What is the difference between DC Universe Rebirth and The New 52?

[Ultrachicken]

I have been reading the the red hood and the outlaws series and have been wanting to know where does the line cross between DC Universe Rebirth and The New 52?

[Restingvoice]

They all started with Rebirth #1 for each title and a blue curtain at the top of the cover

[Green Goblin of Sector 2814]

Are you talking about in general? Well, the main difference would be that Rebirth acknowledges a lot more of past continuity than the New 52 did. The "missing 10 years" was basically a plot device for explaining why the New 52 was different from Pre-Flashpoint. Its still something that needs to be resolved.

[MajorHoy]

Unfortunately, in trying to bring back parts of the pre-Flashpoint status in Rebirth that some old-time readers felt was sorely missing under the New52, DC seems to have wound up bringing back much of the unwanted baggage that caused them to force the changes that resulted from Flashpoint in the first place.

[Rakzo]

Rebirth is actually consistent.

[Korath]

Rebirth is actually consistent.

That's debatable. At best.

[Rakzo]

That's debatable. At best.

Not really. A few mistakes here and there but still is nothing compared to what happened during the New 52.

[Green Goblin of Sector 2814]

Unfortunately, in trying to bring back parts of the pre-Flashpoint status in Rebirth that some old-time readers felt was sorely missing under the New52, DC seems to have wound up bringing back much of the unwanted baggage that caused them to force the changes that resulted from Flashpoint in the first place.

Yeah, I think the contention that the years of past continuity brought so much baggage with it that DC just had to reboot is suspicious at best. Has DC made mistakes with characters in the past? Uh, yes (In fact, its ironic because I think if you asked a lot of fans, they'd probably point to the New 52 as one of the biggest mistakes that DC's ever made with their characters). But I never ever thought that those years of storytelling built up so much crap that it forced DC to reboot. Marvel has made just as many mistakes with their characters as DC has with theirs and their universe is doing just fine with all that decades' worth of baggage.

The real reason that DC rebooted had pretty much nothing to do with whatever baggage certain characters had or didn't have.