User blog comment:Hatebunny/The DCnU, and why we have not made new pages/@comment-5220797-20120622061006/@comment-3361105-20120622131315

It's confusing to past readers as well. It wasn't well-planned (as I stated above). Nobody who was reading Green Lantern before knows why Sinestro is a Green Lantern now. Batman and Son explains why Batman has a son.

I think the point here is that every storyline is valid. What is canon is questionable. So far as I can tell, you don't need to know what's canon. But nothing should deter you from going back and reading a good storyline that may or may not be canon. Good writing is good writing. All you really need to know to appreciate a comic is where a story arc starts, who the characters are (thank goodness you have a helpful wiki to fill in the blanks, huh?), and who is writing it.

It looks like only Swamp Thing, Batman, and Green Lantern are behaving as though most of their continuity is intact. It doesn't make any sense in the latter two cases, but it doesn't make them that difficult to read.