I should really be sleeping....

[zolac_no_miko]

Sooooo, what do we think of the "DCU reboot"? If you don't already know, in September they will be relaunching the DCU with new costumes, new origins, and new characters, and 52 titles restarting at issue #1.

Quotes of relevancy: "We really want to inject new life in our characters and line.... This was a chance to start, not at the beginning,

Comments

[mithen]

Well, it looks like the news JUST came out that Damian will be Robin, with Bruce Batman. I'm...really queasy about this, to be honest, because if Damian is played like the awesome little monster he is, and Bruce's personality is what it usually is...well, Bruce is going to look like an out and out child abuser, and that will break my heart. I hope they can find a way around it, but I don't see how without changing some personalities drastically.

I haven't seen any news about Tim, Jason, Cass, or Steph yet, but it seems like that'll be coming out later today. Barbara is definitely back to being Batgirl, which makes me wonder if they'll finally clean up that messy girl Robin once and for all, which would make me so sad. Dick seems to be Nightwing, although in a much more Tim/Batman Beyond-like costume.

To be honest, what has surprised me most with this news is how unchanged most things are. I feel uncomfortable putting it this bluntly, but it looks like on the whole the awesome male characters are making it through pretty much unscathed, while Steph and Cass (and Oracle, who I love) are potentially disappearing. I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope I'm wrong. At least Batwoman is sticking around? I'm just going to be so disappointed if the "loose ends" that they think make the universe hard to understand and need to be deleted are all female (and possibly Jason).

[zolac_no_miko]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? I... hmmmm... I really don't know how I feel about that. I can't imagine they'd get rid of Tim, he's too freaking popular, so... I'm wondering how that's going to work. I'd heard about Babs/Batgirl and Dick/Nightwing... isawrightless up there says, "Winick said in a lot of interview that he has a bunch of plans for Jason but can't talk about it."

Hmmm, she also says, "when someone asked about Gates of Gotham (I forgot the writer's name---too lazy to look it up)he said he couldn't be more excited. Gates of Gotham will have an issue revolving around Damian's 'betrayal'. Nobody knows what that means, but it's supposed to happen after the reboot thing." So, uh, now that we know Damo is Bruce's Robin, um. That's interesting.

Where did you get all of that information?

[mithen]

I'm running really really really behind on everything right now, I'm sorry! But my information so far has come from the DC blogs...tonight SHOULD be the announcement of the Super-titles, which has me biting my nails.

And oh, I can't find Cass or Steph anywhere, and I'm heartbroken. :(