DC's DiDio & Lee Explain Exactly How Rebirth Differs From The New 52

[Will J.]

If it looks like a reboot and it sounds like a reboot, calling it #Rebirth doesn't change anything. #EpicFail

Yep.

They'll get a sales bump for a couple of months, then they'll be right back to chasing Marvel.

What's the definition of insanity again?

Oh, yeah. Doing the same thing over and over again(no matter how differently they dress it) and expecting different results.

[batnbreakfast]

Too much caught up in real world problems atm. Give me good writing and I'll buy the product/character. Not a huge fan of continuity anyway

[mrPizza]

a reboot by any other name is not a reboot! lol.

[Lee Stone]

If they've learned anything from New52 it's that they can do anything they really want and in about four years the people who hated the changes will be replaced by those who embrace them.
So anyone who's resistant to Rebirth changes will just be replaced by readers who come in and have no pre-Rebirth experience.

[cactusmaac]

If they wonder why readers have walked away its because Didio and Lee aren't putting good writers on popular characters.

Previously D.C. had Morrison, Johns, Azzarello, Lemire, Soule and Robinson among others writing monthlies, from the Rebirth roster the only titles I am somewhat interested in are the Batman ones by Snyder and King.

Why they have persisted with the writer roster they have is beyond me. Jurgens, Tomasi and Venditti do not excite me in the slightest.

DC is crying out for a regime change.

[WhipWhirlwind]

It has less of a 90s feel, I'll give them that. And props to them for keeping some of the DCYou talent, thats just a start though.

[JBatmanFan05]

New 52 haters will not appreciate any games with trying to stick with it too much. DC should remember that.

[Dr. Poison]

I like a lot of what I've read/seen in the last couple of days. It sounds like DC is finally getting it's act together and solidifying it's foundation instead of throwing random new things at the wall to see what sticks. I liked the Pre-Flashpoint stuff, some of the New 52 stuff but not much of the DCYou stuff so I'm excited to see Rebirth taking the best of all of this and fusing it into a nice little package moving forward. The Rebirth costumes alone are a step in the right direction for the most part. I'm planning on picking up roughly double the amount of DC books that I'm buying now(and no that doesn't really count the books shipping twice monthly).

[Austin316]

The main criticism I've had with it so far is that what they've said hasn't really meshed with what they've shown. They talked a lot about history, legacy and something missing from new 52 but I'm really not sure what they went on to reveal embodied at. All I'm really happy about is Batman, Nightwing and Wonder Woman but you really shouldn't need a relaunch in order to put good talent on books, that should be the aim anyway.

[Dr. Poison]

The main criticism I've had with it so far is that what they've said hasn't really meshed with what they've shown. They talked a lot about history, legacy and something missing from new 52 but I'm really not sure what they went on to reveal embodied at. All I'm really happy about is Batman, Nightwing and Wonder Woman but you really shouldn't need a relaunch in order to put good talent on books, that should be the aim anyway.

When they talk about the history/legacy aspect, I think they're referring to things like putting the original Titans and Justice Society back into continuity.

[TooFlyToFail]

Yeah, I can't speak to the final product yet but I love the Tomasi/Gleason creative team and I'm very excited about their work on Superman. Ditto to Tom King on Batman, though I am a bit more lukewarm about David Finch's art.

I'm picking up the Superman title just for the art alone. I've been waiting for him to do Superman.

I'm getting Super-Man because of Lex, and his "Over 9000!" levels of swag, atop dat throne.

[GreenLanternRanger]

The Rebirth books seem like they will be overall enjoyable to me so I am looking forward to reading them. Though i'm sure like anything else the quality will vary depending on the title. But hey, something to look forward to this June.

[Tayswift]

If they've learned anything from New52 it's that they can do anything they really want and in about four years the people who hated the changes will be replaced by those who embrace them.
So anyone who's resistant to Rebirth changes will just be replaced by readers who come in and have no pre-Rebirth experience.

only on didio and lee dreams

[Kirby Krackle]

I'm actually excited to read DC again.

[Bluebolt1967]

Hey DC: good luck with Rebirth! I'll be buying a lot of titles to give you another chance. If you want to learn a lesson from the past several years, please realize that long story arcs that take nearly a year to complete are extremely difficult to deal with and they make it very easy for readers to leave the title. Focus on shorter, higher-energy stories instead. I think readers want to see more characters, more villains, a larger snapshot of the DCU. When it takes 8 months to complete one story, this isn't happening and the stories get boring.