(Hated trope) Remember all these stories and characters we followed for so long? Welp now it’s all reset.

[u/FullBrother9300]

1: using another flashpoint to create the tomorrowverse (Justice League Dark: Apokolips war) after 80-90% of the cast is killed off and billions lives are fated to die Flash and Constantine hatch up a plan to kill baby Darkseid to prevent the entire story from happening which just leads to an entirely different universe being formed and even erasing some characters from existence.

2: Jim travelling to the beginning (Tales of Arcadia series) after multiple characters die including Toby Jim uses a magic gem to travel back to the very first episode but instead lets Toby find the amulet… this changes things how?

[u/BeardedRaven]

Agreed but that might just be distance from it. New 52 failed but the first two were pretty decent. You can point to Geoff Johns green lantern run as another successful reboot.

[u/thesirblondie → u/BeardedRaven]

Nah, there's a reason why after Crisis on Infinite Earth they have Zero Hour: Crisis In Time, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis, and Identity Crisis. The series was so popular that DC tried to piggy back off the name for decades to come.

[u/LaTienenAdentro → u/thesirblondie]

Some of these are legitimately great stories as well. DC between Zero Hour up to Final Crisis into Blackest Night was great arcs all around, genuinely killing it with the joined narratives.

[u/crasherx2000 → u/LaTienenAdentro]

Blackest Night, from what I’ve heard of, sounds absolutely amazing

[u/idropepics → u/crasherx2000]

It is, and well worth a read. If you like it, it was basically a jumping on point for the New 52 and basically all the major characters have their own lead up/ follow up arcs with Blackest Night/ Brightest Day.

[u/LaTienenAdentro → u/crasherx2000]

I recommend you read the entirety of Green Lantern from Zero Hour to Wrath of the First Lantern. Its among the best comic book series Ive read.

[u/LookItsDaphne → u/BeardedRaven]

No, it was genuinely loved. It led to frequent, nearly annual event series. Millennium, Zero Hour, whatever. Crossover events became unpopular because they were clearly cash grabs meant to make you buy 4 to 12 issue limited runs, and possibly an issue of a bunch of other series to flesh out the story.

Oh, and I'm getting memories of tge 90s, when the multiple Batman and Superman runs began running shared storyline, making Batman and Superman into weekly comics. It got expensive to be a teen.

[u/soundguynick → u/LookItsDaphne]

From the other side of the comics aisle, I point you towards Spider-Man, who I believe had five monthly titles running at once. Not only did the clone saga suck, but like you said, it was expensive to follow .

[u/LookItsDaphne → u/soundguynick]

I feel for ypu. We had Death of Superman and Knightfall, but we didn't need the earthquake in Gotham City or Superman Red-Superman Blue.

[u/soundguynick → u/LookItsDaphne]

I actually liked the possibilities No Mans Land brought for Batman / Gotham in general, but any time I'm having to buy multiple books a month to follow a hero, it gets burdensome.

[u/MrXilas → u/BeardedRaven]

My biggest gripe with the New 52 was always how they handled the characters' timelines in general. The most egregious being the Green Lantern and Batman. They tried to tell everyone that those stories all happened in a five year period. Flash got the worst of it I think. Not in terms of writing quality, but the whole Flash family (including the man who was Flash in publication for 23 years) was binned, and then Kid Flash had nothing to do with Barry. And then Damian Wayne got hit BIG with the regression bug. He went from maturing with his role as Robin to being a murderous brat again.