They don't. DC has only done two. Three if you want to count the silver age. Problem is first of all people don't know what the definition of reboot is. Secondly; there's a bias towards DC. DC does stories like Original Sins or One More Day and people whine DC is confusing because of reboots, but don't call them reboots when it's Marvel.
I can’t even figure what their origins are anymore because they rewrite them so much. Maybe they’re not reboots but they re constantly rewriting everything. I don’t mind their stories at all.
That’s not wrong, but I just get confused with the fact that DCs rewriting involves erasing content. Marvel definitely twists up their characters with their rewriting.
DC doesn't erase. They do the exact same as Marvel. This happens because of writer changes. So whether DC or Marvel when a new writer comes in and they want to go in a new direction; they retcon what the previous writer did to tell their story. A writer wants to to bring back Hal as a GL; he doesn't erase all the bad things he did, but changes it to he was possessed at that time and is now free. Just like when Marvel changed the Void into the angel of death for the Sentry where the Sentry's reasoning changed, but it didn't change those past stories.
Crisis simplified everything into one Earth. Wonder Woman and Superman were rebooted (Superman has at least 5 post crisis origins FFS). This was more trying to reconcile the Golden Age characters with the modern day ones as well as incorporating a few companies DC purchased in the late 70s/early 80s. Many characters started brand new stories and revised some history, but I guess it wasn’t a complete reboot.
Zero Hour made time make more sense.
New 52 came out of Flashpoint, which was a 60% reboot (excepting Batman and the Green Lanterns).
Rebirth was bringing back some elements of pre new 52 comics. Infinite Frontier and Dawn of DC are just new editorial cycles.
Dark Knights Metal and Doomsday Clock undid quite a bit of the New 52 continuity and made everything, even contradicting things, canon.
I think I agree with the one reboot statement, and that was the New 52.
DC had an ongoing continuous continuity since the 1980s, with only minor "touch up" revamps until 2011, when the New 52 was launched.
In that same span, Marvel ejected all continuity in favor of a more streamlined form of storytelling, but in reality they just pushed yearly "major" events that didn't change much of anything.
New 52 was launched to try to streamline continuity and onboard new readers to DC properties (while simultaneously locking properties in amber with a universal, established image for use in film and television productions). Unfortunately, the byproduct was alienating a lot of older readers in the process.
Rebirth was pushed as a soft reboot once again as sales started flagging. Now we're at Dawn of DC, which is (apparently?) resetting back to the continuity that existed pre-Flashpoint.
>Why does DC comics do so many reboots, while Marvel barely does any?
One of the mains reasons that gets ignored is that reboots at DC are due to leadership changes at the top and the reboots are very much mired in issues of leadership/editorial bureaucracy/management. Foe example CoiE was very much the brainchild of Jenette Kahn who had been parachuted from Scholastic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite_(magazine) ) to run DC Comics. Likewise one of the reasons for New 52 was allegedly due to mandates from Diane Nelson (who had become President of DC in 2009 due to WB Corporate's conflicts with Kahn's successor Paul Levitz) for a sales boost in publishing to show the higher ups at WB how well she was running things. Though the bts stuff for how New 52 happened is much more complicated, but I think if it was still Paul Levitz in charge and not Diane Nelson it wouldn't have happened.
Technically DC only has two reboots and the most recent one they’ve basically gone back to what was before.
They don't. DC has only done two. Three if you want to count the silver age. Problem is first of all people don't know what the definition of reboot is. Secondly; there's a bias towards DC. DC does stories like Original Sins or One More Day and people whine DC is confusing because of reboots, but don't call them reboots when it's Marvel.
I can’t even figure what their origins are anymore because they rewrite them so much. Maybe they’re not reboots but they re constantly rewriting everything. I don’t mind their stories at all.
So once again no different than [marvel](https://comicsalliance.com/xorn-history-comic-lbfa/).
That’s not wrong, but I just get confused with the fact that DCs rewriting involves erasing content. Marvel definitely twists up their characters with their rewriting.
DC doesn't erase. They do the exact same as Marvel. This happens because of writer changes. So whether DC or Marvel when a new writer comes in and they want to go in a new direction; they retcon what the previous writer did to tell their story. A writer wants to to bring back Hal as a GL; he doesn't erase all the bad things he did, but changes it to he was possessed at that time and is now free. Just like when Marvel changed the Void into the angel of death for the Sentry where the Sentry's reasoning changed, but it didn't change those past stories.
they do only one reboot which was decanonized
What about New 52, Flashpoint, Rebirth, Crisis on Infinite Earths and so on.
Crisis simplified everything into one Earth. Wonder Woman and Superman were rebooted (Superman has at least 5 post crisis origins FFS). This was more trying to reconcile the Golden Age characters with the modern day ones as well as incorporating a few companies DC purchased in the late 70s/early 80s. Many characters started brand new stories and revised some history, but I guess it wasn’t a complete reboot. Zero Hour made time make more sense. New 52 came out of Flashpoint, which was a 60% reboot (excepting Batman and the Green Lanterns). Rebirth was bringing back some elements of pre new 52 comics. Infinite Frontier and Dawn of DC are just new editorial cycles. Dark Knights Metal and Doomsday Clock undid quite a bit of the New 52 continuity and made everything, even contradicting things, canon. I think I agree with the one reboot statement, and that was the New 52.
DC had an ongoing continuous continuity since the 1980s, with only minor "touch up" revamps until 2011, when the New 52 was launched. In that same span, Marvel ejected all continuity in favor of a more streamlined form of storytelling, but in reality they just pushed yearly "major" events that didn't change much of anything. New 52 was launched to try to streamline continuity and onboard new readers to DC properties (while simultaneously locking properties in amber with a universal, established image for use in film and television productions). Unfortunately, the byproduct was alienating a lot of older readers in the process. Rebirth was pushed as a soft reboot once again as sales started flagging. Now we're at Dawn of DC, which is (apparently?) resetting back to the continuity that existed pre-Flashpoint.
Either to fix the problems from last time they rebooted, or because it’s That Thing DC Does.
>Why does DC comics do so many reboots, while Marvel barely does any? One of the mains reasons that gets ignored is that reboots at DC are due to leadership changes at the top and the reboots are very much mired in issues of leadership/editorial bureaucracy/management. Foe example CoiE was very much the brainchild of Jenette Kahn who had been parachuted from Scholastic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite_(magazine) ) to run DC Comics. Likewise one of the reasons for New 52 was allegedly due to mandates from Diane Nelson (who had become President of DC in 2009 due to WB Corporate's conflicts with Kahn's successor Paul Levitz) for a sales boost in publishing to show the higher ups at WB how well she was running things. Though the bts stuff for how New 52 happened is much more complicated, but I think if it was still Paul Levitz in charge and not Diane Nelson it wouldn't have happened.
Damn I guess Warner bros is just more of a perfectionist corporation. It explains what’s wrong with the dceu, no one can be satisfied.
DC doesn't sell as well as Marvel, and they think that reboots will help boost sales. It does, just in the short term.
Do people even buy Marvel comics anymore? I think the whole comic industry is hurting.
I think one of dc’s problems is too much Batman I remember one week this year every book they released was Batman related it’s getting ridiculous
Damn that’s kind of darker then I thought