The Success & Failure of DC's Rebirth... So Far

[CBR News]

Brett White runs through three weeks of DC's "Rebirth" stories and isolates what's working for him, plus the initiative's one massive misstep.


Full article here.

[ilovelocust]

His one complaint seems to be that he doesn't know the answer to the mystery at the beginning of the story. The whole plot of rebirth is about finding out the answers to his questions. Maybe I misunderstood the guy's article.

[Harpsikord]

His one complaint seems to be that he doesn't know the answer to the mystery at the beginning of the story. The whole plot of rebirth is about finding out the answers to his questions. Maybe I misunderstood the guy's article.

I think it's more that it's yet to be touched on, which isn't true.

Wally will be dealing with this in Flash and Titans and Wonder Woman wouldn't be having this memory issue if not for Rebirth.

[FlashingSabre]

Honestly, the Rebirth plotline is irrelevant for most of the books right now. Enjoy what's going on now, worry about continuity later.

For me, just knowing that at some point all the old stories will sorta kinda have happened is enough for now. As long as its possible, and feels like the same characters, readers can fill in the blanks of what happened themselves.

[krighton]

I haven't enjoyed comics this much in many years. First time in a long time I walked into a store, spent all my money on DC, and walked out.

[JasonTodd428]

The only books so far which the Rebirth plot line is directly relevant to would be Flash, Batman and possibly Titans though I'm not sure if the incident with Mr. Twister in Titans has any connection to Dr. M and his plans. No one outside of Batman, Flash and Wally are even aware anything is even wrong so, for myself, I'm not really expecting to see anything regarding that plot line so soon in these other books. Also given the introductory nature of the Rebirth specials I wasn't even expecting to see anything dealing with that particular plot line in those particular books anyway.

[Scott M Davis]

So far out of the 9 titles released, I feel like there has only been 2 duds; Batman and Green Lanterns. They just included characters I have no interest in reading about, but neither are bad comics.

[krighton]

The only books so far which the Rebirth plot line is directly relevant to would be Flash, Batman and possibly Titans though I'm not sure if the incident with Mr. Twister in Titans has any connection to Dr. M and his plans. No one outside of Batman, Flash and Wally are even aware anything is even wrong so, for myself, I'm not really expecting to see anything regarding that plot line so soon in these other books. Also given the introductory nature of the Rebirth specials I wasn't even expecting to see anything dealing with that particular plot line in those particular books anyway.

I'd say Superman is relevant since besides Wally he's the only one that remembers everything from before New 52. I'm sure he'll be brought into the Batman Flash secret society before long.

[BatmanJones]

I think it's more that it's yet to be touched on, which isn't true.

Wally will be dealing with this in Flash and Titans and Wonder Woman wouldn't be having this memory issue if not for Rebirth.

Yep. And this is being dealt with even more in Superman.

Not DC's fault that the writer happened to choose five series that aren't advancing the Rebirth storyline.

[dan12456]

His one complaint seems to be that he doesn't know the answer to the mystery at the beginning of the story. The whole plot of rebirth is about finding out the answers to his questions. Maybe I misunderstood the guy's article.

And apparently he didn't understand Aquaman's character. Which is weird considering the ENTIRE issue was devoted to recapping his core character conflicts/traits. In fact in every other review the thing most criticized is that it spent too much time spelling out who Aquaman is.

[BCya]

His one complaint seems to be that he doesn't know the answer to the mystery at the beginning of the story. The whole plot of rebirth is about finding out the answers to his questions. Maybe I misunderstood the guy's article.

It also sounded like he went in not wanting to like it, and found plenty of reasons not to like things. But he also ended up liking some stuff anyway, mostly stuff that reminded him of the "good old days."

And ultimately, who cares?

[ZionAkeda]

So far I really like the DC Rebirth reboot. The DC Rebirth Comics remind me a lot of programming that I grew up with as a child such as Justice League Unlimited and Batman the animated series. I can't wait to read the new Rebirth Titans comic.

[jackolover]

I don't know anything about the 3 reboots because I'm not a DC fan. But if what the reviewer says is true, that Dr Manhattan altered reality to make the post Flashpoint realities defunct, then Rebirth has a story, because each character is going to become aware that reality was altered, and they are getting mixed messages.

I don't know why people aren't addressing that sensational development of Rebirth. Someone is responsible for altering DC's reality, and it's an alternate Watchman reality doing it.

[BatmanJones]

I haven't been blown away by anything but I've read all of them but Wonder Woman (will soon) and I've liked them all.

[Leach]

It also sounded like he went in not wanting to like it, and found plenty of reasons not to like things. But he also ended up liking some stuff anyway, mostly stuff that reminded him of the "good old days."

And ultimately, who cares?

You care, because you read the article that was based off of someone else's opinion. Ending your opinion with "And ultimately, who cares" invalidates your entire response and informs everyone reading it that you wasted your time.