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Would it be overly cynical or too close to the truth to say DC is intentionally putting out a whole lot of terrible stories to steer fans toward accepting a complete reboot of everything?

I'll buy...

So even more evidence that the internal power struggle has ruined what this book was supposed to be; it's been twisted to serve Bendis, Snyder, and King. What a waste, because it's still far better...

There is some evidence. Doomsday Clock was rewritten as it progressed to accommodate the trash that was Heroes in Crisis as part of its narrative. There was also an interview Scott Snyder gave where...

He doesn't care about damage. I'd wager he probably doesn't think any of this is damaging at all.

This is just another step on the road to the new status quo; the characters' actions, whatever...

Doomsday Clock will have no bearing on anything. Scott Snyder admitted in a recent interview that DC has moved past it already, if that wasn't glaringly obvious from the crap they're printing right...

Both.

And just to clarify, I did not say that everyone who likes this was necessarily anti-Rebirth. But I notice that people who were (not just here) are usually in favor of Bendis's run. For me,...

The anti-Rebirth fans love it. That's about as positive a remark as I can give it.

I thought it sucked, and that's why I dropped both books.

They won't care because the book is an apology and was never intended to continue. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been announced as a maxiseries from the beginning, and it wouldn't have had the sales...

Not a fair comparison. Adventures of the Super Sons is hamstrung by being a "flashback" story, which was required so that it didn't interfere with Bendis's crap, so the story can't set up anything...

Expected and still unnecessary.

For those who realize this is stupid, vote with your wallet. It's all you can do.

Rebirth brought me back to comics. Its sabotage is pushing me back out because it's clear DC doesn't want to tell the kind of stories I want to read anymore.

How is any of that related to forcing characters into a story? From what I've seen, other than some minor details, Bendis could be writing the exact same story with the extended Flash family that...

What I saw initially - and what everything I've seen discussed after I dropped the books reinforces - is that Bendis is not telling Superman stories, but Bendis stories using Superman characters. And...

It might explain why there are continuity hangups, but it won't resolve them. Doomsday Clock is no longer the capstone story, and Rebirth has been abandoned creatively.

You want continuity...

I'd take Tomasi back. Or Dan Jurgens. Or any number of past Superman writers. But I'm not DC's target audience, and the sensibilities of their target audience don't match mine at all.

I also don't...

That art is distractingly disproportionate. Clark looks like he's on the Hector Hammond diet.

I did no such thing, and I'll thank you not to put words in my mouth.

Here are the sales numbers for the entire Bendis run on the regular books. December to March does look a lot better, since the...

Chart position is a relative thing, and is pretty meaningless in the grand scheme. The market is poor now, which I think everyone agrees on.

He's lost readers with every issue of Superman and...

Bendis will blow off criticism because he knows he's not leaving the books until he wants to, no matter how much his sales keep dropping.

I don't think Bendis cares why people liked Jon. His repeated "things will be fine!" line is just trying to keep people buying the books. It isn't working, not that that matters.

That's worth discussing. I think there's general agreement the market has shrunk over the last year or so; depending on how much, that's definitely something that should be taken into consideration...

At least some of the writers will get to write about their actual favorite characters now.

I'd hope that when this fails, it would be the last straw for some people at DC, but I know it won't be....

Yeah, it is fair, because comparing sales from the same point last year isn't a true comparison. March 2018 is the tail end of the Rebirth run, when it was known that Bendis would be taking over and...

Everything has fallen, but Bendis's Super-books are seeing faster sales declines than what he replaced. He's lost readers every month on both books save for Action 1004, but that had a huge dropoff...

Williamson's quote about other books just indicates to me more "connective tissue" crap to boost sales, because it strongly hints you won't know the FULL story unless you're reading everything. Give...