The worst part of the list of 52 is that roughly 2/3 of the books have no inherent interest to any "new reader" who doesn't know who characters like the Red Hood or Mister Miracle are.

Why in christ did someone decide to glut the market with marginal garbage (when John Ostrander isn't writing it) like SUICIDE SQUAD. I mean there was a couple of reasons to read SUICIDE SQUAD in 1986, when it was a) a fresh idea and b) had talented pros like Ostrander and McDonnell working on it. SS was a time/place thing, like Challengers of the Unknown, like Deadman, like Swamp Thing. Unless you're doing something really special with those characters, I don't see what the purpose is in dragging them out, altering them when readers hardly know their original incarnations, and expecting "new readers."

I keep looking at DC's output in the past.

Why not just reboot with a few Superman books, a few Batman books, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Legion of Super-Heroes, Teen Titans, Justice League of America? Aren't these characters/titles the core reason any "new reader" would have to buy their books? Aquaman? And I love Aquaman, but come on now.

Again, if DC was interested in being a real publishing house, they'd understand how to tailor their books to attract these faceless "new readers" they speak of. Superheroes for the kids, and then they could publish a DC PRESENTS line of different genre work, starring some of their incredible second stringers like The Demon, The Question, The Challs, Doom Patrol, Metamorpho, Unknown Soldier, G.I. Robot.

In those cases, the characters can encompass more of the adult thematics, understanding that whatever is changed in the course of their story is not cast in stone. Those characters are never changed back to what they were, since the idea is that DC Comics publishes stories which happen to use those characters, insuring each iteration of those characters is seperate from the others. Joe Lansdale's Unknown Soldier and Joe Haldeman's Unknown Soldier are two distinct takes on the same character, but there's room for both. "Imaginary Stories" if you will. Sherlock Holmes in WW 2 era London type stuff.

I like it idea.

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/fan-expo-new-52-110827.html

I preferred having the JSA on the same Earth as the JLA.  It gave the older members (well, the surviving ones, anyway) a little extra something special because these were the guys the Big Guns (Superman, Batman, etc.) looked up to.  I think that's lost by dumping them on their own world. 

Also, the mix of oldies and newbies (interacting with the other present day heroes) seems to have been the magical ingredient that kept the book alive the last 10 years or so.  I'd be concerned that breaking them into a seperate universe (esp. if it also means we're back in WW2 again) means that this revival will last as long as the All-Star Comics revival in the 70s.

That said, I was fine with the characters on Earth-2 back in the day, and I liked All-Star Squadron, so whatever works.  I'll be interested in seeing what mix of characters and time periods are going to be used.  (I do think that Robinson having Jesse Quick pregnant in his last issue of Justice League offers evidence that he may be using the present day characters at least part of the time, so there's that.)

But geez, Didio and company really are stuck in the late 70s aren't they?