Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3361105-20130208170447/@comment-3419446-20140613213706

With Suicide Squad #30 being the last issue of that title, I just realized that 26 of the 52 first wave titles have now been cancelled (with 4 more announced to go within the next 2-3 months). And it´s been not even three years.

That may be par for the course as regards frequency of cancellations. But it is a bad sign for long-time readers. The New 52 were announced by DC, as company announcements go, as the fresh new start for their core universe. The characters were built on a long-term tradition (75 years, even then), but that "fresh start" chose to ignore the history and the numbering. It was not only the backstory that was yanked away, it was a tradition of continuance that was abandoned.

Zero isues, Villain inserts and other gimmicks notwithstanding, this new universe (when did we hear that term before?*) is 32 months old. And it is already fraying at the edges. It lacks a core. A soul, if you will.

You see, I do not buy the revamp approach. Suicide Squad and Justice League being cases in point (surely not the only ones), the revamp´s revamps are already under way. Heavy handed editorial actions and volatile creator discussions have not contributed much to building (or re-building) a story universe readers would want to be immersed into in the long run.

It makes me wonder.

--Lucien61 (talk) 21:37, June 13, 2014 (UTC) ---
 * ... and weren´t most titles of that line also cancelled with their #32s? Sheer coincidence, to be sure.