Yeah, this is what happens when you bring Bendis in. Shocker.
If they erase the marriage just split off the universe and keep the current timeline in a few set “Earth Two” Titles like before COIE. Then REALLY Reboot as in Dick Grayson is 12 Y/O.
Well... if it is true...the Didio era will go down in history as the era that repeatedly kept starting over, and never knew exactly what it wanted to be.
And would give credit to the idea that when they saw his resume, all they saw was 'ReBoot' and said, "hey... there's our guy!"
But, in all fairness, Rebirth really wasn't doing enough to seperate the DCU from New52, Doomsday Clock being delayed has stretched the two year race into a four year marathon, Bendis came in halfway through Rebirth and likely came with conditions (not unlike Byrne in the '80s), and no one really knows what is or isn't canon...
A Crisis level event that gives a definite point where continuity starts is probably what DC needs right now. Even if it's just to take all the plot points and course corrections of Doomsday Clock and Rebirth and put it all in layman's terms so that there's no confusion going forward.
And major superhero marriages do tend to be the death knell or harbinger of doom for continuity, as it seems that shortly afterwards a reset button is usually pushed to erase it.
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This sounds like it's more on Didio than anyone else. It's not a secret Johns was a hold out on New 52 being a hard reboot because he wanted to keep his stuff with GL and most of Batman's history. He was against it from the start and now that he's more or less out of the picture it wouldn't surprise me if Didio wants the reboot he couldn't have back in 2011. If this is slated for 2020, then Doomsday Clock would be long over by then and Johns would be out of the picture for good.
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Not clear on why undoing marriages is so important to TPTB at both Marvel and DC.
When I started reading comics as a kid, Barry and Arthur were both married and as far as I was concerned always had been. This never ruined the characters for me.
Even at a young age I also gravitated toward the JSA because they WERE allowed to progress and have families.
While I would love a good new Crisis story, I don't want to see the current continuity undone. Leave Prime Earth alone, leave the current history alone (however DO establish what the current history is since it seems to be in flux. Founders of the JLA?...Cyborg as a Teen Titan? etc).
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As always, it's a matter of what will sell comics. People complain about DiDio and Lee, but they've done a pretty good job of that. Certainly better than Marvel in recent years.
Marriages? I'm skeptical about them. Why do you think so many characters on television are unmarried? It's because marriages tend to get in the way of stories. Many years of trial and error have borne that out.
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