reasons or otherwise or being re-arranged to others, some times before a story is wrapped, or before they themselves get under way -- and you have a chemical equation for bad comic franchise.
DC is preparing a move to the west coast which has already cost them Mike Marts... which is great for Marvel fans as he was just picked up as the new X-Editor and Lowe was re-assigned to Spider-Titles, so that should make up for some communication errors with the executive branch of the company -- but I worry about east coast writers and con-trippers such as Greg Pak, Gail Simone, & others who have made east coast life try to work and now are being told their company (job and income) are moving back to the west.
Now the Super books are suddenly re-writing the greatest character death of all time and then re-vamping the Justice League titles with Superman no longer on the team.
Ouch.
What are your thoughts on DC? Are you guys hip to how these cats are swinging? Do you have a different view from my criticisms?