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Here is the story. Yes, it's happened before, blah blah blah.

As an aside, if I were Lois Lane, I'd dump the two-timin' bastard.

In the reboot, they're not an item... yet. (Clark and Lois that is).

Yeah, DC had the "bright idea" to reboot all of their characters, so everything that's occurred for the last decade-and-a-half was wiped out. I'm not sure why they felt the need to do this.

DeadPoolX wrote:Yeah, DC had the "bright idea" to reboot all of their characters, so everything that's occurred for the last decade-and-a-half was wiped out. I'm not sure why they felt the need to do this.

Well the reboot is unique in that not EVERYTHING is wiped out. For example, Batgirl starts off recovering being shot from Joker (who shot her and paralyzed her originally). Also, Jason Todd (who had become Robin) was killed by Joker originally (and eventually came back as Red Hood). In the reboot, he references being "killed" by Joker, and he's already Red Hood at this point. So it's not that they took away all the origin stuff - most of the key elements are still there that made these characters fundamentally who they are. But they started with a clean slate in that, in that the previous stories that they reference have not been told yet in the reboot.

I personally love it. But then I wasn't a big DC fan. I used to collect TEEN TITANS (or TITANS, depending on which title they were rebooting it as at the time), AQUAMAN, OUTSIDERS and HAWKMAN, until they did 52. The whole event of 52 confused me so much, I dropped all the DC titles except TEEN TITANS.

Now, I collect more DC titles than Marvel, thanks to their reboot. That has NEVER, EVER happened. And if future me had come back to past me, 5 or 10 years ago and said, "One day you will collect more DC comics than Marvel Comics - and oh, by the way, when this happens BATGIRL will be the one comic you love over everything else - and you can't stop raving about how freaking awesome it is!"

I would have laughed so hard at future me and punched future me for what a horrible joke he was telling...

But here we are; with me collecting more than 3x in DC titles than what I collect in Marvel; and me, on every forum I go to about comics, saying, "I wish everyone read Batgirl right now; so that the world could see how a comic book is done right."

If you have not heard, Marvel, seeing DC's success is taking a smaller scale, but similar stab at this idea with Marvel NOW thing.

Tawmis wrote:I personally love it. But then I wasn't a big DC fan.

That's probably the reason. I was a big DC fan and the changes made (most of which seem arbitrary or just plain stupid) have significantly decreased my interest in the characters.

DeadPoolX wrote:

Tawmis wrote:I personally love it. But then I wasn't a big DC fan.

That's probably the reason. I was a big DC fan and the changes made (most of which seem arbitrary or just plain stupid) have significantly decreased my interest in the characters.

You are definitely not alone. I know a lot of people who complained.

But I have been a Marvel fan forever (it wasn't till DC did this, that I began collecting more DC than Marvel). If Marvel did what DC did, I would love it. There's been too many continuity things that have fubered so many things in Marvel (and not to mention they have had some horrid writers on some key titles) - and one thing DC did was pick the best of the best to do these relaunches.

The problem is, DC has all the good writers and artists right now.

The new #0 issues, which is supposed to cover everyone's origins for all the ongoing titles is coming out this month and next. So that's going to show why some of the things have been rebooted, while other parts of the origin remain.