User blog comment:Hatebunny/The DCnU, and why we have not made new pages/@comment-1640503-20120524182455/@comment-5157713-20120611180627

Having just read the new Batman book's first eight issues (I always wait for the graphic novels to release, due to time constraints), I have to admit that I am puzzled by DC's strategy, if there is any at all. I think that at this point, creating new pages would be pointless. Correct me if I have this wrong, but it appears as if some characters have been started from scratch, while others have retained many elements of their histories... to the detriment of universal continuity, I would think. To expect anyone to accurately sum up what has been done to the characters' histories would be unrealistic.

Let me qualify this by saying that I enjoyed the book, the artwork and the story were excellent, and I am completely on board with the idea of romancing new readers to the page.

HOWEVER...

If you are going to start the entire universe over from scratch, then don't do it piecemeal. Commit. Do everyone over again. I realize that this would mean scrapping many characters, but then you eventually get to recreate them again as well. Personally, I would find that scenario to be quite exciting. And at that point, all the other pages for each character would be mothballed to be attached later on to the characters' reintroductions.