I Get The Weirdest E-Mail From CR Readers

A couple of people wrote in last night to ask me to comment on this rumor article about the narrative direction of the DC Universe with its latest revamp/reboot/rebirth line-wide story reset.

I went. I saw. I laughed.

I don't have a refined sense of Rich Johnston's site to know if it's true or not. Looks true. Johnston certainly seems to have a giant pipeline straight from well-established sources at DC and right onto his site, which strikes me as odd in that it's never been shut down. Most companies that have the money and the structure to have executives with hard-to-parse, multi-word titles are usually a tiny bit more disciplined in that way, at least when measured in years passing.

What actually struck me more than the potentially distressing narrative choice on hand (plenty of time to see how that plays out) it was that the way these rebirthed comics look they could be a comic from 1996: so much frowning and gritting of teeth, so much armageddon-fueled fear, so much certainty that these properties have intrinsic emotional value. It's an interesting set of developments to have leaked a few days after Darwyn Cooke's passing, as Cooke's vision for that line, a group of characters he frequently drew, was actually forward-looking in its embrace of original conceptions and in his expressed desire that someone or a group of someones might do tonal revamp. The other thing that struck me is that this might somehow be more fun if Mark Millar were behind it all.
 
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