Emery, your Hawkmjolnir instructions remind me of the instructions of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch from MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL. So, thank you.

Is it just me, or is Fear Itself turning out to be Blackest Night, but with Hammers instead of multi-color rings??

This move clearly seems to be a calculation between losing older readers (this guy) to cash in on a massive influx of new readers.  But here's the thing: I have a son about to turn 13 who is still sort of into comics.  He's going to read what I buy and talk about (because it's my money).  So, does it not occur to Didio, Johns, et al, that parents who are long time readers are going to be a strong influence over young readers that they want to attract?  The very generation of parents that they risk kissing goodbye right now are then going to turn around and buy books they just canceled for their kids?

Maybe that outta be their new slogan: The NEW DC - do it for the kids!

He is a burgeoning artist, skateboarder and wants to do tennis camp this summer, so I suppose he'll spend his discretionary funds along those lines.  We want to send him to a week long art camp at Herron Art School here in Indy.  He spends a lot of his allowance (or wages, as I like to call them) on Iphone apps.

For myself, I am in the midst of starting a side business modifying and then reselling toy TRON identity discs with EL wire and LED lighting.  The stock model they sell is kind of lame; the lights won't stay on and are not bright at all, etc.  My custom model is much more authentic.  As soon as I get my crazy cheap LED lighting from China, I'll be putting them on the eBay.  So 6-8 less books a month will help me with startup costs.

It makes sense that 'higher ups' want DC to improve it's market share. That being said, I find the reboot potentially suicidal (as mentioned already) because unless readers flock to support the new books, DC will be left with floundering titles noone is buying.

The creative teams mentioned so far (aside from JLA) aren't 'A list' enough to draw big sales, IMO. I can also see DC asking for pitches for the 52 series, although I wonder who had the final say on which were chosen and/or the creative teams involved.

Maybe post-Crisis did make sense despite the complications it caused; reboot titles 'on the fly', rather than gambling on pissing everyone off by starting from scratch.

I don't have any answers, but I must admit as a DC fan and a fan of the print comic book medium, I'm pretty dismayed about what's on the horizon.

Three of my favorite characters--Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne.

Three of your favorite characters are Robin, Robin, and...Robin?

Three of your favorite characters are Robin, Robin, and...Robin?

rrr

It's kooky, I know.  Especially when most Robin fans argue about them vs one another.  I couldn't stand them (on spec) at first, but once I read more and more Bat-stories, I really enjoyed them.  So it's not completely the Robin, Robin & Robin (worst law firm name ever) aspect, but how they've grown: Red Robin, Red Hood and snotty Robin.

It's a crap shoot, I suppose, who and why we connect with in comics.  Jason Todd's fall from grace and struggle to do the right thing in such a horrible manner just clicks with my own narrative. 

Now, they aren't my only favorites... I like Bruce, I like Hal.  Big Jim Gordon fan. Never been much of a Superman fan, though (aside from Red Son and Kingdom Come). 

If DC succeeds in creating a digital market to rival or beat print;
Marvel will end up doing the same.

@Craig

While you may not like it, and I know there are some friends of mine who definitely hate it, I look at this as a great opportunity for DC to get rid of duplicate characters where they're not needed.  Like all the Robins and dual Batmans.

The Flash has a long line of characters from Jay Garrick to Barry Allen to Wally West.  Green Lantern has Alan Scott to Hal Jordan to a frikkin Corps of GLs.  Even Blue Beetle has a similar "lineage" of characters.  For those characters, it works.

So far, from what very little has been revealed, I'm on board for about 8 of titles out of the inital 10.  Firestorm is a "no buy" for me (as I've already said) as is Captain Atom.  Mister Terrific I'll give a couple of issues to grab me, but that's it.  Wonder Woman is the one I'm most excited to read.  I got the opportunity to talk with Brian Azzarello at this year's C2E2 and he was visibly excited (if you've ever met the man, this is not normal for him!) by what he was doing for DC.  THEN I just thought it was Batman, but now I can see it was also WW.

Today DC has released the Green Lantern portion of the reboot:  LINK.  I'm on board for all of those as well, though Red Lanterns will need to grab me quickly.

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