I know what some of you are thinking. “Why bring this up again? The New 52 is done. Dan DiDio is gone. Why can’t you just let this go?” Because this is a website that examines what has been done right and wrong in order to improve myself as a storyteller and the New 52 is a great example of the “wrong” category. It’s why I also harp on Identity Crisis, Heroes In Crisis, and so many other DiDio crises (seriously, dude was so obsessed with Crisis On Infinite Earths that he has more “Crisis” titles than Power Rangers has “Dino” or “Force” titles) during his run. It’s worth examining the failures of the New 52 in different perspectives to try to piece together just why it went so horribly wrong.
Here’s another interesting examination of why this hard reboot, the second hard reboot for the DC universe after soft reboots like Zero Hour, led to the further destruction of the DC universe to so many classic fans, be they from the Bronze Age like me or the “Dark Age” of the 1990s. From Comic Tropes, a channel YouTube has been trying to get me to watch for a while now, comes the history of the New 52 behind the scenes. I’m slightly over 8 minutes in as I write this and already I find this interesting enough to make this post. Oh yeah, sorry it’s late. I got woken up early this morning and it’s thrown off my whole day.
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