Help me understand The New 52

[Quiet Stranger]

Okay so as far as I understand it, the New 52 is a complete reboot of the DC Comics Universe where everything old is new again (except for Green Lantern comics (THANK SATAN!)) but there's one thing I don't understand.

In an issue of Green Lantern Corps, J'on Jonzz (if thats how you spell it) or "Martian Manhunter" helps Guy Gardner with a interrogation, when he shows up to help Guy acts like he has never even met J'on before. Has the reboot of the DC Universe just wiped out everything? Has everything that came before not even matter, has every major event meant nothing? Also does "Flashpoint" happen before or after War of The Green Lanterns?


Off topic: captcha is Dark Horse, how oddly appropriate

 

[JohnDoey]

Okay so as far as I understand it, the New 52 is a complete reboot of the DC Comics Universe where everything old is new again (except for Green Lantern comics (THANK SATAN!)) but there's one thing I don't understand.

In an issue of Green Lantern Corps, J'on Jonzz (if thats how you spell it) or "Martian Manhunter" helps Guy Gardner with a interrogation, when he shows up to help Guy acts like he has never even met J'on before. Has the reboot of the DC Universe just wiped out everything? Has everything that came before not even matter, has every major event meant nothing? Also does "Flashpoint" happen before or after War of The Green Lanterns?


Off topic: captcha is Dark Horse, how oddly appropriate

Not the official explanation but as near as I can figure it's pretty much a new reality were most events were altered or just didn't occur but some things pretty much went down the same(the GL's for example).

 

[Kolby Jack]

Certain major events still happened, like the Killing Joke and the Lantern War. At the moment, there seems to be 2 periods happening, one at the start of the arrival of the Superheroes (Superman is the first, but Batman was operating in secret years before that) and five years after that, where the heroes are now well known and most seem to at least be aware of each other. It's still kind of piecing itself together, so some information is still missing.

I just hope Wally West comes back. The writers of Flash are said to have a "proposal" for how to do that on the Editor's desk... here's hoping.

 

[AgentNein]

All you really need to know is you should be reading Animal Man. That is all.

 

[aba1]

This is why I think if they are going to do a reboot they should actually just reboot. Literally take every character back to square one just getting started. If they wanted to continue things that is fine and all but don't do things half way where it confuses the old fans and confuses new fans. They have 4 on-going batman titles not including titles that include batman as a secondary character and the same thing with other titles, there is no reason they can't scrap one and bring in a new book to actually appeal to new fans that will remain linear and easy to follow like manga.

 

[Kolby Jack]

This is why I think if they are going to do a reboot they should actually just reboot. Literally take every character back to square one just getting started. If they wanted to continue things that is fine and all but don't do things half way where it confuses the old fans and confuses new fans. They have 4 on-going batman titles not including titles that include batman as a secondary character and the same thing with other titles, there is no reason they can't scrap one and bring in a new book to actually appeal to new fans that will remain linear and easy to follow like manga.

I agree. Batman: TDK and Detective Comics are frankly just not as good as Batman and Batman and Robin. I get that everyone looooooves Batman, but he doesn't need 4 different titles just for him. At least the distinction between Action Comics and Superman is that Action Comics is about Supes' origins and Superman is about his present-day adventures. And at least each Green Lantern book features a different GL as the lead.

 

[AgentNein]

This is why I think if they are going to do a reboot they should actually just reboot. Literally take every character back to square one just getting started. If they wanted to continue things that is fine and all but don't do things half way where it confuses the old fans and confuses new fans. They have 4 on-going batman titles not including titles that include batman as a secondary character and the same thing with other titles, there is no reason they can't scrap one and bring in a new book to actually appeal to new fans that will remain linear and easy to follow like manga.

As much as I agree (god forbid Batman n' Superman have just like...one book each) The unfortunate reality seems to be that Batman and Superman books sell. Unlike some of the other really good but obscure and thus sadly underperforming comics in the New 52 lineup. Animal Man and Swampthing being excellent examples to the contrary.

 

[octafish]

I still don't understand why Amanda Waller is now skinny and where Deadshot's awesome went. Did it disappear with his mustache? As far as I can tell the New 52 is just a marketing exercise designed at getting me to finish my collection of the original John Ostrander run on Suicide Squad and then to abandon DC comics altogether.

 

[Vault101]

I hear that they've sexualised alot of female charachters (not that thats a new thing)

most comics I have read are not superhero comics, so Im unfamilliar with the whole thing

but its not really encourageing me to rush out and get into it