Originally Posted by
godisawesome
To me, the big catch with trying to do a hard reboot in the same medium as the original stories is that it requires taking everyone back to square one... and then trying to do a better job than the previous stories, and consistently and quickly too.
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And that’s the thing: Comics, as time has moved on, have compiled ungodly amounts of material that was increasing in quality as time went on. The standards comic reader expect and hold their favorite characters and properties to is too high to just try and retell *everything* at once - you might be able to improve on a handful of elements for a while, but eventually you’ll stumble because of the pace you’ve demanded of yourself. If you hard reboot the Batman characters now, you have to try and nail introductions and character arcs for Bruce, Alfred, Joker, Gordon, Babs, Harvey Dent, Selina, Talia, Ra’s Al Ghul, Riddler, Bane, Jason, Tim, Damian, Tetch, Black Mask, and everyone else and all in succession... or accept that you can’t use some of those character for a long time, and possibly leave money on the table.
Oh, and you’ll have to try and hope your work compares favorably to the works of O’Neill, Dixon, Morrison, Miller, Wolfmann, Grant, Moore, and Brubaker. It’s one thing to try and one up an overworked Bill Finger’s work at the dawn of the comic book industry, it’s another to take on his more valued and refined successors after decades of literary evolution.