Over the course of the story, those cracks can spread until Madame Darqueseid is covered head to toe in them... "Next Issue: Darqueseid! Completely Crazed!!"

And James, my take on the changes in the reprinted versions of those Nu52 books is that DC Editorial is actually, and hey, I can't believe I'm saying this either, doing their jobs.

Clearly, DC had a lot of this "figured out" in advance. What to keep, what to throw away. Morrison and Johns' notes from their mothers excusing them from the reboot didn't just happen, leaving everyone to scramble to accomodate them. They knew going in where most of their main characters were going to start off.

But not ALL of them. Tim Drake's backstory apparently glitched when it came up against Morrison's timeline, and, well, Tim never got to be Robin. Yes, it's the sort of thing they ought to have seen coming, and for the most part, in most cases, they did. However, where mistakes did occur, they're actually deciding upon a "correct" answer and fixing the error in any future printings of the story.

If this only occurs when mistakes are made, and the corrections actually work to bring the stories into line with the overall continuity, then it would appear to me the editors are actually doing their jobs, if a few months too late.

Should such things occur randomly and serve to confuse the questions rather than streamlining the answers, then we have another Crisis on our hands, and no one is steering the ship.

That doesn't look to be the case to me. Not yet anyway. I have heard that a great many readers feel differently, of course. :-)

Why am I flashing back to MAN OF STEEL. . . . ?

Sadly there was a period of time when professionals could put out a quality monthly book. Guys like Rucka never really struck me as the type that could write the Avengers or Teen Titans. Not that he's a bad writer but he's a type that has to have the "gritty realism" element to alot of his stuff. His crime and spy comics fit that bill just fine but I'm okay with him staying away from superhero comics. Personally, I found his Wonder Woman and Wolverine runs to be terribly boring.