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I don’t mind the super-deformed shapes or even the mix of Wally’s eye lenses on Barry’s costume… But slapping a New 52 label on a series where Superman still has his red underwear, Batman has his yellow oval, Flash’s belt is straight and no one has seams, armor or collars?
I don’t mind the super-deformed shapes or even the mix of Wally’s eye lenses on Barry’s costume… But slapping a New 52 label on a series where Superman still has his red underwear, Batman has his yellow oval, Flash’s belt is straight and no one has seams, armor or collars?
No wonder we haven’t seen Wally West since Flashpoint. The New 52 moved his hometown to another country.
No wonder we haven’t seen Wally West since Flashpoint. The New 52 moved his hometown to another country.
The New 52 reboot *was* rushed compared to COIE.
The thing is, the New 52 reboot was rushed compared to COIE.
COIE was a 12-issue event created specifically to clean house and combine what they wanted to keep into a new reality.
Flashpoint was a stand-alone “fix the broken timeline” story that grew. Somewhere along the line, DC decided to use it as the springboard to launch the New 52. They added a double-page spread with some mumbo-jumbo about merging timelines, and drew the new costumes on Batman and Barry for the last two pages. (I can’t confirm this, but given the timeline of when Johns and Kubert started Flashpoint, when the reboot got greenlit, the story of Flashpoint itself, and all the stuff Johns talked about putting into his Flash run that didn’t make it, this makes the most sense.)
In my mind, Flashpoint and the New 52 are completely separate entities.
And speaking of things that are completely separate…
“Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato are doing amazing work.”
Yes. Yes they are.
Flashpoint wasn’t originally going to be a reboot
It’s been stated that Flashpoint wasn’t originally going to be a reboot, and it’s been stated that Dan Didio has wanted to do a reboot as far back as Infinite Crisis. (I think that plan ended up morphing into “One Year Later” and 52.)
I have no idea whether Final Crisis was at some point planned to be a reboot or not, though.
I think part of it is that DC periodically buys other comic companies
I think part of it is that DC periodically buys other comic companies or their characters and wants to integrate them into their main line. Fawcett, Charlton, WildStorm, Milestone, etc.
Another part is that most of DC’s big characters go back, in some form, to the late 1930s or early 1940s. Marvel as we know it today essentially started in the Silver Age with Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, etc. The biggest Golden-Age character for Marvel is Captain America, who was frozen in ice until the Silver Age. So effectively, Marvel has fewer years of stories to keep in continuity.