Originally Posted by
skyvolt2000
You do that and that mass exodus of fans is even LARGER.
Because you are still held hostage by when does BLANK show up. If Dick is Robin when does Jason, Tim & Damian show up? No one is going to wait 10-25 years.
You would be better off doing a history of DC guide that starts out with a set origin for everybody. From Batman to Hawk & Dove and even Z list folks.
Have it online and DC no fans update it. So if someone sees say Sideways in a book you have a place where you can go and get all his appearances and history to find those books.
And they shouldn't.
The whole point of doing a hard reboot isn't so we can see the same stories retold. My opinion is that if you reset to Dick Grayson as Robin you might integrate things from Jason, Tim or Damian but that the rebooted Dick isn't locked into becoming Nightwing at any future point and there should be no plans in place to ever introduce his replacement. If someone writing a story in, say 2024, decides to revisit Jason or have Dick replacd by him- then so be it. But as of 2020 the plan going in should be Grayson as Robin forever.
And with Kon-El, you come up with an origin when you are ready to introduce him that has no ties to Superman's death, the debut of Steel/Eradicator/Henshaw. Or you decide that finding a way to introduce Jon Samuel Kent is a better idea and leave Kon-El's time as Superboy a relic of old stories. Maybe you debut Bart as only slightly younger than Grayson with an older Wally having a short "Kid" Flash career before replacing the short lived Barry Allen, but even then this Wally isn't introduced destined to marry Linda Park just to perfectly recreate the prior stories. maybe you never introduce Donna and have Cassie as the first and only Wonder Girl. Maybe Roy Harper is an equal partner to Ollie from day one as Arsenal and a female Speedy (Mia or Emiko) is Ollie's tag-along sibling who becomes a hero over Ollie's objetions.
The point is that the reboot should not be bound to wait to introduce characters if they feel it is better for sales or story to debut them earlier. It also is not bound to introduce things that were there before just because they were there before. Maybe this time instead of the Big Seven League slowly expanding we start day one in our second year with Superman, Batman, Hawkwoman, Black Lightning, Steel (Natasha posing as John Henry in the armor). Mister Miracle, an adult Blue Beetle (Ted or Jaime but they are the first hero with the name), and 3-5 other characters whose 1st year sale support their inclusion. Guys like Woneder Woman, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter no longer get founder status just because in 1961 they were big names.
Bottom line you aren't trying to appeal to the nostalgia of the readers from the 70's-2000's. And you aren't just counting on reintroducing the characters who sold big in the last 5 years and have a fanbase. You are trying to pull in the eyes who want to see these heroes as newbies and see where their stories go when they aren't tied to repeating some Wikipedia list of past adventures.