Forever Evil Spoilers
Now, I've said, and it may have been here, that NOW is a time to resettle the new 52. I'll point to some great words from a CBR editorialist I like on occasion. He talks about the 30 year anniversary of Crisis on Infinite Earths, and the difference that made versus the New 52 change.
“Ultimately, despite all their destructive qualities, COIE and Infinite Crisis are both intended as constructive stories — and not in the “by beating you down I make you stronger” sense. COIE replaced the compartmentalized Multiverse with a unified, legacy-oriented timeline, which Infinite Crisis reinforced and tweaked. (Granted, that structure had its flaws, and re-reading Infinite Crisis this week really brought home how vast the superhero line was nine years ago.)
By contrast, the New 52 relaunch was more destructive, stripping out the Golden Agers and most of the original Teen Titans, and enabling wholesale reboots of characters like Superman, Wonder Woman and the Flash. While that facilitated a storytelling environment that wasn’t restricted by so much continuity, it didn’t expressly add anything comparable to the legacy-hero structure.
The shenanigans of next spring can correct that — not necessarily by restoring the Justice Society to their familiar first-generation place, or matching up One True Pairings; but by smoothing out some of the New 52′s rough edges. Almost three years into it, the New 52 often feels like a place where if something can happen, it will; even if (to borrow from Jurassic Park) maybe it shouldn’t. However, three years into a relaunch is too soon to start over entirely. I see COIE’s 30th anniversary (and DC’s 80th) as a time not just for the publisher to reorganize, but to rededicate itself to the standards which can take it another 80 years.”
I tend to agree. Again (since I didn't say it the first time) I think NOW is the time to make changes. 3 years in, if there was a time to pull the plug and fix stuff, it has to be now while people still honestly care. That is, if those people are still there. I had hoped Pandora's skull would be it, but that turned out to be a weird herring to open up the Earth-3 universe. So, I sighed in exasperation.
But the fun rumor mill talk and speculations abound! With FE #7, and the tease poster of Future's End, could this be the time that some things will be set right for DC?
I certainly hope so. While I love Green Arrow "now"-it's just a great story that could honestly be retroactively told as a new Year One story. Cool. Go with that; no give me my older Ollie again. Aquaman? Hell as long as he's seen as popular or relative to the current DCU, keep on doing what you're doing. Wonder Woman? Crap, this new stuff is great. GREAT. Not sure how you fold that just right back in. Flash? OH man..going more off subject. Superman? Shit, we got a huge pile of whatever to clean up there!
New 52 has truly taken away ALOT without giving a bunch back. I think it's time DC returned something. What say you?