about the next reboot

[Lukmendes]

Are we covering both a reboot AND DC Comics going out of business again?

Serious question: We have reboots and out of business. What third topic do we need to mention the hat trick of tropiest forum topics?

Batman being overspread?

[bat39]

are the next reboot a Full one like what happened Post Crisis on Infinite or a Half ass......ed one where some keep Origins and previous stories and some completely change like the new 52

Its a common misconception that COIE 'rebooted' the DC Universe. Well, it literally did so in-universe after the battle at the Dawn of Time. But continuity-wise, COIE did not actually reboot the DCU. It rebooted a few specific characters like Superman, Wonder Woman, and much later, Hawkman and Hawkgirl. And these reboots in turn led to a lot of inconsistencies and retcons all across the shared universe. But 70-80% of past DC continuity remained intact after COIE.

I'd argue that the New 52 was a much 'harder' reboot, and even there you had Batman and GL retaining the bulk of their past continuity.

DC is simply never going to reboot the entire universe and start from Ground Zero, nor should they. Instead, over time, the importance of having a 'main' universe is what's diminishing...and most of DC's best work now (and even in the past) has been in Elseworlds/Black Label books set in alternate continuities/universes.

[KC]

I think any reboots in the near future will just be streamlining some of the continuity rather than a full hard reboot.

[Doctor Kent Nelson]

The Reboot in 2038 will likely be just a relaunch of all the titles with new #1 issues.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how Marvel handle the DC reboot in 2038

I bet the watcher will be involved as well!

[bat39]

I think any reboots in the near future will just be streamlining some of the continuity rather than a full hard reboot.

That's really what most of them have been, ultimately.

The only line-wide reboots that really went beyond 'streamlining continuity' were Flashpoint, and the beginning of the Silver Age way back in the late 50's. The latter incidentally is probably the closest DC has come to an actual hard reboot, and even in that case Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and a couple of other characters remained largely unchanged.

[MajorHoy]

. . . the beginning of the Silver Age way back in the late 50's. The latter incidentally is probably the closest DC has come to an actual hard reboot, and even in that case Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and a couple of other characters remained largely unchanged.

Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman had their own comic book titles that continued from the Golden Age into the Silver Age, while Aquaman and Green Arrow (with Speedy) had running features that continued into the Silver Age. Everyone else was fair game for rebooting.

[bat39]

Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman had their own comic book titles that continued from the Golden Age into the Silver Age, while Aquaman and Green Arrow (with Speedy) had running features that continued into the Silver Age. Everyone else was fair game for rebooting.

Of course.

My point was that this was still in a sense the closest DC has ever come to a hard reboot. (Of course, in some ways, it was the hardest possible reboot, since you literally had most of your characters replaced by brand-new characters with the same names and basic concepts).

There's never been a situation where DC literally restarted continuity from ground-zero across the entire line. They've done it for a few specific characters (Superman and Wonder Woman after COIE, LOSH after Zero Hour etc.) but never for the entire universe.

[D.Z]

No reboot is coming. These past past years were deboots.