What were Zero Hour and Infinite Crisis/One Year Later?   I can see a whole new slew of #1s, post-Flashpoint, but I don't see DC rebooting the line. Especially since they spent the last five years resurrecting parts of the Silver Age and the 80s.

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Zero Hour did the same thing that CoIE did:  Not much.  Minor changes that were (relatively) soon forgotten.

Infinite Crisis and One Year Later were just story spurts.  Still the current DCU we're reading.

The resurrecting the past, as you call it, won't go away with the reboot.  I think DC is going to attempt to issue in a new "silver age" style reboot to the characters.  Not go so far as to totally replace key characters, but just giving them some fresh looks.  As I said above, complete clean slate.  The stories we get in September on will be a new DCU with "first appearances" for all.

That's MY guess. 

Of course, 4 months from now, everyone here might be pointing and laughing at me....  ;-)

You can't reboot everything if you don't reboot Geoff Jones's corner.

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Maybe the reboot will be... The GeoffVerse.

Scary, huh?

Flashpoint will be the only comic book released on August 31 because it is some kind of weird DC stunt. It's a Tuesday, not a Wednesday.

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Odd.  On my 2011 calendar, it's a Wednesday.

Kevin: The DCU we currently know will no longer exist after August 31st.

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Swell.

I am so tired of reboots.  Us pro-continuity guys are disdained for being anal-retentive fanboys, but do you realize re-boots and ret-cons have become so cliche that it would actually be bold and innovative for a company to follow its own damn continuity for more than six months straight?  Ugh.

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DC has basically been following this continuity for about 15 years or so.  Some tweaks, some retcons, some additions to the characters' backstory.  Some good, some bad, some I think most would prefer to be forgotten forever.

The only truly major change I can remember going on (I'm not talking a retcon like parallax being a "fear entity") is Superman's origin.  They went from JB's version to Mark Waid's horrendous "Birthright" version back to the silver age version.  The rest of the DCU has remained relatively unchanged since 1986.

Yes, DC has brought characters back like Barry Allen or simplified/streamlined origins like Hawkman or even done some really bad retcon stuff like Identity Crisis.  Not even Zero Hour made long lasting changes other than a more simplified timeline that had been ignored right CoIE.

Crisis on Infinite Earths was 26 years ago.  Zero Hour was 17 years ago.  Things have gotten a bit stagnant in the DCU.  The weight of the continuity is beginning to collapse in on itself.  It's time to reboot, start off fresh, give the creators a chance to open up and tell some stories that they probably could not have told a year ago.  And hopefully we get some damn good stories out of all this.

I know the kneejerk reaction from most is to roll the eyes and say, "here we go again," but I truly think DC is "blowing up everything" here.  Whether it's a good idea or bad, we'll have to wait and see.  But I think it a ballsy move and one that is needed.