Notice red trunks are gone from Superman's costume.

Everytime DC or Marvel does something like this, we hear all this talk about it making it a perfect time for new readers to jump in. I wonder how many potential new readers, or readers who would like to return, are kept away by all this event crap.

My wife enjoys comics and likes superheroes, but she won't read current superhero comics from the Big Two (neither do I anymore, so I understand her point of view). She started reading The Flash a few years ago. This was when the title had restarted with Bart as the title character. To her, that was the Flash since she "met" him first (just as Barry was to me). Then, a handful of issues into the series (10 issues I think) BOOM! no more Bart and the number went up to 200 something and Wally was back. Then a short time later, series ends, here comes Barry again, new first issue! Now that series is ending with this latest reboot? That's good DC! That's a way to keep people coming back!

At least this time ir seems all characters will be restored.

If they don't screw it by writing them badly, there may be a real chance for the DC universe.

Barry as Flash

Hal as Green Lantern

and Barbara Gordon as Batgirl

+ Hawkman in a series writen by James Robinson, and there're worst writers than Robinson.

Aquaman is in the Lee pic, so there's hope that he'll get a series too (has it be anounced, or even rumored?)

I certainly will follow Batgirl so i hope that i will like the creative team and that Babs will be writen well.

Stéphane, it's funny.  The reason I see some of you guys being enthusiastic about it is one of the main reasons I'm not particularly enthusiastic about it.  If you're going to reboot a universe, I think you should look at all the characters and do a no fooling bottoms-up recreation.  (Less so with The Big Three, but anyone else should be up for grabs.)

If all you're going to do is effectively rewind everyone to where they were in 1980, with some tweaked outfits, then it's not really "leaving a clean slate for new readers;" it's just restoring TPTB's childhoods at the expense of the childhoods of the people who have grown up with the books since then.  Blech.

(And Brad, I guess you'd make up for me on Batgirl.  I loved Stephanie as Batgirl and would hate to see her go to kick Babs back 25 years.  Don't get me wrong, I loved Babs as Batgirl and would happily read an "untold tale" series or what have you, but as Oracle she was one of the pillars of the DCU.  It's a shame to kick her back to being one of Batman's team of hangers-on.)