User blog:Kyletheobald/September's reboot and or renumbering

By now most of you have heard about DC's (rumored) plan to completely reboot the DC Universe in September following Flashpoint. As part of this plan, they will relaunch every title with a new issue number 1. There are scheduled to be 52 new number 1's debuting in September.

As I said before this is rumored on sites like http://www.bleedingcool.com/. Only part of this has been confirmed by DC, letting speculation and rumors run rampant throughout the web and especially at DC's message boards. One of the "confirmed" titles, Teen Titans, is set to have J.T. Krul leave the writing duties in favor of Fabian Nicieza. Fabian, one of the few professionals who actually frequents DC's message boards anymore, answered fans' questions, claiming he is Not writing Teen Titans. It also seems that most speculators have forgotten about DC's plans to make "bombshell" announcements on June 11th.

After first seeing all the speculation, I admit I was rather nervous. One of the pleasures of reading comics for me is reading about some of the more obscure characters who are likely to get deleted in a reboot. I don't want to live in a world where Joe Public or Odd Man can't show up at any time. I love some of the convoluted and crazy elements running around in DC. Not every story was a gem. Generally, we just ignore them. We don't have to reboot the entire universe every time something dumb is written. Even the more accepted elements, Barbara Gordon becoming Oracle, Clark Kent marrying Lois Lane, Batman Incorporated, are likely to be lost in a reboot.

Its really too early to make any firm conclusions about this. At the very least, this has created a lot of free publicity for DC, which is always good. It does make me wonder what the rest of you guys think though.