Vibe dc rebirth11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Some of the stuff that happened in the New 52 is canon. ![]() Some of the stuff that happened in the post-Crisis universe is canon. ![]() In other words, Rebirth is a melding of post-Crisis with New 52. But he doesn’t just return to the Post-Crisis continuity, because all the New 52 stuff is real too. Finally, he reconnects with Barry, who abruptly remembers everything he’s forgotten. Over the course of 80 pages, Wally zips around the universe, glimpsing other characters and hinting at the plots of their new Rebirth series. He alone remembers the universe the way it used to be, and he alone knows that a darker force has caused the rest of the universe to forget their pre-Flashpoint lives. Rebirth establishes them as two separate characters, first cousins with the same name (…sure), but that Wally has been MIA since Flashpoint. For the Rebirth Special to make any sense at all, you have to know that before Flashpoint, the Flash’s nephew Wally West was white, and after Flashpoint, he’s black. Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend it as a jumping off point. To explain the shift from New 52 to Rebirth, they published a single 80-page issue called DC Universe: Rebirth Special. Rebirth: In May 2016, as I said at the start of all this, DC relaunched their entire publishing line under the Rebirth banner. You can probably tell from the paragraph above that I’m still pretty mad.īut that era is at an end, because now we are living in… I also know a lot of fans who walked away in 2011 and never came back. To be fair, I know a lot of fans who jumped on board with DC because the New 52 offered them a logical entry point. Fans protesting these changes were publicly berated at conventions by co-publisher Dan DiDio. DC’s new lineup was overwhelmingly white and male character-wise, and even more so behind the scenes-they infamously had only 2 women working on those 52 books, a drop from an embarrassing 12% to a shockingly bad 1%. Many of the aforementioned legacy characters of color disappeared from continuity to be replaced by their white male predecessors. Where the Post-Crisis era had used a modified Pre-Crisis as its base, the New 52 erased all previous continuity (except for that of Batman and Green Lantern, who were being written by Important White Dudes at the time and could not be tampered with (unless we’re talking about female characters, who were quickly disappeared)). Post-Flashpoint/The New 52: Thus named because it launched with 52 series (about 22 too many to be financially sensible, ahem), the New 52 was deeply controversial. DC history roughly divides into four major eras: To answer this, we need a brief history lesson on DC’s past reboots. But what exactly does that mean? And what is the best DC Rebirth reading order if you’re just getting started with these? What is DC Rebirth? Rebirth, as an initiative, is over, but we’ve still inherited the new hybrid continuity it created. Gone was the highly controversial “New 52” that they had been publishing for the past five years now we were in the Rebirth era! I use the past tense because as of December 2017, DC dropped the Rebirth branding from their books and they’re just…regular comics. Follow her on Twitter at All posts by Jessica Plummerīack in 2016, DC announced a relaunching of their entire publishing line, branded as DC Rebirth. She loves running, knitting, and thinking about superheroes, and knows an unnecessary amount of things about Donald Duck. Her day job is in books, her side hustle is in books, and she writes books on the side (including a short story in Sword Stone Table from Vintage). Jessica Plummer has lived her whole life in New York City, but she prefers to think of it as Metropolis. ![]()
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