The DC Implosion . . .
I forgot examples and what I would put back in place:
Remove these stories:
-Final Crisis (or at least don't make it a Crisis story)
-Both Death Metal stories. They are both stupid IMO as is the concept of "everything happened"
-Heroes in Crisis - WTF?
-Convergence - WTF?
-Dark Crisis - pointless and boring
Make these changes:
-Keep Barry dead. Make COIE actually have some kind of consequence.
-Keep Hal as the Spectre. Again, make these stories and death have some kind of impact.
-Keep Jason Todd dead. Again again, make Death in the Family and death have some kind of real impact.
-Take the rape out of Identity Crisis
-Have Tim become a different hero like Dick (and I don't mean Red Robin). It doesn't make sense to have him and Damian be Robin.
-Restore Conner's character growth
-Keep Jon as a kid
The only Crisis stories should be:
-COIE
-Zero Hour
-Infinite Crisis
As for the New 52, it's not a bad idea, but here's how I would do it. Do the Flashpoint story exactly the same, except take out Pandora at the end.
Have Barry return to the normal timeline and find out it has somehow become the New 52 (but call it something else).
For the next 6 or 7 months publish the New 52 stories with a brand new reset continuity.
Then publish Doomsday Clock and reveal that Dr. Manhattan created the New 52 by moving Alan Scott's lantern. The story plays out the same way with him moving the lantern back, and the old continuity being restored.
The only change I would make it is to get rid of the "backup continuities". Those continuities should have ended when they did, not be another universe in the multi-verse.
The crisis/crises that messed up the continuity that you liked the best is/are the one/ones that caused the most damage.
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COIE, with Flashpoint a close second.
COIE is the "original sin" of DC continuity events, it established a precedent for all the nonsense that followed. We likely don't have the New 52 without COIE, and a lot of the stuff that was erased by COIE didn't need to be erased. Creating headaches when future creators inevitably wanted to use the old stuff that no longer fit.
New 52 is worse if only because it was even more of a jumbled mess, and while there was quality stuff, it was way less cohesive than in the COIE aftermath. It had the better revamp of Superman though, I don't care what anyone says.
by my math the right way to do that would have Jon hanging out with his niece or nephew
i disagree. the core fundamental FAILING of the New 52.... was making a whole bunch of NEW universes that'd never existed before and thus had no history at all.The only change I would make it is to get rid of the "backup continuities". Those continuities should have ended when they did, not be another universe in the multi-verse.
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Crisis on Infinite Earths.
It really should've just wiped a few of the extra Earths out, leaving Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-3 and maybe a few others.
Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family, the Charlton heroes and any other heroes on Earths that don't get used could've been merged into Earth-1 or Earth-2.
Otherwise, I think the event should've reset things back like they were, but with less Earths in the Multiverse.
Rebooting heroes with ongoing books should never have happened, though. That's what messed everything up.
Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman could've still had brand-spankin'-new number one issues without rebooting.
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I still think that what ever event made "everything is continuity" a thing did far more damage than COIE.
After COIE you had at least still a fixed consistent continuity, and when the next writer took over what the previous did was still mattered.
To day writers seem to can decide on a whim which parts of previous parts they keep, ignore or just randomly retcon, and that just really frustrating for long term fans.