User blog comment:Hatebunny/An interesting quote from Alan Moore/@comment-16482113-20120907011756

The thing about Alan Moore is that he likes to be negative whenever he possibly can; whether or not he really feels this way (or has even read some of the new titles), he's going to remark negatively because of his past with DC and, simply, his very negative personality. While I respect the man as one of my all time favorite authors in any medium, he's kind of a dick.

A reboot doesn't mean the old stories are inconsequential. In fact, with the way the new universe is set up, it seems likely that the bulk of the old stories are still completely valid in some form. It's obvious they could have planned this much better, such as coordinating the titles in a family, not focusing on single-issue crossovers by issue 3, finishing up stories that will never be resolved ahead of time (or keep them running until they can finish). At the same time, thing such as Night of the Owls (or Batman in general), Nightwing, Batgirl, Swamp Thing, and the upcoming Third Army (or Green Lantern in general) seem quite spectacular and are a good way to start off the new universe and prove that DC still has quality storytellers behind the wheel.

I mostly agree with your own observations; how several of the titles are extremely awful while others are exceptionally good with very few series falling in-between. A major problem is that DC keeps hiring hack writers like Liefeld (can't do that now, though!) that have proven numerous times that they cannot write a compelling story for the life of them. Another is DC's seeming hatred of several fan-favorite characters, such as Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Roy Harper, and others who where either butchered or erased from history. They seem to have relented on Stephanie, with her appearance in the Batman Inc. special and on Facebook, and Wally West is more than likely making a return (written by Neil Gaiman, no less), so it seems like if we complain enough and in the right ways, they'll eventually start doing what we've always wanted. Rather than shun the New 52 as the "end times" of DC, we should be doing more of what we're doing to sculpt the new world into what we've always wanted.