User blog comment:Paulsultimates/New DCnU earth/@comment-1038387-20110910171212/@comment-220364-20110912062522

And retcons... fairly substantial ones by what little I've seen so far.

It maybe that when all is said and done, the majority of the characters/teams/settings won't have seen a major impact. Or that we see, pessimistically, a re-set button thwapped in 12 months and get the pre-Flaspoint continuity, or something close, back.