Predictions for a Rebooted DC Universe
1) Wonder Woman will continue to have pants (ok that was an easy one given this picture), and annoying people will complain in the mistaken belief that this is actually an important detail to the character (even easier prediction.)
2) Rather than forging a new continuity, the old continuity will be re-emerge in high speed bursts, as creators feel a need to cash in on the already invested creative capital of the past characters, without any of the organic processes that developed this capital over decades.
3) At least one supporting character will change gender for no explainable reason.
4) Someone will die a high profile death in the first year. Someone who was dead will be alive again. (I am hoping it is the Question — sorry Renee.)
5) There will be a new comic bubble for a few months. It will not be as long lived as the one in the 90s, but it will happen none the less, and this time the comics will be worth even less due to digital distribution. None the less, everyone you speak to 10 years from now will tell you, in a hushed whisper, about how they “have a copy of Jim Lee’s Justice League #1 alternate cover in a bag and board. I bet that is worth a lot now, huh?”
6) Any characters removed from continuity will reappear in time, as will old cosutmes. “Classics never age” we will be told by people who have no idea or sense of history.
7) The most drastic changes will happen with characters that are not heavily licensed properties such as Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. Character’s such as Superman will change the least.
8. At least one issue in one comic book will feature a psychic or a magician or a god who grants someone a view of “another universe — one in which Wonder Woman didn’t wear pants, and Batman’s servant Allison was really a man named Alfred.”
9) The rebooted Green Lantern will look a bit like Ryan Reynolds for about 12 issues until the creative team changes.
