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It's time for another edition of What I'd Do With...
This time, we (and by that I mean I, but I'm playing god in these things so we might as well get into the spirit by using the royal We) tackle the DC Reboot/Relaunch/Whatever.
So, DC's launching in September with 52 all new #1 issues. Is it a reboot? Partly, it seems, because characters like Superman are being changed back to the beginning, but others are seemingly untouched. It feels more like a continuity cluster!#$! to me.
But let's say *I* was in charge of that potential cluster&$@!. What would my 52 #1 titles be, and what would my vision for the new DCU as a whole be?
Keep in mind two things before we begin.
1) I started writing this when very little was known about what DC was doing continuitywise, aside from the list of books they were doing. There may be references to things that are already disproven.
2) A great deal of the magic of WIDW is, occasionally, talking almost entirely out of my ass. I'm not a huge DC fan. A lot of what I know, outside of my particular favorites, is just from reading wikis, scans, and just general knowledge and so may be inaccurate. Sometimes I take an idea just briefly mentioned on a wiki that's not really very important, and run with it. I might suggest things that have already been tried. I may completely miss the point of a character or concept. I make no apologies for that, I just point it out up front.
3) I don't always edit as well as I should, a lot of it's written off the top of my head and not meant to be super polished, and in fact, I like the energy of coming up with ideas on the fly and elaborating them as I type them. (See, I said two things and this is #3. Perfect example). With things like my Runaways Vol 3 outlines I try a little more structure and organization and pre-planning, but this is not one of those times.
First, let's talk briefly about some alternatives:
There are of course, always alternatives to a line-wide reboot. ( Leave It Alone! )
( Ultimate DC, or Battle of the Brands )
( DC Unleashed )
But all of those are just odd ideas of what to do instead of a reboot to generate buzz. Let's assume a full reboot - or let's call it universe shift - is what they're doing, as seems to be the case (right now it looks like they might not be starting everything from scratch, the early days of the universe, but they're certainly changing lots of things at once while leaving a few lines more or less alone). A Shift could range from a reboot to changing most of the origins and then jamming them awkwardly into the storylines that were ongoing, but this is the mandate from on high, we must do one or the other, and relaunch all books at #1. Also, digital comics. So before we get to the changes to the universe itself, let's discuss some of the outside issues of how I'd handle announcing it, and how I'd want to handle some of the associated details.
( Read more... )Designing a DC NU...( Read more... )
In the next part, we list the full roster of 52 launch titles, with more details on changes revealed inside.
This time, we (and by that I mean I, but I'm playing god in these things so we might as well get into the spirit by using the royal We) tackle the DC Reboot/Relaunch/Whatever.
So, DC's launching in September with 52 all new #1 issues. Is it a reboot? Partly, it seems, because characters like Superman are being changed back to the beginning, but others are seemingly untouched. It feels more like a continuity cluster!#$! to me.
But let's say *I* was in charge of that potential cluster&$@!. What would my 52 #1 titles be, and what would my vision for the new DCU as a whole be?
Keep in mind two things before we begin.
1) I started writing this when very little was known about what DC was doing continuitywise, aside from the list of books they were doing. There may be references to things that are already disproven.
2) A great deal of the magic of WIDW is, occasionally, talking almost entirely out of my ass. I'm not a huge DC fan. A lot of what I know, outside of my particular favorites, is just from reading wikis, scans, and just general knowledge and so may be inaccurate. Sometimes I take an idea just briefly mentioned on a wiki that's not really very important, and run with it. I might suggest things that have already been tried. I may completely miss the point of a character or concept. I make no apologies for that, I just point it out up front.
3) I don't always edit as well as I should, a lot of it's written off the top of my head and not meant to be super polished, and in fact, I like the energy of coming up with ideas on the fly and elaborating them as I type them. (See, I said two things and this is #3. Perfect example). With things like my Runaways Vol 3 outlines I try a little more structure and organization and pre-planning, but this is not one of those times.
First, let's talk briefly about some alternatives:
There are of course, always alternatives to a line-wide reboot. ( Leave It Alone! )
( Ultimate DC, or Battle of the Brands )
( DC Unleashed )
But all of those are just odd ideas of what to do instead of a reboot to generate buzz. Let's assume a full reboot - or let's call it universe shift - is what they're doing, as seems to be the case (right now it looks like they might not be starting everything from scratch, the early days of the universe, but they're certainly changing lots of things at once while leaving a few lines more or less alone). A Shift could range from a reboot to changing most of the origins and then jamming them awkwardly into the storylines that were ongoing, but this is the mandate from on high, we must do one or the other, and relaunch all books at #1. Also, digital comics. So before we get to the changes to the universe itself, let's discuss some of the outside issues of how I'd handle announcing it, and how I'd want to handle some of the associated details.
( Read more... )Designing a DC NU...( Read more... )
In the next part, we list the full roster of 52 launch titles, with more details on changes revealed inside.
