Don't call it a reboot! (ponderings on the nature of Post-Flashpont reality)

[MadDog1981]

Because the point of creating the reboot was to give the writers a blank background to write from. If you create that bible, you end up with another determined history. May as well keep everything and just drop new #1's for no reason.

Not necessarily. You can leave a lot of room creatively. But a universe bible would make sure everyone is on the same page with the small stuff and make sure that there aren't contradictions.

We like to believe he's been this avenging hero since 1941, but in reality, he cannot really be the same character. As recent as the first Crisis in 1985, we saw HUGE chunks of his history vanish, his timeline shrink, and his attitude change. We saw Jason Todd's hair change, his origin shift, and his death. We saw the loss of most of the characters that involved Dick Grayson's history, like Bat-girl and Batwoman. They were GONE. Then what is left? Prologue. The same as right now.

Of course not. But it's obvious from what they attempted to keep of Batman doesn't work within a 5 year time span. Why couldn't he have started his Batman career at the age of 22 and now be 34? That's 12 years to fit in 4 Robins and creates a more logical group of Robins. Dick is 25, Jason is 22, Tim is 17 and Damian is 12ish now. That gives Dick 5 years as Robin, Jason about 3 years, Tim 2, Damian 1 and Batman a year of being a solo act. That works much better as a timeline than a mashed together 5 year timeline.

[Prisoner 6655321]

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So DC realized that we have to trim the BS to focus on the small bites that people feel safe to swallow. Some readers, like myself, enjoy the BS. It is part of why we love comics. But we're also jaded.

As of right now, I'm also finding the BS of the New 52 a bit hard to swallow. I think maybe we all should try some small bites for awhile. We might not miss all the choking.

I got ya' but really, my theory here has little to do with any personal preferences. At the end of Flashpoint Pandora says she did what she did to protect the world (s) / multiverse / reality from "them", a threat that presumably transcends any changes made in reality. At the end of Booster Gold in the pre-flashpoint reality he vanishes, in the JLI annual post-FP Booster and a post-FP Booster from the future vanishes when Superman and Wonder Woman kissed. There's a number of nuggets o' truth in your post there (and a few points I very much disagree on) and honestly, I think the present incarnation of the DCU will provide the backbone for the future but I don't think we're looking at a finished product yet and I don't think the disconnect from the "old" DCU is as vast as many of us would believe.